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Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by throwaway4good »

neoromantique wrote: post #31
psychphysic wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy that many of the same people condemning Russia invading Ukraine for "security". Would want to invade countries on the other side of the globe for "security". Super powers gonna super power and the rest of have to pretend to care.

There is a difference between unprovoked act of aggression against non-nuclear country for the sole crime of not wanting to associate with you and a literal theist dictatorship working on nuclear weapons who are open how exactly they plan to utilise them.

Or maybe if you looked at it again, you would find it was actually the same …

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by akiselev »

steveBK123 wrote: post #34

A strong argument for the existence of a diety is hilarious-if-true outcomes like the Ayatollah getting to have both oil & lithium to remain fully hedged through the EV transition. Too improbable for a fictional movie, but here we are. Life, as always, is stranger than fiction.

Geography is destiny.

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by jockokralj »

neoromantique wrote: post #31
psychphysic wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy that many of the same people condemning Russia invading Ukraine for "security". Would want to invade countries on the other side of the globe for "security". Super powers gonna super power and the rest of have to pretend to care.

There is a difference between unprovoked act of aggression against non-nuclear country for the sole crime of not wanting to associate with you and a literal theist dictatorship working on nuclear weapons who are open how exactly they plan to utilise them.

It's not "not wanting to associate with you", it's more like: Wanting to join an aggressive unfriendly nuclear-powered military alliance that's been expanding and approaching your borders for the past couple of decades.

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by smileysteve »

recuter wrote: post #6
slackfan wrote: post #3

Ah, so this timeless classic will trully be timeless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U

They are out in the open enriching uranium to 84% with a breakout time to a weapon measured in weeks now, how many reasons do you need really?

Given Russia invading Ukraine after Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons; what sane nation would feel sovereign without nuclear weapons.

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by beepbooptheory »

stonepresto wrote: post #20
swarnie wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So? Its a perfectly rational course of action, no nuclear armed nation has ever been invaded and subjugated. If i ran a country building or acquiring a nuke would be top of my "To-do" list.

The fewer theocratic dictatorships with nukes the better. Its not that "Iran" as a construct having nukes is bad, its that the decisions to launch them lie with a few religious zealots who are known to not make good moral or ethical decisions.

Do you honestly think, say, the United States is any better equipped to make "good" decisions? Kinda hard to make that case with nukes specifically at least...

It's zealotry all the way down, whether you explicitly name your god or not. The only irrational thing here is to claim moral superiority based off something as superficial as a particular religion.

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by recuter »

misja111 wrote: post #46
dismalpedigree wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You of course are referring to the deal that had the US air freight $400m in the middle of the night to close the deal, only for the Iranians to completely ignore the deal anyway?

Odd that this is downvoted. The comment is true: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-i...

These discussions are astroturfed.

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by swarnie »

stonepresto wrote: post #20
swarnie wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So? Its a perfectly rational course of action, no nuclear armed nation has ever been invaded and subjugated. If i ran a country building or acquiring a nuke would be top of my "To-do" list.

The fewer theocratic dictatorships with nukes the better. Its not that "Iran" as a construct having nukes is bad, its that the decisions to launch them lie with a few religious zealots who are known to not make good moral or ethical decisions.

IMO everyone has nukes or no one does.

Will China/Russia/USA give up theirs or do they see them as essential for "national security"?

And if they are essential then what moral authority do they have to deny security to others?

Re: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve

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Post by krapp »

comboy wrote: post #48
cced wrote: post #40

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Do people really have to say that jokes about war which inevitably lead to the death of many in order to have bigger and better phone batteries at a reduced cost is sickening?

You can't fix the problem by not talking about it. It wasn't an unfortunate natural disaster.

You can't fix the problem, period, certainly not by talking about it. The internet offers catharsis, not praxis. Americans have no more ability to affect their government's imperial capitalist agenda than they do to command the tides, others outside of the US even less so.

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Post by krapp »

dubcanada wrote: post #19
wslh wrote: post #2

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I have no idea why people seem to think ChatGPT is correct all the time.

People have been conditioned to mistrust everything, even the premise of objective reality, to the point that they don't believe it matters - ChatGPT being wrong some of the time is still seen as preferable to the perceived status quo that all media, politicians, scientists, scholars and everyone on the internet actively lie to you and manipulate you all the time.
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