• culpritus [any]
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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.