Nothing says diplomacy like a Twitter ultimatum with a countdown while simultaneously admitting that you are about to commit a war crime.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Yep.
Sad part is labelling things as ‘War crimes’ is meaningless. There’s no accountability in this World anymore.
It’s like “that’s a war crime!”
… “so anyways… what’s for dinner?”
Sad World our ancestors fought and died for all those years ago.
Well....
So like for probably me and you, it was our grand fathers and great grandfather's that put forth the rules of war in WW1 and WW2.
For Trump it was his dad. He's not even that removed, he was born 3 years before the Geneva convention was ratified. When "War Crimes" actually became a thing...
Purely speculation, but given the fact he has never had respect of law, I think him and his cabal would have been against the idea of creating war crimes in 1949... So for him its just a long line of ignoring inconvenient "woke" bullcrap.
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Iran already replied to the threat saying they'd bomb the gulf's desalinators...what now, you fucking idiot? He really has no notion of what he's done and no ability to think beyond threats and escalation...
What should he care about the desalinators? He's not the one going without water.
But maybe Bibi will tell him to cut it out? Unless he's hoping the catastrophe will galvanise his supporters further.
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.
It's not humans that are the problem, it's specific individuals that are the problem. Basically it's like 12 people.
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Bombing powerplants is an attack on civilians and therefore a war crime.
Who is going to stop this addle-pated pigman?
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What even was the official objective of this war in the first place
They have a concept of an objective
No joke but to bring about the biblical end times, Trump is just a useful idiot to the folks with money and bad intentions.
Armageddon.
Barring that, eternal warmongering for profit.
our war objective is to do whatever israel tells us to do.
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"Stop making a oil crisis or we'll make it even worse!"
Stop making an oil crisis (that we started) or we will continue to make it even worse
Civil Energy infrastructure.
War crimes are cool and easy to do
Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.
As a Native American who doesn’t even have a voting member of congress please go fuck yourself. White people are doing this and white people didn’t come from America.
Wait, Indigenous people in the US cant vote for a senator?
We were promised our own representatives that we still don’t have. As you may be able to imagine, the white people who are elected state wide don’t always have the best interests of Native peoples in mind.
Yeah Im Canadian and Indigenous rights are not respected here either but fuck, at least they can vote.
Native Americans can vote in state and national elections and are supposed to be represented in Congress by the senators and representative of the state they live in, but they are not represented directly by a native with equal standing and their land and rights are usually not a priority for their legislators or states they live in.
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Neither do Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, American Samoans, or Virgin Islanders. Congressional representation is a bad joke, and the house hasn't expanded seats since 1910 which greatly privileges representation for smaller population states. Gerrymandering is just a splash in the pot compared to how rigged they have the legislature.
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Tomorrow you wake up American. You are the same person, nobody asked your permission, you had no say in the matter, but you are within the borders of America, are a citizen, and have no other citizenship. In fact, because you are American, no country will take you, and even if they would, it would take years up emigrate.
What do you do?
More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile. Fuck off with this "not all americans" bullshit. Do something about it, or youre a pedo protector, simple as. If you dont like the entire world hating you, dont commit evil shit as a country.
To be clear, i am American. We all deserve every bit of hate the world can muster.
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This mother fucker is going to get us all killed.
Fascinating to watch the strategist in chief play three-dementia chess...
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"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?
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The bombings will continue until you like us more than your violent government...seems like a solid plan...
Trump, you still don’t get it. There is no incentive to comply.
strength doesn't need threats, pussy.
>start war against country controlling 20% of oil
>20% of oil is jeopardised
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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.
We obliterate nuclear enrichment sites so hard they come back online mere weeks later. No one obliterates like us.
I really, REALLY hate this timeline.
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