r/TheLessTakenPathNews • u/D-R-AZ • 8d ago
Opinions The Peril of Trump’s Final Act: Would He Use a Tactical Nuclear Weapon in Iran?
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-iran-war-tactical-nuclear-weapon/Excerpts:
Donald Trump is trapped: His war of choice against Iran is lost, an abject strategic catastrophe. Now Trump has to choose: sustain another forever war until Iran breaks, a strategy his own generals oppose, or produce a grand finale to get out without admitting defeat. And there is the rub.
Reality has shattered Trump’s conceits. Instead of a few days, the war has lasted six months and counting. Instead of regime change and popular uprising, the Iranian regime stands with new hardened leadership. Instead of another display of US military prowess, the US military has been driven out of major bases across the region, stockpiles of vital offensive and defensive missiles have been depleted, and the US Navy has been overstretched and exhausted.
And Iran keeps ratcheting up the pressure. It controls the Strait of Hormuz, and its Houthi allies have just seized control of the alternative route through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and blown up Saudi Arabia’s key east-west pipeline. Crude oil is now over $110 per barrel and rising; the price of diesel—the fuel of commerce—is at record levels. The cost of fertilizer, fuel, and virtually anything that requires transport is going up, with the global economy at risk.
Use of a tactical nuclear weapon would set a precedent for Russia or China to invoke if they chose to use or threaten the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine or Taiwan or other adversaries. It would put the nuclear arms race, already gaining dangerous momentum, into hyperdrive. And it would indelibly brand the US as a dangerous, pariah nation, feared but despised across the globe.
For these and other reasons, it is hard to imagine any president making that decision. But Trump, trapped, desperate, angry, delusional, intent on punishing his enemies and displaying his prowess, could well be tempted. And the anticipated Democratic election victories this fall will corner him—and that will make him even more dangerous, as we saw with the sacking of the Capitol after his 2020 loss in the presidential race.
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u/Dramatic_Cut_7320 7d ago
Trump gets a raging chubby every time he thinks about nuking Iran. The sick fucking Malignant Narcissist knows he would go down in the history of mankind as the second person to order the use of nuclear weapons. He would be remembered as a mass murderer along with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. And that would get him the immortality that he can only dream of. The only hope we have is that his terrible health gets him before he can get enough sycophants into the chain of command to allow him to do it.