Nuking Iran Would Mean Stepping Beyond the Brink of Evil

And is quite telling that trump and his strategists think that he will get less punished by Americans for starting a literal war than for the Epstein files...

Yes, we were already evil on day one.

The article points to Netanyahu as the guy with the itchy trigger finger.

Along with “we’re all terrorists.”

As it worked out so well for Ukraine... Russia invaded Ukraine, and the US gives a shit about it and and threatens Ukraine to give up territory to Russia...

Full-scale ground war by June, tactical nukes by Dec. 

We've been through this loop on multiple topics with Trump the day he got in. People will obviously be anxious

Only country to drop them yet invade other countries for having weapons of mass destruction. America is not and has never been a beacon of morality.

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese people are unavailable to respond.

Not really. Thats just what we tell ourselves. Our carpet bombing campaigns previously killed more than either bomb. Bombing campaigns dont produce regime change. Japan was already on the brink and the Soviets just made landfall to start their campaign. Thats much more likely to be the reason the Japanese surrendered.

You state this speculative opinion *way too confidently*.

If saving lives by quickly ending the war is your only concern, then you have a point there. The long-term consequences of using nukes against Japan are much more complicated than simply preventing a costly land invasion. Many of the dynamics of the cold war/arms race era would have been very different. History would have unfolded differently. I think using gigantic bombs that can wipe out whole regions in an instant is a bad outcome, at best a pyrrhic victory.

This is why I don’t listen to folks when they are concerned that we’re producing a whole generation of new terrorists who hate us.  The Japanese never formed anti-US jihads, they became allies instead and tech innovators.