Iran would be a case where it would not work, especially if they get those weapons.
Maybe, but even they would think twice. If we didn’t have nukes, while others did, we most definitely would be attacked. My point is just that although nuclear armaments are horrible, we need to have them and to keep them current and operational - so we don’t ever have to use them.
Mutually assured destruction would certainly work on Iran. Ergo, their side is the only one assured of destruction.
I keep hearing they don’t care if they die because they are suicidal and just need the war to bring in the 12th Imam or something.
Ok, cool, then what’s wrong with today? They could start pounding Tel Aviv with missiles this afternoon. They could missile swarm a US carrier today and probably get success.
They are “suicidal” for OTHER young people to go be suicidal...But for their own corpus delecti? Not so much.
They are as easily deterred by MAD as any people on earth. They want a bomb for one reason. They see Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc and then they look at how nobody screws with Pakistan, China, North Korea, or India and they know exactly why.
Underneath the Mullahs BS is an intelligent Persian upper level that is not your idiot Saudi or Arab mentality. Iran isn’t suicidal.