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White House denies it is considering using nuclear weapons in Iran (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 23 hours ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/world@quokk.au

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Doesn't make me feel any less nervous honestly.

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[–] 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.