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

+1, the US cannot undertake a ground invasion of Iran.
Not just because of the relative paucity of US infantry forces in the ME but also because the size of Iran would mean that "success" would require an enormous force to even have hope of success but, also because the US doesn't have the troops numbers available to do it.
Yes they would win a war and could likely win a ground engagement with Iran.
They could not however win that war and impose a peace and a chosen government.

Look to Iraq for an inkling as to what would happen, Iran is 3 times the size and as troublesome as the post victory insurgency was in Iraq?
In Iran it would IMHO be orders of magnitude worse.

Declaring a victory similar to Bush's "Mission Complete" does seem a photo op that Don would love!
But? Much like the Iraqi aftermath of that declaration, any Iranian aftermath would be soaked in US blood.

PS: Thanks for the Pope/Pape correction.
Mayhap I should get myself an eye test 😉

I cannot decide if Iranian nuclear capability makes the world more or less stable. I'm thinking more stable right now.

Maybe Trump could send a force to capture and commandeer a Hospital Boat from some s-hole country with a Navy and drive it to Iceland?

If the U.S. bombing of Iran`s nuclear sites with the biggest and bestist bombs a few months ago didn`t even put a dent in them, then isn`t doing the same again hoping for a different result the definition of insanity ?

Trump is eager to bomb somewhere or anywhere hoping to distract from Epstein and his poll ratings, and his warrior prince Hegseth doesn`t see why they should have all those munitions sitting around when they could be making big bangs somewhere on the planet. But both their problems and the Pentagon`s is what to bomb that will have any effect and would not leave them with another Gaza by killing thousands of civilians. That would not be a good look for the newly minted emperor of peace.

Afghanistan was bombed until there were barely two stones standing on top of each other and flooded with troops to achieve sweet fcuk all. The Iranian`s and everyone else knows there will be no ground invasion, so what does the U.S. hope to achieve by just bombing. The Republican Guard have shown no signs that they are going to turn on the present regime, and knowing there is no chance of a ground invasion are not going to sit around in large groups waiting to be bombed. Even if they did decide to overthrow the present regime, then installing a descended of the Shah is fanciful in the extreme.

Other than making a lot of noise, killing civilians in the process, and increasing the price of oil I really cannot see what the U.S. hopes to achieve.

Considering that he knows more about geography than anybody else and would brook no contradiction from any sailors or navigators about the location of Greenland the ship would probably end up heading for the South Pole that the penguins native to Greenland inhabit, never to return…with any luck.

"MS NOW reports there is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in rapid succession in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm that woman is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified to have accused Donald Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15 years old."

Trump 6 days ago- "I've been totally exonerated"

If things go pear-shaped in the Middle East (best laid plans of men) a Hospital Ship would be of more benefit there…

Pardon my ignorance but I never realised Jared Kushners father was US ambassador to France and who France are now trying to get rid of. Trump pardoned him

Starting in 2005, Charles Kushner spent two years in prison for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. He hired a sex worker to seduce his brother in law and sent a tape of them to his sister. He is the father of Jared.

Hard to believe they hired Charles Kushner. I mean, he hasn't even been accused of sexual assault. He was never going to fit in.

Fedex have initiated court moves seeking a refund of the tariffs it paid to the Feds under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as IEEPA.

‘Plaintiffs seek for themselves a full refund from Defendants of all IEEPA duties Plaintiffs have paid to the United States,’ the company said in the lawsuit as SCOTUS struck down the tariffs on the basis that Trump did not have the authority to impose the tariffs.

The report is in the Daily Mail under the banner headline: First major company breaks ranks and sues US demanding 'full refund'.

love it, this is the humiliation Trump and his lickspittles need. FedEx are a proper massive ‘good ‘ol’ American institution, as American as McDonalds or Coca Cola

I was really looking forward to it but its on too late for me to watch live.