Came across this great short film about Mutually Assured Destruction. It’s not really a political commentary or anything, it’s just funny.

Be forewarned however that this one is NOT for the kiddies. Plenty of really bad language in this. Still, you’ll be laughing your A– off mates.

PS - Watch out for those nasty kangaroos!
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After years of war, US military leaders came to believe that the Japanese military would literally fight to the last man. Although Axis forces were already defeated in Europe and Japan was losing on their front, many US officials believed that bringing an absolute end to the war with Japan was going to be a long and bloody ordeal.

When presented with the new Atomic option they reasoned that the loss of 2-300,000 people in Japanese cities would be measurably fewer lives lost than the continuation of the War. (We must remember that this was prior to the advent of smart weaponry, and that entire cities would be fire-bombed prior to invasion and hand to hand combat in trenches. War was hell.)
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The Australian recently published an article quoting Netanyahu as such:

“IT’S 1938,” said former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “and Iran is Germany, racing to arm itself with atomic bombs.”

The Iranian Bomb has become for Israel an issue of urgency as the international community appears to back away from confrontation with Tehran.

In his address, Mr Netanyahu referred to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated calls for wiping Israel off the map.

“Believe him and stop him,” he said. “This is what we must do. Everything pales before it.”
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