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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.
So this "diety" is helping the Iranian government but not the people?
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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.
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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.
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.
Turkey had a great position controlling access to the Black Sea during a major conflict, then Earthquakes happened. Given the oil and Americans in the region, I wonder if they are fracking....
It's a little bit sickening that so many of these initial comments are joking about the US going to war over the lithium.
there's nothing strange about a country going to war over a resource. Has been happening for a long time in history, and there's no reason that anything in the modern world changed human nature.
Except that lithium isn't valuable enough to go to war over at the moment.
Now, the threat of being able to develop and fire nukes, on the other hand, is something that might be war-worthy.
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.
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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 …
US could impose the upper limit to buy lithium from Iran, as they did with Russian oil.
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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.