Meanwhile, dozens were injured by Iranian strikes in Israel, as Tehran targeted a nuclear site.

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.

  • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
    327·
    7 hours ago

    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.

      • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
        31·
        5 hours ago

        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.

      • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.comEnglish
        32·
        6 hours ago

        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.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • Kurroth@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        57 minutes ago

        Phoenixes rise from something burned to ashes. Not from something turned to shit. Sorry.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          28 minutes ago

          Shit does burn after it dries. Or after held in anaerobic conditions it produces methane. So the analogy still kind of works.

          That said, plato catalogued greek republics and noticed a pattern they all followed, and all have since, it’s just a matter of time. A monarch is overthrown and a republic instituted. That republic in time decays through stages of oligarcic repression, although he breaks it down into specific stages, and in time, a true leader emerges, and rallies the people, and lays waste to the oligarchy, and becomes a sort of king again, which in time decays and a republic overthrows them and starts the cycle anew.

          At a point, destroying the oligarchy is worth any cost. We are at that point. The current president is not caesar, but sulla, another stage of oligarchic repression, until a real leader emerges to lay waste to the oligarchy. The time is nigh, and epstein is the key.