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Arazi

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3. This is so very premature
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 11:48 AM
Jun 23

We won’t know if Iran’s nuclear sites were permanently or temporarily damaged for a long time. By every account they moved the important components necessary for nukes and could (will) reconstitute their program elsewhere, regardless of “regime change”.

North Korea, China and Russia now have powerful incentives to bolster Iran’s nuclear capability. While they aren’t going to come to Iran’s rescue with boots on the ground, they have every reason to support Iran having a nuke in the region. China especially needs Iran’s oil.

Nobody should be speculating on this “gamble paying off”. It feeds Traitor’s terrifying megalomaniac delusions and I firmly believe Dem messaging needs to be decisive about the strike’s illegality and the global instability he has created.

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