When he wasn’t busy alienating one of our closest allies yesterday during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi by mentioning the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Donald Trump said some other things that are leading to growing concern over whether or not he’s considering the use of nuclear weapons to end the war with Iran.
Andrew Perez of Zeteo notes that Trump issued what can best be called a “vague, ominous threat that doesn’t necessarily require a genius to parse.”
Specifically, Trump told reporters, “The military equipment, the power of some of this weaponry, is unthinkable. You don’t even want to know about it. Oh, you could end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to.”
Two seconds? How do you end a war in two seconds? By dropping a bomb that would obliterate the entire nation of Iran, along with a lot of other prime real estate in the Middle East.
Or, as Perez wondered aloud, “So… nukes?”
While few think Trump would make such a monumentally ignorant decision, the very fact that he mentioned nuclear weapons should raise concern among anyone who gives a damn about the future of the planet.
“Trump’s catastrophic war – which began with a shocking massacre of Iranian schoolchildren – is only going to get worse and more costly for everyone, regardless of their involvement or which side they are on,” Perez concludes. “Donald Trump might be America’s Mad King, but he is now the whole world’s problem.”
Indeed, he is, and unless US voters rein him in by putting checks on his power into place by electing a Democratic House and Senate in November, the possibility of Dementia Don with his finger on the nuclear trigger just itching to blow the world to kingdom come will become more of a possibility with each passing day and every angry whim his diminished brain can conceive of.
