[yakz]

A post to the Truth Social account for Donald Trump included: "The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!"

That's the closest thing I'm finding. Not seeing reporting that he literally said "war is peace".

[rl1987]

That sounds more like "peace through superior firepower" rather than "war is peace".

[pphysch]

There's a vast gulf between "having" superior firepower as a deterrent and "using" superior firepower for mass murder, particularly against elementary schools and desalination plants. The latter is war, at its worst.

[nyeah]

Can we be literal? It means peace through using superior firepower to kill people.

[randallsquared]

Sure, but it's not equating the states of war and peace, but asserting that war is a method for achieving peace, presumably when everyone on the other side is incapable or undesirous of attacking or threatening same.

[tovej]

Are we forgetting the context of who started the war?

[randallsquared]

It's just not relevant to the statement "I'm punching until they can't punch back" who threw the first punch.

[tovej]

I'm not sure I follow.

What I mean is that it makes no sense to say you're fighting a war to achieve peace if you're the one who started the war, breaking the peace that existed before then.

If peace is your goal, then the status quo was already in line with your goal. Starting the war contradicts your stated goal of peace.

Do I really have to spell all that out?

[xorcist]

Beatings will continue until morale improves?

You can't make this up.