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Trump Rebukes Starmer?

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mae13 Tue 03-Mar-26 11:42:46

Well, I never!

It seems Sir Keir's efforts as regards Iran just simply aren't good enough for Mister President.

That's gratitude for you.

Sueinkent Tue 03-Mar-26 22:55:36

Oreo

Elegran

Oreo

Freya5

Elegran

In an international situation it is of course international law which applies. It is no use telling a foreign head of state that Uk law says they can't do that in a third country. They would laugh in your face. The fact that Trump is as likely to ignore international law as he is to ignore the constitution of his own country is not a reason for Starmer to throw away the international lawbook. He is pretty keen on UK law, too, unlike some politicians.

International Law. Let's wait and see how many other countries Iran attacks, just for the hell of it, even their next door neighbours, who had done nothing.Where was International Law, and Starmer, and the EU, when Iran thugs were murdering their own people. They cried for help, Starmer and his cronies denied them.
As soon as this evil regime has gone the better.

Freya
Absolutely! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sure, Let's all pile in and bomb each other to oblivion. What fun! Just press the button and enjoy the fireworks. Who is volunteering for the suicide missions?

Or would you rather criticise everyone else for not volunteering ?

That’s just silly.
Iran is not just a terrible regime to its own people but a real worry to not only Israel and surrounding region but to the world as it encourages and arms terror groups.Now it’s getting close to having nuclear capability and was enjoying playing cat and mouse with the talks, which were never going anywhere.
What’s happening now is necessary.

You do realise Israel finances Hamas and has owned up to doing so according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz? Besides which, it is up to the Iranians to remove their own government. No one else.

Sueinkent Tue 03-Mar-26 22:50:55

Who cares what the psychotic moron thinks? It’s one of the first good things Starmer has done.He shouldn’t have let the Yanks use our bases either.

Oreo Tue 03-Mar-26 22:48:41

He’s a ditherer.Has no sense of vision and just reacts to things.
That’s why he does all the u turns.He’s no leader.

Meandrogrog Tue 03-Mar-26 22:43:06

Oreo

Elegran

Oreo

Freya5

Elegran

In an international situation it is of course international law which applies. It is no use telling a foreign head of state that Uk law says they can't do that in a third country. They would laugh in your face. The fact that Trump is as likely to ignore international law as he is to ignore the constitution of his own country is not a reason for Starmer to throw away the international lawbook. He is pretty keen on UK law, too, unlike some politicians.

International Law. Let's wait and see how many other countries Iran attacks, just for the hell of it, even their next door neighbours, who had done nothing.Where was International Law, and Starmer, and the EU, when Iran thugs were murdering their own people. They cried for help, Starmer and his cronies denied them.
As soon as this evil regime has gone the better.

Freya
Absolutely! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sure, Let's all pile in and bomb each other to oblivion. What fun! Just press the button and enjoy the fireworks. Who is volunteering for the suicide missions?

Or would you rather criticise everyone else for not volunteering ?

That’s just silly.
Iran is not just a terrible regime to its own people but a real worry to not only Israel and surrounding region but to the world as it encourages and arms terror groups.Now it’s getting close to having nuclear capability and was enjoying playing cat and mouse with the talks, which were never going anywhere.
What’s happening now is necessary.

Yes it is necessary and Starmer should be supporting it but he is a cautious lawyer!

Oreo Tue 03-Mar-26 22:15:37

Elegran

Oreo

Freya5

Elegran

In an international situation it is of course international law which applies. It is no use telling a foreign head of state that Uk law says they can't do that in a third country. They would laugh in your face. The fact that Trump is as likely to ignore international law as he is to ignore the constitution of his own country is not a reason for Starmer to throw away the international lawbook. He is pretty keen on UK law, too, unlike some politicians.

International Law. Let's wait and see how many other countries Iran attacks, just for the hell of it, even their next door neighbours, who had done nothing.Where was International Law, and Starmer, and the EU, when Iran thugs were murdering their own people. They cried for help, Starmer and his cronies denied them.
As soon as this evil regime has gone the better.

Freya
Absolutely! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Sure, Let's all pile in and bomb each other to oblivion. What fun! Just press the button and enjoy the fireworks. Who is volunteering for the suicide missions?

Or would you rather criticise everyone else for not volunteering ?

That’s just silly.
Iran is not just a terrible regime to its own people but a real worry to not only Israel and surrounding region but to the world as it encourages and arms terror groups.Now it’s getting close to having nuclear capability and was enjoying playing cat and mouse with the talks, which were never going anywhere.
What’s happening now is necessary.

LizzieDrip Tue 03-Mar-26 20:46:32

Ditto👏👏👏

Doodledog Tue 03-Mar-26 20:36:58

Elegran speaks sense, as usual.

Wyllow3 Tue 03-Mar-26 20:36:09

Yes, tops.

Smileless2012 Tue 03-Mar-26 20:31:52

Great post Elegran.

Wyllow3 Tue 03-Mar-26 20:29:02

Well Trumps latest today is that they are at war because Iran was going to attack the US directly. thats different from yesterday.

His team are struggling to keep up with the narrative.

I'm glad that posters have stopped telling us how good it is for the Iranians to be bombed to shreds.
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Elegran Tue 03-Mar-26 20:24:33

Meandrogrog

Elegran

Meandrogrog

Iam64

Ridiculous comment Meandrogrog

In your opinion.

In the opinion of everyone who has more than half a braincell and knows that he who lives by killing will die by being killed.

Being famous for taking whatever you want by force doesn't help you find support when you want that, or sympathy when your grabs don't succeed.

But what if it does succeed and he rids the world of an evil regime?

By acting against his own constitution as well as international law, as well as alienating all his former friends and allies, appointing incompetent, aggressive and lawless bootlickers as ministers of state in his own country and invading or bullying other countries in the hope of getting billions of poundsworth of their resources and then expecting to get a peace prize for it, accepting gold-plated gifts from countries who want favours from him, and lying to his own countrymen umpteen times a day, he is proving himself the head of a regime every bit as evil.

Why should anyone help him in his ambition to wreck everything he has a hand in, from the White House that has housed many Presidents worth twenty times the honour that he deserves, to the health of the physical world of nature's wonders that he inhabits?

LizzieDrip Tue 03-Mar-26 20:17:30

Evil regimes need to be stood up to. Trump is right about this

Why has Trump not stood up to Putin in the same way🤔

Casdon Tue 03-Mar-26 20:14:52

He does care about his golden curtains, his ballroom and renaming everything that he can think of after himself, and golf, but that’s about it, as far as I can discover.

Smileless2012 Tue 03-Mar-26 20:11:38

He's not doing this to stand up to an evil regime, he doesn't care about the citizens of Iran anymore than he cares about the citizens of America,

Meandrogrog Tue 03-Mar-26 19:56:18

LizzieDrip

Meandrogrog

Starmer should have supported Trump, he is weak and not fit to be PM.

So, Meandrogrog I presume you’d be happy to see British pilots dropping bombs on Iran and, if it comes to it, British boots on the ground in Iran?

Evil regimes need to be stood up to. Trump is right about this.

AGAA4 Tue 03-Mar-26 19:55:15

I believe Starmer actually does care about the British people and doesn't want to see lives lost.
It's clear that Trump doesn't give two hoots for those Americans who have been killed because "that's the way it is".

LizzieDrip Tue 03-Mar-26 19:46:25

Meandrogrog

Starmer should have supported Trump, he is weak and not fit to be PM.

So, Meandrogrog I presume you’d be happy to see British pilots dropping bombs on Iran and, if it comes to it, British boots on the ground in Iran?

J52 Tue 03-Mar-26 19:09:08

Well he did remember Starmer”s name. In the clip I saw he couldn’t remember the name of the islands he’s so annoyed about.
Chagos - in case he’s on GN!

MartavTaurus Tue 03-Mar-26 19:07:19

NotSpaghetti

Oreo he'd agreed use for defence before I posted earlier.
I assumed we all knew that.
Sorry

How can we be absolutely sure that that is what he will do, though? He is such a loose cannon that who knows whether he will stick to what he says. I don't trust him.

NotSpaghetti Tue 03-Mar-26 19:03:03

Oreo he'd agreed use for defence before I posted earlier.
I assumed we all knew that.
Sorry

Iam64 Tue 03-Mar-26 18:59:18

Smileless2012

Supporting Trump would have been weak.

It would have been weak and just wrong to support an illegal war. I accept we are allowing use of our bases on a defensive basis but I imagine others may see it as complicit with the US illegal war

Trump has proved himself to be erratic, to say one thing and do another, to bully, to behave like he’s running a shoddy property development company, or tv reality show, when in fact his responsibility to his country and the rest of the world is immense. He isn’t the slightest bothered by his job description, the video Casdon shared of him rambling about the drapes, his love of gold is nauseating. It gives the measure of the man

StoneofDestiny Tue 03-Mar-26 18:30:10

Trump has changed his reasons for attacking Iran several times now! You couldn't believe a word that comes out of Trumps mouth. If anybody thinks Trump actually cares about ordinary Iranians - just look at how much help and care he has given to ordinary Palestinians - and indeed to vast swathes of people in the US.

StoneofDestiny Tue 03-Mar-26 18:27:05

How many conflicts will Trump engage in just to distract from the Epstein files and the world finding out about his behaviour with him.

Casdon Tue 03-Mar-26 18:26:52

This is the level on which he operates, it’s quite terrifying.
www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goes-off-script-medal-214953272.html

Fallingstar Tue 03-Mar-26 18:24:47

Tuliptree

I just can’t believe that anyone can think that anything involving DT will turn out well He and his SofS are giving different reasons for why they acted. There’s no plan for other the here and now or the future . And it won’t be DT and his henchmen who will suffer.

I agree. And though the Iranian people must have hoped Trump and Netanyahu would liberate them I don’t think either leader are giving this as a reason for the war now. Indeed pinning down an actual reason is like knitting water. And Iranians are now trying to leave Iran due to the bombing causing a new refugee problem which I hope those who have spoken out in favour of the war will see as a humanitarian crisis which means the UK should take some of said refugees.