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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone (defector.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

This isn't something we will be able to act on retroactively. What I mean is that if nobody in our government or military stops Trump from going nuclear in Iran there is no going back. If he isn't stopped until after it happens, nobody in the entire world will trust Americans ever again and we will all be hated (even more than we already are). This is the single biggest avoidable threat to national security that has ever existed. It's already the case that nobody outside the US cares if you are one of the "good ones" or not. If this fuck-face does what we all think he wants to do, the US and its citizens will be internationally considered a threat to everyone elses national security and will be cut off from the rest of the world indefinitely.

Nobody will give a shit who you voted for or which protests you went to or not, everyone will hate us and rightfully so. If Trump goes nuclear in Iran it'll be the end of the American Empire basically overnight.

[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Bro there won't be a world left to worry about. You trust everyone that has nukes to not mistake it for an attack on them and trigger mad?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

For those who don't know - almost everyone knows where most major missile silos ARE, in most nuclear-capable countries. From the time the rocket is fired, you, no matter which country, have about 5-10 minutes to decide whether it's aimed at you, and whether to fire back.

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