Amid death, threats, obliterated buildings and wasted money, the administration\u2019s remarks have been head-spinning to witness<\/p>\n
Trump threatened<\/a> to commit genocide and Iran came to the table. A little threat \u2013 plus the deaths of thousands of Iranians and 13 Americans, the obliteration<\/a> of schools, homes, hospitals and mosques, the waste of $40bn<\/a> by the US and losses to the Gulf nations<\/a> of as much as $200bn \u2013 is all it took. Ergo: threatening genocide works.<\/p>\n That, anyway, is what the \u201csecretary of war\u201d, Pete Hegseth, strongly suggested in a press briefing<\/a> on Wednesday, the day after the president vowed to wipe Iran\u2019s \u201cwhole civilization\u201d off the map and then a few hours later<\/a> announced a ceasefire, obviating the need to wipe Iran\u2019s civilization off the map, at least for two weeks.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amid death, threats, obliterated buildings and wasted money, the administration\u2019s remarks have been head-spinning to witness Trump threatened to commit genocide and Iran came to the table. A little threat \u2013 plus the deaths of thousands of Iranians and 13 Americans, the obliteration of schools, homes, hospitals and mosques, the waste of $40bn by the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}