"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

Okay. Good point.

So aside from Russia, China, North Korea and their supporters would anyone be really upset with Poland (or the Baltics, Finland, S Korea, Japan, etc) having nukes?

I doubt that any of the rest of the non-NATO aligned world would be too thrilled either.

And that's considering only national governments, which is a curious way to look at things from the get-go.

You mean for sidewalk maintenance? It would make more sense on the bike trails. I'd pay a toll there, if and only if every fucking cent was spent ON the trails, and nothing else.

Not that I see the US caring what they think, maybe outside India.

I think that they should ask Iraq how having nuclear weapons worked out for them. Oh, yeah, right. Well, there's still North Korea, and... Oh, yeah.

Anyway, it's not like an aspect of colonialism is that the major powers say that they can have something that other nations can't. Oh. Well, anyways, there's surely something bad about allowing every nation to have a weapon system that no nation who's possessed such weapons has been subjected to a major invasion by another military power.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine...ces-use-chemical-weapons-to-storm-ocheretyne/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68893196

Aww, I was gonna use it to go around transing kids.

Bikes are for hippies.

From what I have observed, they are mostly for potbellied, fair weather douchebags to waste their money on lycra and spandex and pretend they're dime store Lance fucking Armstrong.

https://kyivindependent.com/the-us-weapons-making-their-way-to-ukraine-right-now/

Good listen

The Original America First Movement

Eliot and Eric welcome Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, and author of America Last: The Right's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. They discuss the origin story of "America First" during the First World War when critic and satirist H.L. Mencken and German-American propagandist (and paid agent) George Sylvester Viereck led the charge against American intervention in the Great War and how both played roles in the 30s and early 40s America First movement to prevent FDR from aiding the Allies. They discuss the hostility of America Firsters to the liberal tradition in America, its connection to anti-Semtism, William F. Buckley's role and evolution on anti-Semitism, Jeanne Kirkpatrick's views on authoritarianism and totalitarianism and the left's own tradition of admiration for tyrants as well as how these tendencies are reflected in today's MAGA movement.

America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
https://a.co/d/91qv3YA

Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

https://audioboom.com/posts/8499397-the-original-america-first-movement