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

When does the winter warfare weather season start this year?

Some say it never even began.

Yes, although it has to be better than the stance of not allowing European countries to buy U.S. made weapons to give to Ukraine.

He could end the war in a week by simply deploying tactical nukes in ukraine. It's not like he doesn't have the solution at his fingertips.

Trump, he could literally put a few warheads on ballistic missiles in Ukraine and give the ukrainians the power to deploy, war ends immediately

Fox news got their orders...

I am not saying he will do it, I am saying that if he really wanted to create an impasse he could by doing it.

I disagree with your hypothetical Putin assessment. He can already claim victory by current battle lines and call it quits. A nuclear war would leave him with a nothing prize and catastrophic damage in his own country. It's is clearly rational that if Trump really wanted to end the war, he could do so by giving ukraine control of nuclear weapons in ukraine. Because they would use them, they are already in an existential crisis, Russia would back down.

But they also know that launching a nuke first would remove all, or certainly most, of the goodwill they have in Europe and other parts of the world

Well Russia does appear to be dedeveloping.

Well I think its the same as it ever was - you either win/defeat your enemy quickly or you are better off going home. Protracted warfare against entrenched positions has never worked (without paying a very high price).

The main difference now is that developed countries no longer have the population growth to sustain what we are seeing in Ukraine. Russia never recovered from the effect that the events of WW2 had on their population, and Putin has destroyed even more of Russia's dwindling youth for essentially nothing.

Putin has been as foolish as Nasser was in 67 - believing that his armed forces were a lot better than they actually are. Imagine it being 2025 and Russia's main battle strategy is still throwing waves of men at positions in the hope of overrunning them? That is bad enough, trying to fight a war without complete air superiority is utter insanity.

I find it amusing, though not weird, that Trump has put a 17% duty on Mexican Tomatoes imported into the U.S. while he has ICE raiding U.S agriculture farms to find and deport immigrant workers from the U.S. particularly California, so their crop rots on the vine.

Apparently the three topmost producers of tomatoes in the US are Indiana, Florida, and California, the top 10 states that produce large quantities of tomatoes are Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey, California, Michigan, and Indiana.

I'm sure there's plenty of people on Epstein's lists that are of interest. But pretty clearly Trump doesn't want it pursued. And let's just remember, that Trump cheerleaders such as Alan Dershowitz were supposedly on that list.