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ygjbtoday at 2:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

No one is signing an arms reduction treaty or giving up weapons while Russia has troops in Ukraine. That's an object lesson in relying on paper barriers that the whole world is watching.


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ButlerianJihadtoday at 3:32 AM

What if Reagan and Gorbachev signed while the Soviet troops were fighting in Afghanistan? [Mongolia… Cambodia…] What object lesson was that?

M.A.D. … “treaty”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction#O...

mikeyousetoday at 3:11 AM

I mean, true, but also, nobody is going to give up weapons while the US is kidnapping heads of state, launching decapitation strikes and invading a half dozen new countries.

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