• culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

    -Condi Rice

    This was said by the National Security Advisor of the USA, the only country in the world that used nuclear weapons … on civilian cities … twice … for no militarily objective reason.

    Watching that shit unfold really got me into politics. Being disillusioned with Obama’s 8 years got me into real political economic theory though.