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snot

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Sun Mar 22, 2026, 02:18 PM Sunday

Will Trump Break the Nuclear Taboo? [View all]

{W}ith Trump breaking every taboo domestically and internationally, demonstrating that he is above the law and can do as he pleases at every turn, the ultimate taboo waiting to be broken is the nuclear one.

This may in fact be part of the reason why Presidents Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping have muted their response to the attacks on Iran. They know how dangerous Trump is and they don’t want to provoke him.

There are reports from U.S. Air Force veteran Mikey Weinstein, the head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, that his organization has received calls from more than 200 soldiers on over 50 military bases that “have one damn thing in freaking common …the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders...{that this 'biblical' war is the undeniable sign that}... “Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.’”

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned in June that we were “closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before.” We might be a lot closer than even she realized.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/19/will-trump-break-the-nuclear-taboo/

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