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‘He’s insane’: Impeachment calls fly as Trump appears to 'casually' threaten to nuke Iran

The Nuclear Ambiguity Is the PointPower, Not PanicThe source story is not really about online outrage. It is about a president with command authority over the most destructive arsenal on earth choosing to speak in a way that invites nuclear interpretation while leaving himself room to deny it later. That is not confusion. It is governance by threat.Trump is the only actor in this story with actual institutional power. Not the commentators. Not the activists quoting him. Not the people forced to guess what “the ultimate alternative” means. He holds the office, the chain of command, and the…

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