Oh sweet child, truth social is the official White House communications channel now.

First corporate war when?

You know, I’m not even sure I’ve heard a straight line about what exactly they’re trying to do and what precipitated starting the war.

There’s been talk about wanting regime change and halting the Iranian nuclear program. But both of those things have been around for what, like 20 years? And the nuclear deal was being worked out over a decade age before trump threw a fit and ripped it up.

Most wars have a very clear “they did this to us so we have to do this to them in order to secure… blah blah blah.” But with Iran we didn’t really get that. I just woke up one day and the headlines were “surprise, he started another war in the Middle East, checkout this new TikTok trend”

At least bush had the intelligence to lie about WMDs. Trump just threw a fit and seems hell bent on collapsing the global economy for no reason other than the US hasn’t been bombing as many brown people as it once did.

He has 34 felonies.

I dont think he cares about the law guys.

I would, but he’s like really far away and my boss barely gave me my wife’s birthday off.

It’s a desert. Solar powered desalination plants might have been a good idea.

He’d have to declare martial law to suspend voting.

In theory, there would need to be a clear national emergency, such as a ground invasion of the United States or open rebellion to allow for martial law to be declared.

I don’t think Iran is going to launch an amphibious assault against the United States any time soon.

I get he’s trying to make a point that Australia doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of history here, but I’m always confused by the term “illegal war”

Like would killing civilians like the US did for nearly 30 years in the Middle East be better just because a bunch of old dudes were guided into a fancy room by aides and mumbled to each other before signing a piece of paper that says it’s legal?

Lunatic calls leader already doing land grab genocide.

Says he’ll give access to largest military in the world because it will distract from the files bring about the end times from his weird death cult prophecy.

“Sounds good, bud”

So would the government be handing out guns or what?

It’s actually really expensive to get things to the sun.

The easiest ice covered rock to get to from earth would be Europa. He might also confuse it with Greenland as an added bonus.

Western powers promised Ukraine protection against attack or invasion by themselves and Russia in the December 5th, 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

The US, France, UK, Russia, and China all agreed not to invade Ukraine and in fact to provide protection, and in exchange, Ukraine gave up their nukes.

Russia violated this just 20 years later when they invaded and stole Crimea from Ukraine, and now 30 years later they are trying to conquer the entire country.

Thats why everyone is so hell bent on providing support for Ukraine. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because they were promised protection by world powers.

Is that gamble worth the lives of nearly every living thing on the planet and the future of human civilization?

Russia alone has enough nuclear weapons to cause a mass extinction event. Even if no one else fires a single one, they could erase life as we know it.

If Putin sees a Leopard tank in Moscow, are you sure he wouldn’t order a launch? And if Britain or the French see those missiles and bombers, are you sure they won’t launch in retaliation?

That’s the logic that European leaders are operating under. If they pull the trigger on article 5 and launch a war with Russia, even if they win, everyone could still lose literally everything.

I thought all the hesitation was because of the nukes.

I’m pretty sure it’s the nukes.

And how exactly would they force the United States to do anything?

“Join Us or we’ll start a two front war to make you join us” is hardly a convincing argument.

And hitler was rejected from art school.

Dictators are extremely petty people.

Those damn ones

Free bed, free food?

Sign me the fuck up

Evolution is a tricky bitch when bacteria have a new generation every 15 minutes or so

And that’s what we call Russian roulette