As A Leader What Would You Do?

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Atrocities said:
As a leader of a mighty space empire, would you tollorate a smaller religiously zealot lead empire who has sworn to destroy one of your allies, and openly opposes and supports terrorism against your empire, from developing sun destroying weapons?

In other words, what would you do if you were facing an Iran situation in one of your games?

In other words, once again, Atrocities accepts the right-wing US political position which reduces a complex situation to a tribal black-and-white us-versus-them fear-based mantra.

Which is to say, I think that the situation with Iran is really one which the intelligent knowledgeable people are telling us is ripe for negotiation - Iran seems to probably really want us to acknowledge them and promise not to invade them - they don't really want to be at war with the West. Failing to understand that seems to me like plain pandering conceit and/or stupidity on the part of certain Western leaders.

Ideally though, I'd like to see a complete ban on nuclear weapons, and action taken to remove them all from the planet. However the current US administration has been sounding at least as frightening as Al Qaeda recently in terms of threatening to develop new weapons and consider actually using them. People like that ought not to be allowed into positions of power, IMO...

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