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kleinbl00  ·  2493 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another Giant Step

A Machiavellian would encourage their ambitions.

Freeman Dyson pointed out that Hitler spent more on the V-weapons program than the US spent on the Manhattan Project but Hitler's rockets were strategically insignificant and militarily useless. Had he spent the effort on the Luftwaffe outcomes would have been different.

It's entirely possible that North Korea is at the table because they've spent themselves into the ground. Famine got inspectors in there last time. They might simply be skint.