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Fox News reports that Donald Trump may consider using nuclear weapons to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility

The U.S. military has reservations regarding the success of using a bunker-buster bomb, a non nuclear weapon, to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, buried deep in a mountain. Two defense officials were reportedly briefed that only a tactical nuclear weapon could reach the facility.

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[–] arin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Reminds me of his previous term talking about nuking the hurricane.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Shame it was an empty threat; these hurricanes won't learn otherwise.

[–] GoobyMcMooby@lemmy.zip 85 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

God damn female presidents am I right? Now nukes are being bandied about in the midst of the VP getting into Twitter fights with randoms about trans people during national security meetings. I can’t believe wait what? Oh. It’s the grown ass men with impulse control and emotional problems. I was told that women would get us into WWIII.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

The Peter Pan Party doing what boys that never grew up do best.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Our last election just showed that by and large, uneducated white men and the elderly would rather get raped by an old white man than helped by a young black woman

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 hours ago

Hate to break it to you, but for the first time, the younger generation skewed Trump. In fact every demographic skewed Trump. This cancer is affecting all of society, not just a single demographic.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 24 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with the sentiment but the word young is doing a lot of work here, Kamala is 60 years old ..

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago

ngl, if she's sixty then she's doing something right

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 7 hours ago

Yet compared to Trump she seems like a fresh spring onion

[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

She young at heart compared to Trump who is, by definition, a grouchy old fuck.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

Well this is true, she's definitely not an elderly dementia afflicted ghoul.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I voted for Trump because he's the PRO PEACE President!

[–] altphoto 5 points 6 hours ago

Bigly so. Big guy crying. Big big. Big guy. Bigly yes.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 64 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Same as Iraq. The US sells the poison and snake oil to cure it.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Also Afghanistan

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Helpful guide for spur of the moment vacation destinations.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Maine is looking really good, but would you really want to survive this shit?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Me personally?

Yes.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

The odds of a ICBM hitting are low if it comes via air, we'd see it coming and be able to intercept in many cases. It's the land based attacks, like smuggling a dirty bomb in or chemical weapons, that I worry about more.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah good luck intercepting a MIRV

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We are very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/no-us-missile-defense-system-proven-capable-against-realistic-icbm-threats-study/

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah I was gonna say this, I have no idea why or how it came to be that people think an ICBM MIRV can be realistically or reliably intercepted.

Some of them?

Maybe, yeah, but... most of them? Hell no.

EDIT: Oh, that commenter said they were stoned when they wrote that. I... guess that is an explanations of sorts.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The odds of a ICBM hitting are low if it comes via air...

I'm curious to see what other ways you think an ICBM is going to get to the target.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

lol yeah I could've phrased that better, kinda stoned.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Fair enough. It gave me a laugh and I had to ask.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well since it's an inter continental ballistic missile then obviously it could burrow underground as well. Duhhhhh.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Amazon Prime shipping

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I actually no longer trust that to be true with how many systems and programs were gutted. I suspect we probably dismantled our early warning systems.

If thats not the case, I still question whether or not this administration would let a blue state get hit when they could prevent it just out of spite.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As a life long new jersey citizen I'm glad someone finally finds us important.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Hey, when we rebuild society in 200 years, we can just formally declare the entire state, every square foot of it, to be a superfund site, lol!

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 49 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Trump really wants to do a nuke on something. That would secure some kind of place for him in history, I'm sure.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Bombing Japan is a big dark spot on our history. As was our treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Basically everyone agrees on that.

We retconned history to say dropping the big bombs would have averted many more casualties, and maybe that's true, but really a.) who knows and b.) big difference between civilian casualties and military casualties.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Definitely a war crime. It also most likely brought about anime which is objectively worse.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

MAGAts don't feel remorse for what we did to Japan. I used to work with one who used the interment camps to justify migrants being separated from their children and thrown in cages. His logic was that "people weren't up in arms about it then, why do they care about it now?"

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

conservatives see nuking Japanese civilians with pride.

they lack any form of empathy.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

The people who vote for trump think that the bomb was just a great technological achievement, and never learned about the Japanese internment camps.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Not that anyone will be around to learn about it.....

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Please let this be a time he listens to someone sane.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours ago

Just an fyi, last time he really wanted to use a nuke. No one would let him so they convinced him to use a MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) instead.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 40 points 12 hours ago

Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump's grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?

Right?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Trump has been itching to be the second person in history to nuke a population. He doesn't realize what it means because he's a complete fucking idiot.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

No, he knows. I don't think he cares, because they're not him. You fail to understand the mind of a narcissist - other people are not people, and the ones who actively say that they dislike you or what you stand for might as well be ants on the sidewalk for all the thought you give about them, ever.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

He's a psychopath, he has no empathy. He doesn't care at all.

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 13 points 12 hours ago
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Gleefully sounding the trumpet for the end of the world

Can somebody please please stop him before he kills us all?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

None of his Cabinet will. All of them have been chosen mostly to make sure they don't get in his way when his Wormtongue gives him ideas.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 hours ago

That surely won't lead to horrible outcomes.

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