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Originally Posted by Alf

You do realise that the last nuclear bomb that was dropped, was dropped because there wasn't a threat of retaliation? And you do realise that we all want a World free of a nuclear threat? but the reality is, many of todays cultures have nukes, Pakistan have nukes, and that is the reason we are in Afghanistan.

The nuclear deterrent is the reason we had the Cold war and not World war III. And having a leader that say's they are not prepared to press the button, makes us weak with regards to countries and cultures that do have nuclear weapons and are prepared to use them against us. And it also sends out a message that we are all talk and no action.

I would love to be like the neutral countries of WW2 and not have to be bothered about world affairs and expect others to defend our neutrality, but the reality is that we are the historic model of Democracy that every notion of state Democracy around the world is based upon and consequently we have a responsibility to defend our ideology no matter what

Except that our entire Nuclear arsenal is a proxy of the US Nuclear weapons programme, we have no independent programme that we maintain on our own, and 93% of the world's nuclear weapons belong to the US and Russia. We play absolutely no role in M.A.D and we never will; we just like to pretend that we do, a dick swinging contest, to the tune of billions.

Also, no one in the world who is not a complete psychopath would actually push the button and everyone knows that. The only difference between Corbyn and the others is that he's not willing to tell the bare-faced lie that he would. "Oh yes of course I would obliterate the world if it came down to it!", crow most politicians. Would they actually, though? And what would be the point? So whoop-de-****ing-doo.