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Originally Posted by Schroeder
The issue is you would have to fanatical kindergarten kids with nukes who aren't afraid of getting killed because they do it for their god. MAD did only work because each side feared destruction.  |
India and Pakistan. Both hate each other with a passion, both have major religious disagreements which make the whole west/muslim thing look laughable, and both have had nukes since the 1990s.
EDIT: CCIP makes good points. Iran is certainly more geopolitically savvy in the Middle East than any western nation, and Saudi Arabia can play the west better than Jimi Hendrix could play the guitar. So who are the fools here?