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Meanwhile, dozens were injured by Iranian strikes in Israel, as Tehran targeted a nuclear site.

Donald Trump threatened Iran in a Truth Social post Saturday evening, warning that the U.S. would target the nation’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.

“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!” Trump wrote in the post.

Approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes through the the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade route. Iranian attacks on ships in the area have seen the area essentially close to maritime traffic, while oil prices have soared globally.

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[–] status_sphere@sh.itjust.works 133 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing says diplomacy like a Twitter ultimatum with a countdown while simultaneously admitting that you are about to commit a war crime.

[–] renhogan@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep.

Sad part is labelling things as ‘War crimes’ is meaningless. There’s no accountability in this World anymore.

It’s like “that’s a war crime!”

… “so anyways… what’s for dinner?”

Sad World our ancestors fought and died for all those years ago.

[–] Dimantina@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well....

So like for probably me and you, it was our grand fathers and great grandfather's that put forth the rules of war in WW1 and WW2.

For Trump it was his dad. He's not even that removed, he was born 3 years before the Geneva convention was ratified. When "War Crimes" actually became a thing...

Purely speculation, but given the fact he has never had respect of law, I think him and his cabal would have been against the idea of creating war crimes in 1949... So for him its just a long line of ignoring inconvenient "woke" bullcrap.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Stop making a oil crisis or we'll make it even worse!"

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Stop making an oil crisis (that we started) or we will continue to make it even worse

[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Civil Energy infrastructure.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago

War crimes are cool and easy to do

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Iran already replied to the threat saying they'd bomb the gulf's desalinators...what now, you fucking idiot? He really has no notion of what he's done and no ability to think beyond threats and escalation...

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[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 57 points 1 week ago (49 children)

Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As a Native American who doesn’t even have a voting member of congress please go fuck yourself. White people are doing this and white people didn’t come from America.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, Indigenous people in the US cant vote for a senator?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We were promised our own representatives that we still don’t have. As you may be able to imagine, the white people who are elected state wide don’t always have the best interests of Native peoples in mind.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Yeah Im Canadian and Indigenous rights are not respected here either but fuck, at least they can vote.

[–] rljkeimig@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Native Americans can vote in state and national elections and are supposed to be represented in Congress by the senators and representative of the state they live in, but they are not represented directly by a native with equal standing and their land and rights are usually not a priority for their legislators or states they live in.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Neither do Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, American Samoans, or Virgin Islanders. Congressional representation is a bad joke, and the house hasn't expanded seats since 1910 which greatly privileges representation for smaller population states. Gerrymandering is just a splash in the pot compared to how rigged they have the legislature.

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[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Tomorrow you wake up American. You are the same person, nobody asked your permission, you had no say in the matter, but you are within the borders of America, are a citizen, and have no other citizenship. In fact, because you are American, no country will take you, and even if they would, it would take years up emigrate.

What do you do?

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (17 children)

More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile. Fuck off with this "not all americans" bullshit. Do something about it, or youre a pedo protector, simple as. If you dont like the entire world hating you, dont commit evil shit as a country.

To be clear, i am American. We all deserve every bit of hate the world can muster.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bombing powerplants is an attack on civilians and therefore a war crime.

Who is going to stop this addle-pated pigman?

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're at the point both sides could just be waiting for him to wipe Iran off the map before doing anything since can just make Trump the scapegoat and finally get their wished for attack on Iran

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, Trump could just nuke Iran and both sides will cope about it being "a necessary measure to save lives from a ground invasion". The US has no inhibitions left anymore.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 week ago

Dems will complain he didn't let then vote on it while also saying he had no choice 😑😞🙃

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascinating to watch the strategist in chief play three-dementia chess...

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] joan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What even was the official objective of this war in the first place

[–] Lagviper@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

They have a concept of an objective

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

To facilitate the Greater Israel Project

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Armageddon.
Barring that, eternal warmongering for profit.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

No joke but to bring about the biblical end times, Trump is just a useful idiot to the folks with money and bad intentions.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

our war objective is to do whatever israel tells us to do.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

This mother fucker is going to get us all killed.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
>start war against country controlling 20% of oil
>20% of oil is jeopardised
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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

The bombings will continue until you like us more than your violent government...seems like a solid plan...

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Again, going after civilian infrastructure targets rather than military ones. And who gets the contract to rebuild this infrastructure? This douche bag is gonna start a world war because him and his friends will get rich building the bombs, using the bombs, and rebuilding the shit they themselves have blown up. Blown up for the sole reason to make a lot of really rich people even richer. We are all so fucked... Humans, man.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"obliterate", like how he "obliterated" the Iranian's nuclear capabilities last June?

So I should expect they'll be producing at full capacity again in 8 months then? Is that how this works?

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We obliterate nuclear enrichment sites so hard they come back online mere weeks later. No one obliterates like us.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Based on what I know about how Trump operates, I'm fully convinced he is just creating an excuse to launch a nuke at someone, either Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland, any country he can. Because that's the one thing he has just been itching to do his entire presidency. Using the special codes to launch a nuclear bomb to prove to the world and to himself that he really is as powerful as God himself.

I am actually willing to bet that we're eventually going to learn that he has already tried at least once but someone has (until now) managed to block it.

Someone is going to get nuked if Trump is not stopped.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The US seems to want us to be extremely focused on one small part of their war - the Strait of Hormuz. It's all they ever harp on about.

What's the situation across the rest of the theatre? How close is the US to accomplishing it's primary war goals?

Why do they suspiciously want us to ignore everything else and focus on this one international shipping transit lane?

[–] protist@retrofed.com 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

US here. Uh...can you share what those war objectives are? We have not been told

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess I‘ll hold off watching news and quietly enjoy the little pre WW3 peace time I have.

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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who would have though Iran would save America!?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Give up your only leverage while we horsefuck you or else we will horse fuck you! Brilliant! /s

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