"War, huh, good God, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" - Trump Thread #157

[Spandauer]

It ain't nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
(Edwin Starr 1970, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong)

Unless, of course, your name ends in Trump, when it ain't nothing but an opportunity to grift, deflect and destroy.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5496818-beware-the-ides-of-march-trump-thread-156

I'd not heard of it so had to look it up, sounded like a page turner so I downloaded the sample. Ooops!
(forewarned is forearmed?)

A nation led by the cardboard cut-out of a man in a coma, is making a holy show of Trump's USA.

Can he humiliate his country further?🤦‍♀️

I just keep a couple of tabs open on the laptop 2nd screen while doing other stuff on the main one. It's so fast moving it appears they don't have time to make every snippet a separate article.

Sky news UK:

Iran war latest: Conflict will end 'a lot faster than people think', says Netanyahu | World News | Sky News

CNN :

Live updates: Iran war news; Netanyahu says Israel ‘acted alone’ in gas field strike as energy costs soar | CNN

Those are actually pretty much the only western news sites I get where I am. BBC, Reuters etc blocked. Even then, most of the vids on Sky and CNN are geoblocked for me cos of the news site licensing (I presume).

Re geoblocking etc, I do know my news front pages are often different from those in other countries such as the UK. So no idea if your feed will be the same as mine where you are. Local laws and other things.

And apologies to all re my too frequent block cut and pastes. I do it because the news is on feeds and not articles, add in timezones, so I am just trying to post stuff while other folk might be in bed that they might miss when scrolling the next day.

No AI for me. Most of that is blocked too

Re Kegsbreath and his "It takes money to kill bad guys" comment.

Although I am atheist these days, I was a born again Christian for 20 plus years. And oddly enough, it was in the US where I was converted from being a "casual cultural Christian" to a Bible thumping born again.

So for me, having spent so many years thinking/ reading/ practicing the Christian concept of forgiveness, to hear an active Christian, who claims to be doing Gods work, saying stuff like that.......

His version of HIS religion says people in another religion in a theocratic state with the same God, says those people should die because they believe their religion to be true and ......... ach... my brain has ran out of RAM.

Even today, as an atheist , free of the shackles of "Christian morality", I can't get my head around how someone can be so full of hate.

And Kegsbreath likely says the Iranians are "brainwashed".

Chris Hedges on YouTube has a really interesting series of interviews on stuff like Israel’s hold over Trump, Trump’s fear of assassination, long term effect of the war - serious stuff and well worth a listen

President Javier Milei says Argentina is ready to send military support to the US and Israel in Iran, if requested.

“Our ships will be there in 2 weeks, Mr President.” Rinse and repeat.

There was that $40 billion bailout to Argentina last year, but I recall that was more about upcoming elections and Trump wanting Milei to stay in power ?

And it is Trump, so that 40 bill was likely talked about but never done ?

Has anyone checked for a company called Trump Election Consultants (Argentina) LLC ?

He's apparently considering plans to occupy Kharg Island. He's a fucking nutter. I'm so sick of the state of the world and the men in charge. Sick of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/20/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-israel-netanyahu-ground-component-us-tensions-hormuz

Aww BUGGER Mr President.

Our ships were almost there but ran out of fuel. Can you send us some ?

So many things have happened I’d forgotten about the 40m bribe to Argentina.

He's supposed to have been wanging on about kharg island since the late 80s

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5750514/trump-iran-war-kharg-island-oil

Yup this is a reprint from the guardian in1988

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/12/polly-toynbee-1988-interview-donald-trump

...Respect.’ He sounds like the Godfather. ‘We’re a second rate economic power, a debtor nation. We’re getting kicked around.’ I try to imagine the kind of deals he would make with Gorbachev, and fail. I choose an issue. What would he do about Iran, for instance? ‘I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools. One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it. Iran can’t even beat Iraq, yet they push the United States around. It’d be good for the world to take them on.’

Kharg Island ie its all about the oil.

I agree, that's just how I've been feeling for a while. I came across this whilst trying to cheer myself up. I know it's got the Mango Mussolini in it, but it did make me laugh. Marking it sensitive..

The man with the Midas fist.

I think it was being bombed at the time in the Iran Iraq war. And that's why it was in the news.

Should say Fucking Liberty.

Trump-appointed panel approves 24-karat-gold coin featuring his image.
Federal law says living presidents can’t appear on currency, but commission approves design for US’s 250th birthday
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/trump-coin-24-karat-gold

Franklin Mint ?

To be advertised on Breitbart and GB news. Pay in easy instalments. SNAP vouchers accepted by special arrangement. Cheques made payable to Trump Franklin Mint LLC. Buy 10 and get a free Trump T1 phone (subject to availability).

He's a megalomaniac with dementia. So bigly sad.

And how do you think Trump will reward Argentina? 🤔

He'll ask them not to cry.

The Falklands

Sky :

"Ukraine helping with anti-drone defence in Middle East
Ukraine has deployed some of its defence technologies in the Middle East to help Gulf countries combat drone attacks, one of its top defence officials has said.
Rustem Umerov said on social media that Ukrainian military specialists are operating in:
the UAE
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Kuwait
and Jordan
He said Ukrainian defence systems are in use, particularly, against drone attacks.
"Interception units have been deployed to protect civilian and critical infrastructure. Work is also underway to expand coverage areas," Umerov added."

Trump said no of course. Called Zelenskyy an ungrateful clown or something I recall.

It's as if it is possible to get anything wrong at all, push button A for correct, button B for wrong. Trump always pushes B.

Not scary at all.

To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought

...The meeting was convened by 31-year-old lawyer Seth Cohen. Just five years out of law school, Cohen brought no significant experience in nuclear law or policy; he had just entered government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team.
As Cohen led the group through a technical conversation about licensing nuclear reactor designs, he repeatedly downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen broke in.
“They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there,” he said.
“But … there’s lots of babies,” one staffer pushed back. Babies, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups are thought to be potentially more susceptible to cancers brought on by low-level radiation exposure, and they are usually afforded greater protections.
“They’ve been downwind before,” another staffer joked.
...

Tectonic plates in North America? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_plat
Remembering these films The China Syndrome and Silkwood.