Donald Trump the Megathread part II

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.

Good points

I think the main positives out of this development are

1. He is not helping Russia which was a disturbing possibility
2. He is slowly realising Putin is laughing at his stupidity, this may yet spectacularly backfire on Russia
3. It puts Ukraine one a better trajectory, tho it was Trump who made things up to now much worse, so usual tactic of breaking things and then claiming to fix it from Trump

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.

Well, it won't be memory holed if it keeps getting brought up, and the media et al needs to keep bringing it up. When it is stopped being talked about, Trump and his band of morons will just pivot to something else and it'll all be quietly dropped.

As you say, this whole thing was a central tenet of MAGA and they were all in if it could be shown that the likes of Bill Clinton or Bill Gates or <insert a Democrat here> were on the manifests of Epstein's flight lists. But now it's "Oh those lists don't exist".

Hmmmm…I wonder why that is.

This was on table the day he walked into the whitehouse

Pity it took his slow brain 6 months to arrive at the obvious that Putin is not to be trusted

And even now he is still all over the place on his messaging sending contradictory signals

FYP -American Citizens just look on and half of them cheer

The adrenachrome and pizza gate stories are just that,nonsense, but that's the point as I see, most people would roll their eyes and stop listening at that point,

But what is much more believable is, epstien has links to mossad and between them set up a honey trap effort to get dirt on rich and powerful people to use against them when it suited them. Totally believable,and a bit more that just rich people do horrible stuff.

"in two weeks"

About the only thing that could f*ck it up would be Trump himself or the DOGE inspired finance-cutbacks. With NATO to provide the funding, nothing should go wrong barring Russia doing something to stop the arrival in Europe of the batteries. I noted today mention of other armaments being included in the delivery list to Ukraine.

So are we supposed to now applaud Trump for ending up where he should have been three years ago and certainly 6 months ago? Is this his big plan on how to end the war on day 1? To provide weapons to Ukraine, the exact same as Biden did? That aiding the defence of Ukraine is actually the right thing to do?

This is after yet another flip-flop from Trump. What happened to his stance that it was all Zelenskys fault and that the US were not going to pick sides or get involved?

Yet again Trump has been shown to be completely wrong on almost everything.

Any theories on why Epstein killed himself?

He was on a suicide watch it seems and this was not the first time he had tried it.

I think his brother has said he doesn't think he did kill himself.

Did they ever stop?

Lucky if he didn't end up in Alligator Alcatraz, apparently they have 500 held there in horrendous conditions for nothing more than traffic offences while being in America without a valid visa