it would absolutely start the clock on a nuke eventually going off in the US, because it would normalize the use of nuclear weapons in any perceived conflict with the US.
anybody sober sees this Iran dust-up as instigated by war hawks and Israel, so the use of a nuke to “end” it would give every other geopolitical rival or uneasy ally the imperative to nuke the US first at the first sign of trouble, to avoid becoming the target of the US’ spontaneously generated aggression.
and if we nuked Iran, the propaganda machine would go into overdrive to make it seem acceptable, conservative pundits would cry out in glory to heaven for delivering death and destruction to a nation of people, the rest of the planet would see our unhinged justifications and have to admit to their own security services that the US had gone completely insane and start revisiting their outside-the-box strategies to cripple the US by any means available.
and eventually it would happen, because the military is a joke, and the fear over the US panic launching in blind retaliation at anybody would probably inspire a multilateral effort to overwhelm US forces everywhere.
it would absolutely start the clock on a nuke eventually going off in the US, because it would normalize the use of nuclear weapons in any perceived conflict with the US.
anybody sober sees this Iran dust-up as instigated by war hawks and Israel, so the use of a nuke to “end” it would give every other geopolitical rival or uneasy ally the imperative to nuke the US first at the first sign of trouble, to avoid becoming the target of the US’ spontaneously generated aggression.
and if we nuked Iran, the propaganda machine would go into overdrive to make it seem acceptable, conservative pundits would cry out in glory to heaven for delivering death and destruction to a nation of people, the rest of the planet would see our unhinged justifications and have to admit to their own security services that the US had gone completely insane and start revisiting their outside-the-box strategies to cripple the US by any means available.
and eventually it would happen, because the military is a joke, and the fear over the US panic launching in blind retaliation at anybody would probably inspire a multilateral effort to overwhelm US forces everywhere.
I don’t think this is correct
We are a credible MAD threat, Iran is not. I wouldn’t see us using “tactical” nukes against DPRK for example