Nigeria has the 6th highest population in the world, the largest in Africa. When Biden speaks with the President of Nigeria how many segments does it take up on CNN and FOX? How many Americans even know his name?
Meanwhile anytime any President mentions the leader of the 56th most populated country in the world it's headline news, every one has tons to say around the world, everyone pisses their pants. Every person on the planet knows the name of the leader of the 56th largest population aka North Korea.
Why is that?
Could it be because North Korea is 1 of 9 countries that has Nuclear Weapons.
Because NK has Nukes they get to be taken seriously on the world stage. They don't even have that many nukes compared to the other nine, but just having a few means everyone has to treat them a certain way.
And I don't want to bury the lead here, the problem with Nuclear Weapons ISN'T that North Korea has them (though that is objectively bad) it's that WHO EVER HAS THEM is automatically the biggest swinging dick on the planet, and we have to bow down to them, not because they are morally right, but because they can destroy the world.
America, China and Russia are more guilty than North Korea. The rest of the world has to suck up to these three countries because of how many Nukes they have.
That's the negative impact nuclear weapons have had and continue to have on this world.
The entirety of the Cold War, was two nuclear powers bulling the rest of the world to do their bidding, thus if you want a body count, conservative 7 million but closer to at least 20 million. And again just deaths.... there were a lot of other horrors happening and still happening just because a few people have nukes.