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Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz.

The US launched an operation on Monday to help hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war.

Over 800 ships and roughly 20,000 crew members remain stranded in the region.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

It's to save Iranian people, right? Right?

[-] NerdyTimesOrWhatever@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago

Glad the people who wouldnt vote over Palestine arent responsible for anything, even morally. Its morally right to be in favour of multiple genocides, especially ones our president threatens personally.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Remember when people thought Biden/Kamala were big bad genociders and didn't vote or voted 3rd party, resulting in Pedo Don becoming president, and now Pedo Don is casually talking about wiping a nation of people out of existence?

Good job guys.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I make sure to remind the bothsiderist dumbasses every time I see them.

[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Trump has become Kim Jong Un at this point.
"We're going to blow up everything! Just you watch!"

Let me tell you, Don... They're not listening to you. No one is listening to you. Laughing at you maybe, but no one is seriously paying attention to your late night war mongering ramblings.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

He couldnt even successfully escort ships for 2 days. And he is not able to keep those ships supplied. How is he going to threaten iran with much of anything? What are we going to do, bleed on them?

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Take the Gerald Ford and send it drifting into one of their ports. A flaming disease riddled nuclear fireship.

[-] iglou@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Again?! Isn't Iran supposed to be vaporized three times over by now?

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

Tit for tat could happen so be safe people and don't book your wedding at the wedding venue trump lives in.

[-] DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the ceasefire is going great so far.

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 17 hours ago

It's the greatest. So amny people said a ceasefire wasn't possible but we manage dit when i went Nad spoke to those gys in Iraq, because even through they hate me they luv me becoz they no I;m a strong prcedent and im a winnewr and they kno the US militry is the strongest un the wurld and thebust in thewirkd.

This is that elementary school bully that walks up to a kid and punches them because they think it's funny, but when the kid punches back the bully goes crying straight to the teacher.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

This will ensure that all countries will develop nukes otherwise they will be defenseless against nuke owning states.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Pedo Don making the world a significantly more dangerous place, despite being worm food within a few years.

[-] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Ukraine has already shown the whole world this

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Imagine the same countries saying Iran should not have nukes trying to get nukes

[-] homes@piefed.world 94 points 1 day ago
[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago
[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Well it is Tuesday.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago

Threatening war crimes again, eh?

[-] Klox@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Part of his 100 point plan for distracting from the Epstein files.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

In other words, the Cheeto will murder a bunch more innocent children and then taco the fuck out

[-] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

, leaving all the ships still stranded except for the 14 that the USA somehow sank by mistake. Oopsie Daisy!

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[-] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago

This train wreck is as painful to watch as a B horror movie.

This numbnut is walking into an obvious trap. They're baiting major assets of the USN using ratty little fast boats.

Now that they're in striking range, their defense have to be lucky every single day, multiple times per day. If the Iranians are lucky once, they destroy billions of dollars in hardware, get major bragging rights, and thousands of GI families at home get to look up the lyrics to "Fortunate Son."

[-] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 47 points 1 day ago

All you had to do is not do the stupid blockade, Iran at that point was ready to open the damn strait, ships were going through. Now we 'll have stupid pointless escalations because fuck the global trade

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Just like Russia, the US can end this war whenever they want to.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

They could just drive tanker trucks to the Red sea.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 day ago

All he had to do was not shred the Iran deal we already had in place (and was working) because it was negotiated and put into effect under a president who was black.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

Too many people seem to forget about this...

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's like 95% of the reason he shredded it. Same reason he claims he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, outright hates ACA, and did everything he could to undo literally everything Obama did.

Exactly the same reason he cut the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, which was Obama's defense when H7N9 broke out. Then COVID came and no response group

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

When there’s eventually a deal with Iran, it’s not going to be as good as the one we already had with them but he’s going to say it’s the best deal ever and his base won’t know any better. It’s such a stupid time we live in.

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[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago
[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

More like the “shart of war”

[-] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Content warning: needless uninvited pedantry ahead

Trump acts like a toddler. And any parent can tell you that predicting the inevitably dumb behavior of your toddler isn't rocket science.

He's so predictably stupid and selfish that most of the time, everyone else but him knows what he's doing. It's a fun meme but I think the reality is the opposite.

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

very occasionally they do something stupider than you thought possible, but ypu just lower the bar going forward for your predictions and your good

[-] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 1 points 17 hours ago

And that's why we were all legitimately worried that he'd try to nuke Iran.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

I know it's a joke, but people who don't know what they are doing are relatively easy to predict.

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[-] shweddy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Once you're doing warcrimes weekly they just let you get away with raping kids apparently

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

Iran should take this seriously, I heard from Bill that Donald does a mean blowie.

[-] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 day ago

I really hope Americans have learned something from this and that is to not elect demented pedophiles to be presidents FUCKING TWICE, third time's the charm right? right?? And while everyone else is trying to deescalate the situation he and his "top" officials are trying to make it as difficult as possible to reach a peaceful solution.

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 22 points 1 day ago

come on now you think the yanks have learned something? they haven't learned a thing for decades. Did they learn anything after Reagan? Bush Senior? Bush Jr twice? you honestly expect them to figure it out NOW?

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

A good percentage of the US population would elect Satan himself as long as he was "sticking it to the liberals."

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[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

Please lose the midterms and get dragged out of office, it would be so funny

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly even if Congress is swept by Democrats, I would be completely unsurprised if the controlled opposition faction of the DNC (read: the vast majority of them) does nothing at all due to how diViSiVE it would be. And even if they do, the Tribunal of Six will probably try to declare impeachment unconstitutional or something like that.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The leftist candidates that have been winning these various special elections by double-digit spreads over highly-favored right-wing candidates are not dems, they're progressives. Same label, very different flavor.

And I am totally here for that. It's been fun watching them quietly form a party within the party.

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Couldn't agree more, The both sides of the same argument ignores the very real change that is happening in America and may not change the Democratic party overnight but the differences are real and they're starting to accumulate.

Now that's definitely not where we should stop but those people in the right positions can buy us the space to make real change via direct action, unions and community support networks.

What exactly does he think "closed" means?

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