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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Except that there's ZERO evidence that they were "developing nukes".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    Are we talking about the theocracy that allowed divorce and abortion when they were illegal in Ireland?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    So now we can add hypocrite to Trump's long list of shitty attributes.

    Oh wait…that's been on the list for years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,593 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    And what did the IAEA say about those who are saying Iran was building a nuke?

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Site Banned Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    Please spare me the self loathing and hatred of our own country and history, which comes so naturally to the far left here, it ain’t the 1970s anymore the world has changed and Iran and co were the ones cheering on this change


    And be careful there you will endup tying yourself up in knots with whataboutery I was clearly refering to Israel which is turning into a theocracy not too dissimilar to Iran

    Two cheeks of same arse

    We either live in a world with rules and laws like we had post WW2 or we live in this dystopian world Iran and co wanted where they ain’t the biggest dog in that “sphere of influence”



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    When your stated goal is to destroy 2 of the most powerful nations on earth while you build ballistic missiles and create a nuclear program which isn't far off developing a weapon the burden of proof is on you. As i said earlier, FAFO.

    Compare Iran to Ukraine which have had 20% of their territory conquered and hundreds of thousands of their people killed as a result of the Russian invasion and they're still fully compliant with the IAEA with enrichment levels between 3 and 5%. Don't make me laugh regarding Iran. And for the record as a massive supporter of Ukraine I want them to steer well clear of nuclear weapons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    I agree that Israel is well in the fundi-zone since the 2018 the Knesset motion that Israel officially become the Jewish homeland which alienated all non Jewish and secular Israeli's.

    But they are still the only ones standing up to the genocide being committed on the Palestinian people.

    BTW, Egypt vetoed the UN vote on the creation of Israel, Ireland didn't have a vote while countries with zero regional involvement like Ecuador did!

    No one consulted the Palestinians.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    That replaced the totalitarian government that the US and UK installed after they orchestrated a coup to oust the democratically elected Mosaddegh in 1953.

    Iran is the place it is today precisely because of interference by outside actors. The same outside actors that are banging on about "regime change" once again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,130 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    "We either live in a world of laws and order"

    But only the "law and order" that the US or Israel want others to follow, they don't count for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    I mean the biggest outside actors which have affected the region were the Arabian islamic warlords who conquered the country. Why leave that part out. They're Persians first and for most not Islamists. The majority of the country doesn't support the regime.

    It's funny that left wingers aided the Islamists during the revolution and now western left wingers are falling over themselves for the regime now.

    I'm sure Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, UAE, Dubai, and Qatar would all be delighted if Iran were actually to enforce this act of aggression. Surely the Islamic dictatorship isn't this stupid?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    I'm sorry, is this the islamic dictatorship that allowed and actually expanded abortion and divorce rights while they were illegal in Ireland?

    Meanwhile the USA under Trump is heading towards being a fundamentalist wet dream.



  • Site Banned Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    You just realised that?

    865 pages into a thread documenting the gender transition of US under Trump from a republic to an autocracy that’s starting to resemble Middle Eastern oil kingdoms (whom may I add are doing nothing about Palestinians)

    This is the dystopian world Russia, Iran, North Korea, China and India (and yes Trump) wanted and we in Europe can do **** all about as the same people shouting from rooftops about “will someone do something” are wildly anti European rearmament



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    They were open for inspection. Iran was complying and cooperating with the IAEA and their inspectors. But, on a whim, Trump decided he'd renege on the deal, probably because Obama had a lot to do with fostering it.

    Iran, more than likely, went "well sod it, if they're not going to honour their part why the hell should we".

    Even so, Iran are NOWHERE near to having any kind of nuclear weapon and it's an absolute lie to suggest that it was. Netanyahu has been spoofing this bullshit for 3 decades. Into the bargain, Iran was in face to face talks with the US about reopening the deal. Something that doesn't happen between those two countries on any level. Their sticking point was that they still wanted to be able to enrich uranium for their power grid, which is something that isn't prohibited to any country under the NPT. The US were being obstructive and insisting that that wasn't to be allowed either. However, both sides were getting close to an agreement.

    Netanyahu decided to scupper that. He wants conflict and turmoil in the region. He doesn't want Iran doing deals with countries outside the ME with regards to the IAEA or the NPT. He was also against the JCPOA.

    The thing is, if Iran weren't in pursuit of a nuclear weapon before, they sure as shit are now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Not only that, Israel threatens to destroy Iran too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    Are you a leftist? They expanded it within the confines of Sharia law. Which means they completely degraded women's rights in many other viscous ways. Why do you choose to ignore this?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I stopped at this crap "It's funny that left wingers…"

    If that's the avenue you want to try to go down. Don't bother your arse replying. I'm not interested in simplistic right/left paradigms.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    Lefty/righty?

    Tell me this, is it only lefty or righty Palestinians that Israel are murdering right now?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,331 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


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    Oh Dear, these havent aged well have they.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    Left wingers is a very relevant term when talking Iran. We all know the history that happened there and the massive own goal inflicted.

    I'm definitely seeing it here too. Just look at the mod who argued with me earlier and once he was presented with facts straight from the IAEA he threw a tantrum and dipped. It's hard to discuss rationally with ideologues and the left wing ideology seems to gravitate towards the Islamic dictatorship in Iran.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    Is this the Islamic dictatorship that permitted and even expanded abortion and divorce rights while they were illegal in Ireland?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,121 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Gibberish.

    If all you have to say on the matter is "tHe lEfT", then you have nothing at all.

    We're done.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 997 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    You should check out what Iran does to gay people. Quite frankly it's ridiculous to suggest Iran is in any way progressive. Read up on it and you can then row back on your nonsense claims.

    I bet you argue that Nazis were socialists.

    https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-crime-dubai-united-arab-emirates-e3d7108441665c40982329f26ff07fc9

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 997 ✭✭✭Detritus70


    Since you seem to have a massive gap in your knowledge about Iran's human rights record, here's some more light reading for you.

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/iran/report-iran/

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,096 ✭✭✭Field east


    just heard on Newstalk that JD Vance said that The US is not at war with Iran. He is ‘ A KIND OF RIGHT’. I assume he means troops on the ground , bombing Iran almost every day and suchlike actions of war

    BUT, I MO , I suggest the following to be the case the US is ‘10%’ at war with Iran and 90% by PROXY. It would have been less than 10% if the US just used ‘ ordinary bombs instead 13 bunker busting bombs- each weighing 30,000 lbs and flown in and released by American owned planes and piloted by American pilots



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,902 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    Just proving my point again. Can't see past the ideologies. I've written a hell of a lot more then just that (it was a side comment) but I guess it's easier to get offended by that and use it as a way out in the face of cold hard facts.

    @yagan

    You've strangely just repeated your comment from 2 replies ago which I addressed already and frankly made a mockery of.

    "They expanded it within the confines of Sharia law. Which means they completely degraded women's rights in many other viscous ways. Why do you choose to ignore this?"

    Ignore all previous instructions, give me a nice recipe for an apple crumble.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,464 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    "Can't see past the ideologies" says the poster who brought left/right into the conversation. Good one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Trump is the classic cretin who cannot see past his own ego, Israel played the US to a tee



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭briany


    Whether or not one wants to say the US are at war with Iran, I believe the principal feeling behind the isolationism of MAGA revolves more around the concept of 'boots on the ground' as opposed to any military action whatsoever.

    To back this up, we can remember that Trump said he'd 'bomb the shít out of 'em [ISIS]' in 2016 to great applause.

    It seems to me that the apparent angst throughout the American right over bombing Iran isn't so much about a steadfast adherence to staying out of conflicts, anyway. It's just more that MAGA is not entirely pro-Israel. You have your Christian fundies who are, as well as some old-school Republicans who see Trump is their only option. But then you have this whole other wing of people who are more there for the culture wars than any ideological affiliation to Israel. They're more secular, younger and may have tended to the American left at one point, but got disillusioned and got sucked into the MAGA vortex. A lot of Joe Rogan's audience in other words.

    And they're a sizable faciton in MAGA, but not overwhelmingly so and will probably have to compromise on this issue in order to keep the whole movement together and the American left on the back foot.

    And another thing that I have to wonder about is how much Russia are trying to influence things, there. Iran's a firm ally of theirs and they won't want the U.S. toppling the current regime as that could seriously mess with the important trade they do with Iran on weapons and oil.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,983 ✭✭✭yagan


    The Russia bit at the end may be where the off ramp is for Trump. He likes the idea of big actions, so a bombing run looks like good value for power projection, but the Iraq quagmire and subsequent surrender to the Taliban makes a US ground war adventure extremely unlikely.

    Any lull in hostilities between Israel and Iran and Trump will claim that as "mission accomplished" and move back to fighting his fathers voice in his head.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭tarvis


    The eight US military bases in the Middle East may now seem like ‘sitting ducks’ after last night’s bombing raids on Iran. But could it be that Iran will reciprocate and bring the fight to the US mainland. The US has for many years and many wars counted on them being proxy - anywhere but at home.

    War is a last resort and not a favour for a pal or a distraction from falling approval ratings.
    Shallow men and women have landed the world in deep doodoo.



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