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.
do it pussy
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.
Didn’t Iran say that it would cripple civilian infrastructure in the gulf like desal plants and fossil fuel infrastructure? Sounds like another game of chicken and we know TACO. So do the Iranians. If Iran clobbers the infrastructure in the gulf then open it by all means. Nothing to ship for years.
“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.
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.
our war objective is to do whatever israel tells us to do.
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
To facilitate the Greater Israel Project
To facilitate US Imperialism’s and Israel’s greater domination of the region.
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.
Armageddon.
Barring that, eternal warmongering for profit.They have a concept of an objective
Many people here will accuse the United States of using Israeli tactics and of trying to pull a Gaza on Iran. That’s not true.
This time, they’re taking a page from the Russian playbook by targeting civilian infrastructure in an attempt to do collective punishment. We can see how much success these tactics have had in the past, and somehow are to believe that it will be different this time.
Looks at history. Dresden firestorms. Nagasaki. Agent Orange. NATO vs Serbia. Current day Cuba.
Russian playbook? It just is THE playbook. Everybody does it and has done it since like forever.
Often it is the case (and documented) that Hamas deliberately used hospitals and residential buildings to shoot from, or for other military purposes. In that case, by the laws of war, Israel is actually allowed to level those buildings - and Hamas are the ones who committed a war crime. A fact that often seems utterly lost in social media posts. Often in war, a party will retreat from or surrender a city, rather than shoot from the buildings, if the defending party is not a death cult.
Power plants can be military targets, and as such valid to bomb. But… Trump has pretty much stated here that he is bombing them as terror against civilians, which is a war crime. So Trump is arguably behaving worse than Israel.
zionist propoganda BS framing. War crimes supporters like yourself shouldnt be allowed to post on social media.
Hamas deliberately used hospitals and residential buildings to shoot from
How far is Tel Aviv from a Palestinian hospital?
How is that relevant?
Israelis that stay away from Palestinian hospital war fortresses of doom would be out of range.
You know that Hamas entered Israel and took lots of innocent civilian hostages, right? Which Israel enetered Gaza to get back. Hence, Israel had an extremely good reason to enter Gaza.
Russia Russia Russia. JFC. The “Russian playbook” while the US had 500000 dead under its belt just in Iraq during the comic book episode of “WMD” and Albright saying it was worth it? On nighttime news? Not in private.
But Russia’s the problem. Doing nothing even close to what you claim. Meanwhile Israel just needs to say “tunnel” and oops everything’s a legit target, a target of weapons you supply.
Can I get a MRI of your brain? I’ve always wanted to see a single proton in a vacuum.
Targeting civilian infrastructure is absolutely an Israeli tactic as well
The bombings will continue until you like us more than your violent government…seems like a solid plan…
