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💥“Total Obliteration” Edition

Apr 10, 2026
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The great Trump doctrine of “peace through terrifying all-caps threats” appears to have run into a small problem: nobody believed him.

For weeks, Donald Trump tried the foreign-policy equivalent of flipping over a restaurant table and screaming until someone gives you what you want. He threatened to annihilate Iran’s civilization, obliterate its infrastr…

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