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

So in the context of striking a UK base, after the UK announced it was granting permission for the US to launch attacks upon Iran?
Perfectly legal and aimed at a military target.

A response to aiding an aggressor in attacks upon Iran.
If "pre-emption" is justifiable as the casus belli for the attack on Iran by the US & Israel?
Surely the same justification applies here to at least the "launch"?
That said, given that permission was granted a few hours at least before the press release?
I would argue that it wasn't pre emptive and that Hezbollah or whomever did launch the drone, had the capability to abort.
But? As the UK had at that point confirmed that the US would be launching strikes, that it was a legitimate target.

The only one of the nations hit so far in the ME by Iran that can genuinely feel aggrieved to be a target, is IMHO, Oman.

The rest, including Azerbaijan operated as either US bases or Israeli intel nodes.
Even Turkey, which Iran has denied targeting but which operates one of the only still intact AN/TPY2 radars in the middle East that can still track Ballistic Missile launches and extend BMD alert time to give better intercept chance.
Personally, I think Iran would be morons to strike a NATO member, but who knows what the outcome of their post decapitation mosaic strategy would have on target choices.

How can you be so sure about this?

There is no defence of the Iranian regime in any of my posts.
There is an outlining of the fact that the drone strike on Akrotiri occured after Starmer announced that the US was granted permission to operate from UK bases.
Ergo it was a strike upon a nation providing aid to a nation bombing Iran, a legal target.

As for Azerbaijan and your linking of any assistance they offered with the US?
Weird, I never said they were a US ally.

You would perhaps be interested in who their main defence partners are perhaps?
And their Israeli drone and air defence systems.
It's long been an open secret in OSINT circles that Azerbaijan allows Israeli dron access to Northern Iran.

buying equipment from countries doesn’t make them allies, that’s nonsense

What’s next claims that Ireland is ally of US because we have so many American companies and have macdonnalds? Hence if we get attacked {since attacking neutral states is in fashion now} with missiles like the one used today with range to reach Dublin from Iran we deserve it?

Anyways that’s all going off on a tangent now let’s get back to bashing Trump, who deserves all the criticism going his way

Israel is long rumoured to operate it's own Heron drones from Azerbaijan for direct surveillance of Northern Iran, using the fact that they also operate those drones as a layer of plausible deniablity.
Do you not grasp that or are you just being performatively argumentive?

The only one of the nations hit so far in the ME by Iran that can genuinely feel aggrieved to be a target, is IMHO, Oman.

Why?

Fuel dumps in the port of Duqm and the port of Salalah were targeted which are used by US forces who are currently attacking Iran so, therefore, it's an entirely legitimate target in war.

If there is any grievance that Oman may have, and it's a slim one, is that a drone landed in an industrial area in Sohar. Whether that was the actual target or not or the drone fell short remains unclear.

The US has had an agreement with Oman to use the ports of Duqm and Salalah since 2019. They're an important asset in US naval ops in the middle east and are used for refuelling and maintenance. Iran attacking fuel installations there to disrupt enemy maneuvers is a bog standard military tactic.

An interesting opinion piece on why "boots on the ground" will be necessary for the U.S. to achieve its goal, well maybe one of many stated so far.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-hormuz-air-power-regime-change-winning-war

David Mencer?

He is a British zionist who was head of the foreign group that infiltrated British politics styled as Labour Friends of Israel

I assume that the Chinese and Russian tankers moving through the Straits are flying those countries Maritime flags as a form of [don't hit us] Identity to the warring parties, Israel and Iran, to avoid incidental damage. Trump and the Russians benefit from trouble-free transit of the oil, as does China. The shipping Co's must as well. There's not been so much mention from Trump of providing insurance for the ships, the crews and their cargo over the past few days.

Incidental to Trump's decision to cancel U.S sanctions on the Russian oil and tankers, the other countries bound by the sanctions may still have intent of continuing them and seizing the tankers. That might annoy Trump and the Russians but would be legal.

Edit: If Russia sent it's tankers of Iranian oil down to the Caribbean and Cuba to help the locals, it might make Trump mad.

Israel, as we've seen, has an independent mind on harming Iran's interests and may well see the oil-filled tankers leaving the Persian gulf through the Strait as legitimate targets, to seize or destroy in order to ensure Iran does not get any income or goods from Russia to support it in the war.

Those are certainly words.

Nothing could possibly go wrong putting barely house-trained ICE agents in airports 🙄

Not sure why he's referring to Ilhan Omar in the same message presumably has to get his Daily Racism out of the way early on the day

As everyone knows, all illegal immigrants come through airports.

F**king racist moran

That one time Stephen Miller told the truth | Opinion

"Presidents usually have little control over the economy. Trump, however, is the exception. His tax, labor and foreign policies – illegal tariffs, illegal deportations and illegal war – are the three-legged stool of extraction. He's looting America but we’re all paying for his crime.

During a recent Oval Office meeting, Miller accused immigrants of theft. Once Donald Trump’s deportation measures were fully in place, “all of this theft” would stop and “it would be enough to balance the budget.” He said: “The extraction of wealth from American taxpayers to people who don't belong here is the primary cause of the national debt."

Miller is one obnoxious cant, when the cover of Trump goes people will revel going after him.