Ahead of a negotiation-related deadline at 8 p.m. US Eastern imposed by US president Donald Trump, the US military conducted additional strikes on Iran's strategic Kharg Island and the president threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight".
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AP: Trump warns a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if a deal with Iran isn’t reached
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AP: Trump widens threat to all of Iran’s power plants and bridges as his deadline for a deal approaches
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AP: Trump’s threatened destruction of Iran’s power plants could be considered a war crime, experts say
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AP: Trump has delayed several deadlines for Iran, but Tuesday’s nears with his most menacing threat
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I have a feeling he will TACO after feigning negotiations again. He’ll proceed to create a two week time frame for Iran to make a deal before for realz actually doing a war crime thing but not before backing out and resetting the timer again, again.
I’m no expert, but I’d imagine destroying civilian infrastructure to negotiate business demands is illegal.
So, odds on the TACO this time?
The US is a fallen democracy. There’s no going back
I feel so helpless. I hate him and everyone who voted for him.
MAGA is a evil cult.
Gulf nations pretty much shutting down right now and issuing shelter orders. The Spanish embassy in Qatar is advising citizens to have enough food and water for several days.
I don’t think Iran has any intention of meeting Trump’s deadline. Interesting night ahead.
People will be trying to make sense of nonsense. Create semblance of logical explanation. From “its to cancell the mid-terms” to “its to detract from the files” passing by “its because of god”. Its not that deep.
Truth is, Trump only care about being important. He alluded many time about how he want to be more than a footnote in history books.
Good or bad, he’s pulling every lever just so hes remembered as someone of significance.
Would he Nuke a country just for ego purposes and just so hes mention in classes 100years from now?
Yes. Yes he would. That is, in fact, driving most of what he does. Thats why hes so obsessed with saying “the first to do X”, “never done before”, “to scale never seen in history” and then name an airport, a giant arch, a golden statue, a street named to himself. Name a class of ship to his name. Rename the Kennedy center to his name. Put his signature on money that will be in circulation for decades. Demolish the white house wing to put his own ballroom. Because those are long term indication that he existed and “did something”.
Thats literally all he care about. Having is narcissistic ass be remembered as impactfull. He want to brute force himself as important to the future of the world. Even if its by being the one who destroyed major part of it.
Once you aknowledge that, every single thing he did make perfect sense.
Everything he’s done in Iran has been a war crime. Now he’s threatening genocide. Which, yes, is a war crime, but let’s not bury the lede here.
Americans please use your right to VOTE when it’s time.
Serious question: what happens next if he chickens out again?
Iran already said they’ve completely closed off negotiations with the US. And I don’t know how you go back to the negotiating table anyway after threatening to end an entire civilization.
This seems like the ultimate Hail Mary, and if Iran doesn’t cave in the next few hours, it leaves the US in an impossible position moving forward.
Republican filth love this behavior.
They all voted happily for the racist, fascist, pedophile fucking clown because he made them feel accepted for their vile bigotry and beliefs.
Thanks repubs! You fucking cowardly, over-sensitive fuckin babies!
We are now in a position where we all have to hold our breathes because a monster wants to use nukes so he doesn’t look like a pussy. This is why I hate you people. This is why I hate what you’ve done to this country. Ten plus years of Trump, everyone is angry, everyone is confused, were becoming monsters of the world, and you fucking people don’t even know what is going on. Just…. my god you people are like an albatroz across my life. I hate that I have to share society with you people. If I got what I wanted we would be working on massive society driven projects, instead we sit around and debate “does Trump mean it when he says he will perform abject evil today?” and this is how you fucking people want it. Just leave, take the south and leave us the fuck alone.
Republicans won’t turn on him, even if he slaughters every single Iranian, unless MAGA voters turn on him. And it’s a cult. They will never turn on him.
Are they hitting Bushehr nuclear plant? A nuke without dropping a nuke.
So when we hitting the streets? This isn’t an act we should stare at on the Internet. We’ve had lots of protests this year but a crazy threat like this demands the American Public airing their grievances.
Donald J. Trump is a traitor and a war criminal on top of the COUNTLESS other illegalities he’s solely responsible for. He needs to be removed from office ASAP. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I’m gonna close this app and go outside for a bit before I have an anxiety attack
Nobel Peace Prize aspirant, everybody.
If and when he goes to trial for war crimes, we’ll have all his tweets, speeches and what not to offer as proof. The trial should take less than 30 minutes before he can spend the rest of his miserable lying pedophile, thieving ass in jail rotting with the other scum of the earth.
Why must this happen in the middle of the night for me. If something’s actually gonna happen tonight, I don’t want to wake up to total chaos tomorrow…
> “a whole civilization will die tonight”.
The Oracle of Delphi’s most famous prophecy stated that if King Croesus attacked Persia, “a great empire will fall”. Of course, the big twist was Croesus’s own Lydian empire that fell.
This reminds me another great quote, “Perhaps history doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes”.
It’s like old man yells at cloud, except with the worlds largest military carrying out his orders.
This is why we never should have let them do this the first time, not sending them to jail only emboldened them.
Look, even if he tacos out the, the mere threat of genocide from the leader of the supposed free world is so far beyond the pale. Confront your Republican reps and senators about this and do not stop confronting them until this clown is impeached.
Supposedly Pakistan is asking to extend the deadline two weeks
[https://x.com/conflict_radar/status/2041597484850688066](https://x.com/conflict_radar/status/2041597484850688066)
Take this with a grain of salt for now until a better source comes in.
‘Murica first!
This is the republican party line now.
“In order to help the Iranian people overthrow their government, we will now kill them all”
Gonna go home. Hug my kids. Act like nothing is happening.
I’ll pick up some ice cream on the way for them.
There’s nothing I can do except hope that it’ll all be ok.
It turns out that English has a word for “threatening to commit war crimes.” It was in heavy popular rotation in late 2001, and starts with the letter “T.” Can anyone guess the word?
It’s a failure of America that we have a system in place where **one man**, with no objections and no mechanisms to prevent it, has the authority to order the destruction of an entire nation.
I really am afraid we are talking nuclear weapons here. Trump is that kind of person who would order that in a tantrum. Especially since conventional weapons have little to no effect on the Iranian regime and the Strait of Hormuz.
Congressman Ro Khanna just started an AskReddit thread asking us why we think Republican people in power haven’t spoken up.
Mods deleted the thread. Maybe because it wasn’t an official AMA or because it was politics.
I’m angry. What good is it to come on Reddit going ‘whut do u guys think?’ the protests speak for themselves. We need them to DO something.
I cannot stop doomscrolling. This is a nightmare.
If Joseph Conrad had tried to write Kurtz like Trump I feel like his editor would have rejected it as too unrealistic.
Anyone else thinking like damn iran isnt even scared??? Whats their plan
I’m not from America, but how is a threat of genocide not seen as completely unacceptable? Yes it’s Trump bravado and likely a lot of hot air, but even uttering those words seems like a line has been crossed, pushing boundaries further, so when they are brought back to baseline, that baseline has now moved.
I just can’t understand how war crimes and genocide is even remotely on the radar? Let alone being spoken about.
Iran is a piece of work – but (and I hate to do this), comparing with WW2 when genocide was the accepted solution from the Nazi regime, it just seems like we are hurtling towards something we cannot back away from.
When Trump is dead and gone, we need strong reforms. Really wish we had a “vote of no confidence” system where the Electoral College would remove the president and trigger an election.
Idk the mechanism of that but we so desperately need it, since we’re stuck with Cheeto for another 2.5 years.
We’re all going to die and it’s going to be because of Donald Trump.
Hopefully I’ll get to collect on that bet I made a few years ago.
I recommend watching this
https://youtu.be/s1488JFcpgY?si=sgD04K6jMZiZ2n_T