US considering nuclear weapons against Iran as war falters, claims Marjorie Taylor Greene

Dems had a lady candidate who laughed, so there was no choice.

I think that a more accurate way to understand and contextualize Trump’s actions is through the lens of extreme Malignant Narcissism. His abusive sexuality is more a symptom of this, rather than a cause of his other types of abuse.

The guy is basically a walking singularity of abusive behavior. He is defined by it, embodied by it; roving the universe accreting money and attention, mitigated only by distance and time. People like Trump cannot stop, they must be stopped, or avoided. Everything they touch eventually escapes, or is consumed and utterly destroyed.

Children are just yet another victim of such a personality type.

Trump is stupid, crazy, and evil enough to do it, and has specifically threatened to do it.

Fortunately it's not his decision alone, by design. The question is not what Trump wants to do, but what illegal orders people in this specific chain will follow.

I don't naively trust MTG here, but this is serious.

Trump has always been desperate to drop a nuclear weapon. He’s like a child.

Let's rewind here to 1945. USA did not drop two bombs on civilian targets to stop WWII, it was already over. They dropped two bombs to warn the world not to start WWIII and establish US military dominance and empirialism.

Now in 2026, would Donald Trump kill millions of people just to establish dominance? Would Pete Hegseth carry out that order?

It would have been true 60 years ago too, but deactivating anything that actually leads to a nuclear launch would be an incredibly patriotic act

The effects of these weapons cannot be understated, and there are people now high up in the US nuclear chain of command who are either too stupid or too crazy to fully grasp the implications of their use.

What scares me the most is these people understand one thing very well, if they drop a nuclear bomb on Iran it will obliterate any previous nuance to this war and make their political lives far easier, it will also help Putin by giving him effective permission to use a nuclear weapon on Ukraine, and Putin is Trump's daddy.

and I pine for the days where I didn't see a clear and present danger of escalation towards nuclear war.

I was born after the fall of the soviet union, but even that period... I don't know if the incentives so heavily lined up to use nuclear weapons as they do now for the top leadership of the US and Israeli governments according to their politics, ideologies and vulnerabilities.

Alarmingly I don't think this will escalate past a tit for tat use of tactical nuclear weapons, the US and Israel on Iran and russia on Ukraine... or at least I don't think the people in decision making positions believe it will... which paradoxically makes escalation far more likely.

We are in an opposite position to Mutually Assured Destruction/MAD, if the US and Israel nuke Iran it puts their enemies and vassal states back in line, and if russia nukes Ukraine, that also forces Ukraine back in line and increases russia's leverage on the entire region. For the powerful, this is a potential way to indirectly establish a bargain to force their underclasses and vassal states back into more subservient positions, I am not saying this will happen, but the incentive structure is downright murderous in my opinion right now. What better way for empires to forestall multipolarity?

McArthur wanted to permanently irradiate the border, but I don't think he had a lot of support.

We are talking about nuclear war here, and you condescend your own humanity by dismissing the danger here so carelessly.

Yes MTG is batshit crazy, nothing about my post is meant to suggest otherwise, there is a clear and present danger being pointed out here beyond a discussion of her....

MTG may have seen the light

She absolutely has not. Don't be fooled. She's on the other side of a schism within MAGA, not reformed away from fascism. Not even slightly.