Fox News commentator Jesse Watters took Democrats to task for their hypocrisy in referring to President Donald Trump as a “war criminal,” for threats against Iran while essentially building a fan club to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who has made similar threats and carried out similar military actions during his war with Russia.
Democrats have been up-in-arms ever since President Trump posted that a “whole civilization will die tonight” should Iran have failed to meet his deadline to cut a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. During a segment on the popular Fox program “The Five,” Watters said that he viewed the comment as “trash talk,” a tactic to intimidate the radical Islamic regime of Iran into coming to the negotiating table.
“I see it like, remember, when Tyson said he wanted to eat Lennox Lewis’s children? I saw it as trash talk. I didn’t actually think Tyson was going to devour his children for dinner. So this is typical Trump, right?” Watters said to his co-hosts on the show.” He continued, “You set a deadline, you have an extreme threat, and hopefully you force the opponent to buckle, and that’s what this is all about.”
Watters then said he didn’t know if the administration was going to extend the deadline or if things were going to escalate and Trump would make good on this threat, pointing out what happens next is up to the Iranians. “If they’re going to wage economic warfare, we have the right to wage economic warfare. If they’re going to attack the world economy, we can hit their economy.”
“The Israelis have already hit the petrochemical camps, which they get $18 billion from. Okay, and they use that to build missiles to fire at us. We’ve had steel plants without steel, they can’t rebuild the bridges that we’re going to bomb. When did bombing a bridge turn into a war crime? When did that happen? Every single modern American president has bombed a bridge. I think we’ve been sabotaging bridges since, I don’t know, when bridges began to be built,” Watters continued.
“When Zelensky knocked out the bridge into Crimea, the left called him a war hero, but when Trump threatens to do it, he’s a war criminal. What? Zelensky has been bombing Russian power plants for three years, no one said anything,” Watters pointed out. “The Democrats are walking around with their little Ukrainian flag pins, shoveling more money at the guy.”
The Fox News host then explained that Trump’s tactic is well in line with standard military doctrine, saying, “Listen, this is, according to military doctrine, you go up the escalation ladder in order them to force open the strait if it’s not like one big power plant in that country, there’s like 100 power plants, so a couple of them feed power to the military or the military industrial complex.”
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Watters wrapped up by stating, “And you can take a few out, some of the bridges. You isolate the missile cities, you cut off the capital from the rest of the country. This is standard operating procedure. They could escalate back, but this is what’s done, and what’s the alternative? You send in a ground assault unit? I don’t think we’re there yet.”
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