Mastodawn

Welcome to war crime day.

Trump has told the press yesterday that Iran will be returned to the stone age at 8 PM US Eastern Time — that is two hours after midnight in Berlin.

So far the European reaction is complete silence, and I believe this is a case of “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”.

There are only two outcomes:

1. If Trump chickens out, he is weakened at home.

2. If he commits the war crime, he is severely weakened internationally.

Either way, Trump loses.

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haaflife

@randahl "severely weakened internationally" - how so? He never faced any meaningful backlash to his previous war crimes and attacks on other countries, he won't now. There is no consumer boycott of US companies, he's not charged for his crimes against humanity, there is no travel warning for the US, US-Americans can still enter Europe, there are no Sanctions against the US, no US assets seized, there are still US bases in Europe ... Nothing will happen. Nothing ever does.