from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Mar 11:42
https://lemmy.world/post/44586968
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.
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Merry war crimes
Civil Energy infrastructure.
War crimes are cool and easy to do
“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
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Ha, never new Pikachu design was based on Cleese!
The US seems to want us to be extremely focused on one small part of their war - the Strait of Hormuz. It’s all they ever harp on about.
What’s the situation across the rest of the theatre? How close is the US to accomplishing it’s primary war goals?
Why do they suspiciously want us to ignore everything else and focus on this one international shipping transit lane?
They’ve changed all the goalposts and now it’s destroying civilian infrastructure and manufacturing.
US here. Uh…can you share what those war objectives are? We have not been told
Assuming they’re the same as Venezuela:
The reason why this failed, was that the dictator’s successor in this instance refused to cooperate with Trump.
Also: Shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons development that accelerated after “Trump I” pulled the US out of the deal that was keeping it in check.
This seems to have more truth and credibility to it than american politics and media. It’s also what Peter theil talks about. When they say people are the antichrist, they are talking about the people that are against these religious extremist wars. And it seems to also align with the Christian nationalism marketing etc… humanity is being played out for ancient psychopath ideologies. While it’s all just vague connections being connected it still seems more honest than what we are groomed for.
youtu.be/r-Xv-lUhVv8
It’s called the Strait of Epstein Distraction now.
I think it’s quite simple, the blockade is causing oil prices to spike which is seemingly the only thing the public in the US actually considers a problem about the whole war. Opening the strait would stop that and would allow them the continue without getting absolutely destroyed in the midterms.
Thanks for ruining the world, Americans. Holding you all responsible for this.
But Democrats equally bad or something.
Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.
Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.
Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.
Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.
What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.
Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You’ve all got to own this and you’ve all got to be the ones to do something about it.
I resist.
Unfortunately it is now a world-wide problem. What are you going to do about it?
I’m American, so I’m going to stream the latest hot marvel movies and pay taxes to kill people so I can continue to be a worthless thoughtless human being.
Protect myself as best I can financially from the coming recession. Little else I can do. Thankfully I live in a country with decent worker rights and benefits systems so even if I lose my job I should be able to bounce back. Not like capitalist dystopian USA.
It’s pointless as enough people are encouraged by influence ops to support the dems to run opposition. And their leadership is doomed to fail. Fuck this country, straight to hell, waiting for the phoenix.
Yeah they did so much to stop this in the last 50 years right right?
…they all get played out by wealthy corrupted people. It’s the entire culture that’s fucked up.
Oh come on.
This is his second term. I’m not going to give free pass to trump voters, third party voters, and non-voters.
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?
The intro for The Sopranos plays…
Woke up this morning…
They give us entertainment and lifestyles that are planned, focus grouped, and created to psychologically make us disassociate from the reality of humanity.
It’s not even a conspiracy anymore. And when I say they I mean the corrupt class and the American dreamers that think because they are attaining success from a taught career that makes them somehow believe they are on the right side of history.
I swear to god Americans aren’t even human anymore. They are cattle, products and consumers. They are the equivalent of the people fent bending on the sidewalk except they are culturally accepted. It doesn’t matter if you have success here… You could be a celebrity, chief of police, a family dad, a politician… It doesn’t equal being someone worth respecting or that they are a good person. I can’t stop seeing American success as an illusion to keep people as cattle or working cattle… The real wealthy get to use them all because it’s like the nation is just a service. We get sold to the highest bidder. America is a service. This isn’t freedom or democracy. Our freedom is a like a fake free-range farm system. And it’s getting even more evil as they start implementing Ai…
We are getting kettled. On a national scale.
The options are run or fight.
And your scenario seems to eliminate run as an available option.
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.
Where are you from with your holier than thou talk?
I help fund it! I killed a bunch of people with my tax money, and I go about my day with extreme privilege, arrogance, naivety, and ignorance of the honest reality of what it means to be a human being.
🇺🇸🦅
How are people not realizing there’s a narrative, a class of corrupted people, and psychological manipulation to keep us submissive? And it very well could have been an ideology preexisting America’s founding.
This culture is a lie.
Go for it.
Your ignorance of American culture doesn’t offend me.
We did this.
Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.
The portion of the adult American population that remains blameless is vanishingly small.
We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people and the whole world is paying the consequence for that. We are mostly the source of most of the aggression on most of the planet, I don’t know about you but I’m old enough to say it’s been 40 years of this shit to my recollection.
Speak for yourself. I voted Green.
That’s a salient point, but the ‘we’ you’re pointing to isn’t a part of this. Billionaires and the Epstein Class are who the finger should be pointing at. Voters only have any real power at the local level, unless you’re planning to follow in the footsteps of Player 2.
Again, I’d argue there’s no we here. The only power you or I have is in our local neighborhood, and in mine, we’re doing good things. Hell, my city was one of the few to put a killer cop behind bars. (And in the US, you can count on your fingers the number of killer cops who’ve spent any time in prison.)
Then you did do this lmao
Depends where he lives. I always vote third party, but every district I am in is gerrymandered, and my state is not within 10 points of competitive for president, so my votes do not matter other than getting third parties on the ballot.
Jill Stein is a Russian asset and anyone who supported the green party in 2024 is a cuck who got trump elected. Even if your vote didn’t matter, you contributed to the dialogue and publicity they got for their blatant effort to split the vote. We shouldn’t have only 2 parties, but in the current system voting 3rd party is performative at best and genuinely dangerous at worst.
There are other 3rd parties.
And everything I said remains true except the Jill Stein part. You fell for a psy op to split the vote by making you waste it virtue signalling to… Yourself? Loser mentality, loser vote, loser.
Did you miss the part where my districts are so lopsided that it does not hurt the lesser of two evils if I vote for good?
A very useful comment. Thank you, and have a lovely Sunday.
About as useful as your vote?
American culture? What’s that then?
Simple.
The billionaires decide.
You can blame the whole of the US population if you like, but voters here only have any power on the local level. National elections are wholly driven and decided by the billionaire class (which is why you saw both Democrats and Republicans fight so hard against Mamdani), so to me, it’s a tad absurd to pretend that the people as a whole support this. That’s even more true when you look at the 2025 and 2026 elections (so far), where nearly all of the candidates backed by Donald have lost, regardless of the state, and most in districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. (Demonstrating that people do not support the war in Iran or the pedophile coverup.)
Hell, Donald can’t even gerrymander anymore, because the Republican Party can’t accurately project where they have voter strength. That is the incredible extent to which people are opposed to this.
And you make yourself sound ignorant by pretending otherwise in the face of all of these facts.
The downside is that, since the Epstein Class controls politics at the national level, the opposition party doesn’t really oppose anything, but there are a few candidates with some strength that could do some limited good, like Graham Platner.
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.
Natives can vote in the US. The republicans have tried to make it harder because they vote against them.
No shit, in case you haven’t noticed, the “white” people elected don’t have the best interests of white people in mind either. You are barking up the wrong tree, this is a class war, and we are losing.
Hard to win if you don’t do anything other than SLAMMING them.
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.
You do realize like half of white people are on your side?
My comment was directed specifically at the person I was responding to. Obviously being an ally is a choice not helped or hindered by one’s own ethnicity, creed, religion, sexuality, etc.
Where are you from buddy? I bet your leaders have done some bullshit. People aren’t responsible for their government necessarily.
us crimes against humanity go far deeper any other country ever.
don’t excuse yourself off from this, this shit is your fault.
Ha, spoken like someone with no historical knowledge. The conservative romans were fucking pricks like the republicans dyed in wool for instance. Tamerlane? Shiiiiiit.
take responsability you prick.
did the romans enslave the entire global south?
are they threatening global nuclear winter and food shortages?
fucking no. you sort of people is the reason we all hate usians. stop making excuses.
Sorry I didn’t overthrow the most powerful empire on earth, just lazy I guess! Eat a dick.
you and your wretched culture literally elected a fascist to power.
Unlike the workers paradises of Russian and China? Ha ha, eat a dick.
is this the whataboutism i keep hearing about? YOU are the one causing global food shortages and overall destruction.
the problem is YOUR fascist empire. not russia. not china. not iran. not north korea. not the hUmaN RaCe. YOUR shitty empire is humanity’s problem right now and your responsibility.
And you heroically overthrew your despotic regimes? Oh no, you suck their dick. You aren’t able to criticize your leaders are you? I call mine a cunt every day of the year.
this sort of deflective bullshit is why the rest of the world really hates you.
I did, I already apologized for not overthrowing the most powerful empire in the world. Sorry, just lazy I suppose. What the fuck are you doing?
did you or any of your fascist friends ever get up from your chair to do anything at all?
Good one! Such wit! Ha ha ha.
if you think this shit is funny, you deserve what’s coming for you.
And all the Russians are responsible for Putin and his war crimes.
westerners*
europe is complicit, and ever perpetrates some of their evil.
Guess I‘ll hold off watching news and quietly enjoy the little pre WW3 peace time I have.
Imo ww3 is going to bring me peace.
I bought a baseball glove to catch the bombs.
Can’t wait for TACO Tuesday
and considering how well and easily Iran has been able to retaliate at various targets yeah…this will go swimmingly.
Fascinating to watch the strategist in chief play three-dementia chess…
Ha ha, I hate this three dimensional chess talk, and I play chess, but that is a good one.
Who would have though Iran would save America!?
We obliterate nuclear enrichment sites so hard they come back online mere weeks later. No one obliterates like us.
Nothing says diplomacy like a Twitter ultimatum with a countdown while simultaneously admitting that you are about to commit a war crime.
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.
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…
So when questioned about boots on the ground or why other nations weren’t told about the attack, we get the “why would I tell you that? Are you a stupid person”?
Social media: WE WILL ASPLOAD ALL YOUR POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE LARGEST.
Makes sense.
Which will cause a refuge crisis and destabilize the whole area even more.
Give up your only leverage while we horsefuck you or else we will horse fuck you! Brilliant! /s
Bombing powerplants is an attack on civilians and therefore a war crime.
Who is going to stop this addle-pated pigman?
We’re at the point both sides could just be waiting for him to wipe Iran off the map before doing anything since can just make Trump the scapegoat and finally get their wished for attack on Iran
The bombings will continue until you like us more than your violent government…seems like a solid plan…
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.