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State Department insider reveals Trump’s plan for 'nuclear genocide'

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On Friday, a leading national security analyst warned that President Donald Trump’s recent behavior suggests his intention to commit “nuclear genocide.” This is according to former State Department and House Armed Services Committee advisor Joe Cirincione , who argues that as Trump becomes increasingly desperate to break his stalemate with Iran, his willingness to use nuclear weapons has grown. “For the first time in history, a U.S. leader unambiguously threatened genocide at the United Nations,” writes Cirincione. “It was not a euphemism. When he addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump was absolutely clear that he was threatening to kill every man, woman and child in Iran. All 92 million of them. ‘Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly?’ he asked, posturing as an absolute monarch with the power to destroy a nation on a whim. ‘Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?’” According