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

Must have assumed it was one of Putin's assets. (this too will pass )

It's an administration in a hurry. It will be wanting to get past the point where their power cannot be challenged by the time the 2026 midterms roll around.

And when you look at how much progress has been made in just over two months and realise that there are another 19 months until those midterms and also see how ineffective the Democrats have been at opposing Trump's agenda, you can't say that total power by that point is an unrealistic aim.

The last thing really in his way is the courts, and he's already taking aim at them. Trump vs the US Supreme Courts and specifically its chief justice John Roberts could be the epic final battle that decides which direction the US goes in. Personally, my money's on Trump because even if the US Supreme court maintains its integrity in deciding against Trump on various cases, Trump will just remove the mechanisms by which their rulings are actually enforced, cutting the legs out from under them.

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Yeah, but the time to do this was really ten years ago in the sense of doing it without creating pain and uncertainty domestically. Obama and Biden might have been more amenable to the idea of Europe decoupling if only because Obama and Biden would have known how crazy the US could possibly get.

But that never happened. So now, Europe is caught in the room with a killer and our leaders feel the best option is to tiptoe around, being all nicey nice with him until the cops show up, i.e. hoping the Democrats get re-elected, but maybe not considering that the killer has cut the phone line.

Just on the subject of intelligence alone, we probably don't even know the full amount of US intelligence assets around Europe with access to every level of information and communication channels. I doubt even our national governments know the scope of it. Things like this would be the reaping of 80 years of chronic underinvestment in our own defence. If Europe becomes hostile to the US right now, those assets will be used against us all much more whether we like it or not.

There's about 40 US military bases in Europe. Do they pay rent? If so is it mates rates? How about Brussels issues a rent review notification, if the US thinks they are bailing us out.

No you got the joke wrong he's a DUI hire

Or since the US hate us so much and we are such spongers then the US should be told go ahead so and pack up your bases and leave.

So the POTUS is either lying about nor knowing (which he 100% is) or he as POTUS hasn't a clue about one of the biggest security breachs in US military history.

As was posted already, can you imagine the uproar, nay the absolute screams of thus had happened under Biden. And if Biden had come out and said he simply hadn't a clue about it?

Greenland is bracing itself for an official state visit by the US 2nd lady this week accompanied by Waltz, as of today. It'll be interesting to see if the visitors guest list is changed by request of either party before the day or if a diplomatic flu will postpone it. The locals could always ask Waltz if he knew the date for its annexation.

That Atlantic story shows the level of amateurs we are dealing with in this administration. Absolute insane carry on.

A big part of the US strategy post WW2 was fir the de-militarization of Europe, including its allies who had won WW2 with them.

Eisenhower felt European countries were prone to conflict and so wanted to clip their claws so to speak. Hence the US actually seeking to dominate the security space.

America has done very very little since it's foundation "for the good of others", they are always acting in their own beat interests. As evidenced by Stephen Miller wondering what to extract from Europe and Egypt as payment for the US attacking the Houthis.

This administration is bringing the world closer to WW3 with all this anti-diplomacy and aggression. Remember when the MAGAts told us Trump was a peacemaker, he's the most outwardly aggressive President since the Bushes.

Seems Charles de Gaulle was right about not quite trusting the Americans …

Surely now the Magamaniacs can see how messed up their vote has made America, right?.........…right?

So Dump claims he knows nothing about it and Pete the Pisshead is trying to trash the reporter and say he’s spreading misinformation…and of course the MAGAlomaniacs are lapping it up and saying there’s nothing to see…Fox news saying that the conversation shows the leadership in the admin. **** laughable.
And these other clowns off to Greenland. Why don’t Greenland just refuse them entry and tell them they’re not wanted, with the rhetoric being peddled by Dump and Vance?

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