Both quotes are verified: the Pentagon did call Russia's 2022 targeting of Ukrainian energy infrastructure a war crime, and Trump did post his exact threats about Iranian power plants on April 5, 2026. Gleick is making a pointed rhetorical comparison—holding the administration to its own standard. The post frames Trump's threat as equivalent to Russia's war crime, which is partly a legal/analytical question (humanitarian law experts are already debating whether such strikes constitute war crimes) but also a framing choice that simplifies important context differences, like the conflict's origins and Trump's stated negotiation goals versus Russia's stated demoralization strategy.