Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

I don't disagree with your first point, but my point was that the current regimes motivation is entirely driven by hardcore religious idealogy.

A new military regime, even if its another form of religious governance, is unlikely to pursue the same action, because inherently Iranian people are not troubled by the existance of Israel.

I would say the Egyptian population hates Israel in a way that the normal Iranian population never will, but Egypt is not driven purely by religious fundamentalism and has kept peace with Israel for 40+ years.

Same for Lebanon - another country whose population generally does not like Israel for good reason, but also has no interest in war with Israel, and that fact, combined with Israels actions against it, is why Hezbollah is sitting silent and watching as Israel attacks Iran.

Israel is surrounded by countries that do not like it. Iran, not even a neighboring country, is the only one left that believes Israel has to be destroyed and acts accordingly.

Most countries made peace with Israel because it was the sensible thing to do, and the only logical option after all the costly failed wars in the past.

Iran never had to suffer that before because of the strategy of proxy and missile deterrence, but that's all collapsed.

Even if there's no regime change, I would find it highly unlikely that even the current regime would continue to pursue naked aggression towards Israel in the years ahead after seeing decades of strategic planning to shield Iran from any blowback collapse in two years.

I don`t see how bombing Iran is going to make the Iranian population look more kindly on Isreal, or the U.S. if Trump decides to join in, and I cannot see there being any change of regime there other than perhaps a military regime without a full scale invasion which is not going to happen.

Isteal`s problems from Iran have been the funding and supply of hardcore factions by Iran. Netanyahu looks as if he seized upon another dodgy document similar to the U.S. in the war with Iraq and ran with it hoping the U.S. would back him. But barring the odd bunker buster bomb, that is not going to happen.

So where does he go from here ? If it remains the same regime in Iran or a military regime, it`s not going to solve Isreal`s problems with being attacked by those hardcore elements. If Netanyahu resorts to indiscriminate bombing as he has threated too, regardless of which regime ends up running the country, it is not going to encourage them to stop funding and supplying those hard core anti Isreal groups due to some ground swell of the Iranian public telling them not too.

Now let me think who does have a nobel peace prize…. is someone suffering possibly from ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome)…….

So that’s Gabbard under the bus, and Hegseth frozen out.

This was all predicted, he would never listen or keep those around him for longer than he needed.

TACO boy exhibits his vast knowledge of history once again!

Speaking to reporters after landing in New Jersey on Friday for a MAGA Inc. fundraising dinner at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, Trump was asked: “Years ago, you were skeptical of a Republican administration that attacked a Middle East country on the idea of questionable intelligence of weapons of mass destruction. How is this moment different with Iran?”

“Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction—I never thought there were,” replied Trump.

“And that was a somewhat pre-nuclear [time]. You know, it was, there was a nuclear age, but nothing like it is today.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offers-baffling-pre-nuclear-defense-of-war-flip-flop/

I said it would happen 🤩 Go Donald!

@junkyarddog

Underneath this all, we know fully that there is something in the background that would make them nominate him.

Maybe he could step in and stop Israel and Iran though? But we have 2 weeks to wait.

Pretty sure he was nominated previously. Given his overall threat to global stability though, it's pretty unlikely that he actually wins the thing though..

clucking bell, such delusion