WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran

we went from trade deals to nuclear contingency planning in like 4 months. just absolutely breathtaking escalation speed

Trump administration has got to go. Right in the trash.

I'm starting to think electing a narcissistic moron to the White House may not have been the best idea.

If Israel or the US launches a first-use nuclear strike against a non-nuclear nation, tactical or not, it will forever mark the death of any nuclear non-proliferation attempts. No nation would ever seek to be caught with it's proverbial pants down.

Got to impeach and remove Trump from office asap.

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This is terrifying. The fact that officials are even having to game this out shows how close we are to the edge.

Jail the Kushner family, Trump family, the hangers on, and Netanyahoo for crimes against humanity. Pedophiles have no qualms about burning the world.

This is all because just two people—Netanyahu and his little b**** boy Trump—don’t want to go to prison.

>The official told the outlet that United Nations staff are preparing for an incident in “its broader sense,” including if there was an attack on a nuclear facility or the use of a weapon. “We are thinking about it, and we’re just really hoping that it does not happen,” Balkhy added. ... Trump’s artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency czar David Saks caused alarm Monday when he suggested that Israel could escalate the war “by contemplating using a nuclear weapon.” >The president insisted that “Israel would never do that” when asked about the comments later by reporters. [Trump says Israel won’t use a nuclear weapon in Iran](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5786393-israel-iran-nuclear-risk/) >President Trump insisted on Monday that Israel would not use a nuclear weapon in Iran after he was asked about one his advisers warning of such a potential risk. >“Israel wouldn’t do that. Israel would never do that,” Trump told reporters in the White House East Room on Monday. >Trump was asked about recent comments made by his artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency czar David Saks in which he warned of the “risks” in an “escalatory approach” when it comes to the war in Iran. >“Israel could get seriously destroyed,” Saks told the “All In” podcast. “And then you have to worry about Israel escalating the war by contemplating using a nuclear weapon.”

“We will nuke the country we accused of having nuclear weapons, they don’t but they’re beating us so 🤷‍♂️”

Excerpt from the book, The Authoritarians, by Bob Altemeyer: RWA = right wing authoritarians "*High RWAs tend to feel more endangered in a potentially threatening situation than most people do, and often respond aggressively. In 1987 my colleague Gerry Sande and I had five-man teams of male introductory psychology students role-play NATO in an “international simulation” involving (they thought) another team of students playing as the Warsaw Pact. Some of the NATO teams were composed entirely of low RWA students, and other NATO teams were stocked entirely with highs. (We experimenters secretly played the Warsaw Pact.) The simulation began with a couple of ambiguous moves by the Warsaw Pact, such as holding military exercises earlier than anticipated, and withdrawing divisions to rear areas (possibly for rest, or --as Dr. Strangelove might argue--possibly for redeployment for an attack). The NATO teams could respond with nonthreatening or threatening moves of varying magnitudes. But if they made threats, the Warsaw pact responded with twice as much threat in return, and the NATO team would reap what it had sown as an escalation of aggressive moves would likely result.* *The low RWA teams did not interpret the ambiguous moves at the beginning of the game as serious threats and thus seldom made threatening moves. The high RWAs on the other hand usually reacted to the opening Warsaw Pact moves aggressively, and sowed a whirlwind. Over the course of the simulation, the high RWA teams made ten times as much threat as the low teams did, and usually brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.* " Taken from page 26 of the PDF. At this point in time, this is required reading material. These people are so well researched (to understand Nazism after WWII) and very predictable, that is why external forces can easily control what our government does.

This is what happens when there are no adults in the room any longer trying to de-escalate the situation with Iran. Just a giant bunch of psychos all dead keen to do whatever Trump commands. And now you’ve got Kegsbreath probably drooling at the possibility of using a nuke. It’s so fucked a situation, and pig headed Trump won’t take any perceived ‘loss’ of any kind. Good luck everyone - we’re all going to need it.

Well it was fun while it lasted. Guess I can stop worrying about AI now

I'm tired of living in unprecedented times

Great. We're already trying to normalize nuclear warfare, and that's not a hyperbolic statement. Scariest shit I've heard yet, and that's a really high bar to beat

If Trump is anything, he is someone that lives to have his name etched into history. Look what he said about Cuba, it being an honor to invade and take it. He absolutely wants to be one of the two presidents to use a nuclear bomb during wartime.

We went from “Kamala is going to start WW3” to “Trumps about to liberate a nation by nuking them” in record time. What are we doing? What’s going on?

Look, Kamala had a weird laugh. What were we supposed to do?

All this could have been prevented by just not electing a serial child rapist to head up the US. But that would have been too much to ask.

You Christian nationalists are speed running armageddon at an impressive rate. Quasi fascism never ceases to amaze me. Gotta bring about that palingenetic ultranationalism spirit (project 2025) before Christmas. /s

Israel's got them, seem unconstrained by international law (50 year occupation and illegal 'settlers'). Wouldn't be a surprise at this point if the lobbed one into Iran.

This timeline just keeps getting worse.

I really really don’t want to see hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians get turned to dust. For the love of god, this better not ever happen. I don’t care about how ridiculous the Iranian government is, the innocent people do not deserve a single bit of harm.

At the end of the day, Israel is a nuclear rogue nation that never adhered to international law.

Worlds gonna get fucked cause Republicans are too cowardly to take down a pedophile.

Yeah no shit. Do you know how badly kegsbreath and trump want to use nukes? This is f****** disgusting

Anyone who suggests using nuclear weapons in a conventional war, especially one that has come out of such stupidity and political posturing, should be removed from any position of power immediately. At least in a sane world. The moment the prohibition on actually using nuclear weapons is broken will start the countdown to our first and final nuclear war.

Trump is gonna nuke them because he has a short attention span and there’s no real endgame from here

You have to be f****** kidding me

This is an outcome that a lot of people have anticipating a week into the ordeal. Soon as we realized Iran is not a joke.

I remember when Trump said the worst case scenario would be replacing the Ayatollah with a "worse person." And I thought, *thank God he didn't say dropping nukes.* Nevermind that the regime did in fact replace the Ayatollah with his more hardline son who we've radicalized all the more by killing his entire family. But whether Trump acknowledged it then and there, it's always been a lingering possibility.

We are about 10yrs overdue from CoD 4

Call your congresspeople. I don't care where they stand politically. Ask the staffer, as a person, if they're prepared to have this kind of blood on their hands. If not, they should quit. 

Thanks America... you out-did yourself this time. The way I see it is that almost 80 million Americans voted for Trump directly. Then we have the regional elections, state, county, city...etc. and we see Republicans running some of these entities, e.g. the Red states, with Republicans having the majority in both their house and senate. A POTUS that rules by EO. No debates, and no governance through the people. So as I see it, more than half of Americans who voted wanted this. And those who didn't vote, were indifferent. Take a bow, America. Energy costs are up worldwide, you tariff'ed the living shit out of most the planet. Your President is a felon, a well-known conman, and pedophile. This is closest we've been to a nuclear war in over 60 years. On behalf of us non-Americans....Well done, You win!

1. Election Night Victory Speech (Nov. 2024) “I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars.” 2. Same Speech (expanded context) “We had no wars, for four years we had no wars.”  3. Campaign / Victory Messaging (2024) “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” 4. Inaugural Address (Jan. 2025) “We will measure our success… by the wars that we never get into.”  5. Campaign framing (“peace president” theme) “I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars.”  6. Campaign promise summarized in reporting Trump promised “no new wars” on the campaign trail. 7. Broader campaign positioning He pledged to be an “agent of peace” and focus on stopping wars. 

If the US uses a nuke in Iran, then Russia has free hands to use whatever they want in Ukraine. And China in Taiwan.

After the midterms, Trump won't be good for the money. Neither will his donors.

It's almost as if electing a f****** buffoon as president was a terrible idea.

Obviously this is Biden's fault. 

Great, just absolutely f****** great.

Thanks Republican voters!!

Why does the world health organization have nukes?!