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.
Trump, you still don’t get it. There is no incentive to comply.
I really, REALLY hate this timeline.
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.
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.
There is a bit of comfort in the thought that he will be dead soon. With his health and lifestyle, it can’t be far off. Not soon enough but…
It’s not humans that are the problem, it’s specific individuals that are the problem. Basically it’s like 12 people.
Nah, it’s power that’s the problem, it goes to your head. The species has a problem with sharing and caring. Not all of us, true. But a whole lot of us, yes.
strength doesn’t need threats, pussy.
This mother fucker is going to get us all killed.
What even was the official objective of this war in the first place
No joke but to bring about the biblical end times, Trump is just a useful idiot to the folks with money and bad intentions.
To facilitate the Greater Israel Project
To facilitate US Imperialism’s and Israel’s greater domination of the region.
our war objective is to do whatever israel tells us to do.
They have a concept of an objective
Armageddon.
Barring that, eternal warmongering for profit.Depends on the hour you asked that question, plus some alignments of planets and what crystals are doing, least from anything I can tell. Yet the US is letting him go ahead, huh. So whatever works for the US I guess.
War
Was Israel’s only objective, and therefore Trump cabinet/negotiators objectives. So far, war has just made Iranian people more enthusiastic about IRGC’s dominance in the conflict. Electricity failure in the mildest month of the year won’t change that, and there are rapid electricity restoration (solar) solutions.
GCC is faced with a survival threat for their demonic, either secret initial war support or the gaslighting of ever escalating escalation against Iran. Iran has offered peace with GCC even as they are backed into executing their total annihilation. There is an important global community private communications with US channel path, even as anti-Iran public comments continue, that can try to convince Trump of declaring victory while accepting real defeat, which lets world reopen Gulf without US interference.
Nothing says diplomacy like a Twitter ultimatum with a countdown while simultaneously admitting that you are about to commit a war crime.
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.
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.
Another reason geriatric grifters shouldn’t hold office, but reason has long since been evicted from the halls of the mighty.
“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?
Most of the middle east will be in the dark, energy production and distribution from the gulf will be set back for decades, and this will effect the whole world. Israel and US probably counting on dragging Europe kicking and screaming into this war to stop the complete failure of the US.
Fucking idiots.
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…
What should he care about the desalinators? He’s not the one going without water.
But maybe Bibi will tell him to cut it out? Unless he’s hoping the catastrophe will galvanise his supporters further.
Bombing powerplants is an attack on civilians and therefore a war crime.
Who is going to stop this addle-pated pigman?
We’re at the point both sides could just be waiting for him to wipe Iran off the map before doing anything since can just make Trump the scapegoat and finally get their wished for attack on Iran
At this point, Trump could just nuke Iran and both sides will cope about it being “a necessary measure to save lives from a ground invasion”. The US has no inhibitions left anymore.
Dems will complain he didn’t let then vote on it while also saying he had no choice 😑😞🙃
very putin-like of him. impotent dictators outclassed by the problems they caused and pretending they have been fighting a war with one hand tied behind their back and unless they are able to give orders to their enemies they will unleash their true power is one of the most pathetic things.
You cant escalate if you are already at war and already committing war crimes.
The bombings will continue until you like us more than your violent government…seems like a solid plan…
“Stop making a oil crisis or we’ll make it even worse!”
Stop making an oil crisis (that we started) or we will continue to make it even worse
