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Related full tweet:

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! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Giving out an ultimatum to blow up civilian infrastructure is a war crime right

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[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If y’all don’t change ma diaper really soon…

Let's get you to bed, Diaper Don..

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This feels more “Full Netanyahu” to me. Putin is calculating and cold. Netanyahu seems to have a flair for cruelty.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Both of the other guys are fairly intelligent though.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure if he's really thought this one through.

Doesn't look like he's left himself a lot of wiggle room to back down.

I don't think Iran is going to comply.

edit: I kinda wonder why Iran isn't pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion. Fake photos of petrol prices. Rumours of fuel shortages. Rumours about the Trump family profiting somehow. Rumours that Bibi was going to release unredacted Epstein Kompromat. Plans to draft people for war in Iran. Even the dems could be doing this really.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

It does not need to be fake photos. The financial cost is real, a trump is blatant about his family corruption.

Even if there was a media campaign the USA is a controlled media, so it wouldn’t be shown, if it did people would either forgive it because USA is always a winner attitude or they would disassociate blame AI etc.

You had citizens being shot and that was not enough to provoke a turn around.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

I kinda wonder why Iran isn't pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion.

They do. I have seen public statements by Iranian officials, and even memes (mostly AI), here on lemmy.

But they're mostly in Parsi and Arabic, since that's the audience they care about. Iran is trying to end the US threat against them, which probably means removing US bases in the Middle East and getting the Gulf powers on their side. So they don't talk about rising fuel prices, they talk about Palestine, the massacre of the schoolgirls, and freedom in general.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago

Add it to the pile over there... gestures out of the window to a heap that closely resembles mount Everest

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And so shortly after he fooled so many with his latest ‘winding down’ statement.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He plays 3D checkers, bro.

(Not a single person on earth believed that fat old evil stupid fuck when he said that.)

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (11 children)

So I have a crackpot theory.....

The Mueller tweet and now this, I'm starting to actually believe this isn't Trump at all, and this is a team conspiring to 25th him and give them an out of the Iran situation.

Like "ok, we admit it he's gone nuts, so whoopsie and Iran don't worry we will make this right so let's just settle down now"

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yea I know I would totally trust a country that killed my family, continues to bomb me, and murdered a school full of kids simply because "whoopsie doopsie the guy running the show was out of his mind"

They can but Iran isnt going to back down for a promise.

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[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Omg. I read that at first as “Tran’s power plant”. If there was such a thing — he’d attack it.

Son of a bitch..

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