Bored of Peace? Let's Mambo! - Trump Thread #158

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Cuba - the appetiser to Greenland?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5501326-war-huh-good-god-what-is-it-good-for-absolutely-nothing-trump-thread-157

The USA does not recognize ICC jurisdiction over it's citizens or government. So no Hague for Donnie.

Let's hope that once he's dethroned he goes to play golf in a country that does.

Or better still, an incoming saner administration tries to rebuild trust with the international community by handing him over.

That's because that mouth breathing moron Mark Levin was pushing for that on his show on Fox.

there is a golf club quite close to the icc prison in the hague. maybe rutte can 'invite' him to a game...

https://missouriindependent.com/2026/03/30/with-sam-graves-retiring-missouri-stands-to-lose-a-key-power-broker-in-washington/

I just saw a clip of Dementia Don rambling to reporters on air force one about the ballroom.

Has anyone else notice how he's started constantly talking about how 'busy' he is? Reminds me a bit of how horrified Dan Bongino was on discovering that the deputy FBI director was expected to work a few hours a week.

Sorry - that was in response to @MrTiddlesTheCat's post about trying to seize the uranium.

We have seen the US go from superpower to world power in 4 months.
I have to say it is deeply impressive.

This got me thinking. Definitely the power to influence the world and manipulate stock markets via oil/war pronouncements. The question though, is for how long.

I always like to know definitions of things and realised that I didn't know much about tactical nuclear weapons. In case anyone else is interested, this article is useful.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/why-tactical-nuclear-weapons-are-anything-but-usable/

My DH says tactical nuclear weapons are the worst type.

Does your DH ever wonder what on earth you get up to online when you start asking him questions? 😂

No, he's too busy going into minute details of nerdy, nuclear chemistry prof shit I have zero chance of understanding. I try to avoid asking him questions so my brain doesn't melt and leak out my ears. But he did go through all the bomb stuff for posters on the Ukraine threads ages ago (under my other username) and I remember the gist of it, but none of the actual details.

Wow. So much for Trump claiming the US has loads of Patriots.

I can't open your link sorry, but I got it other sources.

So the Swiss ordered Patriot in 2022, for delivery this year or next. Also ordered a stack of F35. But Germany said they wanted to buy Patriot for Ukraine, so last summer the US told the Swiss to wait several more years for theirs, so the Swiss put their payment on hold .But the US are just diverting the money the Swiss are paying for F35 to Patriot anyway. So the Swiss will not get Patriot, and it's not clear if they will get the F35 they are paying for.

That's atrocious fiddling of the books. I daresay the $200 billion request for the Iran war has not been put in.

But what strikes me is that this is more evidence that the US has a MASSIVE issue with Patriot manufacturing capacity. They could not even cover orders, placed years in advance, before the Iran war kicked off. And Patriots have been burned up like confetti for 31 days now. Once those patriots in stock are gone, that's it -if Iran still has missiles and drones.

No wonder the turd is flapping.

I saw yesterday that Netanyahu claimed Hezbollah has 150k missiles. Pinch of salt re him. but us many of us here said weeks ago, that explains Lebanon. And just today he has moved his bulldozers into that country.

What a massive miscalculation. And his plan now is to Bomb 90 million people into the stone age because he made a total fuck up. And Netanyahu will bulldoze a massive chunk of another nation flat.

A good working definition of a superpower is one that is capable of projecting military force at will anywhere within it's own - or it's allies - spheres of influence.

Having discarded NATO, the US has lost the ability to project power in the Middle East at will. As demonstrated by it's inability to ... well project power at will.

A world power is one that is capable of projecting military force outside it's borders. Within constraint.

The problem with "tactical" nuclear weapons is really they have never been used. And quite aside from the innocent deaths and environmental impacts - I mean who cares about that ? - is the fact that the smallest increment of time ever recorded will be that between the news of a tactical nuke being used, and every country on planet earth starting it's own nuclear weapons programme.

I imagine Greenland might feel some urgency.

My DB started his professional life in ORNL 😎Supercomputers being a thing there.

That might be the place DH was considering when his contract was up in the UK. He did mention somewhere in Tennesee, but then Sweden rang and the rest is history.

I was very grateful to him for this (though I can't remember the details now, but that's because I have the memory of a goldfish).

Please do make sure he knows he's appreciated here!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/golden-toilet-sculpture-dc-trump-lincoln-bedroom-bathroom-1234779264/

The latest in a series of politically inflected sculptures to appear on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a giant golden toilet that can now be found near the Lincoln Memorial.
Its title, as its plaque states, is A Throne Fit for a King, and its makers is the Secret Handshake, the same group of anonymous artists that also produced Best Friends Forever, a sculpture that featured a beaming Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Thank you for your service 😉Couldn't pay me to look at those other threads these days.

I second @PerkingFaintly 's thanks and appreciation.

Even the AfD don't want the USA anywhere near them.

The co-chair of Germany’s increasingly popular far-right party has called for the removal of all U.S. forces from the country, adding that Berlin should follow Spain’s lead and deny the use of its bases for the Iran war.
Tino Chrupalla, who leads the Alternative for Germany party alongside Alice Weidel, used a political gathering in Saxony over the weekend to push for the removal of the roughly 37,000 U.S. troops based in the country.
www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2026-03-30/germany-us-troops-afd-21225508.html

Leavitt was asked about this

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5807115-donald-trump-military-complex-white-house-ballroom/

Bur shhh it's a secret

Interesting that that article is in the Stars and Stripes. S&S is actually published by the US Department of War Defense. It's considered the 'official' newspaper of the US military.

How long before Kegsbreath gets wind of this and cries 'Fake News'. And then Scrotus writes an EO to 'defund' them.

Say what, now?

Soooo, he's building his own Führerbunker? Well we all know how that turned out for a 'certain person', don't we?

Wasn't it in a bunker under the East Wing that he hid when the nasty people had a protest outside the White House?

Which was nothing at all like Iranian leaders hiding in bunkers when the USA was dropping bombs on them, if only because the protesters didn't drop as much as a sparkler or a squib.