U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post this morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline.

Iran has rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and says it wants a permanent end to the war.

UN Secretary General António Guterres warned the U.S. that attacking civilian infrastructure is banned under international law.

The death toll so far includes more than 1,900 people in Iran, 1,400 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel, about two dozen in other countries in the region, 13 U.S. service members and 11 Israeli soldiers.


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    That’s just such an Epstein files thing to say. How can a President Epstein files those words and expect the world not to Epstein files in revulsion. To be brutally Epstein files he seems a little desperate. These are not the words of a sane Epstein files.

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    This is a pretty straightforward declaration of genocidal intent. If the Americans bomb civilian infrastructure, there is a credible case for accusing them of Genocide in the Hague.

    EDIT: Historian Timothy Snyder also identified it as such, pointing that this creates legal liabilities up and down the American state: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-president-speaks-genocide

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      Well if everyone is dead we have peace, he clearly needs another one. \s

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    He’s gonna nuke Tehran isn’t he?

    Who could’ve guessed that eschewing the US’s soft power they built up over decades for Russian style “might makes right” posturing and sabre rattling would not work? Trump is really speedrunning to “Chinese ultimatums” with this fiasco.

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      Yeah this is the whole problem with the ‘madman’ strategy, when applied to nuclear armed states.

      Its … arguably much worse when the person employing the madman strategy… is literally a demented madman with a cult of personality atound him.

      Hope you got your pip boy in working order.

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    I’m hoping if he gives the order to demolish Tehran, or worse, nuke them, enough people refuse to do it.

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    We are permenantly hyper fucked if the best interpretation of his words are bombing Iran’s infrastructure so badly that Iran retaliates by destroying all oil and desalination facilities in surrounding countries, rendering them uninhabitable for millions.

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      This is the best case scenario. We’re right now at a point where this is the desirable outcome of his words. THIS.

      The US have utterly fucked this world in about a year…

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          ~60% of the country either voted for him or couldn’t be arsed to vote at all, declaring with their non-vote that both candidates were equally valid.

          Sorry mate but… it’s the US. It’s not just a minority of people. It’s the fucking president and administration of the United States of America.

          If he was just a republican traitor and not the president of the country, he wouldn’t be threatening with nuking a country.

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              And yet, he only won by a fraction, not a landslide. However, it remains true that a good 30% of the country couldn’t be bothered to vote. If only a portion of that 30% decided that maybe Harris was a slightly better president, we wouldn’t be here today.

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      Watch those betting sites for the US dropping a nuke, if a bunch of bets come in all at once (Trump insiders)….

      I hate that what I typed above is plausible

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    UN Secretary General António Guterres warned the U.S. that attacking civilian infrastructure is banned under international law.

    Yeah, it is illegal. However is anyone to punish the US for it?

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      Better write a letter to let know Israel that they can’t legally genocide the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

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      A year ago, with the Greenland / Canada threats and idiotic tariffs, I begged that there be some kind EU … GIGN / GROM / KSK type operation to eliminate Trump and his cabinet.

      I guess people thought I was joking.

      Since then, things have gotten literally insanely worse, kidnapped Maduro, blew up NATO, essentially destroyed 20% of the world’s economy, etc.

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      International law is totally meaningless unless there’s people actually enforcing it.

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        We don’t enforce domestic laws in the US either, unless we are talking about poor people.

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    If this shit was in an apocalypse movie people would complain about it being unrealistic.

    No way a US president would say that!
    Really? via a social media post? did they run out of budget for actors? “Praise be to allah”? did the writers forget which side he’s on?

    If he hadn’t TACO’d before this would be terrifying. not to say it’s not horrible still

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    Has Trump changed from pedophilia to BDSM?

    “I’m gonna kick you in the balls and you will experience something wonderful. Then I will shit myself… again and you will watch”