Mastodawn

…Trump’s speech perpetuated the dissonance that has characterized the #IranWar from the start. In Trump’s first extended speech about the #war, delivered 32 days into it, he did not provide a clearer picture. 
This is not the fog of war. It’s the fog of Trump’s rhetoric & perhaps his thoughts.

Opinion by Ramesh Ponnuru

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #economy #oil #EnergyCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/02/trump-iran-war-speech/

Trump’s hall-of-mirrors speech

The president perpetuated the dissonance that has characterized the Iran war from the start.

The Washington Post

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Nonilex 1d ago

Consider this abbreviated timeline: On March 1, #Trump gave a short interview in which he seemed to change his mind about whether he wanted #RegimeChange in #Iran. On March 6, he demanded unconditional surrender in all caps. On March 13, he said Iran had been “totally defeated.” On March 21, he said the operation had achieved his objectives “ahead of schedule”—although there has obviously been no surrender, with or without conditions.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #law #MiddleEast

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Nonilex 1d ago

Later that day, #Trump said he would start hitting #Iran power plants, which would be a #WarCrime, unless the supposedly already defeated country let #oil through the #StraitOfHormuz.
 The White House address Wednesday provided more of the same dissonance: The #war has already achieved its objectives, so the #US will keep waging it, & it will end soon. #RegimeChange was not his goal but has happily occurred anyway, & he will keep bombing the new, much more reasonable Iranian leaders.

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Richard Michael Blaber

@Nonilex It IS a #warcrime - see #Rome Statute of the #ICC, Article 8(b)(ii), https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf.