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Unraveling 33: Repaid in Full

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What's the Basis of Mutually Assured Distruction?

There's nobody there that can say, don't use nuclear weapons. Cause if you've got em, you are a sovereign country in the total sense,. Like you could maybe say that bolivia is not a totally sovereign country, because if the us wanted to, they could just go conquer bolivia and take it over. And so, you know it, this is the basis behind, like mutually assured destruction, right? Nobody can tell you, nobody. All you can do is threaten them that if you use them, they're going to get used on you. I mean, we've talked about before how all the way up to the end of the second world war is germany

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