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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by redleader55 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:21AM (#46478396)
Even democratic regimes should start acquiring nuclear weapons - ie. every EU country, given Trump's comments and stance about the EU.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by throwaway1389z on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:16PM (#46481654)
Every sovereign nation should do. The notion that uppercase D "Democracy" is the only valid type of sovereign state is uppercase L liberalism propaganda.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mattmaroon on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:43PM (#46490890)
That sounds like something written by an uppercase C Chinese bot.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by robryan on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:11PM (#46483711)
Not easy though, the US has to basically allow it.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jamincan on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:46PM (#46483936)
Did the US allow all the other nuclear countries to develop nuclear weapons? There are quite a few states that could easily and quickly develop their own nuclear deterrent and the US is in a much worse position now to deter them from that.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mattmaroon on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:05AM (#46485111)
Tell that to Iran.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by TheAlchemist on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:03AM (#46486896)
What if France 'donated' some nukes to every EU country (okay, maybe not Hungary) ?

It won't happen, but I wonder what could the US possibly do about it.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mattmaroon on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:39AM (#46488950)
Nothing. We could and would do nothing. If we wanted to do something, it would be sanctions. We’re not so far gone as to invade Europe.

The problem is they’d have to donate delivery systems too and I believe the only part of the triad they have is submarines.

Most European countries simply couldn’t use it. But some could.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by mattmaroon on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:35AM (#46488915)
The current administration WANTS Europe to develop the military necessary to defend themselves so we don’t have to pay for it. We’ll probably send them the schematics if they haven’t already infiltrated whatever servers we keep them on.