Three Postponements of the "Ultimatum" — Is It Not Enough to Be Humiliating? Trump: Destroy Iran in 4 Hours
After spending a day watching live broadcasts of the rescue operation from inside the White House, and facing external speculation about his health and hospitalization, Trump finally made a public appearance. From his latest speech, it's clear once again that he is ignoring objective reality — as the Iranian military put it, a narrative filled with personal delusions, impolite and arrogant.
Trump’s outlandish statements include:
The rift between the U.S. and NATO began when he wanted Greenland, but Denmark refused to hand it over.
The U.S. has already won; it hopes to seize Iran’s oil because “spoils belong to the victor,” and he wants to make a huge profit.
The U.S. should charge for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran.
The Iranian people are asking the U.S. military to bomb their own homes — they’re willing to endure suffering for freedom.
If you think the above statements aren’t absurd enough, Trump emphasized specifically that he will order the U.S. military to completely destroy Iran within four hours.
What Trump is proposing is a blatant violation of international law and the UN Charter — destroying civilian infrastructure like bridges and power plants, plunging Iran into paralysis.
Yet some speculate he may have become so mentally unstable that he’s even considering dropping nuclear bombs on Iran.
Trump claims this is the final ultimatum and will never be postponed again. But before this, he has already set deadlines three times and delayed them each time.
From the “48-hour ultimatum” issued on March 21, to extending it by five days on the 23rd, then another ten days on the 26th — each time Trump declared he would bomb bridges, power plants, everything, seize oil, only to delay when the deadline arrived.
Since the end of World War II, no leader of a major global power has ever lied so repeatedly and acted so unpredictably.
According to an unnamed official at the White House, all of this is deliberately orchestrated by Trump to prevent the “enemy side” from guessing America’s intentions.
When Trump himself doesn’t know what he wants to do, naturally the adversary won’t either. But even we ordinary people understand this: tell too many lies, and eventually no one will believe you anymore.
Today’s turmoil in the Middle East has brought the U.S. to a point where it cannot win, cannot afford to lose, and cannot withdraw. Historically, large-scale wars have always resulted from a series of misjudgments by the parties involved, pushing the situation beyond recovery. Under Trump’s leadership, the U.S. is now hurtling blindly down that path.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1861767868734474/
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