Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Before the 2022 invasion I honestly thought Putin wouldn't do it as it would be economic suicide. Despite it's resources the world economy would adjust to cutting it out.

But culturally attack is the Russian posture. I was looking back through events over time and at least every 35 years Russia has either being invading somewhere or enduring a civil war of some sort. There is no civic societal norm, it's always war in some direction, either invading or imploding.

At some stage the invasion of Ukraine may invert into a bloody Russian meltdown.

Lots of talk doing the rounds that the bunker strike on the 3 facilities may not have been as successful as claimed initially

Is it true ?

Ya because NATO interviened much of which is Europe.

Not a hope Europe is under threat from that poorly trained antique army.

All this being a tough guy with NATO is just more Trump bullsht about the US being robbed and screwed by allies.

And don't forget that they are actively interfereing with GPS navigation in and around the Baltic states, which has a direct effect on Irish-owned, Irish-operated aircraft, one of which was forced out of the sky so the Russians could get their hands on a couple of people whose opinions they didn't like.

So yeah, @breezy1985 , the EU - including "remote" member states like Ireland - has valid security concerns.

He seems to meet the criteria so.

https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3lsg5ckam2c2o

“Bomb, bomb Iran.”

It's hard to believe the sitting President would post something so crass as a this……

But here we are….

And the likelihood of him winning one remains incredibly low. Autocrats or wannabe autocrats tend to struggle. He was probably more likely to win a best supporting actor for Home Alone 2.

Is he favourites with the bookies because punters are just lumping on rather then him really having a chance? When does the award take place.

That Daddy thing is extremely weird, and creepy as f***.

Keep that sh1t in the bedroom, ya weirdos!

What embarassment? The man is one of the most successful politicians in postwar European history. This will have been forgotten about in a few days and I'd be surprised if more than a few people here knew who he was before yesterday or could name the party he used to lead.

If America had followed its policy of defending Ukraine then Russia would have just bled dry and Nato would have remained as fit for purpose as it has been all along.

Spending money on defence is fine but if it can be avoided it is much better.

Also the notion that US contributes more the rest of Nato to its defence is flawed and only a prize idiot and bully like Trump (with his major in economics) would get away with pushing it.