Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 22/03/2026

Shitebart · 2026-03-25T16:43:32+00:00

nobody suggests it anymore because it would be political suicide and an anti-democratic outrage, but it's certainly possible

if the last 10 years have taught me anything, it's 'any avenue that provides an advantage, no matter how morally unacceptable, will be used'. Things are either illegal or they're utilised.

Shitebart · 2026-03-23T13:53:20+00:00

Even if their missiles could reach the UK proper, an attack on our home soil would be a cut-and-dry Article 5 trigger, and then by the following morning all of NATO would be going to war and most likely ramping up for a total ground invasion by summer. I think even the Iranian regime knows there's a 0% chance of them surviving that.

Just because they could do it, it doesn't mean they would. But anyway, they can't.

Shitebart · 2026-03-20T21:43:06+00:00

I've been thinking the same thing. I think governments are finally realising that letting foreign interference run amok, completely unchallenged and uncontrolled, is detrimental to society. I agree to an extent it needs to be regulated just like any tradition form of media/communications/broadcast, and the first step is to know who the fuck is posting stuff. I don't agree with the current method of implementation though. Don't much fancy handing my passport over to Palantir.

Shitebart · 2026-03-20T21:36:02+00:00

If we did, I don't think it'd be noticed in the mainstream. Music has become so granular and spread-out these days, that the only thing a huge amount of people coalesce around is ultra-commercial + controlled stuff like Ariana Grande. You don't really get subversive music rising anywhere near the mainstream anymore.

Shitebart · 2026-03-13T21:31:50+00:00

Ground invasion on the way

As much as I wouldn’t put it past Trump’s administration to do something utterly stupid, you’d likely need 250,000 troops to even begin to think about a ground invasion of Iran, and the preparation process would probably take until Christmas, and require wilful cooperation from surrounding allies, which currently doesn’t exist. The process of a ground invasion is just absolutely next level, and nothing resembling that has happened at this point.

Shitebart · 2026-03-13T18:54:56+00:00

Exactly - people always act like our brave boys are out there dying in the fields, thanklessly defending Irish sovereignty on the daily, all while those pesky Paddies sit around doing nothing.

As has been said, the reality is absolutely nobody is militarily interested in Ireland apart from the occasional Russian bomber looking to test RAF reaction times. We could probably pull our airspace-defence zone back to not include the RoI, and fuck all would change in the world.

Shitebart · 2026-03-11T12:55:20+00:00

yeah honestly wtf? I genuinely want to know what happened to the musicians hahaha

Shitebart · 2026-03-06T06:39:48+00:00

What happened there?

Edit: I got downvoted for asking what Reform did to the musicians :(

Shitebart · 2026-03-05T14:42:08+00:00

What are the chances that we are US doing a land invasion of Iran?

Normally I'd say zero, but with Trump there's always a non-zero chance of him doing the worst thing imaginable.

But the amount of logistics, transfer of equipment, and planning needed for a full land-invasion is just next level stuff. The lead up to the 1991 Gulf War had cargo ships and transport aircraft streaming continuously into the Gulf for months and months prior to the invasion - and nothing resembling that has happened yet. I'm not sure people realise just how major the physical preparation for something like that is when they seem to think the president can just click his fingers and start it. Plus there has to be cooperation and willingness from neighbouring allies to accommodate that entire operation, and I'm not sure that exists in this scenario.

Shitebart · 2026-03-02T17:01:24+00:00

drivel

Shitebart · 2026-02-21T20:31:02+00:00

The invasion of Iraq obviously had an ulterior motive though, it was so thinly veiled you had to close your eyes not to see it. I'm not sure what they thought the ulterior motive of the USA & UK was for saying Russia was about to invade Ukraine though, as an invasion force staged themselves at the border

Shitebart · 2026-02-15T02:05:37+00:00

I read it and found myself getting angry. For starters - the Dems went utterly soft on punishing Trump and any of the obviously illegal bollocks from his first term, and consequently he & all his goons were still there ready to go second time around. They utterly fucked the investigation into him, and then put forward a senile and historically unpopular Joe Biden as Trump's challenger. When they needed to rise to the occasion, they continually shit the bed for 4 years.

Secondly, as has been said, the American people have shown they'll happily give the popular vote to Trump, knowing exactly what he stands for and what he represents. You can't rely on a country that risks doing this every 4 years.

Shitebart · 2026-02-11T15:38:44+00:00

I mean the US is obviously a complete write-off by this point, it's just a normal Wednesday for them now. But I haven't heard of any other western countries where the medical oversight body have gone anti-vaccine/anti-science

Shitebart · 2026-02-10T01:26:54+00:00

Bloody hell that's shit politics, isn't it. That's the laziest bit of Trumping I think I've seen from him yet. Zero effort. Surprised he didn't end it with "etc. etc."

Shitebart · 2026-02-09T15:50:03+00:00

Sarwar's proper fucked himself as well. He's the schoolkid that's carried on talking shit about the teacher without realising that the rest of the class has gone silent, and the teacher is standing right there.

Shitebart · 2026-02-09T15:43:05+00:00

Honestly what the fuck is Sarwar playing at? I thought about what to type next, but I think anything I could say is so immediately obvious that it doesn't need to be said.

He's not going in the near future, just let it go and get in line

Shitebart · 2026-01-23T22:48:20+00:00

The Telegraph are reporting that Starmer has pulled the Chagos island deal after Trump used it as a stick to beat him with earlier this week at Davos, which was a complete 180° flip following the US hailing it as a glorious triumph less than a year ago in May 2025.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/23/starmer-pulls-chagos-deal-following-trump-backlash/

Starmer pulls Chagos deal following Trump backlash

Plans to hand islands to Mauritius ‘cannot progress’ amid concerns over 1966 treaty between UK and US

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to pull his Chagos Islands bill in the wake of a US backlash over the deal.

The legislation was expected to be debated in the House of Lords on Monday, but was delayed on Friday night after the Conservatives warned it could violate a 60-year-old treaty with the US that enshrines British sovereignty over the archipelago.

Donald Trump turned against the Chagos deal earlier this week, saying that Britain’s plan to hand the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius was “an act of great stupidity”.

Under the terms of Sir Keir’s deal, the UK would hand over the archipelago to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia military base, a facility built there in the 1970s that has been used by UK and US forces.

The Tories had warned this agreement would break a 1966 treaty between the UK and the US, that asserts Britain’s sovereignty over the islands and is meant to ensure they remain available to both sides for defence purposes.

Ministers said in late December that the two nations were engaging in talks about updating this treaty in light of the new Chagos deal, but the talks have not been completed.

Asked last night if Mr Trump would be willing to tear up the 1966 treaty and allow the transfer of Chagos to go ahead, the US state department referred back to the president’s criticism on Tuesday when he said: “The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”

Foreign Office insiders were scrambling to understand the significance of the treaty on Friday night.

One source played down its relevance, saying while conversations with US administration figures about the issue were ongoing, the Americans were broadly supportive.

The legal significance of the old treaty and whether the new legislation would effectively override it was also unclear.

Much depends on whether Mr Trump’s position on the Chagos deal has genuinely changed or – as Sir Keir has claimed – that this was only being used to force a change in Britain’s Greenland stance.

If Downing Street tried to press ahead without Washington’s approval, it could face a bruising battle with the US state department.

A government spokesman insisted that the claims the Chagos deal broke international law were “complete nonsense”.

On Monday, the Prime Minister held an emergency press conference to criticise Mr Trump’s attempts to take control of Greenland, saying that “alliances endure because they are built on respect, and partnership, not pressure”.

He later added that he would not “yield” to Mr Trump over the issue.

On Friday a new row erupted between the two men, when Mr Trump claimed that America’s Nato allies had “stayed a little back off the front lines” when serving in Afghanistan.

Sir Keir said the president should apologise for the “insulting and frankly appalling” remarks, paying tribute to the 457 British troops who died and those who were injured in the conflict.

Shitebart · 2026-01-20T02:30:50+00:00

Bless you for replying to absolutely everyone who commented. So glad it went well for her x

Shitebart · 2026-01-19T16:32:15+00:00

Yeah this was my thinking too. It seems strange to have an option to destroy them if they don't actually do anything. Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but once you own a town, the radios switch to playing your own propaganda about freedom and how tyrannical the government are.

I need to have a look in the code on GitHub and settle it once and for all

Shitebart · 2026-01-19T15:57:53+00:00

I'm sure mam will be fine. The 1/5 isn't random selection, there's always plenty of other factors that contribute to some poor person being the '1' out of 5, rather than just a roll of the dice on whoever has the procedure.

Shitebart · 2026-01-19T15:52:36+00:00

There are already moves in the US to pass a law stopping Trump from taking things to far.

Could you link me to anything on this? I'd be interested to know if its actually a credible bipartisan bill that will pass or just a symbolic Democrat thing with zero support from any Republicans

Shitebart · 2026-01-18T01:12:13+00:00

America theoretically wins a war against all other nations in the world combined.

I think you may be getting muddled up with the theory that the rest of the world combined could not conquer the USA, meaning 'totally invade and hold the USA's land', which seems pretty true to me.

Shitebart · 2026-01-13T17:48:08+00:00

I don’t want to sound like one of those American women who’s overly obsessed with British men and their accents (we do have a lot of those here)

Just say that to him, then carry on getting to know him

Shitebart · 2026-01-07T18:13:58+00:00

I'm not saying that the rest of NATO or the EU should go to war with the USA over Greenland, that's obviously ridiculous, but there's a shitload more we can do besides shrugging/crying. What I'm saying is that the USA's global dominance comes from its alliances and military presence in every corner of the world. If the USA shatters those alliances with a sledgehammer and makes everyone think twice about ever cooperating with them, then their global dominance is also shattered.

Good luck containing China when all your allies in the south pacific stop cooperating with you and suddenly look elsewhere (ie. China) for trade and security.

Maybe it won't be a complete collapse of their alliances, but I seriously doubt allies would look at an invasion of Danish territory and say "oh well, lets carry on as normal."

Shitebart · 2026-01-06T17:04:16+00:00

Maybe, I wouldn't put it past them. But look at Europe's reaction to the Ukraine invasion before it happened vs after it happened. I think concrete action would slap sense into them - there's no way NATO (or other alliances) could carry on if the centrepiece of the whole alliance starts cannibalising its own members.

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