[saynay]

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]

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]

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.

[cosmicgadget]

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?

[swasheck]

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]

> 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.

[marcosdumay]

What exactly do you want people (who exactly?) to have predicted that they didn't?

[croon]

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/255784560904773633

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/379717298296086529

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-greenlan...

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cia-venezuela-maduro-regim...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-wish-for-more-f...

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/end-f...

What politics do you listen to daily?

[throwtyy]

The million dollar question is how america occupies Greenland.

As always Europe does nothing

[k12sosse]

America attacks Greenland? Europe liberating bases on their soil would be the obvious response