Beware the Ides of March - Trump Thread #156

[Spandauer]

Do you think The Friend of Epstein is au fait with Roman history?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5488504-name-a-better-trio-than-onion-garlic-ginger-trump-thread-155

Has anyone else noticed that conspicuous pro-Trumper RJ (don't want to use the whole name in case it summons it) seems absent from the threads?

Volunteered to pilot a B52 ?

I suspect internet silence on Diego Garcia.

My dad’s best friend was killed by friendly fire in Vietnam. What a fucking disgrace that it’s happening so early in this conflict, particularly since IT and communications are so much better now than in the 1960s.

The US army is famed the world over for it's ability to unerringly find allies to kill in action.

I would be more outraged, but that's one of the dangers of war and (yet) another reason to avoid war at all costs.

"War is hell"
"To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war"

And now it's a Vietnam draft dodger in charge.....

In a brief interview, he said the country’s hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public

What could possibly go wrong?

With their usual slick competence. Idiots.

https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mg2szfzans2f

Reports seem to suggest that the pilots of the US fighter jets ejected safely and are OK.

Obvs could have been fatal but it's all OK... Bone Spurs in Chief has already absolved himself of any blame with regards to any past/future US lives lost.

More likely to be volunteering for ICE, I think. Happy to overlook Epstein, etc. for deportments and any bonus cruelty and disregard for non-whites, but may not like the foreign war aspect.

NYT:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are scheduled to give a news conference at 8 a.m. Eastern on the U.S. military operation against Iran, the Defense Department said in a post on social media.

"Bone Spurs in Chief has already absolved himself of any blame with regards to any past/future US lives lost."

Wait, what? What have I missed? How can he do that, when he bloody started it all this time along with his equally shady mate in Israel? Also, does he think the Nobel Committee now awards prizes for starting wars?

Taking a mental health pass on that, thanks.

Sadly not….she gets the privilege of shouting her racist shit from our shores, where she doesn’t have to face the reality enjoy with glee the suffering of others.

I bet she’s at a Reform fundraiser or rally.

Confirmed that 3 fighter jets were shot down by Kuwaiti air defence in error

Now being 'looked into' to see how that happened

Another US service member has died.

CENTCOM: “The fourth service member, who was seriously wounded during Iran’s initial attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.”

Some additional details here:

https://www.twz.com/air/f-15-spins-into-the-ground-while-on-fire-in-middle-east

TWZ.com is my go-to source for breaking military news. They'll update the article at that link as more info becomes available.

9 more to go before they match the number killed in Biden's Trump/Taliban-orchestrated Afghanistan withdrawal.

Wonder if these sad and unnecessary deaths will generate as much negative media for Rump as those did for Biden?

Blame DEI.

I heard the Kuwait military hires "non white men. That's the problem right there. I suspect that is the discussion on Reddit/consevative and Breitbart comments.

/s to be clear.

But seriously, I reckon this is probably lack of training/planning and preparation. Those things that are supposed to happen, as opposed to starting a war on a whim because the Epstein files are getting too close.

And on a slight tangent, IMO, this is why NATO and allies are so important. Because we all train together. But Stupid Trump hates all that don't he.

Nah. We’ll just have to listen to Bone Spurs tell us that they’re suckers and losers. If they were decent soldiers, they wouldn’t have died. No need for negative media for Bone Spurs and Kegstand Pete.

Saudi Arabia halts some operations at Ras Tanura refinery after reported attack

and

QatarEnergy halts liquefied natural gas production after attacks

.

Pete Hegseth is an absolute wank stain!

Have started reading that because this is a planned operation, and not a response to a sneak attack, a lot of insurance policies may be invalid.

It's a fast moving situation.

Same as the "Malaysian emergency" ?

I understand that was not a war because of the Rubber planters insurance.

So Kegsbreath :

"We didn't start this war, but we'll finish it."

Yup. The Fawlty towers argument. " You started it..".... "No we didn't, you invaded Poland".

"He calls the US air operation against Iran "the most lethal, most complex and most precise aerial operation in history"."

Maybe in his MAGA version of history. Revisionism.

'Not a regime-change war, but the regime sure did change'

Changing definitions.

Is the guy incapable of saying anything that does not tick a box on a "14 indicators of fascism" bingo card.

Hegseth is refusing to rule out boots on the ground.

Let's hope the US military grasp of geography is better than Mumsnetters.