He Certainly Means Business

[Bobbisox1]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-warns-cultural-sites-targeted-iran-retaliates-soleimani/story?id=68072287

[KARL]

As did the Taliban and ISIS, they too blew up cultural artefacts and relics - their moments of glory which Trump presumably takes as splendid examples to follow.

[Old_Geezer]

Culture destruction is the mark of the barbarians. Recall the acts of the Taliban. One should target the military and communictions/tech.

[Old_Geezer]

...communications...

[ichkeria]

Does he?
This strikes me (so to speak) as a dangerously impetuous piece of Twittoric, with its questionable targeting of cultural sites and the childish “52 sites for 52 hostages thing.
The tragedy is that I’ve no doubt the US is on the “right side” here but contrast this rant with the Iranian counter-tweet with its talk of “peremptory norms”
(Jus cogens)
Ask Trump or indeed anyone else what all that is about and you’ll probably get a long silence.
So Iran, albeit hypocritically, looks like the reasonable side here while Trump no doubt has many of his own people slapping their foreheads in despair.

[Zacs-Master]

The rhetoric and actions of a megalomaniac with the reasoning capacity of a 7 year old. Gawd ‘elp us.

[naomi24]

//As did the Taliban and ISIS, they too blew up cultural artefacts and relics //

Indeed .... and it isn't an example to follow. He would be wrong.

[237SJ]

When he got into power I said he would start WW III Looks like he's on track.

[Zacs-Master]

Cough, splutter......
Is that you saying Trump is wrong, Naomi!?

[Bobbisox1]

They should close his Twitter account, that’s becoming dangerous !

[Togo]

What Trump said was "some of these sites are at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”

He did not say "cultural sites" note. Sites that were "important" perhaps means sites that support or bolster the Iranian culcha.( Or predisposition to wage proxy war on other "cultures".) Wonder who he could mean.

[emmie]

he does, and woe betide any who step in his way. I don't agree with him by the way.

[Bazile]

Remind me - why does Trump uses Twitter so much ?

[naomi24]

Zacs, when I think he’s wrong I say he’s wrong. It’s not a first. You need to keep up.

Bearing in mind international agreements though, I wonder if he’s bluffing. He’s done that before.

[Togo]

Let's just hope that these 52 sites include the Nuclear weapons development sites. I'm sure no one needs telling what is going to happen once these fundamentalist wackjobs get their deranged mits on a few nuke missiles. Believe me they will make twitter look positively benign.

[sevenOP]

"Remind me - why does Trump uses Twitter so much ? "

Other people write, and it's social media i.e 'unaccountable' .

[ChillDoubt]

The cultural threat aside(which is clearly wrong) I’ll wager he’s got his point across rather more directly than his predecessors and the Iranians will certainly have food for thought and will be a tad more reluctant than usual to react, despite their bluster.

[ChillDoubt]

He did not say "cultural sites" note. Sites that were "important" perhaps means sites that support or bolster the Iranian culcha.( Or predisposition to wage proxy war on other "cultures".) Wonder who he could mean.
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I too considered that. I don’t think his advisers would let him destroy sites of cultural interest/WHS equivalents but I surmised he meant some of the more radical mosques etc, with strikes at 2 am ish to minimise collateral damage.
Just a hunch, mind.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I tend to agree with chilldoubt but am seriously considering renewing youngest sons Canadian passport and shipping him off to relatives should WW3 kick off.

[sevenOP]

Seems the Brits advise a JCPOA Take Two, but with more dangly bits...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50996630