Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Jesus wept, that is some take. You’re nearly drowning in the kool aid, no reasoning with someone so bought into a cult.

Why so confident there will be (fair) elections in 4 (or even 2 years)?

I feel sorry for his kids having to watch him deep-throat Peter Thiel every Saturday night.

Russia's economy is at a lower base because, as Spence said, it has been a 'second-world country' since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In other words, Russia hasn't had capitalism for as long as Western Europe has. Furthermore, Russia had a genuine democratic system for only a decade before Putin became president - those Russians who are old enough to remember the Soviet era were more used to so-called Soviet democracy than genuine democracy.

Don Junior is roasting Zelensky big time on X, doubt he will be getting any more weapons from the Yanks.

Yeah look at the post I replied to. He was obviously referencing the 1945 event and bombs.

Without dragging the thread off course there is no one simple answer to the fallout question. Air burst vs surface burst makes a big difference. Cities would be attached with air bursts for the most part as air bursts cover a wider area but also are "cleaner". Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both air bursts. Surface or ground burst would be used against bunkered or military targets.

Strictly speaking hydrogen bombs are "cleaner" as it uses less radioactive material in the process. It's fusion vs fission for the most part. The fission aspect is used as a trigger for the fusion reaction.

But in essence a large scale nuclear war had no winners in the end.

There will be an election in 4 years because there is an election every 4 years. It will not change.

I am new to this thread but I don't have the energy to start countering conspiracy theories. If you want to worry about violence towards opposition and new Jan 6 militias and Trump forever dictatorships, go right ahead. I think you like to worry.

The world will keep spinning.

The bluffer will get bored and go golfing soon.

We can all ponder at our leisure why Trump is parroting Russian talking points, trying to extort Ukraine (for a *second* time) and sabotage Europe.

Maybe it's kompromat.

Maybe it's purely money driven.

Either way, we have finally reached the point where there can be no debate... that is exactly what he is doing.

Eventually, people are finally waking up to it.

There's only two explanations for Trumps attitude towards Ukraine.

1. He is doing his usual man child reaction to Zelensky not doing his bidding years ago and due to his hurt ego he's willing to let Russia murder and subjugate a entire nation as punishment.
2. He is deeply compromised by the Kremlin.

Either way he's an evil, duplicitous danger to the world.

Have a look at this video which contains John Mearsheimer outlining in 2015 what he thinks will happen to Ukraine and tell me that Ukraine and the West werent partly responsible for the invasion.

What Mearsheimer predicts was spot on and came to pass, Ukraine adopting a hardline policy with Russia wrecked Ukraine.

His analysis on the currrent state of the war is also excellent.

I know you will just dismiss this as Russian propaganda but other people can make up their minds as everthing Mearsheimer said came to pass.

I speculated that Trump would pull the US out of NATO and the UN after he pulled the US out of WHO. Musk, on X, has endorsed the idea promoted by a Trump supporter, Gunther Eagleman and two [R] politicians, Sen Mike Lee (Utah) & C/man Chip Roy (Texas) that Trump do so.

It's probably a distraction balloon released to turn peoples attention away from Trump's Oval Office antics; what'll we do now - how about create another shitstorm to cover up this one?

I cant see it happening as it would strip the US of its veto power as one of the 5 Permanent members of the UN Security Council, which other US pols would NOT like to lose. Imagine the US president not being able to veto what the UK, France or China proposed the UN approve of?

However, Trump likes ideas without running them through first for repercussions.

Trump's been looking for an excuse to get out of NATO since the second half of his first term. His targets for spending of other NATO allies are deliberately high to try give him the pretext. First he wanted 2.5% spending, now he wants 4 or 5%.

It's all a ruse in my opinion.

Nothing's a ruse. They have spelled out exactly what they intend to do before Trump was even elected. They provided a book full of spoilers for it called Project 2025