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

Well no- things are becoming much clearer-Trump has developed an “excuse” not to help a fellow NATO country if attacked, because NATO didn’t help America with Iran.

We know that’s bullsh1t because NATO wasn’t set up to work that way- but truth doesn’t matter to Trump- he has his excuse and get out clause ready to feed thicko Americans who will likely be only thrilled to hear it.

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That's going to raise some awkward questions for the new rightist catholic trend exemplified by Vance and Bannon. Complacent Hindus (remember Ramaswamy?), Jews…and now Catholics are finding that one can never take one's secure place in MAGA world for granted.

Taco strikes again. Or he achieved his objective. Set the whole place ablaze out of sheer malignancy for the sole purpose to cause as much damage for the rest of the world as possible.

A friend of mine said at the beginning "but what's so bad about Trump? He's just goofing off, people are laughing at him, instead of everything being crap and boring under Biden, it's now crap and entertaining under Trump, what really bad things has he done besides his rhetoric?"

He's not saying that anymore.

Thought that was on the cards but doesn't appear to be as straight forward as that. Seems they need the Strait open as much as the rest of us

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/west-point-analysis-iran-war-costs

It has some merit. That merit is not imagined. From my limited understanding, one problem is that Taiwan failed to assert its complete independence from China when it could have because the KMT still wanted to run the whole country after they lost the civil war. I wouldn’t consider myself knowledgable enough to judge it any further.

Respect and RIP Chuck Norris. But this made me laugh.

In another court reversal for the Admin, senior federal judge Paul Friedman ruled that several of the restrictions Sec Hegseth made obligatory on journalists in the Pentagon are unconstitutional and has voided them. Para 3 in the link below shows the wording of the judges ruling and what it covered. The lawsuit was started by the NYT after Hegseth's restrictions were made last Oct.

There may be a further effect of the voiding of Hegseths restrictions. Last week, the Stars and Stripes publication came under further restrictions within the Pentagon building itselff on what it, as a journalistic newspaper, could cover and report on from the Pentagon but there is no mention of those new restrictions in the Reuters report.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-restrictive-pentagon-press-access-policy-2026-03-20/

Yeah but who’s going to tell Iran that it’s over? At the very least this places Iran in a very strong negotiation position with other countries -“we won’t bomb your oil tankers if you…..”

Clearly Trump has created this mess to play havoc with world economies-and no doubt play the stock market to his advantage for personal gain. He’s made his money and fcked up international economies that will only make America look better for a few months until election time which is all he needs.

The Iranian incursion was pointless and senseless when looked through the lens of Middle Eastern peace and stability - but very fruitful and strategic when viewed through the lens of personal gain for Trump and MAGA regime

Just imagine how much of an administrative nightmare it's going to be for the next sensible government to take the reins in the US.

I wouldn't envy anyone having to clean up Trump's mess. It's going to be a gigantic task.

Dimwit Americans seem to have a similar relationship with the republicans that ireland did with Fianna Fail for years, they always seem to go easier on them than t'other crowd no matter how much they fucked up...it took a succession of Haughey, Reynolds, Ahern and Cwen's sleaze and incompetence before alot of Irish people saw sense(still a large % vote them), wonder what it will take Americans?