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'Big one is coming soon': Trump tells Tapper we're going to be 'hitting them hard' in Iran
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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Lol you make it sound like there's anyone in America who'd actually stand up and do anything of that nature. They're all too fat and placated by dorritos to peel themselves off their couches and protest, let alone take any more significant actions. A third of them couldn't even be bothered to vote last time around, when the dictator who'd tried to violently overthrow the American government got back into power and started all this shit again.
You're still living in some sort of American exceptionalism fantasy. The country is an authoritarian dictatorship at this point, with a paramilitary that has more funding than most foreign armies, and a mandate to terrorize/pacify American dissent.
Realistically? Trump drops a nuke. MAGAs and America cheer, because "Nuke make big boom! MURICA STRONG!! USA USA USA!!". American/North American media whitewashes it as acceptable and good, just like all the zionist shit is whitewashed as acceptable and good. Americas moderates shrug and open a new bag of potato chips, waiting for aliens to show up on their Fox news feeds. Left wing Americans send thoughts and prayers if they're too poor to get out, or if theyre rich, they immigrate (like Angelina Jolie) to get away from a country they now view as inhumane. The democrats come out supporting the nuking too, as theyre entirely captured by Israel and AIPAC stuff. Russia then bombs Ukraine, and maybe some EU countries -- America spins that as proof that they were weak and were failed states moving towards "civilizational collapse", something they've already laid the groundwork for claiming, and redoubles its efforts to annex Canada and Greenland, and to subdue/castrate any upstarts in south America, likely with increased threats of bombing them all with nukes. China takes Taiwan, cause if Nukes are free to use, there's nothing really stopping them from doing so given general proximity -- you can't easily "park" a naval carrier group anywhere at sea to feign a projection of power, if your enemies are fine nuking the entire area to oblivion. That's one reason the states is so against Iran getting nukes I imagine -- it limits the deterrent influence of their more conventional military assets. Sorta like how the USA suddenly got real quiet about North Korea and the "DOOOM!!!" that'd occur if they got nukes... once NK actually got nukes (and the doom didn't occur! surprise! but trust us, Israel says Iran's different!).
Directly nuking a country that has nuclear capabilities would likely still be 'off the table' generally, as it'd trigger potential retaliation. But the rest get screwed. The USA has already walked away from its commitment to things like NATO, and has openly said they're fine letting Russia 'do whatever the hell they want' with European countries.
The above string of events sounds far fetched. But I find it far more believable than to think that Americans will actually do something about the shit their administration/country is pushing.
I was told the reason Americans needed guns was in case of a tyrannical government