Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News’ senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a question regarding whether his previously stated timeline of two to three weeks for a deal was still accurate.

Concerns have been raised about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran and the consequences that could bring.

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      vlad’s fucked up russia is just america again. Guess where yeltsin was a few days before the perestroika.

      Count on americans to coup countries and then whine about fascists being in power there.

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      I think they have done it. For me it was the loss of a us awacs plane last month, a thing that we made fun of russia for not a few years ago. The us of a is not in a good place militarily right now, with big issues with both equipment and moral that is very much underplayed.

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        Good. Hope you learned that running your mouth off over things you don’t understand isn’t a good look.

        Hey remember sending F-16s to intercept weather balloons? Imagine if Russia did that!

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      At this point I trust russia more than the US. Even a few months ago there at least was the semblance of a democratic system left, but by now its clear that the US is a dictatorship in all but name.

      The things Putin does at least make sense from an imperialistic point of view, but trump is a literal toddler throwing a different tantrum each hour.

      Both can rot in the deepest parts of hell as far as I’m concerned though.

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      Oh yeah, fucked up Russia, with its hundreds of military bases around the world, supporting endless terrorist regimes in the Middle East, supplying nukes to Israel, like that?

      Russia isn’t even 1/10th of what you loons do every day. Fucked up Russia? What’s fucked up about it that you don’t do a hundred times worse every day?

      Please get that brainworm looked at.

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        Yeaaaa lol my personal view is that any powerful country pretty much sucks. But I do think its so funny how even most very lefty Americans still hold up China and Russia as the ultimate examples of evilness. Even when calling ourselves evil we have to do it by calling Russia and China evil in the same breath, as if to comfort ourselves that we’re not the only one. The propaganda against those countries is truly strong here, which of course is helped by the fact that they both ARE quite problematic as any super powerful entity is