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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭yagan


    Well the Zionists assassinated the last Israeli leader who wasn't opposed to a two state solution settlement.

    There's secular Israeli's and Israeli citizens who identify as Palestinian who don't agree with their current government.

    Perhaps the next coup could be there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭tarvis


    over 700 hundred lives lost in Iran since last week’s attack by Israel - for what - for whom?

    Token strikes at Qatar today with everyone pre warned - for what - for whom.?

    Meanwhile tho’ not new worthy today the brutality against the remaining Gazans continues and Ukraine is under nightly deadly attack -

    It all stinks to high heaven and it’s not over yet-

    Peace Mr Trump ???

    It begins and ends with you, Netanyahu and Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,397 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Trump is goading Iran now by calling their response weak and thanking them for giving the early warning.

    The guy is trying to draw them into a full war.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭yagan


    Or they're testing him knowing that the US is running low on military stock replenishment since the Chinese export ban of refined rare earth materials.

    Every cheap missile or drone Iran sends up costs 4 millions dollars to knock down. Cheap drones have made defense more expensive than attack.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Iran hasn't really being using drones to attack Israel as they not very effective over the distance.

    The missiles Iran have been launching are between $3 million and $8 million each. Certainty not cheap.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭yagan


    Have you got a link for that as I posted a link to a Washington Post article yesterday here stating that a lot of the missiles that got through Iron dome cost only a million compared to the 4 million needed to counter.

    Cheap drones can be used to used to hit the US bases in the gulf and were such an expensive threat for the US that they moved the fleet out of their range.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,072 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Maybe I'm being a tad optimistic but it seems there has been a degree of coordination in the US/Iran martial dance-steps over the past two days.

    US bombs Iran's nuclear sites after giving 2 days advance notice, possibly whatever likely fissionable material in Iran's sites was taken for safety to another location before the B2 Bombers delivered their payload. Iran slow-responds by firing rockets at USAF bases in neighbouring Arab countries after giving the Govts of the countries advance notice, rockets shot down. Israel is then allowed hit up the approach routes to the bombed Iranian sites to make them impassable by road. Honour satisfied and no nuclear catastrophe. Trump even reduces the volume.

    I wouldn't be too minded about negative headlines of what Trump said about the sites being destroyed. They are out of commission and he can advise the reporters to visit the sites for confirmation [if they choose to] given the nature of the produce of the sites.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,908 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Let's make it perfectly clear at this stage, Trump is a warmonger. He is not going to accomplish a regime change in Iran and historically the US attempting to do so tends to end badly. If he really wants to pursue putting troops on the ground that will go very badly for him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭thatsdaft




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,958 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    USA suddenly realizing their assets in the middle east are very vulnerable



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,265 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Trump is such an idiot. Genuinely.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Will he use this apparent "ceasefire" to claim he should win the peace prize again?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭yagan


    All Iran have to do now is offer him a jet.

    Israel only gave him bronzed pagers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,992 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I used to consider George W Bush to be the worst person ever to hold the office of President, but by Christ Trump has taken that mantle over the last 6 months.

    What an utter, utter, shambles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,859 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Trump took that title from George W during COVID. He's only making it certain he'll never be outdone now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,020 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Its still mind boggling that the yanks had 4 years of this already and 70m+ of them said "Yes, more please". Trump being a cretin, easily manipulated and driving the world to catastrophe is not new news.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,747 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Things not going too well for Truth Social. A stock buyback to inflate the price, and now a DDoS courtesy of Iran

    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/iranian-aligned-hackers-claim-responsibility-for-attack-on-trumps-truth-social-platform/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,072 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    As usual, Trump has to have the last word. Ref his enthusiastic encouragement to Israel to be peaceful and harmonious, it'll be something to behold if it comes out of his pocket and not the federal pocket.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,388 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Ya but the only possible defense was he was only fuking up America. Bush destabilised the world.

    Trump has now gotten into the imaginary WMD business so that defense is gone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,747 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Reagan. Without a doubt worst POTUS in US history, his actions gave us GWB and Trump.

    Trump's #2.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,250 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭Rawr


    It wouldn't shock me at all if we learn that this "ceasefire" is entirely about trying to claim the Nobel. I wonder how he'll feel when Bibi pisses all over this and strikes Iran anyway. For Bibi, he needs an enemy to point to in order to save his own damned skin, and Iran will fit the bill for the forseeable. Donnie is very much the junior partner in that relationship (amoung others).

    Donnie, using extreme violence to get a ceasefire doesn't get you a Peace Prize you self interested nitwit! If that were the case Truman would have gotten one for using nukes on Japan.

    He's going to go absolutly spare in October when the actual Peace Prize winner is announced.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭Field east


    was listening to BBC 2 Newsnight last night. Retired US ambassador to NATO , Kurt Volker,, was being interviewed on the US /Iran situation. Up till now and depending on who you you listen to IRAN we’re said to be only :-

    -a year or two away from being able to put a nuclear bomb together

    • then they were only months away
    • And then that was reduced to being only weeks away
    • Then they were only days away
    • And the above reduced it to ONLY AFEW HOURS away.

    He suggested that if the US did not attack the Iran nuclear bomb producing sites , when it did, that the Iranians were working day and night to produce a nuclear bomb within hours - or words to that effect


    it reminds me of the weapons of MASS DISTRUCTION that Sadam Hussain - of Iraq fame - was said to have had but he had nothing @apart from was it nerve or mustard gas



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,226 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    "He's going to go absolutly spare in October when the actual Peace Prize winner is announced."

    Hopefully it's Zelensky. That would be a major kick in the arse for Trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,250 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


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    I can't wrap my head around this.

    Is he seriously proclaiming that it's all sorted, in a completely over the top and evangelical way or

    is it an inferred threat to sort things out while simultaneously trying to promising both sides prosperity ?

    Can some local "Art of the Deal" explain?

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    …RIGHTEOUSNESS & TRUTH…

    WTF would the orange felon know about righteousness & truth?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,748 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    It’s both, in an attempt to appease his core supporters in the US who hate Jews and Muslims equally.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,582 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    The man has the mentality of a toddler.

    Just waiting for Vance to come out with his reasoning as why the US has done the EU a favour and we should pay them for them bombing Iran.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭Field east


    IMO that statement by Trump was put together having received inputs from his extreme advisors on matters of religion , economics , peace and war , etc, etc, etc, etc,. - from Ted Cruz , to Millar to Tucker.
    what a mush mash of a statement - can only come from a dictator



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,293 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Glad to see the ceasefire in place. President Trump deserves great credit for another foreign policy success.



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