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

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    18 hours 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
      391·
      18 hours 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

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      This is the best case scenario. We’re right now at a point where this is the desirable outcome of his words. THIS.

      The US have utterly fucked this world in about a year…

        • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
          101·
          16 hours ago

          ~60% of the country either voted for him or couldn’t be arsed to vote at all, declaring with their non-vote that both candidates were equally valid.

          Sorry mate but… it’s the US. It’s not just a minority of people. It’s the fucking president and administration of the United States of America.

          If he was just a republican traitor and not the president of the country, he wouldn’t be threatening with nuking a country.

            • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
              8·
              16 hours ago

              And yet, he only won by a fraction, not a landslide. However, it remains true that a good 30% of the country couldn’t be bothered to vote. If only a portion of that 30% decided that maybe Harris was a slightly better president, we wouldn’t be here today.

              • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
                3·
                15 hours ago

                That’s what you want if you’re rigging elections. If you make it too obvious too soon, someone might do something about it.

                And it was the second highest eligible voter turnout in US history.

                • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialEnglish
                  3·
                  14 hours ago

                  You had one candidate that was Hitler in orange. He said it, he had a nazism instruction book that he said he would be doing if he won.

                  The other candidate could have been a dog for what’s worth AND SHOULD HAVE WON BY LANDSLIDE.

                  Yet, this wasn’t the case. He might have rigged the elections, fuck… he surely rigged the elections… But if your country worked, he should have needed to rig them so badly that the scandal could have seen from anywhere. And, if even then, he declared victory, you should have done a real 6th jan to remove him.

                  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
                    1·
                    14 hours ago

                    I don’t disagree at all. I’m pissed off at my countrymen as well, but the situation is a far cry from “all Americans are complicit.”

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        Well, you’re not wrong, but that would still be a catastrophe modern world hasn’t yet seen. Those millions would become refugees and absolutely overwhelm European immigration system even with mass casualties due to riots, loss of water/food/medicine and who knows what else. Current oil prices would seem pretty cheap and global economy would take a massive hit causing homelesness, bankrupts, humongous loss of crops (due to fuel and fertilizer prices) and all kinds of havoc.

        Global west would suffer badly, China would become even stronger, Russia would benefit from that as well causing even more problems around Europe. Global trade with USA would practically collapse and pull USA down as well. In the global scale it doesn’t even matter that much if there’s a nuclear explosion somewhere too as results will be pretty nuclear anyways.