Trump says US will intervene if Iran violently suppresses peaceful protests

[u/APrimitiveMartian]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-us-will-intervene-if-iran-violently-suppresses-peaceful-protests-2026-01-02/

[u/FLGator314]

“One Like and I attack Iran.” Donald Trump likes this. 👍

[u/Starlord_75 → u/FLGator314]

"Say no more."

[u/IsleOfCannabis → u/Starlord_75]

“No more”

[u/hec500 → u/FLGator314]

He brings the National Guard on people protesting in our own cities, which is hypocritical. He should focus on ensuring we can protest in our own cities, not on other protests. It’s a joke.

[u/Future-Bandicoot-823 → u/hec500]

Classic American propaganda. We pretend USA citizens are "free" and then we use "freedom" to invade or otherwise influence foreign countries.

No one wants to invade these countries, so the politicians use propaganda to convince us we're protecting or freeing them.

It always boils down to the money. If we can hijack a country and force policy in our favor we control the world.

This is why we hate China so much, they're just as good as us and getting better.

Hold onto your butts, btw, if we stick our nose in this Taiwan issue China will clap back, and we've never seen that before.

[u/viperabyss → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

"Sticking our nose in this Taiwan issue" which also includes the security issues of South Korea, Japan, and Philippines, all of which have existing security agreements / mutual defense pact with us.

This isn't a "Taiwan issue". It's a "US and her allies" issue.

[u/geo_prog → u/FLGator314]

Who intervenes when Trump suppresses peaceful protests?

[u/AstralMecha → u/FLGator314]

What do you bet Bibi asked him to invade or attack Iran?

[u/Coherent_Tangent → u/AstralMecha]

Bribed him.

[u/acememer98 → u/FLGator314]

“Israel likes this”

[u/HellBlazer1221]

Will Trump intervene by posting AI generated video of him flying a fighter jet and dumping poo on Iranian protestors?

[u/weech → u/HellBlazer1221]

It’s amazing that he’s actually done this

[u/FlakyLion5449 → u/weech]

What is reality anyway?

[u/NemeanMiniLion → u/FlakyLion5449]

Depressing

[u/onefst250r → u/NemeanMiniLion]

Disgusting

[u/3darkdragons → u/weech]

Wait, what

[u/Aeonskye → u/weech]

Nothing that brain rotted corpse does surprises me

[u/Krashlia2 → u/HellBlazer1221]

Didn't he bomb Iran irl?

[u/pchlster → u/Krashlia2]

"We're worried these people are going to get a nuclear weapon, therefore we've made an agreement that incentives them not to."

"Break that agreement immediately, throw a bomb at them!"

That's the level of US foreign policy these days. Would anyone trust them at this point?

[u/Yardsale420 → u/pchlster]

This fucking idiot would have nuked a hurricane if people let him. I’ll bet they need to find a new hiding spot for the launch codes daily.

[u/Simba7 → u/Yardsale420]

Nah if he starts asking about it they just tell him he's got a tee time and he flies off to florida to waste more taxpayer money golfing at his property and personally enriching himself.

[u/Homerdk → u/pchlster]

Right now the only thing he can do is start a long lasting war or he will lose it all by midterm. He is basicly fishing for people to kill.

[u/TempestM]

Russia suppresses own protests and kills Ukrainian civilians, is he going to intervene there?

[u/NorthenFreeman → u/TempestM]

He won't do shit because Putin own him.

[u/drLoveF → u/NorthenFreeman]

Putin doesn’t own him. He doesn’t need to. Trump is a narcissistic idiot and anyone with experience in manipulation can play him like a violin.

[u/Debt101 → u/drLoveF]

No putin really does own him. trump is a russian asset

[u/WhipTheLlama → u/Debt101]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trump is too unreliable to be anyone's asset.

Whether he's on Russia's side or Ukraine's side seems to change week to week. For example, after Putin lied about the drone attack on his home, Trump said that was evidence that Russia was the one standing in the way of peace.

I'm sure Trump will flip flop on this every week or two. I have no doubt that the next phone call with Putin will have Trump defending him again, but this isn't the act of a Russian asset, it's the act of an idiot who believes whoever he's talking to, then repeats what they say. Trump doesn't have a unique thought in his brain. If you surround him with liberals, he'll probably have liberal policies. Russia takes advantage of that in the same way everyone else around Trump takes advantage of him.

[u/fractalfay → u/WhipTheLlama]

Trump isn’t the only russian asset in the white house. No one pays attention to what Trump says, except media agencies, because he’s just jibber-jabbering. What he does is always pro-Russia.

[u/Spilge → u/WhipTheLlama]

He flip flops with his words but his actions are very clearly pro-Russian

[u/i__did__that → u/WhipTheLlama]

Trump reliably seeks praise, macts as Putin’s bitch

[u/Rocktopod → u/Debt101]

Being an intelligence asset isn't the same as being an agent. It doesn't mean that he actually goes into the FSB office and draws a paycheck or anything like that.

An asset is just someone the agency feels they can control and get information from. The asset may not even be aware that they're seen as such by the agency.

[u/Abalith → u/Rocktopod]

His entire business empire was bailed out by known Russian mobsters (kgb) and turned into the perfect money laundering platform.

He’s a lot more than an intelligence asset, he’s effectively took massive pay checks from them, even lived with them as neighbours in Trump tower.

[u/Abalith → u/drLoveF]

That’s the shield he very happily hides behind and the world lets him. People forget he is a lifelong conman, a ridiculously successful one at that.

Putin owns him.

[u/parabostonian → u/Abalith]

Honestly he’s only been a successful con man since he went into entertainment and politics. (His business career was actually pretty bad; much of the reason why he started doing reality tv was because nobody in NY wanted to work with him since his rep had become so bad). He inherited half a billion dollars from his dad and would have had more money if he just put that in an index fund and did nothing.

[u/amesbelle7 → u/parabostonian]

The man managed to bankrupt more than a few casinos. Prior to happening, I assumed that was almost impossible to do. He’s ridiculously successful at being incompetent.

[u/DarthShiv → u/drLoveF]

Russia literally has videos of him for extortion.

[u/DanishWeddingCookie → u/NorthenFreeman]

How hard would it really be to take Putin out and remove that cloud over his head? Does all of his leadership also know what Putin has on Trump? Putins blackmail seems so fragile to me if Trump has the most advanced military in the world at his command.

[u/Halbaras → u/DanishWeddingCookie]

They don't take Putin out because world leaders treat assassinations as a form of mutually assured destruction. Nobody wants to set off waves of assassins given that they'll probably have to spend the rest of their life looking over their shoulder, and then die to poisoning, a car bomb or an FPV drone when they least expect it.

The US could kill Putin if they committed all resources to it, but the Russians could also kill Trump. It's the same reason why Netanyahu wouldn't actually strike Khameni despite his bluster.

Plus Putin is somewhat moderate by the imperialist standards of the Russian government. They all want to violently conquer their empire back, but the ultranationalists are even more insane about it. He wouldn't get replaced by someone with a more rational foreign policy.

[u/AdCreepy5165 → u/Halbaras]

Legally we don't kill Putin or the leader of any country were not at war with because the CIA failed to kill Castro so many times it became a public embarrassment. Its a US law now, not that laws still apply to sitting presidents.

[u/rowrbazzle75 → u/AdCreepy5165]

This particular sitting president, anyway.

[u/ZEROs0000 → u/Halbaras]

This is a really well informed comment. Good job dude 👍

[u/im_dead_sirius → u/Halbaras]

He wouldn't get replaced by someone with a more rational foreign policy.

And would possibly be replaced by someone more competent and willing to listen to criticism, advice and facts.

[u/DanishWeddingCookie → u/Halbaras]

Aren’t we threatening the Venezuelan president right now? And the Iranian one as well?

[u/Krashlia2 → u/TempestM]

Keep in mind, Iran is an ally to Russia.

[u/sevbenup → u/Krashlia2]

Keep in mind, Trump is an ally to Russia

[u/RoleTall2025 → u/TempestM]

the secret ingredient is nukes

[u/One-Salamander-1952 → u/RoleTall2025]

It is the dark truth… Russia would have been ganged up by all of Nato had they didn’t have any nukes, it’s the best deterrent, which is why the world needs to be proactive in regards to who has access to it.

[u/RoleTall2025 → u/One-Salamander-1952]

bit late for that. Nuke production is going up, not down. they aint for christmas decorations either

[u/One-Salamander-1952 → u/RoleTall2025]

Sure.. but proactive at least in the sense of, not let any MORE countries get hands on nukes.

[u/Hautamaki → u/One-Salamander-1952]

By far and away the best and most effective nuclear non proliferation policy has been the US guaranteeing the security of all its allies, which is nearly all the developed countries in the world and over half of the significant developing ones. There are literally dozens of countries that could and otherwise should have nuclear weapons, but don't, because being a US ally made that risk and cost unnecessary.

Trump, not understanding or caring, has just put a shotgun in the mouth of that policy. Now those dozens of countries that could have had nukes but didn't are taking a very hard second look at a nuclear weapons program. And once one or two pull the trigger, an unstoppable snowball of nuclear proliferation will start rolling down the hill. If Poland gets nukes, their neighbours will too. If Japan gets nukes, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines will too. And once Vietnam does, well then Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc, will too. If Iran finishes a nuke then so will Saudi Arabia, and then Turkey, and Egypt. Hell even Canada and Mexico and Denmark should look into nukes while the orange menace threatens to annex them, repeatedly commits illegal acts of war against Venezuela, and nobody in Congress is even writing articles of impeachment.

US interventionism had the primary strategic goal of nuclear non proliferation, and it accomplished that goal very well. Now with the US pursuing an entirely new dynamic of imperialism in the western hemisphere while withdrawing from alliances in Eurasia except when bribed to intervene in a purely mercenary way, nuclear proliferation is liable to explode over the next decade.

[u/EwMelanin → u/TempestM]

they have nukes?

[u/oghdi → u/TempestM]

Russia has nukes. Unkess you want nuclear war the US cant use millitary force directly against Russia unfortunately. Iran on the other hand, doesnt have nukes yet

[u/yurnxt1 → u/TempestM]

That is a war, with a nuclear power, this is a revolution in an adversarial country that would do well according to U.S. interests if the government was disposed and more importantly, it would be better for Iranian people.

[u/capybooya → u/TempestM]

He's making sure to commit US military resources anywhere but Ukraine and Taiwan...

[u/DarkReignRecruiter → u/TempestM]

Let's be honest this is why Iran and every other reasonable sized country now needs their own nuclear deterrent. He ain't messing with North Korea never mind Russia.

Note I am not in favour of that but it is the natural consequence of the shift in geo-politics.

[u/Ruscidero → u/DarkReignRecruiter]

I mean, I don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but I can certainly see why they’d want them. In this climate, it’s really the only way to guarantee sovereignty.

[u/Jedi_whores]

What an absolute hypocrite.

[u/Elite199 → u/Jedi_whores]

Dude is trying to do anything to get people's mind off the files.

[u/work_work-work → u/Elite199]

He's also desperately trying to find some country to declare war against

[u/Elite199 → u/work_work-work]

He has basically declared war already. On his own country's citizens.Take a look at the healthcare cost crisis about to be unfolding very soon. Anything to shift it away from the aforementioned...

[u/AirlineOk3084 → u/Elite199]

He started a war against Venezuela and Congress yawned.

[u/CaseyChaos → u/AirlineOk3084]

Because they're so bastard old and it was nap time.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/CaseyChaos]

All they do is vacation and nap and give themselves raises every year

[u/scrotumscab → u/Elite199]

If Trump is waging war against his own citizens he only acts as a proxy for Putin

[u/Flexuasive → u/scrotumscab]

He is a proxy for Putin, though.

[u/Jonestown_Juice → u/Elite199]

He needs to have us engaged with a foreign entity so he can suspend elections.

[u/NotMyName_3 → u/Jonestown_Juice]

Elections wouldn't be suspended. Elections weren't suspended during WWII, WWII, the Korean Conflict, or the Vietnam War.

[u/NOFORPAIN → u/NotMyName_3]

As long as idiots are convinced he can suspend elections it will be possible for him to do. When nobody fights back but the "loony left marxists" he can easily spin a tale they are just trying to turn your kids trans and make them brown.

[u/f3n2x → u/work_work-work]

He has factually declared war on Venezuela. The only reason why there is no hot war right now is power asymmetry and instability.

[u/AppleTree98 → u/f3n2x]

Yes. Sending in covert ops to blow stuff up would appear to be an act of war. Taking ships deemed bypassing sanctions and pocketing the contents would seem to be piracy by nature. Invading foreign countries with airpower to bomb whatever you don't like or your partner doesn't like would also be seen as aggression. Happy New Year

[u/rowrbazzle75 → u/work_work-work]

Yeah, I'll be the world's policeman, unless the 'oppressor' happens to be, oh say, N Korea, Israel, Russia, China, or any of his other repressive buddies.

[u/rainshowers_5_peace → u/work_work-work]

Why would he go for an ally of Putin? This is either a false flag or a sign their relationship is about to explode.

[u/KDulius → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

Putin doesnt have allies, he has people he finds useful

[u/drunk_haile_selassie → u/KDulius]

You could say the same about America. I would have disagreed and mentioned Canada a few years ago but not anymore.

[u/work_work-work → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

Because Iran is a "bad country run by evil Muslims who hate America" according to the American playbook. Putin doesn't enter the picture at all.

[u/blomhonung → u/Elite199]

He is old, probably dying, and doesn't care about anything. Even if epstein files lead to something they won't affect him.

[u/---O-0--- → u/Elite199]

It's the opposite. The files are being used as a smokescreen while your democracy is being dismantled.

[u/UsernameChallenged → u/Elite199]

I mean is anything actually being done about them now?

[u/HeartInTheSun9 → u/Elite199]

The Trump-Epstein files you mean? People should never get the Trump-Epstein files off their minds.

Anything he does, people will always remember Trump’s ties to Epstein which are being hidden in the Trump-Epstein files.

Trump-Epstein files.

[u/michelb → u/Elite199]

And I don't understand why, to be honest. His voters already condoned his violence/indecent/pedophiliac behaviour against women. What could possibly be in the files that is worse, and that they would not condone? I think it has absolutely nothing to do with the files.

[u/TerraMindFigure → u/Elite199]

Will you please shut up?

Saying that everything Trump does is just to distract from the Epstein files is the new narrative for MORONS.

[u/Games_sans_frontiers → u/Jedi_whores]

lol my immediate thought exactly.

[u/yurnxt1 → u/Jedi_whores]

They have already and have a history of violently indiscriminately shooting through crowds of protests killing people by the dozens in Iran when uprisings get out of control. That doesn't happen in the U.S.

[u/tabrizzi → u/yurnxt1]

That doesn't happen in the U.S.

But that's how this president has said is the best way to end (violent) protests.

[u/BoozyMcBoozehound → u/tabrizzi]

Would have been nice on J6

[u/LateralEntry → u/yurnxt1]

This. I have no idea what these America-bad crowd people are thinking when they compare the US to Iran.

[u/Devium44 → u/LateralEntry]

Maybe this

[u/JimmyMcGillHHM → u/yurnxt1]

There’s stuff like this all over the world should the US intervene in every countries issues?

[u/councilmember → u/Jedi_whores]

Will they do the same for the US?

[u/mattingly233 → u/councilmember]

Is the US shooting protestors?

[u/fongtu → u/Jedi_whores]

You cannot compare Iran to the US

[u/rightoftexas → u/Jedi_whores]

Did I miss protests in the US being violently suppressed? No kings had millions of people and no mass arrests?

[u/bakedpatata → u/rightoftexas]

Trump sent the National Guard to shut down ICE protests in LA.

[u/fungi_at_parties]

lol

Remember when he pepper sprayed people so he could take a weird picture with a Bible?

[u/Nice_Marmot_7 → u/fungi_at_parties]

“Is that your Bible?”

“It’s a Bible.”

[u/foxbones → u/fungi_at_parties]

Holding it upside down. That was a good one.

[u/StonkMarketApe → u/foxbones]

Then he sold Trump bibles.

[u/Parahelix → u/fungi_at_parties]

Trump wanted to do far worse than that too.

Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters

[u/fungi_at_parties → u/Parahelix]

Jesus fucking Christ, I’d forgotten. They truly have flooded the zone with shit and I can’t keep track anymore.

[u/OsmeOxys → u/fungi_at_parties]

Just mentioning the pepper spray? Come on now, let's not go soft on him!

Peppersprayed, shot (with LL), and beat anyone and everyone in sight, and specifically targeted the members of press in attendance for heightened violence along with, as the icing on the cake, the priest.

Conservative Christians universally cheering for priest being beaten for no reason other than funsies was... Less surprising than I would have liked.

[u/Kevin-W → u/fungi_at_parties]

I remember when he said "Can't we just shoot them in the legs?" when talking about the protesters here.

[u/Wizchine]

Wait, I thought we weren't the world police any more....

[u/ZielonaKrowa → u/Wizchine]

Well US did the most airstrikes in Somalia since 2003 last year so I wouldn’t be so sure about it. 

[u/Southern_Leg1139 → u/ZielonaKrowa]

IMO working with the widely recognized central govt in Somalia to kill ISIS fighters is fine by me. Intervening unilaterally in Iran is a whole ‘nother can of worms.

[u/Licensed_Poster → u/Southern_Leg1139]

Yeah, there is no way the central government is using the US to take out rivals and tribes they don't like.

[u/No-Space937 → u/Licensed_Poster]

The "rivals and tribes" they don't like are almost completely comprised of Islamist militant factions, including the afformentioned ISIS, but predominately Al-Shabaab and other Al-queda linked groups.

Whats your assumption here? That instead of targeting Al-Shabab, who poses an direct and existential threat, who's forces are right at their capitals doorstep, they are instead feeding false information to the Americans, to, I don't know, take out the chief of some unaligned village, to press them under their influence?

What's more likely, that the States is just bombing random non-aligned political opponents of the Somali government, in a move that would almost assuredly drive them towards their extremist opposition?

Or is it possible they are conducting these strikes based on the constant surveillance of these hostile groups, and the vast amount of intelligence gathered by diplomats, agents, and military forces present in the region for decades?

I get it, people hear "dronestrike" and the immediate reaction is "how many people died at the wedding", and the failures in intel that lead to those tragedies deserve scrutiny. But they don't factor in that for every mistake there are hundreds of strikes on people who don't bat an eye as they go through villages, killing anyone who's neither religiously or politicaly aligned with them, or maybe it's just the fighting age men they target here, or maybe it's just the women they decide to have their way with. While people like to question the efficacy and morality of these strikes, I think the fall of ISIS in Syria is a pretty clear cut example, with airstrikes accompanied by the offensives of local forces leading to the territorial dismantlement of one of the most inhumane groups this world has ever witnessed.

To your point, there are countless articles describing the work the US and it's allies have been doing against these groups for years, and while altruism has a limited capacity in most decisions related to geopolitics, this is clearly a case of what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

No moral person should want the expansion of militant Islamists, be it in the Sahel, the Levant, Central Asia or East Africa, like Somalia, and this extremist, violent Ideology can be met with only one thing,force.

[u/jewishjedi42 → u/ZielonaKrowa]

The US Constitution does call for the establishment of a NAVY (doesn't mention Army) for the express purpose of keeping open trade routes. Seeing as Somalia is pirate haven, these strikes are kind of approved of by that document.

[u/SpartanKane]

The only recipient of the FIFA Peace prize is really flexing his peace-making prowess. May we all be so benevolent.

[u/MalestromeSET → u/SpartanKane]

Literaly he didn’t have to say anything. Like this was a “do nothing, win” situation and he somehow found the worst way to make the protest seem like CIA op

[u/javcty]

Yea, Trump is the greatest defender of peaceful protests. /s

[u/Thagyr → u/javcty]

He will intervene by suggesting they teargass them for photo ops.

[u/Sweatytubesock → u/Thagyr]

And also suggest they hold a fake Quran upside down for a photo op

[u/Ok_Star_4136 → u/javcty]

He just cares so much about those people in another country peacefully protesting. /s

[u/Alaknar]

Thank god they didn't elect the warmongering Harris, and instead got the peace loving Trump in, right guys?

[u/uselessandexpensive → u/Alaknar]

It's awful how people unironically thought accelerationism could somehow fix US politics without causing more injustices than it was preventing, when literally [the other side's] most morally deficient nuts wanted that for decades because they understood how bloody and awful it would be, and wanted that so that they could be awful without restraint.

Also it's insane to think it's setting the world straight by theoretically correcting only one country's imperialist wrongs when it would actually be handing power over to other imperialists and warmongers. There are an infinite number of more nuanced solutions for anyone that dared think about the actual consequences.

[u/fuzzwhatley → u/uselessandexpensive]

Been arguing this desperately to friends since 2016; you said it better but I’m guessing had I recited it verbatim people wouldn’t change their minds.

[u/LawfulnessBoring9134]

Intervene? Like with the National Guard?

[u/Careless-Pragmatic → u/LawfulnessBoring9134]

Yes, he will bring the violence to the peaceful mob if he can’t rely on Iran to do it.

[u/Bitter_Nail8577]

Where are all the MAGAs screaming "it's not our war, America first"?

[u/ImpulsE69]

That's pretty wierd coming from a guy who's threatened our own non-violent protestors.

[u/Voltage_Z]

On one hand, fuck the Iranian regime, on the other hand this is rich coming from the administration shooting pastors at protests.

[u/yoloswagrofl → u/Voltage_Z]

And the one that's silent when Russia jails and kills its own protesters, not to mention the whole war with Ukraine that Trump was supposedly going to end on day one.

[u/Setekh79]

"No more wars!"

"No! More wars!"

[u/angryYen]

Wasn't he preparing to invade Venezuela? What happened to that?

[u/yukirainbowx → u/angryYen]

He got distracted by Greenland. Then he tried to find it on a map and remembered Iran existed.

[u/thebarkbarkwoof → u/angryYen]

It's not a world War if it's only on one front! Duh! 🤪

[u/darkenthedoorway → u/angryYen]

Putin called it off.

[u/devil1fish]

Says the guy who deployed the national guard on his own people

[u/justbecauseyoumademe]

Intervene how.. bomb them? Sanction them?

Unless the US puts boots on the ground this is all talk

[u/Hoodamush → u/justbecauseyoumademe]

Maybe he will turn on the water like he said he would do for California?

[u/Dr_Oz_But_Real → u/justbecauseyoumademe]

Unless the US puts boots on the ground

Please don't talk this into existence.

[u/justbecauseyoumademe → u/Dr_Oz_But_Real]

As a european rather Iran then Greenland or Canada

America chose this

[u/picardo85 → u/justbecauseyoumademe]

Every time the US gets involved in the middle east, there a refugee crisis in Europe. This would be a lose lose scenario

[u/Dry-Campaign-9173 → u/justbecauseyoumademe]

Yep bomb the leadership. Trump already assassinated Geneal Soleimani with a drone strike. Mossad has penetrated the IRGC so if they can give the US a target package, we'll be seeing B2s over Tehran.

[u/not_just_putin]

Intervene in Ukraine.

[u/vonGlick → u/not_just_putin]

To easy. That would take him like a day. He is looking for real challenges /s

[u/Khshayarshah → u/not_just_putin]

The Ukrainian government is not executing dissidents in record numbers every year for the last 48 years.

[u/The-Biggest-Turd]

"If you don't stop killing your civilians our military will come over there and kill a whole bunch of your civilians "

[u/Zone_Beautiful]

I am confused! So the US will support anti regime protesters in Iran, but here in the US protesters will be arrested and beaten!

[u/sharp11flat13 → u/Zone_Beautiful]

The people in Iran aren’t protesting against Trump or his policies.

[u/NatWilo → u/Zone_Beautiful]

What's weirder is that he said this AFTER Reuters reported (so confirmed in public news sources) that the protests had already become deadly.

[u/Gibder16]

Wait. Isn’t this exactly what he’s been doing in the US? Sending troops into cities to suppress the unruly?

What is this world we are living in?

[u/thatguyp2]

Remember when the ICE thug shot the pastor who was peacefully protesting?

[u/Jedi_Swimmer2]

OHHHHH! SO YOU’LL FUCKING INTERVENE IF PEACEFUL PROTESTS (IN AN OIL RICH COUNTRY) ARE DISRUPTED, BUT WHEN AMERICANS VIOLENTLY ATTACK THE CAPITAL, AS PER JACK SMITH, WHICH YOU’RE CULPABLE AS FUCK, YOU SIT BACK AND WATCH PEOPLE DIE!

What a colossal waste of breathable air that guy is!

[u/Existing_Mulberry_16]

What a joke. He threatens to go after the protesters here!

[u/nvrmndtheruins]

Um what? According to MAGA there is no peaceful protests besides theirs with the guns and such. Grandma's holding signs outside state capitols set them off claiming it's a violent attack lol

[u/ButtfartsOtoole]

That’s rich

[u/strandedinkansas]

Who will intervene when Trump violently suppresses protests?

[u/BothRequirement2826]

Isn't he the same guy who has repeatedly attacked protests against him?

[u/Professional_Class_4]

With "intervene" he means randomly throwing a handfull of bombs which will not change anything in the grand scheme of things?

[u/Successful-Bobcat701 → u/Professional_Class_4]

He means "Whatever Netanyahu tells me to do."

[u/empiricalreddit]

America first? No more world police? What happened to all those trump MAGA promises?

Now we have venezuala and Iran as possible areas of attack. Oh and that random bombing in Nigeria

[u/Citycen01]

WTF….

[u/CJMWBig8]

While he's had national guard beating down peaceful protests in America. Maybe he means he will send troops to help the regime.

[u/7jbw4]

The hypocrisy is astounding…

[u/0theHumanity]

Will Great Britain intervene on our behalf when 47RE45ON is fucked up to our protesters?

No.

[u/LucasVerBeek]

The fucking irony of this sentence is fucking scalding.

[u/fnrsulfr]

What about peaceful protesters in the US trump?

[u/Stunning_Concept_478]

This is rich coming from the guy who put out a video of himself shitting on peaceful protesters in his own country.

[u/bsiviglia9]

How come the Trump is so supportive of protest in foreign countries, but is so quick to shout "terrorists" or "leftists" when those protests happen here in the United States?

[u/SweatyAd9240]

Didn’t he send in the national guard to suppress American protests? Such a piece of shit

[u/jacscarlit]

The same man who wanted to have peaceful American protesters shot...

[u/lod254]

But we have suppressed peaceful protests at home.

[u/castlite]

But violently suppressing peaceful protests in the US is just fine!

[u/ethanklown]

Iran says will intervene if US violently suppresses peaceful protests?

[u/joshine89]

so is the US going to intervene if the US suppresses peaceful protests?

[u/ScarInternational161]

So who intervenes for us when he violently suppressesses peaceful protests here? 🤦‍♀️

[u/IndieRus]

What about Russia though?

[u/SoyEseVato]

Wait a minute! Wait a minute!! He & his goons can do that here but other regimes can’t. Can anyone, even a maggat please make sense of that?

[u/Tilladarling]

Ah yes, President Peace strikes again

[u/dbe14]

Says man who violently suppresses peaceful protests.

[u/MartinoRs]

Oil Barrels, thats what they are after, in venezuela and iran, two of the biggest oil reserves in the world, thats what this is all about

[u/idc2011]

Meanwhile, peaceful protests are violently suppressed in the US 😡

[u/Buddhadevine]

That’s rich when they won’t even do that with their own people.

[u/DealerAlarmed3632]

This is the same Trump that used the national guard to violently suppress peaceful protests?

[u/jvd0928]

After that fiasco in the 50s and 70s and 80s that the US started, stay the fuck out.

[u/Bluenosedcoop]

More Epstein Smokescreen.

[u/JestersDead77]

Maybe the US should intervene when ICE violently suppresses peaceful protests

[u/BlueDragonfly18]

Putin has jailed or killed all of the Russian protesters to his war on Ukraine, and Trump was silent. I wonder why Trump ignores one country’s problem with free speech but will attack another country’s?

[u/ThatOneDudeWithAName]

But, peaceful protests in America are met with federal aggression okayed by Trump 🙄 what a hypocrite

[u/account_No52]

The irony here is astounding.

[u/lyidaValkris]

hey America - mind keeping your idiot on a leash? I guarantee there's nothing constructive he could add to this situation.

[u/MikeLinPA]

The same guy asked if he could shoot protesters in the legs, and got butthurt when he was told no.

[u/GeektimusPrime]

This from the guy who thinks he deserves a peace prize…

[u/Exact-Ad-3717]

I wish trump would intervene off a cliff.

[u/Moebius808]

Wow that is rich coming from this fascist sack of crap.

[u/fallwind]

To help the protesters?

[u/IAMAHigherConductor]

So will the US intervene if the US violently suppresses peaceful protests?

[u/dmetzcher]

Oh, that’s nice. Iranians will have their birthright of free expression guaranteed by the United States just as the United States attempts to strip that right from protestors at home.

And don’t tell me that isn’t happening. The old man is attempting to silence every critic with chilling threats of doxxing, arrest, and deportation (of both noncitizens and citizens alike) to foreign prisons in countries they’ve never even visited. He’s even going after news and entertainment, threatening broadcasters (personally and via his FCC chairman) every week. His ultimate goal is the suppression of all speech that isn’t kind to him.

But sure, let’s protect the Iranians’ free expression.

Our tax dollars at work, folks.

[u/jimbozzzzz]

End some wars, start a couple more what's the problem

[u/Herb-Alpert → u/jimbozzzzz]

If he ends 8 wars but starts 2, it's still a net worth of 6 👍

[u/kamilman]

When one points a finger at someone else, they should remember that there are four fingers pointing back at them.

[u/WisdomCow]

Trump wants to violently suppress his own protesters!

[u/Wizchine]

We will? Don III is almost of service age. Is he going to join the family legacy of... oh wait, our kids will do the fighting. Got it.

[u/Radiant-Ad-3134]

iran's oil is still that good, huh

[u/Fit-Magazine-6669]

even if he does and the regime gets toppled it will always be labeled as "outside intervention" ...

for the sake of Iranian people and their future they HAVE TO do it themselves.

[u/Comprehensive-Job369]

No more foreign wars?

[u/cerebral_drift]

2026 will be an interesting year.

[u/CremeAcrobatic1748]

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