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It was pretty obvious he was wanting to enter a conflict with someone, and was mostly held back in his first term by the actual professionals in his cabinet at

by saynay 5mo ago

It was pretty obvious he was wanting to enter a conflict with someone, and was mostly held back in his first term by the actual professionals in his cabinet at that time. But the guy wanted a military parade with tanks rolling through DC on his birthday, wanted to nuke a hurricane, and forcibly annex Greenland. It isn't really surprising that once he replaced the sane people with sycophants, he would start something.

marcosdumay 5mo ago
Or, more specifically, by 2020 he was sending military boats to attack Iranian targets and trying to force Russia to respond. He only stopped because of COVID.
- cbdevidal 5mo ago
  If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted. Maybe someone did but I didn’t hear it, and I listen to politics daily. Expressing a desire to take Greenland but not actually doing so was a move out of his book Art of the Deal.
  - throwtyy 5mo ago
    The million dollar question is how america occupies Greenland. As always Europe does nothing
    - k12sosse 5mo ago
      America attacks Greenland? Europe liberating bases on their soil would be the obvious response
  - marcosdumay 5mo ago
    What exactly do you want people (who exactly?) to have predicted that they didn't?
  - swasheck 5mo ago
    it was patently obvious. people were just blinded by xenophobia as the primary issue facing the nation and they bought it, peripheral consequences be damned
  - ajross 5mo ago
    > If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted People absolutely predicted Trump military adventurism in the 2024 election cycle! It failed to break through in the media because of a deliberate reflection attack that leveraged a bunch of leftie memes about Biden/AIPAC/Israel to pretend that it was really the democrats who wanted endless war. So that's what low info voters heard on their televisions. But the smart people in print were 100% warning about this kind of thing.
  - cosmicgadget 5mo ago
    You knew airstrikes and Maduro ops were on the table from his first term (e.g. Soleimani). You knew his idea of negotiating vehicle lease terms starts with "I will burn this dealership to the ground if I don't get my way!" (Art of the Deal). What did you think was going to happen when he actually encountered serious people?
  - croon 5mo ago
    https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/379717298296086529 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/379717298296086529 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399731975432728576 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399731975432728576 These were 13 and 14 years ago. His patterns became obvious in his first term and reaffirmed during his second and third time running. Even more specifically, these examples were all before the 2024 election: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-could-try-buy-greenland-once-more-1878583 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-could-try-buy-greenlan... https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-plot/ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regim... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-wish-for-more-federal-reserve-control-could-impact-economy-if-hes-reelected https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-wish-for-more-f... https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/end-federal-reserve-we-know-it https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/end-f... What politics do you listen to daily?

by saynay 5mo ago

marcosdumay 5mo ago

Or, more specifically, by 2020 he was sending military boats to attack Iranian targets and trying to force Russia to respond. He only stopped because of COVID.

cbdevidal 5mo ago
If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted. Maybe someone did but I didn’t hear it, and I listen to politics daily. Expressing a desire to take Greenland but not actually doing so was a move out of his book Art of the Deal.
- throwtyy 5mo ago
  The million dollar question is how america occupies Greenland. As always Europe does nothing
  - k12sosse 5mo ago
    America attacks Greenland? Europe liberating bases on their soil would be the obvious response
- marcosdumay 5mo ago
  What exactly do you want people (who exactly?) to have predicted that they didn't?
- swasheck 5mo ago
  it was patently obvious. people were just blinded by xenophobia as the primary issue facing the nation and they bought it, peripheral consequences be damned
- ajross 5mo ago
  > If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted People absolutely predicted Trump military adventurism in the 2024 election cycle! It failed to break through in the media because of a deliberate reflection attack that leveraged a bunch of leftie memes about Biden/AIPAC/Israel to pretend that it was really the democrats who wanted endless war. So that's what low info voters heard on their televisions. But the smart people in print were 100% warning about this kind of thing.
- cosmicgadget 5mo ago
  You knew airstrikes and Maduro ops were on the table from his first term (e.g. Soleimani). You knew his idea of negotiating vehicle lease terms starts with "I will burn this dealership to the ground if I don't get my way!" (Art of the Deal). What did you think was going to happen when he actually encountered serious people?
- croon 5mo ago
  https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/379717298296086529 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/379717298296086529 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399731975432728576 https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/399731975432728576 These were 13 and 14 years ago. His patterns became obvious in his first term and reaffirmed during his second and third time running. Even more specifically, these examples were all before the 2024 election: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-could-try-buy-greenland-once-more-1878583 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-could-try-buy-greenlan... https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-plot/ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regim... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-wish-for-more-federal-reserve-control-could-impact-economy-if-hes-reelected https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-wish-for-more-f... https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/end-federal-reserve-we-know-it https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/end-f... What politics do you listen to daily?