cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31683994

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.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 分钟前

    At this point I’m alright with a nuclear apocalypse, we had it coming. I just hope I’m close enough to a blast sight to not have to deal with the aftermath.

  • catty@lemmy.world
    5·
    25 分钟前

    “Considers”. Fake news. They want the price of oil and gas to go up to please Putin.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 小时前

    So we’ll have a war of aggression with Iran for? We don’t like them? Israel has committed more violations of national borders and laws. The KoSA and Egypt’s citizens were involved in 9-11 and they are “allies”.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      3 小时前

      If any other country did the things Israel has done, we’d be sanctioning them at a minimum. We invaded Iraq both times for less.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    26·
    9 小时前

    “We want to stop nuclear proliferation by starting a nuclear war.” - these fucking geniuses, apparently

  • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 小时前

    The fact is that conventional bombs can’t eliminate all the underground and mountainous facilities. This requires either a large ground invasion and occupation, at a very high cost, or nuclear weapons.

    A ground invasion can’t happen for a number of reasons and Israel and the U.S. can’t allow Iran to continue having a nuclear program means that they will see no other choice but to use tactical nukes.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    20·
    17 小时前

    “Art of the Deal”. Always start “negotiations” with a threat to go nuclear, then brag and posture and bully. Deal

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 小时前

      You forgot the part where you Chicken out and go back on everything so you lose on both sides… No one ever sees it coming

  • tehn00bi@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 小时前

    I mean, it makes the most sense to hit that facility with a bunker busting tactical nuke. Probably the only way to significantly ensure enough damage to end production at the facility.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      43 分钟前

      You want them to retaliate with dirty bombs? Get into another terrorist pissing match?

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      14·
      6 小时前

      No

      You drop nukes and you cross the line. There is a goddamnrd good reason why nobody uses nukes and trump gets in and now all of the sudden everyone and their mother goes “weeeeeeelll, a tactical nuke, might make sense?”

      Fuck. That. Shit.

      You do NOT blow up nukes, ever.

      • the_wiz@feddit.org
        1·
        1 小时前

        I ask you a simple question: Name the only nation that has already used a nuclear weapon in a war… twice.

      • tehn00bi@lemmy.world
        18·
        4 小时前

        So you want / have to hit a facility designed to survive most attacks, even potential nuclear attacks and you chose to not use the weapons best suited?

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          11·
          4 小时前

          Yes, correct. Absolutely. Because there are ramifications way fucking beyond that one instance.

          Similarly, if my neighbor’s dog sometimes pisses on the petunias, a gun would absolutely solve the problem, yet despite being extremely effective it may not be the best solution.

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
    193·
    19 小时前

    He is going to back pedal because Iran is his boss’s (Putin ) ally. He is once again talking shit he has no intention of backing up. I could see him ordering a nin-nuke strike on something that wouldn’t get him in trouble with his handler though as a fake tough man move.

    • thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.world
      10·
      18 小时前

      He floats the craziest idea so that whatever happens he can say “at least I didn’t do that one thing” and his base will praise him for it–even though the thing he actually did was still moronic. This is the “permanent 300% tariff”, “Canada will be the 51st state”, or the “Golden Trump Gaza” video. It’s the only way this imbecile knows how to negotiate.

      • InputZero@lemmy.world
        3·
        18 小时前

        The Golden Trump Gaza, what a fucking joke. I could be totally wrong but I’m going to take a guess and say that the Gaza strip is one of the most bombed out places in the world. If true it’ll be littered with unexploded ordinance forever or at least practically forever. He wants to make a giant Mar’a Lago? Sure okay, I’m sure your guests would enjoy the risk of losing a limb or being killed cause a forgotten bomb goes off 10 years later.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      33·
      18 小时前

      He’s gonna backpadel because he is a wimp, a paper tiger, he doesn’t dare to send people to war as he’s chickened out of Viet Nam.

      TACO

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    223·
    23 小时前

    What is a country? A miserable pile of war crimes.

    Turning a habitable area full of innocent people into a pile of radioactive rubble and dying people why? Because fucking the Israeli government wants to genocide palestinians without resistance? Damn we fucking suck as a country

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    1547·
    1 天前

    Trump will drop a nuke before leaving office. He been begging to use one since his first term. They literally had to stop him from nucking a hurricane. He wants to do it. My worry is he will drop one on an American state.