The "Samson Option" is a conspiracy theory that if Israel is ever at the brink of destruction it will nuke Europe and America. It is a conspiracy theory based on the ramblings of one Israeli historian and one American author.
Israel has nuclear weapons and its MAD policies are probably the same as other nuclear powers.
It's funny because Putin has actually said that Russia will end up destroying the entire world in retaliation if Russia is ever attacked with nuclear weapons. But for some reason you don't see this quote get the same attention as the "Samson Option".
‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'
Days later, he reiterated his stance, implying that nuclear war — a “disaster for the entire world” — would be a response to a major attack against Russia: “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state, I must ask myself: ‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'”
> Israel has nuclear weapons and its MAD policies are probably the same as other nuclear powers.
But with a much more controversial relationship with it neighbours, who’s land it illegally occupies and state policies that are compared to apartheid policies.
All my life I've thought spyware was developed primarily by evil Russian and Chinese hackers. But apparently also by Israeli developers with their government's blessing and open endorsement. That's some very shady stuff.
Gamma Group is an Anglo-German company that provides similar surveillance software with government blessing and endorsement. Hacking Team (Italian company) sells similar surveillance software to various European governments. Before an embarrassing data breach in 2015 they also used to sell surveillance software to various totalitarian regimes outside Europe.
If i remember correctly, the Italian government at the time made some noise - they weren’t happy to find there was no exclusivity in the relationship, so to speak. They kinda threatened to cut their contracts. To be honest I don’t know how it ended, it fell off the news in Italy too and that was it. Behind the façade of barely-organised anarchy, Italy is an instinctively authoritarian country and blunt instruments are considered fair game more often than not.
Honestly I would choose Java and not Go, Elixir etc. if I was writing software for an insurance company or other customers that demand complex business logic.
Israel has nuclear weapons and its MAD policies are probably the same as other nuclear powers.
It's funny because Putin has actually said that Russia will end up destroying the entire world in retaliation if Russia is ever attacked with nuclear weapons. But for some reason you don't see this quote get the same attention as the "Samson Option".
‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'
Days later, he reiterated his stance, implying that nuclear war — a “disaster for the entire world” — would be a response to a major attack against Russia: “as a citizen of Russia and the head of the Russian state, I must ask myself: ‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'”
‘Why would we want a world without Russia?'
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/01/27/commentary/w...