The timing doesn't look absolutely great. It's not a speech you give if you're trying to convince people not to acquire nuclear weapons.
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When a government starts losing the trust of the people in the heat of a crisis, anything can go wrong. And this is what happened in Madrid.
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In French doctrine, nuclear weapons are meant to deter attacks against 'vital interests,' to create uncertainty among potential attackers about what these interests could be. But here, things get defined. That's a change.
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In Beirut when the civil war began, you had electricity 24 hours a day and running water all the time, and the air conditioning was working, and so were the elevators. In the case of Baghdad, it looks like Beirut after 10 years of civil war.
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What triggered it was the attack against the trains in the Madrid suburbs,
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It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.
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