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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone (defector.com)

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There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I 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!

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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

You trust everyone that has nukes to not mistake it for an attack on them and trigger mad?

Yes. They're not Americans, they don't "fear for their life" and start blasting. The US needs to be taken down carefully, like a hostage taker with their knife to the world's throat. If the US nukes Iran, I think that's the point where the EU and UK start treating the US as the single biggest threat rather than just one of many, but it makes no sense to attack the US openly and guarantee MAD.

What we need is a revolution in the US that is homegrown enough that nuclear command accepts their call to not launch nukes over the presidency's call to launch them. A military coup would probably be safest.