Robert Reich

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Trump threatens a “whole civilization will die tonight.”

This brings America into a new immoral universe

Robert Reich
Apr 07, 2026
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Friends.

I don’t know how better to put this than to say Trump’s threat this morning to “wipe out a whole civilization” of Iran puts America into a new immoral universe.

He is directly threatening a war crime. And every one of us is complicit in it, in the sense that this threat comes from the president of the United States, threatening to utilize our na…

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