Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

jacquesm

Seriously, wtf?

jjtwixman

The USA is deeply sick.

emilsedgh

Nuclear threat is incredibly real. Please call your congressmen.

parthdesai

At this rate, if the official religion of USA was a different one, they would be categorized as a terrorist state

BoggleOhYeah

Blah blah blah. Trump is trying his stupid, tough businessman TV persona in world politics. Everyone in the admin is a deeply unserious person being propped up by the paranoia and dumb “patriotism” created by 9/11. You could make an argument that Osama bin Laden was ultimately successful in destroying the US.

treetalker

Send war criminals to The Hague.

Someone

I think civilization already died in Washington.

schonfinkel

Kinda reminds me of the story of king Croesus of Lydia, who asked the oracle of Delphi whether he should wage war against Cyrus the Great, the Oracle promptly told him that by doing so he would "destroy a great empire". Croesus then promptly attacked the Persians and lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus#War_against_Persia_and...

TrackerFF

Two ways to interpret this: 1) US and Israel will throw everything they have (of conventional weapons) at Iran. 2) US will use (tactical) nuclear weapons on strategic targets. Of the two evils, I truly hope it will be (1).

khaledh

The sad thing is that rulers never learn from history. There's no winner in this.

igleria

Any person that supports Trump's message is insane. There are no ifs or buts.

JohnFen

So he's graduated from simply threatening war crimes to threatening genocide. We are the baddies.

pickleglitch

This is an open declaration of an intent to commit genocide.

g8oz

One of the things that has been shocking to me but has received little attention, has been the assassination of prominent former Iranian officials. Is this not a war crime? They were serving in no military capacity before they and their families were killed in their homes. If a foreign adversary killed John Bolton or Anthony Blinken by bombing their homes I'm sure it would be called terrorism.

mikewarot

I don't know how anyone can sleep normally knowing this madman has sole authority over the second largest nuclear weapons stockpile on the planet. It usually takes me until 5am. I've stocked up on Potassium Iodide tablets for the child to avoid cancer after the nukes fly. I don't think we'll be hit soon in the US, but it's getting a lot more likely.

khaledh

Remember Trump's tweet from 2019[0]. I wonder which other country benefits the most from dragging the US into this war? Oh, right. The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE..... [0] https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648

duxup

I know children with more maturity.

ludicrousdispla

related... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677473

Jamesbeam

Excuse me guys and gals, on what page of The Art of the Deal are we right now? I can’t find the chapter about threatening the other party with genocide and how to follow up negotiations from that point.

insane_dreamer

The worst part of this is that he's not threatening to kill Iranian civilians because of some human atrocities that the Iran gov is committing, that they must stop or else. No, he's threatening to kill civilians because of the _price of gas_. At what point is Congress going to realize that the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world, with sole authority over _nuclear launch codes_, is mentally unstable and a threat to not only the rest of the world, but consequently, to the US as well.