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Enough’s enough. They’ve been playing “Don’t touch me” back and forth for decades.
Block ’em off, seal ’em up, and let ’em go at it.
Thunderdome: Two enter, one leaves.
That is all.
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OK, you’re gonna hafta give me a little more to work with. I don’t know what this means.
The little kerfluffle in the Middle East
California Dreamin’, er, Freedom
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/california-nightmare-3.php
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Let me get this straight. Atomic/Nuclear weaponry has supposedly been around since 1945. It’s very old, very basic technology that has been acquired by countries as underdeveloped as India, Pakistan, South Africa, and Israel.
Hypersonic missiles are so technologically advanced and difficult to manufacture that only four countries in the world have deployed them: China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The USA hasn’t successfully developed one yet, neither have Japan, France, or the UK.
And yet, we’re supposed to believe that Iran doesn’t already possess nuclear warheads to install on those hypersonic delivery systems?
I don’t buy it.
If nuclear weaponry actually exists – and there is very good reason to doubt that it does – then Iran has it. If Iran doesn’t have it, then no one does because it doesn’t actually exist.
The fact that nuclear weapons have been held over humanity’s collective heads for generations and used to justify globalist organizations for decades is sufficient reason for them to have been among the foremost myths perpetrated by Clown World.
https://voxday.net/2025/06/17/iran-has-nukes/
Yeah, it’s that VD guy, but that is a seriously outré argument, that nukes are myths. The crater on Severny Island from Tsar Bomba is still there for anyone to see. The evidence for various atmospheric isotopes increasing from above-ground nuclear tests, the large amount of videotape from the 1950’s, the flattening of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That was all just fakes, right?
It’s right, anybody can make a nuke, once you have sufficient amounts of U-235 or Pu-239. The difficulty is you can’t make a good nuke. Chain reactions are self-extinguishing, the reaction is so fierce it blows the bomb apart before it has time to consume the fissile material. That’s why nukes have to be tested. The LA and LL guys were often surprised at the disappointing yields of their tests. If the Persians have a nuke, and they try to use it, it will probably be a dud. It will be a dirty bomb, scattering U-235 over a city. Not good, but it’s not the end of the world.
I admit, the LA guys never tested “Little Boy”, the Hiroshima bomb, they were so sure of their calculations and preliminary tests. The Trinity test was the Nagasaki Pu-239 “Fat Man” bomb. Those “tickling the dragon” tests killed a couple of guys from accidents, a very nasty way to go from extreme radiation poisoning. “Little Boy” is a relatively simple design in principle: smash two hemispheres of U-235 together and hold them there long enough for the chain reaction to consume most of the material. The devil is in the high-explosive details: metallurgy, pressures, materials, fusing.
Iran is the only country that wants nukes so it can bomb its neighbors to shitaree. For everyone else, it’s “yeah, we got them, so leave us alone, they’re for our defense at the end when all else has failed.” That’s why everyone doesn’t want the mad mullahs to have nukes.
Nuclear weaponry exists. Absolutely no doubt. Simple to describe, not cheap or easy to implement. I can rebuild a Chevy 350. That doesn’t give me the skill (or proper tools) to build a high performance race engine.
I wouldn’t want to bet on what the black-hole boys have or haven’t developed.