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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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[–] status_sphere@sh.itjust.works 130 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing says diplomacy like a Twitter ultimatum with a countdown while simultaneously admitting that you are about to commit a war crime.

[–] renhogan@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dimantina@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Another reason geriatric grifters shouldn't hold office, but reason has long since been evicted from the halls of the mighty.