I hope TACO Trump chickens out by 7pm Central time, but right now he’s blustering and posturing even more than usual.
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. | don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Right. God bless the people of Iran while threatening to obliterate them. He’s either steeling his nerve to pull the trigger on an action that will make him even more of a criminal in the eyes of the civilized world, or he’s hoping for something revolutionarily wonderful
to act as a pretext to back off. I don’t think he’s going to get one. Iran despises him, and by association, the rest of the United States, so I suspect they’re going to do nothing, in expectation that he’ll waste another few billion dollars in futile destruction.
I don’t know what will happen tonight, but one thing I do know: Iranian civilization will still exist tomorrow, and Trump will look like an impotent, hateful fool.
He makes that sound pretty good. Maybe the USA can get some of that?
In other war crime news:
Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes
Persian civilisation has survived Alexander the Great, the Muslim conquests, Genghis Khan, The Black Death and the British Empire. Donald Trump’s bloated, dying body probably won’t last the year.
Tell Trump the new leader of Iran is a King.
The Iranians have made a counterthreat. No surprise.
FWIW, the price of gasoline in parts of the USA have set an all time record in cost per gallon.
And people are starting to panic buy and panic stockpile gasoline.
Reminds me of the first Iranian oil crisis of 1979.
Oh! I guess that explains Red Wall Street this morning. And if this evening he backs off because for some Trumped up movement in the negotiations (which don’t exist), then Green Wall Street tomorrow. Meanwhile Dumpster and company are busy buying and selling. Such a scam.
And, The Files are no where in the news.
If what Trump is doing is not a “high crime and misdemeanor,” what is? And Vance and Johnson are included. Where is Congress? Oh, silly me, lost in space.
Trump and Iran are in a cycle of escalating threats. Each side responds to any public statement with their own public statement that is stronger. It’s an endless loop of threats, claims and demands.
The best way to negotiate with Iran is keep your mouth shut and deal in private meetings. Somebody on the cabinet should have told Trump this but even if they did none of them has the power to make him stop talking.
I read somewhere that the US will start running low on aircraft fuel in about a week’s time. Someone on the idiot’s staff should lie, and tell the idiot that the more scarce his jet’s supply of fuel becomes, the fewer trips he’ll be able to take to his golf properties, meaning he’ll be having to stay in Washington instead.
The Orange Menace is channeling the oracle: If Croesus attacks Persia, a great empire will fall. According to Herodutus, Croesus assumed that meant Persia and went ahead. A great empire fell, but it wasn’t Persia… and the Orange Menace would be fine as long as the great empire that falls isn’t the Trump Organization.
Any sanity within the cabinet on invoking the 25th Amendment regarding the Orange Menace won’t result in action until January 22d, thanks to the 22d Amendment. On or after January 22d, 2027, Mini-Me will have served less than two years in office prior to the next election, allowing him to be reelected twice thereafter and still serve less than ten years as President. All of which assumes that reelection would be successful, but the response to the 2020 electoral results shows how much that segment believes it could ever lose an election conducted under its idea of “appropriate” conditions…
this is obviously a nuclear threat, which is exactly what we’ve been hoping to avoid every time we brought up the “you want that guy to have the button” question during an election.
Oh, he’s writing about Iran? Pity, I thought he had had some insight.
Any attempt to use nuclear weapons against Iran will be a very obvious war crime. Which makes it a very obvious illegal order.
Even if DJT or his successor offers a federal amnesty, anyone implicated cannot leave US soil again without being arrested and sent to the Hague.
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BTW while retroactive laws are problematic, they were used at Nuremberg. So congress can make a law that makes past federal amnesties null and void for war crimes.
This requires adding 4 new judges to the Supreme Court, but this should be done anyway. The Dems should make this a ‘purity test’ for any Dem presidential candidate.
In regard to Netanyahu, who talked Trump into starting this war, and other zionists…
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‘For leftist Jews, the Bund is a model’: the radical history behind one of Europe’s biggest socialist movements [which opposed zionism] .https://share.google/rX0nQ2Uy8XElKW6w8
Trump’s Congratulatory Call With the Artemis 2 Astronauts Was Painfully Awkward
Trump has always been a narcissist, and his current sycophantic cabinet has put that into overdrive, since feeding his ego is the only requirement he places on hiring decisions. So it is no wonder that he made the call all about himself.
He did mention Canada (one of the astronauts is Canadian) without bringing up the 51st state nonsense, so maybe he has some small measure of self control remaining.
@13 birgerjohansson
The US has set the example here. It is apparently acceptable to invade another sovereign state, kidnap a suspect, and put them on trial in your own country.
Shades of Croesus and the Oracle here.
“If Trump goes to war with Persia, a mighty civilization will be destroyed.”
At the moment, the civilization at most risk for destruction thanks to the Trump Regime is that of the US.
tRUMP’s extreme phrases, contradicting each other, loaded with arrogant malice unmistakably show that he is irrational and should be locked in an insane asylum. Anyone else that demonstrated that level of murderous insanity would never be released!
But, congress is dead, the courts have been ignored, the plutocrats just suck up more obscene wealth, there is no power that can stop him. I despise this destructive, dying, death spiral society. I cannot ignore the millions of people that human society slaughters each year. There are only a relative handful of decent, caring, honest people that are worth associating with. cue-up Martha and the Vandellas.
I worry that won’t stop him, even if the thought occurs to him. I’ve seen too much obedience in advance, I’m not confident in the chain of command to refuse such an order.
Trump wasn’t satisfied in dismantling America; he decided to wreck the whole world.
Trump is being consumed by the power given to him as president to the world’s most powerful government. Nukes, (the ultimate power?) are the next phase of being consumed by that power. No one should be surprised if he chooses that path. He will show the world how much power he has, and that he is not afraid to use it. Our only hope may be the few rational minds, if any, left in the military. And even scarier is the “doing it for God” rhetoric that keeps surfacing.
Bowling ball bouncing down a steep hill, car out of control on the freeway, bull in a China shop (pick a description) and is anyone one on the Republican side is trying to stop this? No, they are actually aiding his extreme grandiosity and ego-syntonic sadism.
Meidas Touch
“Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=b1CTqfwrs3I
Even if Meidas Touch has clickbaity titles, the decisions of multiple European nations to prevent USA to use air bases for this insanity is a very big step.
Even Chuck Schumer has shown some spinal fortitude today. Progress!
I’m going to bed early tonight. If and when my alarm rings tomorrow, Bayern will have played Real Madrid, Armageddon hasn’t happened yet, and I’m still going to work. Stay out of the stock market for now, would be my advice.
Well sure.
So, when was the last time the US military refused to obey an illegal order?
When was the last time they prosecuted a soldier for war crimes?
When was the last time they prosecuted a US general for war crimes?
About never.
The US military has been heavily indoctrinated in the chain of command and to follow orders.
A few soldiers have been prosecuted for obvious war crimes.
The My Lai massacre where some idiots killed 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians including 173 children.
That guy in Iraq who kept slaughtering unarmed civilians and prisoners.
Nothing much ever happened to them though.
Lt. Calley was pardoned by Nixon after serving 3 years of house arrest.
raven @24,
good point I think. There is unlikely to be an Arkhipov moment in the current US military.