• berg@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    This is not a humanitarian or ethics question

    From Israel’s perspective nuclear weapons are a last resort

    Correct.

    Their leadership and military may be genocidal, but they still have a sense of self-preservation and act somewhat rationally

    Genocide isn’t perpetuated by rational thinkers, is not an act of self preservation, and does not protect the wellbeing of it’s perpetrators. The absurdity of this cannot be understated.

    I am not making a moral argument. I am stating Israel has shown the depravity to use tactics of absolute destruction and barbarity, an established doctrine promoting the use of nuclear arms if Israel were to take heavy damage, and the fact that Israel is taking significant damage as their defenses continue to weaken as additional fronts open. These are all key requirements for the use of nuclear arms by Israel, and they are increasingly being met. Suggesting the US is more likely to deploy nuclear weapons from their position of relative safety is just laughable.