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Replying To updwell:  "People here have been telling you what Trump was like but you just ignored us. Welcome to the light, it isn't just 'looney lefties' Biden supporters or Democrats here that have a problem with Trump but ordinary straight thinkers who don't aren't left leaning or right leaning but just say what they see is wrong with Trump and his weird friends."
Very well said. Up to recently we were all deranged Trump haters, Democrats or worse . I am a pensioner living in a rural area. My meagre personal pension is being eroded again and I am wondering if I can afford to drive anymore. All we have being trying to do is point out what effect the ill thought out actions of this wannabe dictator are having on the outside world.

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 2167 - 23/03/2026 13:59:54    2662535

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Replying To updwell:  "People here have been telling you what Trump was like but you just ignored us. Welcome to the light, it isn't just 'looney lefties' Biden supporters or Democrats here that have a problem with Trump but ordinary straight thinkers who don't aren't left leaning or right leaning but just say what they see is wrong with Trump and his weird friends."
Israel were intent on this anyway. Would make no difference who was in Oval Office.

Same as it made no difference when Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden.

Which is pretty scary. Trump promised to get away from all that. He did complete uturn.

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4100 - 23/03/2026 14:40:54    2662558

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "Israel were intent on this anyway. Would make no difference who was in Oval Office.

Same as it made no difference when Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden.

Which is pretty scary. Trump promised to get away from all that. He did complete uturn."
Barney, you are a pretty wise old owl. Do you really take anything that that particular person says seriously ? Gives a 48hr deadline, gets hit back with a bigger threat, says, oh oh, talks are going well we will pause this assault for 5 days. Iranians ask - what talks ?? What other world leader has ever conducted diplomatic relations and items of vital strategic and national interest never mind foreign policy decisions over his very own social media platform.

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 2167 - 23/03/2026 15:29:22    2662582

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President Trump sounds confident today he can settle the war with Iran, hopefully he does.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3779 - 23/03/2026 19:06:55    2662671

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "President Trump sounds confident today he can settle the war with Iran, hopefully he does."
If you believe that you will believe anything. He said that just to calm the markets. Some cronies will have made a fortune out of this again but when reality sinks in that the war is going to go on ,the markets will crash again and the price of oil will soar once more. Trump thought this war would be over in 3 days , kill the Supreme Leader, and the whole regime would collapse. But the Iranians have been preparing for this for the last 20 years and (despite what you will hear all the propagandists claim) have enough firepower to keep going til at least the mid-term elections. Time is on their side. It has been a monumental misjudgement by Trump. The only way this war will finish early is if Trump declares "victory" without achieving his stated war aims cos if he wants to get regime change he will have to authorize a full invasion and send tens of thousands of American troops there for months and probably several years.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2121 - 24/03/2026 00:19:32    2662731

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Replying To SouthGalway:  "Cuba intrigues me. What happens if Communism there falls? Do the people that fled to Miami and other places come back to claim what they used to own?"
I would say they are in two camps, people who still have family there or people who fled who would not be welcome back, same question in Iran, quite a lot of those who fled had been part of a regime that exploited and terrorized the people, revolutions happen for a reason. With Cuba, I doubt if its the Cuba's who would be first there anyway, most likely it will be American real estate companies looking to buy up everything cheap helped by a Government installed to benefit American interests.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 2187 - 24/03/2026 01:00:47    2662733

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "If you believe that you will believe anything. He said that just to calm the markets. Some cronies will have made a fortune out of this again but when reality sinks in that the war is going to go on ,the markets will crash again and the price of oil will soar once more. Trump thought this war would be over in 3 days , kill the Supreme Leader, and the whole regime would collapse. But the Iranians have been preparing for this for the last 20 years and (despite what you will hear all the propagandists claim) have enough firepower to keep going til at least the mid-term elections. Time is on their side. It has been a monumental misjudgement by Trump. The only way this war will finish early is if Trump declares "victory" without achieving his stated war aims cos if he wants to get regime change he will have to authorize a full invasion and send tens of thousands of American troops there for months and probably several years."
We are blessed to have all you experts on current affairs and geopolitics on these forums, the ordinary man hasn't a hope of having the level of understanding of these things the likes of yourself has.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3779 - 24/03/2026 10:36:46    2662773

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "If you believe that you will believe anything. He said that just to calm the markets. Some cronies will have made a fortune out of this again but when reality sinks in that the war is going to go on ,the markets will crash again and the price of oil will soar once more. Trump thought this war would be over in 3 days , kill the Supreme Leader, and the whole regime would collapse. But the Iranians have been preparing for this for the last 20 years and (despite what you will hear all the propagandists claim) have enough firepower to keep going til at least the mid-term elections. Time is on their side. It has been a monumental misjudgement by Trump. The only way this war will finish early is if Trump declares "victory" without achieving his stated war aims cos if he wants to get regime change he will have to authorize a full invasion and send tens of thousands of American troops there for months and probably several years."
In what way was Trump in any way qualified to come to that conclusion? What does he really know about Iran? Would he even be able to find it on a map? Does he think that if someone killed him America would collapse perhaps?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18871 - 24/03/2026 10:38:29    2662774

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In all honesty we can't believe a word of what he says..he changes his goal not every day but almost hourly..he has destroyed the Iranian army but yet they keep fighting back..he's having great conversations with Iran but according to him,all the leadership are dead..who is he talking to?
This is the man who was seen in Graceland signing a guitar,in the middle of a war.I gave up trying to make sense out of any of this

CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2662 - 24/03/2026 11:05:49    2662788

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "President Trump sounds confident today he can settle the war with Iran, hopefully he does."
Settle the war he started by stopping the attacks on Iran and claim Iran surrendered and agreed to demands. As everyone predicted.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8804 - 24/03/2026 11:32:17    2662793

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "We are blessed to have all you experts on current affairs and geopolitics on these forums, the ordinary man hasn't a hope of having the level of understanding of these things the likes of yourself has."
No bother at all. You are very welcome. If you sought out alternative news sources not just the narrative you are being fed, everything that has happened so far has been predicted by people whom you wont hear on RTE, BBC, or any of the US corporate networks. Mearsheimer, Sachs, Col McGregor and many others have been saying for at least the last 2 years that if the US/ Israel declared all out war on Iran that they would close down the Straits of Hormuz and send the world economy into a tailspin. They havent been wrong yet. But some people dont want to know, particularly the cabal in the current US administration.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 2121 - 24/03/2026 12:10:11    2662818

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Replying To CTGAA10:  "In all honesty we can't believe a word of what he says..he changes his goal not every day but almost hourly..he has destroyed the Iranian army but yet they keep fighting back..he's having great conversations with Iran but according to him,all the leadership are dead..who is he talking to?
This is the man who was seen in Graceland signing a guitar,in the middle of a war.I gave up trying to make sense out of any of this"
In all honesty you can't believe a word of what anyone says in my experience.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3779 - 24/03/2026 12:29:14    2662826

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All you educated chaps on here that know everything about everything hadn't the wit to know that once Iran was attacked the Strait of Hormuz was going to be blocked and the price of oil was going to sky rocket.
I bet that great man in the White house and his cronies as you call them were well ahead of the game and made a monetary killing from it, also the Russians are profiting big time selling their oil at higher prices now.
These fellas you all love to hate may just be very smart men behind the bluster that confounds the woke types.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3779 - 24/03/2026 12:36:40    2662831

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Replying To PoolSturgeon:  "No bother at all. You are very welcome. If you sought out alternative news sources not just the narrative you are being fed, everything that has happened so far has been predicted by people whom you wont hear on RTE, BBC, or any of the US corporate networks. Mearsheimer, Sachs, Col McGregor and many others have been saying for at least the last 2 years that if the US/ Israel declared all out war on Iran that they would close down the Straits of Hormuz and send the world economy into a tailspin. They havent been wrong yet. But some people dont want to know, particularly the cabal in the current US administration."
Thanks very much for that, I watch too much of the RTE and BBC stuff, we are only getting one side of the story.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3779 - 24/03/2026 12:38:56    2662832

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