# Bingo squares for tonight's State of the Union Address **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 24, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943 "2026-02-24T23:55:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/21 "2026-02-26T23:37:06Z")
It’s bad if you like truth and not chest-beating embellishment. > [@](#): > > A pattern emerges across all eight cases. Trump’s interventions often coincide with short-term de-escalation, publicized ceasefires, or diplomatic ceremonies. In several instances, trade leverage or sanctions were used to push parties toward talks. These actions can reduce immediate violence and may prevent wider war. > > However, conflict resolution scholars distinguish between ceasefires, armistices, negotiated frameworks, and comprehensive peace settlements. None of the cases above meet the criteria of a fully implemented, legally binding peace agreement that addresses root causes and creates durable enforcement mechanisms. > > Moreover, in some theaters particularly the Middle East and Central Africa conflict has continued or re-intensified after U.S. involvement. In others, such as Russia-Ukraine, no settlement has been reached at all. > > The record therefore suggests that Trump has played a role in crisis management and diplomatic engagement across multiple conflicts. But describing these outcomes as “solved wars” stretches the definition of resolution well beyond conventional diplomatic standards. > > In most cases, the more accurate characterization would be temporary stabilization, partial truce, or ongoing negotiation not durable peace. > **[Has Donald Trump Really “Solved” Eight Wars?](https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/02/24/has-donald-trump-really-solved-eight-wars/)** > > U.S. President Donald Trump has asserted that his diplomatic interventions since returning to office have helped resolve or de-escalate eight major international conflicts. ---
**Author:** ![BobEmbl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BobEmbl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobEmbl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/22 "2026-02-27T12:44:29Z")
Well, to stop a war, first you must stop the fighting. OH NO a fascist chaotic moron is stopping fighting worldwide! What an awful thing to do! The ‘Conflict Resolution Experts’ (Chosen for their exceptional cases of TDS) think trump is insane and unable to three logical words together, but is doing what they could not do for generations. The fact is that the national and international pandemic of TDS and TOTAL lack of objectivity has made your arguments sick jokes. If the Democrats had not ruined their credibility with their desperation to keep Trump of office (think Russia, Russia, Russia and Lawfare) and to silence anyone who dared oppose the ‘hive mind’, I might be inclined to consider what you have to say. But what I know is there are fewer wars, with less dead bodies all over the world. That’s a good thing, but the Democrats treat it like he has committed crimes against humanity. If at some point the corporate media could find one or two good things Trump did and report positively about them them and him, I might be tempted to consider your arguments, knowing that if he did do something good they would say so. But no, we get unmodulated TDS, and you expect that THIS time, they will know we really mean it. At least Fox News calls him out on his shit sometimes. The corporate media and academia continue to pour out undiluted H eight against the democratically elected President of the United States of America. So what is an impartial viewer to conclude? Wars stopped and fewer dead bodies, or the blathering of formerly credible commentators spewing the same Shiite that we have all gotten accustomed to. No matter who the deranged fascist is, I’ll take the fascist who stops wars and helps people live and thrive than the fascists who support war and killing. Clearly someone is lying and I don’t believe it is Trump this time. The key to getting me back into the progressive fold is to tell the truth about SOMETHING good that Trump has done so that I can know you’re not given over completely to TDS. People are dying and the Progressives don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/23 "2026-02-27T16:20:56Z")
> [@BobEmbl](#): > > Well, to stop a war, first you must stop the fighting. OH NO a fascist chaotic moron is stopping fighting worldwide! What an awful thing to do! Less fighting, less bloodshed, less death, is _always_ better. Full stop. Trump claimed in the SotU was literally, “In my first 10 months, I ended eight wars.” Not de-escalated tensions that had not become full-blown wars, not got the parties to the table to talk, but **ended eight wars**. The link I shared above shows that, yes, he and his government did make a difference in some of these, but that not all of them were wars, and in many cases – especially Ukraine and Gaza – he only got them to partial truces or no truce at all. What I have a problem with is Trump’s exaggeration about what he actually did, to make it sound even better, and to make himself sound even more amazing. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/24 "2026-02-27T16:45:41Z")
But he’s the humblest person on earth [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-C4j4ilP0lk/hqdefault.jpg "Donald Trump: I'm a modest person") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C4j4ilP0lk) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/25 "2026-02-28T07:44:41Z")
> [@BobEmbl](#): > > But what I know is there are fewer wars, with less dead bodies all over the world. That’s a good thing, but the Democrats treat it like he has committed crimes against humanity. This did not age well. > [@](#): > > The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, American and Israeli officials said, following weeks of threats by President Trump to launch a major assault. > > Massive explosions resounded in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where residents also reported seeing smoke rising from the district where the presidential palace and the National Security Council are. The attacks began on Saturday morning, the first day of the Iranian workweek, as millions of people were at work and school. > > U.S. officials say they expect the latest strikes to be far more extensive than the American attack last June, which targeted three separate Iranian nuclear facilities. Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes from bases and aircraft carriers around the Middle East, one of the U.S. officials said. [https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/26 "2026-03-01T04:14:30Z")
Not to mention reports that one of the places bombed was a girls’ elementary school. > **['More than 100 children' dead in US and Israel strike on Iranian school, Iran...](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/iran-school-children-killed-strikes-us-israel-hundred-dead/106402152)** > > Vision has emerged of crowds of people searching through the rubble of a girls' elementary school in the city of Minab in southern Iran. Iranian authorities say a US and Israeli air strike killed more than 100 children. ---
**Author:** ![BobEmbl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BobEmbl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobEmbl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/27 "2026-03-01T13:19:27Z")
Clearly you are not aware of the attacks on girls’ schools by the Islamic regime. Poison gas was distributed into the schools and then the schools would be shut down ( [New Stanford Report on School Poisonings in Iran | Iranian Studies](https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/news/new-stanford-report-school-poisonings-iran) ). It is certainly unfortunate that a school was destroyed. It is not impossible that the school had military applications (that’s a war crime: Using civilians as a human shield). There is also a possibility that the Iranians destroyed the school themselves to generate the headlines you cite. Clearly the mullahs will do ANYTHING to stay in power, including destroying Iran if they are deposed. I think the mullahs reserve the right to kill tens of thousands of its citizens. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/28 "2026-03-02T04:38:07Z")
And now, in response to Israel and the U.S. attacking Iran, Hezbollah has launched missiles into Israel from Lebanon, leading to Israel launching rockets into Lebanon. > [@](#): > > The Lebanese president, **Joseph Aoun** , has said rocket attacks on **Israel** on Monday hurt his government’s efforts to spare **Lebanon** from a regional war. > > “The launching of missiles from Lebanese territory this morning targets all the efforts and endeavours made by the Lebanese state to keep Lebanon away from the dangerous military confrontations taking place in the region,” Aoun said in a statement, cited by AFP. > > The Iran-backed Hezbollah had earlier claimed responsibility for launching rocket and drone attacks on Israel on Monday in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader **Ayatollah Ali Khamenei**. Can we strike one off of Trump’s claim of ending eight wars now? > **[US-Israel war on Iran live updates: conflict spreads to Lebanon as IDF...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/02/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-tehran-lebanon-beirut-hezbollah-dubai-latest-news)** > > Iran-backed Hezbollah says it launched rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/29 "2026-03-02T11:11:55Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Not to mention reports that one of the places bombed was a girls’ elementary school. It is well known amongst men\* and boys of all ages, that “girls have cooties”. \* and geriatrics ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2026, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943/30 "2026-03-03T01:51:46Z")
So just another part of cleaning up the region, then, eh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bingo-squares-for-tonights-state-of-the-union-address/1027943.md?page=1)