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[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

Well, they did it. Now Iran will lash out and close the straits of Hormuz. It's the only threat that they can carry out now...

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

What if you bomb the entrances?

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry guys we're not going to war.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

Dumbo with the big ears is pulling the strings of the empty-headed Scarecrow.

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 hours ago

Yeah no hipocrisy and double standards whatsoever /s

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Seems to me, like there is EXTREMELY, next to zero, or perhaps zero reason to ever HAVE to use a nuke. Nuke's should be a defensive deterrent, not a first choice. I'm sure the military has plenty of other options.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh honey, read some of the norbert weiner nuke cult guys, and their Soviet counterparts.

This is a rabbit hole nobody wants anybody to ho down.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

If you are not ready to use a nuke ever, it stops being a deterrent. Game theory.

But this situation is not the kind where a nuke is used as a deterrent. If Israel was saying they're sorry and asking for ceasefire, while Iranians would be absolutely destroying what remains of it and not listening, then yes.

Or, if Iran had a nuke and Israelis were succeeding in destroying Iran.

But neither are true.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It is so odd that this info being publicized...

they just want to test how much public outcry there would be

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They are trying to scare Iran into giving into what they want.

He thinks this is a genius plan.

It's stupid.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

He will chicken out and give the nukes to them... And call it the most brilliant thing anyone has ever done

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 35 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump is as dumb as a sack of hammers, and he’s looking for a nail. He just wants to treat nukes like playthings, a rich man’s flex. Just to say he did. Like a canned trophy hunt of a Lion from the safety of helicopters and trucks with everyone around him at his paid service. No risk, no personal jeopardy. Drop the bomb for lols just to experience the fact he did it and will brag about it.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 18 hours ago
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 40 points 18 hours ago (5 children)
[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

Trump cheated to win the election. Most Americans are against him.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

Most Americans are against him.

I'll believe it when I see it. What I see is Trump and his ICE Brownshorts running all over the place with almost zero resistance.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

Most Americans might be against him, but the majority of those that voted voted for him. People's apathy and the DNC continually being useless helped Trump win.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago

Most Americans are against him

Most Americans should have showed up to vote, then. Or not protest vote for a limp-dick 3rd party. As far as I'm concerned, most Americans are in support of what he's doing, because they didn't show otherwise on election day.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I checked if this was the onion after reading the title

[–] doctortofu@piefed.social 164 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Trump just desperately wants to nuke something. Anything's fine, he just wants to drop a nuclear bomb on stuff. I mean, he was floating nuking a goddamned hurricane before.

He's like a toddler that sees a big red button and just HAS to push it, because it's just there and it's so big and red and it will make things go boom!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Just like the original video for Land Of Confusion where senile Reagan in a hospital bed pushing the NUKE button that's next to the NURSE button.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 116 points 1 day ago (12 children)

If the United States drops a nuke, the world needs to unite against us.

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