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Doesn't make me feel any less nervous honestly.

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[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

If they are denying it that means someone let it slip that they ARE considering using them and considering whose finger is on the trigger i wouldn't be surprised if we see a mushroom cloud in the middle east...

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

While this is generally a possibility, I think in this case it's more likely that they have heard the rumbling from the masses about nukes and really didn't mean to imply them - they were talking about taking out bridges and power plants, which would severely disable Iran, so I think that's what Trump meant about the civilisation thing.

But I am not 100%, which I think is the point - we're all not quite ready to believe Trump wouldn't throw nukes..... so we're certainly not buffoons to worry.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Or he did mean a nuke, and everybody warned him that there's no getting away with that.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Did we read the same article? The source of the claims is quoted

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"tools in our toolkit we haven't used" could be nukes, white phosphorus, napalm, nerve gas and plenty of other weapons of mass destruction to bring "hell" to their doorstep, but the fact that they denied nukes specifically means someone suggested it as a solution to quickly settle the matter.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Yes, and that someone was a tweet reacting to Vance’s comment: