President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to "annihilate" Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war of choice, musings that came on the heels of a report by United Nations experts who said the United States likely committed war crimes during earlier attacks on the Middle East nation.

"I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them, or do I not?" Trump told Axios' Barak Ravid. "It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me."

I'm betting he's going to nuke 'em. He already moved nuclear bombers into the Middle East. The ecconomic ramifications of that (initial and long term) ontop of the international backlash from that would signal the true end of the American empire, which might cause guillotines to be rolled out. I'd honestly not know how the US would continue on as a country in that outcome.

It'd probably break down along partisan lines that mirror the Civil War's lines. The South would rage and bring back slavery (they really hated losing them such that this grevience persists into today's politics). Wish I lived in a northern state. Putin would really have gotten a bang for his buck in that situation.

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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is he aware that China has said any country that uses a nuke will be met with a nuke? Also Putin will nuke Ukraine the day after. Earth could be a nuclear hellscape 48 hours later or less...

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Let's hope that if it comes to that, the military won't follow his deranged, genocidal orders. That would definitely be the right time for a coup.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Our country is run by a dementia ridden terrorist

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  • "anything could happen with me"

    sounds like a good argument for the 25th.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What a fucking dumbshit. He'll talk a big game, back down and cower like the dandruff brained dimentia riddled pedophile he is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    The only thing he’ll annihilate is one of the white house bathrooms.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    lol no it won’t. I’ll tell what will happen. The Republicans will praise Trump for the tough decision he made. The MAGA folk will party in the street. One third of Americans, who didn’t vote at all, will keep watching tv or doomscrolling Insta or TikTok. Sure some people will take to the streets, they will be beat down by ICE.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    If he nukes Iran, it's probably game over for everyone.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yep. Nuclear escalation will kill us all. Russia would use theirs on Ukraine, maybe on Europe too. Europe would retaliate, China may use theirs on Taiwan or just use them as retaliation on the US. It would be a total shit show. Just because Americans elected a senile pedophile as President.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Can he do that? A nuclear strike would need others to go with the plan or not?

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    To initiate a launch of weapons of mass destruction, it requires the approval of the National Command Authority (NCA). That’s an impressive sounding name, but the NCA consists of only two people: The President and his political appointee, the Secretary of Defense.

    -Explained here.

    It comes out of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Essentially, Congress delegated its war powers to the president and his loyalist. So, basically, it'd boil down to tRump and Pete Kegsbreath agreeing to nuke Iran. Maybe some in the military would not carry out the order, but how unlikely would it be that they couldn't find ONE MAGAt to carry out their orders?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I think in the past there would have been a tacit expectation that one consults with allies at least for some logistics, but currently there is no such expectation I assume, and there is certainly no such requirement. What a catastrophe it would be. One from which humanity may never recover.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Preparations being made for the big day

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The Mad King

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    This is just so fucking insane. Low-t needs to be locked up.

    "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, hallelujah."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9M34DzAKo

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