The threshold the Israeli authorities have set for the use of a nuclear weapon is dangerously low.
Israeli strategic thinking has long been shaped by the fear of an existential threat. Unlike most nuclear states, whose doctrines revolve around deterrence or competition with other nuclear powers, Israel’s security narrative is rooted in the belief that the country could face destruction if a war turns decisively against it. Israeli leaders have repeatedly framed regional conflicts — from the wars of 1967 and 1973 to present confrontations with Iran and armed groups in Gaza and Lebanon — as struggles for national survival. That mindset matters enormously when nuclear weapons are involved.
The only concern I have are countries lack of willingness to hold Israel to account
Everything about the current Israel is worrying
Current? They seem to have always been a rogue borderline terrorist state. Didn’t they steal their nuclear weapons from the US basically?
“steal”
More like they were allowed to “steal” them.
I’m not a weapons expert, but all the bombs they’ve dropped so far in Palestine and the region could add up to a few nuclear bombs, no?
Your question was addressed in the article:
The intensity of the bombardment has been extraordinary. Some military analysts estimate that the explosive power dropped on Gaza during the early stages of the war alone amounted to several times the explosive yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
The comparison does not suggest equivalence between nuclear and conventional weapons. The devastation of a nuclear detonation would be vastly greater. But it does reveal something important about the scale of force Israeli leaders have been willing to deploy when they believe national security is at stake. If a state is willing to unleash such overwhelming destruction through conventional means, the uncomfortable question arises: what would its threshold be if it believed it was actually losing a war?
The collective explosive power isn’t this issue. The issue is that if Israel believes it will lose a war its policy is to believe it will not be allowed to exist in any capacity. Which means its security policy regarding nukes is to take the entire region with them by glassing the Middle East.
Thats bad enough, but additionally because of the way the rest of the worlds nuclear arsenals work, that sort of event could and almost certainly would be the trigger for the end of all life on this planet
The Sampson option. And the world is held hostage to their insanity.
Them wanting nuclear weapons basically comes from the fact they were regularly attacked by their neighbours every few years. Having them and posturing as willing to use them has effectively calmed that threat since the '70s
I can’t blame any nation or from WANTING nukes at this point, having them is the only thing that is guaranteed to offer some level of protection. I get that, but the legit doomsday plans created to utilize them, make the actual practicality of them existing an existential threat to humanity.
Shit the entire message of both the wars in Iran and Ukraine prove that the best thing a country can do to protect itself is to get nuclear program going as soon as possible and then make sure the world knows you have it and are willing to use it.
And as much as Israel and the US will say that the war is to stop Iran from getting nukes. What good did it do them to try and play ball with the west and get the vast benefits of nuclear power. Not a damn thing.
Well they could have tried not supporting attacks on Israel and not enriching weapons grade uranium. It’s especially the latter that got them into this latest pickle
Those are the lies we’re being sold, by people who lie constantly about literally everything. Multiple nato inspectors have pointed out that there was never any evidence of them doing this. The PEDOnald is the one that ripped up the nonproliferation treaty with no replacement, and on the eve of Iran negotiating a new one years later, even willing to give up their power plant level enriched uranium, Israel and US launched their attacks.
You can look up the IAEA reports. There’s no denying that they were making as much highly enriched uranium as they could starting at the end of 2024
Why wouldn’t they, Israel has demonstrated multiple times to be untrustworthy and the US is demonstrably unreliable. Every nation should be getting nukes if this is how the nations that already have them behave towards those without.
Edit: everyone should tag this asshole as a Zionist mark, they are defending Israel far too much to be considered legit
