7 hours ago, BruceVC said:

And if Saudi Arabia wants to suddenly enrich Uranium to 90% they will receive the same negative attention that Iran is getting from the likes of the IAEA

I believe that uranium enrichment and PUREX reprocessing are used in both civilian reactors and weapons production, so we'd be reliant on our intel to find out their intent. Plus their oil money and influence can skew the findings. Hence I'm heavily skeptical.

Officially, the US doesn't even accept that Israel has nukes.

(It's far more likely that Saudi just buys Pakistani warheads for their DF3s, if push came to shove. They did after all finance the Pakistani nuclear weapons program by most accounts. But yes, the US attitude to Saudi ambitions is probably best summed up by the fact that very few people know that Saudi has a stockpile of nuclear capable missiles- DF3s aren't much use for anything else other than nuclear given their lack of accuracy)

Edited Friday at 07:40 PM5 days by Zoraptor

obviously minion of usa work on different rule

south africa have nuke once

world should rejoice

for tariff is back

against forced labor this time

guess the world really should heavily tariff the nation with the biggest forced labor prison population

If I were cynical, I might suppose the latest tariff move is to distract from the oil situation. Then again, I might suppose the Iran move was to distract from the Epstein files. Maybe it's time to bring up those files again?

Tariffs are one of the things where I'd suspect the timing is purely coincidental. His temporary tariffs are expiring, so he needs to replace them with something at least theoretically permanent.

(Though of course it's hard not to see these 'new' ones as being a spurious way to reapply the old ones, because that is very obviously exactly what they are. Which no doubt will last until the next successful legal challenge, at which time another set of 'new' tariffs with a different spurious reason- IP infringement, maybe?- will be trotted out)

The Trump administration is threatening my kid's school district for being woke or whatever by withholding federal funds. So they're suing to get the money because they're already struggling to get by. Because better we have no school than a school that trans kids feel safe in, obviously.

Watching Rand Paul go after Dr. Fauci shows how bankrupt the conspiracy theory right has become. But thanks for "saving us from science", Dr. Paul. 🙄