Stalin
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This is the inescapable conclusion to be derived from Donald Trump’s press conference on Monday.
The language of the press conference speaks for itself. Trump declared, in the midst of a series of homicidal statements, that the US military would destroy Iran as a country if its leaders did not immediately surrender to US demands. “The entire country can be taken out in one night,” he bellowed, “and that night might be tomorrow night.”
Before a worldwide television audience, Trump put on display the frenzy that he had previously vented with obscenities on social media Sunday morning. “We have a plan because of the power of our military,” he said, “where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12:00. It will happen over a period of four hours, if we want it to.”
He continued: “It will take them a hundred years to rebuild. Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country, and it would never be as good as it was.”
Every word Trump said implicates the government of the United States in a crime of Hitlerian proportions. He says openly what the Nazi leaders discussed behind closed doors. That is a measure of the decay and degradation of world capitalism in the 21st century.
The press conference began with nearly an hour of nonstop celebration of the prowess of the US military and the supposed “courageous leadership and ironclad determination of President Donald J. Trump,” as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, in the unctuous flattery that has become mandatory for US cabinet officials.
Trump then took questions, although he prefaced this by threatening to jail the reporter who first reported that only one of two airmen on an F-15 warplane shot down by Iran had been recovered. This report was based on a leak from the Pentagon, Trump claimed, and an investigation had been launched to identify the leaker. “We will go to the media company that released it and we are going to say, national security, give it up or go to jail.”
There were further threats and denunciations of the media, even though the press conference was largely packed with right-wing podcasters and other sycophants, who thanked Trump effusively before they posed their “questions.”
Trump declared that he was reviving the principle—dating back to barbarism—that “to the victor go the spoils.” Having defeated Iran militarily, he claimed, the United States should charge tolls for the passage of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. If it was up to him, he said, the US would seize Iran’s oil resources.
Asked what Iran had to do to meet the deadline of 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Trump replied, “We have to have a deal that’s acceptable to me. And part of that deal is going to be, we want free traffic of oil and everything else.”
a question to ponder in the future - where were you and what did you do when all this happened ?
comrade stalin
moscow
The language of the press conference speaks for itself. Trump declared, in the midst of a series of homicidal statements, that the US military would destroy Iran as a country if its leaders did not immediately surrender to US demands. “The entire country can be taken out in one night,” he bellowed, “and that night might be tomorrow night.”
Before a worldwide television audience, Trump put on display the frenzy that he had previously vented with obscenities on social media Sunday morning. “We have a plan because of the power of our military,” he said, “where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be used again. I mean, complete demolition by 12:00. It will happen over a period of four hours, if we want it to.”
He continued: “It will take them a hundred years to rebuild. Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country, and it would never be as good as it was.”
Every word Trump said implicates the government of the United States in a crime of Hitlerian proportions. He says openly what the Nazi leaders discussed behind closed doors. That is a measure of the decay and degradation of world capitalism in the 21st century.
The press conference began with nearly an hour of nonstop celebration of the prowess of the US military and the supposed “courageous leadership and ironclad determination of President Donald J. Trump,” as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, in the unctuous flattery that has become mandatory for US cabinet officials.
Trump then took questions, although he prefaced this by threatening to jail the reporter who first reported that only one of two airmen on an F-15 warplane shot down by Iran had been recovered. This report was based on a leak from the Pentagon, Trump claimed, and an investigation had been launched to identify the leaker. “We will go to the media company that released it and we are going to say, national security, give it up or go to jail.”
There were further threats and denunciations of the media, even though the press conference was largely packed with right-wing podcasters and other sycophants, who thanked Trump effusively before they posed their “questions.”
Trump declared that he was reviving the principle—dating back to barbarism—that “to the victor go the spoils.” Having defeated Iran militarily, he claimed, the United States should charge tolls for the passage of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. If it was up to him, he said, the US would seize Iran’s oil resources.
Asked what Iran had to do to meet the deadline of 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Trump replied, “We have to have a deal that’s acceptable to me. And part of that deal is going to be, we want free traffic of oil and everything else.”
Trump sets Tuesday night deadline for the massive war crime against Iran
The United States is on the brink of a moral and political catastrophe. This is the inescapable conclusion to be derived from Donald Trump’s press conference on Monday.
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a question to ponder in the future - where were you and what did you do when all this happened ?
comrade stalin
moscow
