Originally posted by PHPaul: I'm pretty sure it's unrealistic, but just for the sake of discussion, what would happen if we dumped NATO and pulled ALL our shit out of ALL of Europe?
How much would it impact our defense posture?
(If this is inappropriate for this thread, apologies and please delete or move it.)
Trump didn't even invite NATO to have a seat at the war council table. That should tell you how important Britain and NATO are to American security needs. It's time for the USA “to say 'to Hell with Great Britain' (and NATO). You guys are on your own. And if you can't or won't protect yourselves and your cultures, then learn Arabic and bow to the east in prayers.”
Trump has been one of the most anglophile of American Presidents, and their TDS hatred has gotten the better of them. Trump is resetting the world's chess board, and NATO can't even play checkers. So continue to spew vitriolic bile and suck up to the new overlords and masters from Europe’s own former colonies.
Iran Is Merely a Chess Piece in a Much Bigger Game Kurt Schlichter
Let’s get real about what this latest iteration of the until-now endless Iran War is all about. There’s no imminent threat. That assertion is a pacifier to the weak-kneed and timid. Last June, we set the mullahs back years in their quest for nukes. They have a metric butt-load of ballistic missiles, rockets, and drones, but they weren’t going to fire them off unless we attacked them. After seeing Sulemani turned into sushi, and their nuclear weapons program neutered like a Bulwark job applicant in one fell swoop, they weren’t about to restart throwing fists as long as Donald Trump was in the White House. Note that the word is “restart,” not “start,” as the cynical liars and historical illiterates insist. We didn’t start this war. The pagan freaks started it 47 years ago when they took our people hostage, and continued it when they killed our Marines in Beirut, our embassy workers, our Air Force folks at Khobar Towers, our troops in Iraq, and so on and so on. They started this war; we’re merely finishing it.
But why are we finishing it now?
It’s simple. Donald Trump is resetting the entire global gameboard. He’s playing 4-D chess, with the Fourth Dimension being time. This is the long game, and we finally have a president playing to win.
And it’s not all Iran. Iran is merely one piece of a much bigger whole. Understand how momentous this undertaking is. President Trump is changing the world as we have known it for the last 50 years – scratch that. Make that the last 80 years. When he is finished – which comes after many of our major foes have been finished – the world will look very different, and we will be back on top as the undisputed unipower in a unipolar world. When this is done, Donald Trump will be the most consequential president since Ronald Reagan; it’s something to be tied with the Gipper, who reset the board by defeating the Soviet Union without a shot (at least, without an acknowledged shot between Americans and Russians). From what’s happening in Europe to what’s happening in the Middle East, and elsewhere, Donald Trump is changing the game. He is no longer kicking the can down the road. He’s going to kick the tails of our enemies (and, figuratively, our allies)by changing how the United States does business.
How has the United States done business for nearly a century? It has restrained itself and allowed itself to be restrained by others. Until now, it has never fully flexed its muscles. After World War II, the United States was a megapower. Yes, the Soviets had nuclear weapons, and that put them sort of on par with us, but they never had the strategic reach that the United States had. The Soviets could never move a half-million Americans and their heavy combat equipment to the other side of the world, then move it all into another country and wipe out its entire army (the fourth largest in the world) in 100 hours. I was part of that during Desert Storm. Nor did the commies have the economic power we had. As a reserve currency with an economy that dwarfed everyone else, we were it, the man, A-number one.
But we never used our power to its full extent. We were restrained. Part of it was voluntary. Our morally misguided ruling elite believed that, at some level, America was unworthy of its power and not trustworthy to wield it. They counseled restraint, and so we restrained ourselves. We allowed the Vietnamese communists to drag a war on for decades that we could have won in a year. We didn’t bomb Hanoi or mine its harbors (where the Soviet arms came in) until Christmas 1972. And when we did, we had a peace treaty by March 1973.
Of course, our trash foreign policy establishment and cultural left screamed about that. How dare Nixon do the thing that would win the war? After they got rid of Tricky Dick in the first iteration of Russiagate, they betrayed our South Vietnamese allies and let the North win – as our elite felt it should.
In Europe, we agreed to pick up the tab for defending Europe to get our allies back on their feet after WWII. That continued until Trump drew the line. The allies chose degeneracy, weakness, and to spend the money they saved, thanks to Uncle Sucker picking up the tab, on welfare and Third World invaders. Similarly, we never used our economic power. We gave trade deals that screwed our own producers to our allies – and others – to grow their economies. And we allowed ourselves to be restrained by international law, a mythical construction pushed by European globalists who were less interested in right and wrong than in making their lilliputian move by tying down the United States of Gulliver with rules and norms that bound only us.
Trump is not playing any of that. While the convoluted explanations and fake moralizing that attempt to justify hobbling the United States and preventing it from exercising its full power in the defense of its interest may appeal to the elite, normal Americans – of whom Trump is an avatar – don’t buy it, especially nearly a century after World War II ended when we nuked Japan (have you noticed how mad they get that we used that power to save hundreds of thousands of American lives?).
We took out Venezuela because it has been an enemy for a couple of decades and a thorn in our side, cooperating with our other enemies. We will soon take out Cuba for the same reason. No, they did not launch an overt attack at us lately for the same reason Iran didn’t. They are weak, and we are strong. So, what better time to attack? The usual suspects are making hilarious arguments that it’s wrong for us to attack weaker countries, as if this were some playground where we’re trying to steal their lunch money. Only an idiot fights fair; hitting them while they are weak, before they fix their defense systems, replenish their missile stocks, and build a hot rock is the best time to hit them.
It's another made-up “norm” that no one ever voted on that exists solely to restrain the United States from leveraging its power to promote its interests. When Iran goes, that deprives Russia of a key arms partner and lets us get our hands around China’s throat because the CCP’s oil comes largely through Iran. If you want peace, support regime change in Iran so we can control the fossil fuel spigot. China can’t invade Taiwan as long as we can turn off the gas.
Imagine the world that Donald Trump and his team imagine. The Europeans will start paying their own checks; maybe getting their allowance cut off will encourage them to get serious about preserving their culture. Even if they don’t, the fact that Trump did not even bother inviting them into the Iran fight shows they are totally irrelevant as far as actual power goes. We will have the Americas free of communist subversion for the first time since JFK shamefully wussed out at the Bay of Pigs, which additionally helps us domestically on drugs and immigration, while providing new markets for what we manufacture. In the Middle East, the regime that is the main force for destabilization in the region will be replaced by people who do not chant “Death to America!” and we can finally end the ‘forever wars” we hear so much tiresome whining about. We will never face a coterie of seventh-century savages with The Bomb atop a ballistic missile that can reach Kansas City – could you imagine that, because it was in the cards if the “adults in the room” had their way?. And Russia and China will have the military option taken off the table – no oil, no war. Then, when the delusion of conquest has dissipated, we can build a peaceful relationship.
Trump loves peace. That’s why he has gone to war. But more than that, he has totally rejected the perpetual cycle of failure and defeat that allows our enemies to persist for decades when we could have brushed them off our shoulders like dandruff. If you want peace, support Donald Trump and this war. If you want war, support the pinkos, traitors, half-wit podcast bros, and libertarians who support “peace.”
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March 04, 2026, 07:49 PM
parabellum
March 05, 2026, 08:10 AM
architect
quote:
Originally posted by SpinZone: I bet they made the invite fully expecting him to decline again.
Let the boycotting begin.
Wouldn't it be delightful if he offered the new WH ballroom as the venue for the dinner?
March 05, 2026, 09:54 AM
2Adefender
[/QUOTE]Wouldn't it be delightful if he offered the new WH ballroom as the venue for the dinner?[/QUOTE]
They will have to build it first.
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March 05, 2026, 10:43 AM
PASig
It would seem this operation against Iran is also accomplishing the cutting off of China's balls right now. Between Venezuela and Iran, the Chicoms are in a panic that their main sources of cheap oil are cut off.
People don't give this Prez enough credit for thinking 5 steps ahead especially the dumbass Democrats.
March 05, 2026, 11:41 AM
Cookster
Those dumbass demokRATS showed the country and the world who they really are at PDJT’s recent SOTU address.
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President Donald Trump said he must be personally involved in deciding who will lead Iran after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, arguing that the next ruler must break with the hardline policies that brought Tehran into conflict with the United States.
In an interview with Axios published Thursday, Trump said he intends to have a direct role in selecting Iran's next supreme leader, comparing the situation to his administration's intervention in Venezuela.
"They are wasting their time. Khamenei's son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela," Trump told Axios.
Trump said Mojtaba Khamenei, the slain leader's son and a powerful cleric with ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, appears to be the frontrunner to replace his father. But Trump made clear he would oppose that outcome.
"Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran," he said.
Trump warned that installing another leader who follows the elder Khamenei's hardline agenda could drag the United States back into conflict.
"If they put someone like that in, we'll be back at war in five years," he said.
The comments come as Iran's clerical establishment weighs its next move after Khamenei was killed during the escalating U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Tehran.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the country's supreme leader, has delayed announcing a successor, though officials have suggested a decision could come soon.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is widely viewed as a leading candidate despite never holding elected office, and his potential rise has raised concerns about a hereditary transfer of power inside Iran's ruling system.
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March 05, 2026, 12:30 PM
Tuckerrnr1
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Originally posted by 6guns: Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the country's supreme leader, has delayed announcing a successor, though officials have suggested a decision could come soon.
They don't want him to disappear.
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March 05, 2026, 12:51 PM
chellim1
Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Replaces With Markwayne Mullin
Aaaaaand, she's gone... Moments ago Bloomberg reported that Trump has named Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to replace Noem.
President Donald Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid growing frustration over her self-promotional leadership style and bruising congressional testimony this week, according to multiple reports.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) described Trump as "pissed," according to NBC News.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
March 05, 2026, 12:57 PM
6guns
^^^ That's some big news!
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March 05, 2026, 01:02 PM
Carpentermaass84
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Originally posted by chellim1: Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Replaces With Markwayne Mullin
Aaaaaand, she's gone... Moments ago Bloomberg reported that Trump has named Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to replace Noem.
President Donald Trump is preparing to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem amid growing frustration over her self-promotional leadership style and bruising congressional testimony this week, according to multiple reports.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) described Trump as "pissed," according to NBC News.
This is surprising as she appeared to be the most qualified person for this role.
March 05, 2026, 01:03 PM
old rugged cross
I am not going to throw her under the bus. She did fine. Trump will trust Wylde in terms of making moves like this. I like him (Mullin) and he will be good.
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March 05, 2026, 01:12 PM
gjgalligan
Big win for the democrats that were calling for this. Now they can brag the beat Trump down,
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when nobody is looking.
March 05, 2026, 01:15 PM
Pipe Smoker
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) described Trump as "pissed," according to NBC News.
Serious about crackers.
March 05, 2026, 01:42 PM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by gjgalligan: Big win for the democrats that were calling for this. Now they can brag the beat Trump down,
Just stop it
March 05, 2026, 01:51 PM
downtownv
Now do Bondi!
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March 05, 2026, 01:52 PM
oddball
Noem is still serving in the Trump administration as "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas", a new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.
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March 05, 2026, 02:43 PM
PASig
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Originally posted by oddball: Noem is still serving in the Trump administration as "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas", a new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere.
Yes...but that's the .gov equivalent of being made to be "flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong"
March 05, 2026, 02:57 PM
mttaylor1066
As I gather from decent sources, Noem spent $220 million on ads that featured herself… and told Congress that DJT knew about it and approved.
Apparently, the President did not and did not.
The ad buys were handled by an associate, once removed from Ms. Noem… which is how graft is handled in government.
IMHO, she did a decent job but was a relentless self promoter. This will be a tempest in a teapot for about 3 days.
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