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

So, to be clear ( humour doesn’t translate well on the web) you really believe that Trump did this for the benefit of the Iranian people ?

The history of the last 47 years of unilateral American military intervention abroad ( even well intentioned). suggests a positive outcome ?

The UAE commenting how well their AD has been doing Vs Iranian ballistic missiles and drones. They'll no doubt be lining up to buy billions more from the yanks.

The Iranians are idiots but we already knew that.

Wouldn't increased postal voting reduce that risk? But Trump doesn't want that either. I wonder why ......

He couldn't possibly be trying to manipulate voting outcomes by changing constituency boundaries, removing polling stations in democratic voting areas, selectively disappearing names off electoral rolls, making it more difficult for certain sectors to vote,.... Could he?

What's Trumps likely attention span on this in reality?

A week tops, maybe a fortnight at a stretch?

Ha ha ha ha. Thanks for that.

I was shocked to see how vulnerable AF1 looked yesterday as it took off from West Palm beach. The public highways were a mere couple hundred metres from the plane. It looked very exposed.

I'm surprised the secret service don't insist on a more secure airport.

Complete brainrot. You lot were screaming blue murder about about every single military intervention in the Middle East or North Africa and suddenly you are a herd of seals slapping their fins together for The Glorious Leader Bringing Peace And Democracy To Iran.
I completely discount the possibility of stupidity in case of this comment and that only leaves one other option.

I wonder if we'll suddenly see a flush of returnees to our shores from Irish working the middleeast.

I'd be worried because Trump is such a buffoon and has instigated all this as a distraction for domestic politics that it could very well spiral into something much broader, like an Arab Spring Part II where US backed regimes get wobbly.

I wonder the same thing. I think a lot will depend on how long it goes on for and whether the neighbouring countries will continue to be targeted.

Iranians are not going to welcome an Israeli installed puppet, regardless of the unpopularity of the clerics. They know it will turn into Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

So even if the current clash ceases the main expansionist Israel will attack again in the future, even if the Iran successors are far more moderate.

Working in that region never appealed to me. I had a friend who became essentially a prisoner there after marrying a Saudi, in fairness it was her husbands friends who helped her escape. The facade of modernity in the Arab states is all about oil, and they'll go to war with eachother over it.

Qatari airspace was suddenly shut down over a local spat a few years ago. There's nothing civilised about petrostates.

I'd always have my passport on me and an airport bag by the front door.

This is what happens when a buffoon starts a war without a strategy.

An absolute mess. If the US has always been the security blanket for the middle east regimes then when the US wages war as a distraction from domestic politics then the oppressed see how weak these regimes really are.

Won't be surprised if we end up with a few more Iranian style revolutions in the region.

and obama, but definitely not donny!

But but we always were told the Iranians are lovely people educated and more western than arabs

Their evil leaders all are gone so where is them protesters now or was it all propaganda about the mass killings.

I commend trump on this one nobody could have an after plan, Iranians have 2 step up, time for a 90m people contribute to international norms and behavior even when the US has strayed off a bit.