Agree, but from all I've seen he's even more far right than Trump ever was/is and from a European perspective it's unlikely to be any better for us.
Compared to the current lot, George W looks like a considerable statesman....
At this point I don't think that there's anything that we can be sure that he wouldn't do. He's unhinged.
As if we needed any more proof that he's a deranged, senile halfwit.Continuing his attacks on the Pope, and going so far as to do an AI image of himself as Jesus:
Trump slams Pope Leo as ‘weak’ and posts picture of himself as Jesus healing the sick
President claims ‘if I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican’ in Truth Social tiradewww.independent.co.uk
And he makes Nixon look like a saint. Admittedly a low bar to clear there, but still.
I think he would have done.
I'm sure that there will be an American-labour contribution to those phones. All those "Made in China" labels aren't going to peel themselves off.
As you said, this is a story that has been peddled to Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump 1, and Biden. Only Trump 2 was addle-minded enough to not just say "Jog on".
Trump probably swallowed Israel's line against CIA advice too, just as he did with Putin's on the 2016 Russian interference.
Oh, no doubt about that at all. The CIA (and every other intelligence agency) told him that Iran was, if anything, years away from having working nuclear weapons before he pulled out of the JCPOA. And that was the somewhat compos mentis version of DJT!
I'm guessing almost all his Truth Social posts are done by someone else, as while he has form for verbal ramblings, I can't see him writing all those up. You can take anyone of these and then finish with "PARKLIFE!" and it would make more sense.
Though to be fair, both probably realised they had far more to lose than Trump does and, equally, though both Pius XI and XII condemned the excesses of the regimes, the general establishment of the Church (not solely applicable to the Roman Catholic Church) was almost certainly a lot further to the right than it is today.
I dunno, I actually think they are him.
How do they get to the ports without first passing through the Strait?
You can pass through the strait if you‘re not going to Iran, according to their various garbled announcements. It seems highly theoretical, unless they board and control the course of every passing ship.
I more meant how does the US Navy get its ships to the Iranian ports without passing within range of a country that they're currently involved in a
Do the Iranian's have anything that could potentially damage a US warship? Surely anything they have would be easily picked up and defended against?
That's what the Black Sea fleet thought.
I suspect they still have hundreds, if not thousands of Shahed drones. While one or two would be easily fought off, a large swarm might prove able to do some damage. A US capital ship might prove too tempting of a target to pass up.
A few thousand of those drones they have may be enough to give them a scare
Ah, I see what you mean. The Americans must know the risk though, they nearly lost the Stark to a rubber boat years ago. You get the impression that Trump hasn’t thought this through…
