Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz.
The US launched an operation on Monday to help hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war.
Over 800 ships and roughly 20,000 crew members remain stranded in the region.
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homes@piefed.world · 96 pts · 101d
athatet@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 100d
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 100d
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 101d
Threatening war crimes again, eh?
Klox@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 101d
Part of his 100 point plan for distracting from the Epstein files.
ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net · 47 pts · 101d
All you had to do is not do the stupid blockade, Iran at that point was ready to open the damn strait, ships were going through. Now we 'll have stupid pointless escalations because fuck the global trade
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 101d
All he had to do was not shred the Iran deal we already had in place (and was working) because it was negotiated and put into effect under a president who was black.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 101d
Too many people seem to forget about this...
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 101d
That's like 95% of the reason he shredded it. Same reason he claims he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, outright hates ACA, and did everything he could to undo literally everything Obama did.
Exactly the same reason he cut the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, which was Obama's defense when H7N9 broke out. Then COVID came and no response group
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 101d
Yes
blattrules@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
When there’s eventually a deal with Iran, it’s not going to be as good as the one we already had with them but he’s going to say it’s the best deal ever and his base won’t know any better. It’s such a stupid time we live in.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 101d
All you had to do is not do the damn blockade, DJ!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 100d
They could just drive tanker trucks to the Red sea.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Just like Russia, the US can end this war whenever they want to.
shweddy@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 101d
Once you're doing warcrimes weekly they just let you get away with raping kids apparently
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 101d
Or vice versa
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 101d
A negative times a negative.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 100d
This is that elementary school bully that walks up to a kid and punches them because they think it's funny, but when the kid punches back the bully goes crying straight to the teacher.
nednobbins@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 101d
This train wreck is as painful to watch as a B horror movie.
This numbnut is walking into an obvious trap. They're baiting major assets of the USN using ratty little fast boats.
Now that they're in striking range, their defense have to be lucky every single day, multiple times per day. If the Iranians are lucky once, they destroy billions of dollars in hardware, get major bragging rights, and thousands of GI families at home get to look up the lyrics to "Fortunate Son."
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 101d
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 20 pts · 101d
Content warning: needless uninvited pedantry ahead
Trump acts like a toddler. And any parent can tell you that predicting the inevitably dumb behavior of your toddler isn't rocket science.
He's so predictably stupid and selfish that most of the time, everyone else but him knows what he's doing. It's a fun meme but I think the reality is the opposite.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
very occasionally they do something stupider than you thought possible, but ypu just lower the bar going forward for your predictions and your good
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 100d
And that's why we were all legitimately worried that he'd try to nuke Iran.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 101d
More like the “shart of war”
BillyClark@piefed.social · 15 pts · 101d
I know it's a joke, but people who don't know what they are doing are relatively easy to predict.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 101d
🤣🤣
rayyy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 100d
This will ensure that all countries will develop nukes otherwise they will be defenseless against nuke owning states.
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 100d
Ukraine has already shown the whole world this
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Pedo Don making the world a significantly more dangerous place, despite being worm food within a few years.
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Imagine the same countries saying Iran should not have nukes trying to get nukes
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 100d
Sounds like the ceasefire is going great so far.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 100d
It's the greatest. So amny people said a ceasefire wasn't possible but we manage dit when i went Nad spoke to those gys in Iraq, because even through they hate me they luv me becoz they no I;m a strong prcedent and im a winnewr and they kno the US militry is the strongest un the wurld and thebust in thewirkd.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 100d
In other words, the Cheeto will murder a bunch more innocent children and then taco the fuck out
DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 100d
, leaving all the ships still stranded except for the 14 that the USA somehow sank by mistake. Oopsie Daisy!
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d
sounds like 14 ships that are no longer stranded, an absolute win! MURICA!
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 22 pts · 101d
I really hope Americans have learned something from this and that is to not elect demented pedophiles to be presidents FUCKING TWICE, third time's the charm right? right?? And while everyone else is trying to deescalate the situation he and his "top" officials are trying to make it as difficult as possible to reach a peaceful solution.
rozodru@piefed.world · 22 pts · 101d
come on now you think the yanks have learned something? they haven't learned a thing for decades. Did they learn anything after Reagan? Bush Senior? Bush Jr twice? you honestly expect them to figure it out NOW?
dan1101@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 101d
A good percentage of the US population would elect Satan himself as long as he was "sticking it to the liberals."
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 101d
Satan as in Lucifer? The light bringer? The symbol of knowledge and enlightened thought? That Satan?
Would be way better than what we have right now.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
... and claim Satan was actually Jesus all along
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 3 pts · 101d
It could be worse. We accidentally voted for an orangutan. But it could have been a WOMAN OF COLOR! Really dodged one there... /s
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 101d
Be nice to orangutans, they're so chill. They can't help that a reviled wannabe dictator dyed himself orange for some stupid reason. :(
I'd vote for president actual-orangutan over of any of the garbage choices we keep getting.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 6 pts · 101d
A baked potato would cause less chaos than this monster.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 100d
The annoying orange would cause less chaos.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 100d
LOL c'mon...it is tho, right? Otherwise what's the point of the very specific comparison. 😂
The SIZE of those pupils too. Must be snorting something off the desk again.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d
He's getting a 3rd term. The American people are dead and oligarchs are stripping the country for parts
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 100d
10 years ago i would call that a conspiracy theory but today... yeah...
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 100d
Who knew rules mattered basically fuck all? Image the people who spent tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars studying US law, all for it to mean fucking nothing. Not to mention everyone who got a "secure government job" just to have a couple of coked up losers fire you and ruin your life.
I don't even really understand how people are being so apathetic? Was it the constant school shootings? Or maybe even social media? I don't get it.
vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 101d
Americans have no such self-awareness. The ones that do do everything in their power to leave the country or isolate themselves in communes and imply don't participate.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 101d
Tempting, to just go inna woods and run from society, but from what I've seen the ones that have self awareness are actually flooding the streets across the country with protests and getting teargassed and stuff.
I get that the internet can be a collective jar to sigh and vent into but let's not discount the sacrifices many are making because they believe tomorrow can be better.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 101d
Please lose the midterms and get dragged out of office, it would be so funny
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 101d
Honestly even if Congress is swept by Democrats, I would be completely unsurprised if the controlled opposition faction of the DNC (read: the vast majority of them) does nothing at all due to how diViSiVE it would be. And even if they do, the Tribunal of Six will probably try to declare impeachment unconstitutional or something like that.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
The leftist candidates that have been winning these various special elections by double-digit spreads over highly-favored right-wing candidates are not dems, they're progressives. Same label, very different flavor.
And I am totally here for that. It's been fun watching them quietly form a party within the party.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 100d
Couldn't agree more, The both sides of the same argument ignores the very real change that is happening in America and may not change the Democratic party overnight but the differences are real and they're starting to accumulate.
Now that's definitely not where we should stop but those people in the right positions can buy us the space to make real change via direct action, unions and community support networks.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 101d
Iran should take this seriously, I heard from Bill that Donald does a mean blowie.
boogiebored@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 100d
TACO
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 100d
Well it is Tuesday.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 101d
What exactly does he think "closed" means?
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 101d
The same thing he thinks women and children's closed legs means.
iglou@programming.dev · 11 pts · 100d
Again?! Isn't Iran supposed to be vaporized three times over by now?
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 101d
So are we at war or not? Last week he said the war was over because there was a cease fire in place. Then, over the weekend, when asked about gas prices, he said they’d drop immediately “after the war was over.” So which is it, donnie? Make up your mind, you brainless pos.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 101d
I wish the press would collectively start talking to him this way at conferences. Word for word. 😂
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 99d
I wish the courts would
mkhopper@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
Trump has become Kim Jong Un at this point.
"We're going to blow up everything! Just you watch!"
Let me tell you, Don... They're not listening to you. No one is listening to you. Laughing at you maybe, but no one is seriously paying attention to your late night war mongering ramblings.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 101d
Feckless feculence mainly resides at the Florida Blight House whilst Kegsbreath Kevin prosecutes their war crimes against humanity in the Caribbean, the Middle East & elsewhere, draining the USA of resources once utilized to care for our friends, families & neighbors in our various communities.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
He couldnt even successfully escort ships for 2 days. And he is not able to keep those ships supplied. How is he going to threaten iran with much of anything? What are we going to do, bleed on them?
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Take the Gerald Ford and send it drifting into one of their ports. A flaming disease riddled nuclear fireship.
redlemace@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
anyone else having a déjà vu ?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 100d
Tit for tat could happen so be safe people and don't book your wedding at the wedding venue trump lives in.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
It's to save Iranian people, right? Right?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 101d
Hey bud you can’t play that card twice
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 2 pts · 101d
No backsies!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Remember when people thought Biden/Kamala were big bad genociders and didn't vote or voted 3rd party, resulting in Pedo Don becoming president, and now Pedo Don is casually talking about wiping a nation of people out of existence?
Good job guys.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 99d
I make sure to remind the bothsiderist dumbasses every time I see them.
NerdyTimesOrWhatever@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 100d
Glad the people who wouldnt vote over Palestine arent responsible for anything, even morally. Its morally right to be in favour of multiple genocides, especially ones our president threatens personally.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 2 pts · 97d
USA nukes good Iran having them bad. That's the global narrative driven by the country threatening to nuke Iran.