U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post this morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline.

Iran has rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and says it wants a permanent end to the war.

UN Secretary General António Guterres warned the U.S. that attacking civilian infrastructure is banned under international law.

The death toll so far includes more than 1,900 people in Iran, 1,400 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel, about two dozen in other countries in the region, 13 U.S. service members and 11 Israeli soldiers.

The TruthSocial Post:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116363336033995961

UPDATE (5:32 PM EST / UTC-04:00):

Motherfucking TACO Tuesday.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116365796713313030

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    1 month ago

    This is a pretty straightforward declaration of genocidal intent. If the Americans bomb civilian infrastructure, there is a credible case for accusing them of Genocide in the Hague.

    EDIT: Historian Timothy Snyder also identified it as such, pointing that this creates legal liabilities up and down the American state: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-president-speaks-genocide

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    We are permenantly hyper fucked if the best interpretation of his words are bombing Iran’s infrastructure so badly that Iran retaliates by destroying all oil and desalination facilities in surrounding countries, rendering them uninhabitable for millions.

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      1 month ago

      Watch those betting sites for the US dropping a nuke, if a bunch of bets come in all at once (Trump insiders)….

      I hate that what I typed above is plausible

  • itszednotzee@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    91·
    1 month ago

    If this shit was in an apocalypse movie people would complain about it being unrealistic.

    No way a US president would say that!
    Really? via a social media post? did they run out of budget for actors? “Praise be to allah”? did the writers forget which side he’s on?

    If he hadn’t TACO’d before this would be terrifying. not to say it’s not horrible still

  • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    Am I the only one wondering how the fuck a president has all this power? I thought USA was a democracy, not a fucking dictatorship. Who has voted for all these wars? And if it’s this easy to just get around an approval, shouldn’t this be your main agenda for coming elections in the future, because your entire system rewards a guy like Trump for doing whatever he wants.

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      If either party actually disagreed on principle, we would have heard someone criticize the war on principle and not on breaking procedural norms or not planning the war well enough. Virtually every critique I have seen from elected officials, at least before this explicitly genocidal statement here, is some form of those two. “This war was poorly planned” is only a sidenote observation from someone actually opposed to a war of aggression. It’s the most milquetoast opposition you can give to claim you were always against it when things go wrong. No way in hell am I going to accept that they were powerless to stop him when no one will even clearly lay out the actual reasons why this is wrong.

      We know that actions speak louder than words, but if we want to give anyone else in our government the benefit of the doubt we’re gonna have to figure out what comes next after words.

  • Klox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 month ago

    Can you even imagine what Harris would have done?! Whew we really dodged a nuke.

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Has Trump changed from pedophilia to BDSM?

    “I’m gonna kick you in the balls and you will experience something wonderful. Then I will shit myself… again and you will watch”