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Trump Says He May Bomb Iran’s Kharg Island Again ‘For Fun’ – antiwar.com
Ah! What a fun idea!
President Trump said on Saturday that the US may bomb Iran’s Kharg Island again “for fun” and urged other countries to help the US open the Strait of Hormuz.
The president made the comments a day after the US military struck the Persian Gulf island, where most of Iran’s oil exports move through. So far, the US has spared the oil infrastructure on the island as it fears Iranian retaliatory attacks against oil infrastructure across the Gulf.
“We totally demolished Kharg Island, but we may hit it a few more times just for fun,” Trump said. “We’ve totally decimated it. Except, as you know, I didn’t do anything having to do with the energy lines, because having to rebuild that would take years.”
A man-child, completely deranged. Completely disconnected from reality. If we had a Congress that didn’t have their collective heads up their arses, this clown would have been 25th amended long ago. Instead, we have an absolute ass-clown steamrolling this country, and the world, to its undoing.
Two weeks after he directed American forces to bomb Iran, Donald Trump has revealed he has no notion of when the war will end.
The White House has thus far refused to provide the slightest semblance of a timeline for the latest unfounded Middle East war. But in an interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade Friday, Trump admitted that he also has no clear goal for the war, clouding the possibility for a finite end to the conflict.
Responding to a question about the skyrocketing price of oil and the resulting economic ripples, Trump claimed that the U.S. would “bounce right back so fast” when the war is over.
“When are you going to know when it’s over?” asked Kilmeade.
“When I feel it. When I feel it in my bones,” Trump responded. – newrepublic.com
When its other peoples sons and daughters, their lives are expendable to these demons, as is about any other country as well.
Trump says he can do ‘anything I want’ with Cuba – reuters.com
HAVANA, March 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Cuba on Monday, saying he expected to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form” and that “I can do anything I want” with the neighboring country.The threatening statements come even as Cuba and the United States have opened talks aimed at improving their largely adverse relations, which have reached one of their most contentious moments in the 67 years since Fidel Castro overthrew what had been a close U.S. ally.The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.
“I do believe I’ll be … having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form,” Trump told reporters as the island faces an unprecedented economic crisis, exacerbated by an oil blockade the U.S. imposed after capturing former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.“I mean, whether I free it, take it. Think I can do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters at a signing event in the Oval Office.
Cuba’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade
So much fun for them!
Trump Says Israel ‘Would Never’ Use Nuclear Weapons – antiwar.com
President Trump said on Monday that Israel “would never” use a nuclear weapon when asked about comments from David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, who recently suggested that Israel might consider the nuclear option if the war with Iran continues to escalate.
“Israel could get seriously destroyed,” Sacks said on an episode of the “All-In Podcast” that was posted on Friday, when discussing the potential scenarios if the US-Israeli war against Iran continues. “And then you have to worry about Israel escalating the war by contemplating using a nuclear weapon, which would truly be catastrophic.”
Sacks’s comments are significant since he is an administration official, and for many decades, both the US and Israeli governments have maintained a policy of not acknowledging the existence of Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
The ambiguity around Israel’s nuclear weapons program allows the US to provide military assistance without worrying about the Symington Amendment, a foreign assistance law that prohibits aid to countries that traffic in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside of international safeguards.
Israel is believed to have somewhere between 90 and 300 nuclear warheads, but the real figure is unknown. Last year, The Associated Press reported that satellite images showed construction work on a major new facility at the nuclear site near Dimona, Israel, the location of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program.
In his response to the question about Sacks’s comments, Trump said, “Israel wouldn’t do that. Israel would never do that.”
Sacks’s overall point was that the US should “declare victory” and withdraw from the conflict, which Trump also addressed. “There’s a theory. You pounded them to hell, and you can just leave now, and it’ll take 10 years for them to build back, not nearly what they have right now,” he said.
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Dispatches from the Asylum 