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Because it would have catastrophic consequences on the world order. Normalizing nuking your opponent will invite Russia to nuke Ukraine, China Taiwan, and North Korea South Korea. The USA will not let Israel nuke anybody.


So far the USA hasn't stopped Israel from doing anything.


You mean when they said "Israel shouldn't attack" and then sent them 20.000 missiles and tons of other supplies for war and then they attacked?


How would we know if they did?


I think we are past Israel really caring about catastrophic consequences.


That assumes a sane, well ordered USA. This particular attack falsified that hypothesis.




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