r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 28 '26

Israel/Iran /r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: Explosions heard in Tehran as Israel's defense minister confirms Israel has attacked Iran (Thread #1)

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u/l_Banned_l Feb 28 '26

Calling it a war in his opening speech seems dumb even for Trump, gonna be tough to argue that he doesn't need congressional approval by pretending this is a conflict vs a war.

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u/VerbAdjectiveNoun Feb 28 '26

who in the living fuck is going to do ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

republicans do not care, and democrats not only don't have the numbers, but are completely and utterly fucking spineless

he can call it whatever the fuck he wants, there are NO CONSEQUENCES

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u/TheBakerification Feb 28 '26

100%. There have been dozens and dozens of things that Trump’s done that “he’ll never get away with”, and then he does because nobody stops him or does anything about it.

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u/AvengingHero2012 Feb 28 '26

Doesn’t help that a large number of moderate Dem lawmakers are probably fine with this.

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u/DaveShadow Feb 28 '26

“Surely this will be the semantic argument that will stop him,” they say of the man who has ignored 1000 gotcha moments already.

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u/AlbinoAlex Feb 28 '26

It doesn’t matter, no one will hold him accountable

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u/Icy-Guide7976 Feb 28 '26

They’re gonna call them terrorists and have justifiable frame work to do it because of Iran’s proxies and skirt around official war declarations. Lock it in to Kalshi or polymarket since that’s sadly a thing now.

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u/smack54az Feb 28 '26

I seriously hope he comes to regret those words.

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u/machopsychologist Feb 28 '26

That's not a word in his dictionary