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Trump threatens to attack Iran's power plants if Strait of Hormuz not opened within 48 hours (www.aa.com.tr)

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If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Giving out an ultimatum to blow up civilian infrastructure is a war crime right

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 71 points 2 weeks ago

I hope that people are starting to understand why war powers shouldn't be hogged by one dipshit.

[-] echo@lemmy.today 32 points 2 weeks ago

They're not even beginning to understand. They still think we're winning. :(

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

Saw that diesel in my area hit $6.99 a gallon. Is this winning?

I suppose it can feel that way if you're an EV owner and don't rely on Diesel (or dirtier versions of diesel) to heat your house.

Of course, in my semi-rural area, a bunch of the MAGA voters drive huge, lifted diesel trucks that burn as inefficiently as possible (so that they can roll coal on Priuses and bikers) and also have 1950's oil furnaces that basically burn dirty diesel. I wonder how long they'll keep lying to themselves about winning.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Electricity prices will be going up too.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don’t forget congress is complicit too. They’re choosing to let this happen.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yup...more war crimes. That seems to be the only tool in his toolbox.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

Oh! More terrorism. Great job.

[-] devolution@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

1ply or 2ply?

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Barely 1 ply. It’s falling apart at the slightest touch to ass.

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[-] limer@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 weeks ago

This is a stated intent to destroy, or set in motion events that will destroy, much of the oil and power infrastructure in several countries .

I really hope this is only a manipulation of the markets , because otherwise things will never be the same.

Americans have a duty to make this not happen

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago

American voted for this to happen. And remain at 40% approval of the guy.

[-] limer@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

People supporting him is not nearly as important as who can stop it in the next day

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

'The establishment owes me an easy choice, otherwise i hold my breath at home!!!!'

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think Americans ever got a choice in the matter. Trump ran as an anti war candidate, about a third of Trump supporters do not support this war, and the majority of Americans are opposed to it.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

None of that matters. The fact is that obese orange thing still got elected by the direct or indirect actions of voting for, or 'protesting' by not voting at all.

Even if you take away all the paedophilia 'accusations' ;⁠-⁠);⁠-⁠), and the bankruptcies and corruption etc etc etc and then solely go with what that fat cunt did during the first term then that should be enough for any intelligent person to not vote for that thing again. But no, that's just too much for the rest of the fucking world to ask for!!

I don't give a shit what the average american is opposed to when the rest of the world have to also suffer the consequences of electing in a dementia riddled, warmongering, tyrannical old twat with the temperament and bowel habits of a tantrumming toddler.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if you take away all the paedophilia ‘accusations’

At this point you can just say "the fact that he's a pedophile"

Also, I feel like you're attributing too many grandiose-in-a-bad-way adjectives to him. He's just a spoiled unloved rich kid with a two digit IQ who has managed to surround himself with two digit IQ lackies.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Americans have a duty to make this not happen."

What does this even mean? Shall I go throw molotov cocktails at my local California city hall - a city hall full of people that oppose what Trump is doing?

People need to understand that the United States of America is the third largest country by landmass in the world. We have massive protests here, and a huge one is going to happen next weekend... But it won't force Trump to do, or refrain from doing, anything on the world stage.

Our government is completely captured by a single party that is both very stupid, and very evil. We have a way out of this in November, but only if the GOP doesn't successfully upend democracy in that election.

Until then, the grand majority of Americans that want this to end are in the same boat as any and all foreigners that want it to end. Our "power" is only available in election cycles.

The next election is predicted to be a blood bath for Trump, too. He's the most unpopular president in living memory right now.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Great. Were gonna save iran juat like we saved gaza! Cuba next!

Happy yet, sitouts?

[-] madde@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Trumps approval rating still sits at 40 % (https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker).

Something's seriously wrong with your people, USA...

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

brainrot through social media / smartphones, coupled with propaganda.

We have the brainrot already in Europe - if our propaganda were as strong, we'd be just as bad, sadly.

[-] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

We spent decades destroying our education system and you didn't even mention it, do our efforts mean nothing to you?

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[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 2 weeks ago

If y’all don’t change ma diaper really soon…

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Let's get you to bed, Diaper Don..

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking USA wars. Would he make such a big war, and threaten them with nuclear obliteration, if they weren't on the other side of the globe? No. Cowards.

And yes, many Iranian power plants are nuclear. Nice of you to not mention that, asshole potus.

Of course the fallout would still be bad - not only for US "allies" in Europe but also in the US. But realizing that would require some mental effort so it doesn't count.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

going full Putin ?

[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

This feels more “Full Netanyahu” to me. Putin is calculating and cold. Netanyahu seems to have a flair for cruelty.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Both of the other guys are fairly intelligent though.

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not sure if he's really thought this one through.

Doesn't look like he's left himself a lot of wiggle room to back down.

I don't think Iran is going to comply.

edit: I kinda wonder why Iran isn't pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion. Fake photos of petrol prices. Rumours of fuel shortages. Rumours about the Trump family profiting somehow. Rumours that Bibi was going to release unredacted Epstein Kompromat. Plans to draft people for war in Iran. Even the dems could be doing this really.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

I kinda wonder why Iran isn't pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion.

They do. I have seen public statements by Iranian officials, and even memes (mostly AI), here on lemmy.

But they're mostly in Parsi and Arabic, since that's the audience they care about. Iran is trying to end the US threat against them, which probably means removing US bases in the Middle East and getting the Gulf powers on their side. So they don't talk about rising fuel prices, they talk about Palestine, the massacre of the schoolgirls, and freedom in general.

[-] Cherry@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

It does not need to be fake photos. The financial cost is real, a trump is blatant about his family corruption.

Even if there was a media campaign the USA is a controlled media, so it wouldn’t be shown, if it did people would either forgive it because USA is always a winner attitude or they would disassociate blame AI etc.

You had citizens being shot and that was not enough to provoke a turn around.

[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And so shortly after he fooled so many with his latest ‘winding down’ statement.

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[-] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Add it to the pile over there... gestures out of the window to a heap that closely resembles mount Everest

[-] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Omg. I read that at first as “Tran’s power plant”. If there was such a thing — he’d attack it.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

As a US citizen I wonder if this is how 1930s Germans felt?

Well except a large portion of us feel the orange shit gibbon is a moron, surrounded by sycophantic morons and kakistocrats.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

And a large portion of Germans also felt that hitler was a moron, surrounded by sycophantic morons and kakistocrats.

Actualt as the nazi party never won the majority of seats the us is actually more complainant to the current regime.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think that's how you get someone to cooperate voluntarily.

Nevertheless, I thought Pete Hegseth said the Strait is open already save for a totally minor obstacle to safe shipping, that Trump or anyone shouldn't worry about.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Technically it is open if you're paying in Chinese Yuan 😂

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Iran: fuck off pedo.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

So I have a crackpot theory.....

The Mueller tweet and now this, I'm starting to actually believe this isn't Trump at all, and this is a team conspiring to 25th him and give them an out of the Iran situation.

Like "ok, we admit it he's gone nuts, so whoopsie and Iran don't worry we will make this right so let's just settle down now"

[-] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 22 points 2 weeks ago

I think this is Trump. He hears the footsteps coming, so he's getting desperate, and doing anything he can to stop the inevitable.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Great. A demented, desperate octogenarian criminal piece of shit human with his thumb on the nuclear trigger. Good job all you asshole voters!

[-] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

He could try what Adolf did when the walls were closing in on him. That might be the only thing he could do this week to boost his approval numbers.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He would absolutely launch the nukes before doing what you're suggesting.

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[-] Catma@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yea I know I would totally trust a country that killed my family, continues to bomb me, and murdered a school full of kids simply because "whoopsie doopsie the guy running the show was out of his mind"

They can but Iran isnt going to back down for a promise.

[-] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Son of a bitch..

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