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You could have gone with an oppressive regime brutalising its own citizens on the basis of a fundamentalist interpretation of a religion, or that they are helping to arm a country currently engaging in imperialism and genocide again under the pretence of a holy war, but instead you went with “racism”. Nice.
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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If I've learned anything from the Civilization games, you need to have top-tier resources in the desert hexes. Otherwise, the gameplay is too unbalanced
hah ha. but to be fair, calling Iran a desert is like calling the United States a desert. https://www.knowiran.com/iran-landscape
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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.
That's the thing with non-proliferation that doesn't really sit right with me, it kind of goes against human knowledge and progress. You have to have a smaller group of people ban certain kinds of knowledge from the rest of humans, and be demonstrably willing to use violence to enforce that, otherwise anyone with enough determination will eventually figure it out. Even when there was somewhat of a consensus on how to deal with that during the Cold War, a bunch of countries slipped through the non-proliferation but everyone pretended like it's ok. Now that there is less consensus on anything in this world, how will this system work going forward?
With India also discovering a very large amount of lithium reserves very recently, lithium might end up being abundant and accelerate the EV transition even faster. [1] https://innovationorigins.com/en/india-discovers-5-5-of-worl...
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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?
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.
Did the US actually take any oil from Iraq? And besides that Lithium is even harder to transport than oil is. You need blue team to occupy the mines and secure a perimeter so that red team cannot disrupt not only extraction but also transportation to the nearest port.
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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...
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.
Afghanistan has trillions in mineral wealth. And yet you still have to extract it somehow and sell it. Unlikely that happens any time soon if ever.
[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-pursues-afghanistans-mine...
[1]https://thegeopolitics.com/chinas-540-million-energy-deal-wi...