Indeed, Trump’s ultimatum seems cribbed from a strategy Hegseth urged him to undertake in January 2020, saying, “What better time than now to say, we're starting the clock, you've got a week, you've got X amount of time before we start taking out your energy production facilities?"

April 07, 2026 - 15:55 UTC

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Petey’s fave song…

youtu.be/XBsf8qsxs2M?si=SmgUZ4u-C0uzuOEg
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What happens if Trump does approve the energy plant strikes and Iran still doesn't submit? At that time, Hegseth was also floating attacks on other civilian targets: “oil refineries,” “oil infrastructure,” “some ports,” “energy production facilities,” “political sites,” and “cultural sites.”
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At the time, Defense Secretary Mark Esper acted as a brake on Trump’s bloodthirsty impulses. After the president floated attacking Iranian cultural sites, Esper publicly ruled out such strikes, which he explicitly described as violations of the “laws of armed conflict.”

Hegseth doesn't care.
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Really? It’s taken them 40+ years to develop nuclear weapons sufficient to threaten us in the late 20th and 21st Centuries? I think something might have been lost on their end of the translation of “arms race”…
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www.startribune.com/iran-war-islamophobia-christian-nationalism-trump/601659194
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Whiskey Pete loves the war crimes and was/is too stupid to factor in that the Iranians have a say in this. We're seeing that ignorance playing out so far and if Trump doesn't TACO the entire ME and the world are going to pay.
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wrt timing, the 60-day clock of the War Powers Act runs out in 3 weeks, putting Trump up against another crisis.
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Congress needs to wake the fuck up and take this war criminal to the Haque. Release the unredacted Epstein Files. Stop this unlawful war and arrest and imprison Trump the malignant narcissist and pedophile along with his entire Regime! They are all war criminals!
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