• Corn@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Sure, and so can any executive of any nuclear state. But presumably it would be unpopular among the imams who elected the “nuclear weapons are haram” guy, who can dismiss him at will, just as Id hope any other state that has a mechanism to recall the executive would.

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      16 days ago

      Democratic countries usually put this to a vote of some parliament, there’s no king/ayatollah/dictator. So maybe China could do it, but France Britain or India wouldn’t.