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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 79 points 4 weeks 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 42 points 4 weeks 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 12 points 3 weeks 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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[–] biscuit 49 points 4 weeks ago (46 children)

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 weeks 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 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 weeks ago (2 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 15 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] rljkeimig@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks 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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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No shit, in case you haven't noticed, the "white" people elected don't have the best interests of white people in mind either. You are barking up the wrong tree, this is a class war, and we are losing.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 12 points 4 weeks ago (5 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 13 points 4 weeks 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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[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

But Democrats equally bad or something.

[–] biscuit 25 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.

Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.

Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.

Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.

What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.

Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You've all got to own this and you've all got to be the ones to do something about it.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it is now a world-wide problem. What are you going to do about it?

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 44 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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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[–] probable_possum@leminal.space 43 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Civil Energy infrastructure.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 17 points 4 weeks ago

War crimes are cool and easy to do

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

Who is going to stop this addle-pated pigman?

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] joan@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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

[–] Lagviper@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago

They have a concept of an objective

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To facilitate the Greater Israel Project

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Armageddon.
Barring that, eternal warmongering for profit.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks 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 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)
>start war against country controlling 20% of oil
>20% of oil is jeopardised
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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks 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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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

This mother fucker is going to get us all killed.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks 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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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks 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 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

Who would have though Iran would save Americans!?

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