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		solenoid0937 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strik... Absolutely, this has been clear for a long time. Countries are only truly sovereign if they have a reliable nuclear capability, otherwise they are always at the whim of another country with a sufficiently powerful military.

morshu9001 7 days ago [–]

They need the military either way. There's no country that just has nukes and nothing else, except for North Korea, see how that's going for them.

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