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When USA bombed Iran to stop Iran from making Nukes, Then why USA could not stop India and North korea from making Nukes ?

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Adstar · 56-60, M Best Comment
Cost and reward calculations where entered into and the cost of attacking North Korea was calculated as too high.. Same goes for the Indian calculation beck in the 1974...

In Irans case the reward was considered worth the possible cost..
Adstar · 56-60, M
@Sayana Iran is Not a peaceful country and has been involved in a lot of warfare since the fall of the Shah of Iran back in 1979.. Since then it has been involved in a big war against Iraq, In a long civil war in Syria, Iran backed Hezbollah in Lebanon in warfare against Israel.. Iran backed the houthis of Yemen in both a civil war in Yemen and warfare against Israel and backed Hamas in Gaza with it's terrorist and warfare against Israel..

Oh as it became the Persian empire in times past because it engaged in conquest against it's neighbors.. That's how Empires become Empires.. It's in the name,,,

Iran is a war monger nation of the most persistent type..

Of the three countries you mentioned I would say India is the most peaceful...
Sayana · 22-25, FNew
@Adstar I think Iraq used to be Rogue nation and it always attacked on Iran first.

Do you know, Irani girls are the prettiest in the world ?

Iran is a wealthy country and it can be a Superpower as well.
Adstar · 56-60, M
@Sayana Well i have seen some very beautiful Iranian ladies.. So i know about pretty Iranian girls.. 👍

And yes Iraq under Saddam Hussain was a rogue nation and yes Iraq did start that war with Iran by invading Iran.. So your point is true about the Iran Iraq war..

ArishMell · 70-79, M
Originally Iran was in a fragile pact with the USA, France, Germany and the UK that it would not develop nuclear weapons.*

Then President Trump unilaterally detroyed the USA's role in the treaty for no clear, but certainly no good, reason. With the Iranians thus betrayed by a country they do not particularly like anyway, at least ideologically, the other nations were unable to save the treaty.

The USA may imagine it can "stop" any country from doing anything - but it can not. If that country has the political determination and technical ability to make nuclear weapons, it will. Foreigners betraying an already very fragile truce then hurling high explosives at the country, only makes the situation worse.

The "nuclear arms race" was coined to describe the Cold War, in which the USSR and NATO competed to build ludicrous numbers of ever more powerful weapons for a war whose "victor" would be the one slightly less devastated than the other.

That never really ended; and I fear we are seeing a new one developing but with more countries involved, and in an increasing tangle of rival ideologies and ambitions.

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* "Nukes". I refuse ever to use that awful word. Nuclear fission and fusion bombs are terrible weapons that should never be cheapened by slang on the level of that silly "Duck & Cover" cartoon tortoise.
MartinII · 70-79, M
Well one answer is that Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and therefore developing a nuclear weapon would be in breach of its treaty obligations. India has never signed the treaty and North Korea has withdrawn from it. There are, of course, other answers as well.
Khenpal1 · M
@Sayana doubt it will help , over all North Korea is economically too weak.
Sayana · 22-25, FNew
@Khenpal1 N.korae have nukes + N.korea having hypersonic missiles + N.Korea can dare to fire on USA

USA will suffer heavy dannage.
Khenpal1 · M
@Sayana hypersonic poverty 😂
NK is too close to China to start dropping bombs. China would likely get involved.
India has way more people than USA. If they could figure out their country they could be battling for top spot along with China right now.
CactusJackManson · 51-55, M
1) Clinton signed a "nuclear agreement" with North Korea when Little Rocket Man's daddy was dictator and didn't enforce it.

2)India isn't a rogue nation.
They did try decades ago
Convivial · 26-30, F
You're asking for logic, that won't do
HoeBag · 46-50, F
I think trump knows that India and North Korea wouldn't put up with it.
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Monalisasmith86 · 41-45, F
Exactly it’s India they need to worry about not Iran
Sayana · 22-25, FNew
@Adstar See, Ukraine was a part of USSR, they have good IQ same as Russians, Ukraine had over 5000 nukes in 1990 which he gave to Russia

Even if USA was in place of Russia even then USA would not be able to defeat them...USA got fucked in " Vietnam " in 1970 and lost 40K solders in a War with Vietnam....Ukraine is much stronger than the Vietnam.

So, don't Judge Russian weapons are not effective...Even Russia is Miles Ahead of USA when it comes to having Hypersonic cruise missile
Adstar · 56-60, M
@Sayana The war in Vietnam was a insurgency war. The current war in Ukraine is not an insurgency war but a conventional war.. In the case of Vietnam the USA was no longer prepared to lose troops after 10 years of war. But North Vietnam was very willing to lose troops and people.. It is believed that the total Vietnamese killed in that was was near 10 million.. The USA lost near 50 thousand.. So it is not accurate for you to say that the USA suffered a great defeat in Vietnam.. It was simply a case of North Vietnam being willing to sacrifice more of it's people.. Same thing happened in Afghanistan for both the USSR and the USA.. The Taliban was simply more willing to sacrifice the lives of Afgans more then the soviets and the USA where..

Yes Ukraine was part of the USSR and Ukraine did posses nuclear weapons when the USSR collapsed in the early 1990's But a deal was done between Russia, The Ukraine and the USA to transfer all those nukes to Russia and in return Russia and The USA guaranteed the territorial integrity of the newly independent Ukraine.. Of course in 2014 Russia broke that agreement when they marched into Crimea and took it over and then started the civil war in the donbas region of Ukraine to take away those lands from Ukraine..

The Ukrainians have shown that they reject becoming part of the new Russian imperial empire in the most violent way..

As for hypersonic missiles.. They have zero effect in the war against Ukraine.. There is no point in going to the expense of making such high end weapons when you can only deliver conventional explosives with them.. They expense only makes sense if you load them with nuclear warheads.. And since Russia is not using nuclear warheads against Ukraine all those hypersonic weapons are useless to Russia for this conflict..
Sayana · 22-25, FNew
@Adstar I agree with you with most of the parts that you said, I am from South Korea and I have Chinese and Indians as my Neighbours

No, Hypersonic cruise missiles can be a game changer...in a limited WAR or border clash, If you have them then you can simply target and destroy enemies Radars, defense systems. command and control systems and it makes your enemy " Blind "

See, during the India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025, Pakistan used Chinese PL-15 missiles, and it has a range over 200+ kilometers, and it shot down India's Raffle fighter jets.... then Next day, India used it's Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles and it destroyed Pakistan's 11 Airbase and command, and control system and Pakistan went " Blind "

And on the Next day, USA intervened, and it persuaded both sides for a " Immediate cease file " to not escalate a Nuclear WAR.

India's " Brahmos " missile is considered deadliest missile in the World, it trave at speed of Mach 3 and it's almost unstoppable from any defense system of the World.
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
Maybe because in those three countries, only in Iran do the leaders say "Death to America"?
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Thinkerbell Maybe if you looked into why Iran has been saying Death to America you would change you mind a bit. The shaw was installed by the US and when the people of Iran said no to the shaw and drove him from power America has been trying to bring down the people's choice ever since. Kind of election interference on steroids. Add to that that Israel who controls the USA wants Iran destroyed as a nation.....
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@hippyjoe1955

Read up on Iran's Gardian Council to see just how much of the "people's choice" the Islamofascist regime is. 🙄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Council
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Thinkerbell It DOESN'T MATTER!!!! The US does not get to determine how other nations govern themselves. Russia does not get to decide who is president of the US. Trump doesn't get to decide who is PM of England. The US is the only nation that has used nuclear arms to kill innocent civilians. The US is supporting Israel as it commits genocide. The US has NO moral authority left.
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Sayana · 22-25, FNew
@TexChik I think It's Israel who bully Iran at the first Place.
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