With the Dow down and oil up Trump will reverse ferret, declare victory and leave everyone else to pick up the pieces.
Nothing to see here. He'll then do something else batshit crazy to move the news agenda on.
But it's easier to start a war than it is to finish it....
Tactical voting will be even more important next time because Labour have failed to deliver PR. Whatever happens we must not let RefUK form a Gov with just 25% of the vote.
For a dreadful moment I thought Jan was heading for the canapes!
Nobody is in any doubt Mr Graham that the US will flatten Iran from end to end but that will not change the regime or make terrorism less likely - in fact quite the opposite. You have learnt nothing from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya...
They are simply in the Tory default position of trying to look like Maggie Thatcher. At least Thatcher had a proper tank.
They are destroying the architecture of the 1945 settlement. A system that was created not just by enlightened liberal democracies but also Stalin because they new what the law of the jungle looks like. We are on a disastrous trajectory.
Trump's people describe the UK as a fake ally, we're not, we're very disappointed parents. 😒
Amongst your best photos. Happy Boys!
Button is acting very naturally. When they are home alone they feel insecure so he takes the high ground, a better defensive position and a place to look out for his humans. He's a good boi!
Hegseth & My Lai Lt Calley have something in common - no rules of engagement.
The thing here is that using the Kurds to bust apart the polity of Iran risks turning the entire country into a factionalised wasteland of civil war, a Syria on steroids and that will be a far worse outcome than the status quo.
Yep.
Just seen Mike Waltz on CNN saying that Trump attacked because the Iranian's were tapping the negotiations along and wasting time.
WTF do they think Putin has been doing for the last few years??
Desperately want Starmer to quip, 'we are clearly not dealing with FDR here.'
If you are going to do it, do it properly. The mud is the foundation, it the comb over slobber string on his snout which is the piece de resistance. 10/10 Jan.
Get in!
Ed and the Lib Dems get no media coverage at all and yet every week he stands up and makes the most accurate and telling comments in the Commons.
I think Starmer has just made a historic break with US policy which will, for good or ill, define the rest of his ministry. It also seems he has the vast majority of the House behind him.
Hegseth's live War Masturbation:
Warrior ethos, warfighters, lethality, hand wringing traditional allies (that's the UK), warfighters, lethality ethos, blah, blah..
But he doesn't have a plan.
Let's have a dig into this. So there are 10.7 million foreign born people living in the UK who RefUK want to remove the voting rights of. How would you do that? It would mean Nuremburg style blood laws, riots, forced repatriation and civil war. Dig a little deeper and it is always nonsense.
If China are serious about capturing Taiwan then they will never get a better geo-political window than now.
To watch out for:
1. Iran has 3 Kilo Class attack submarines which they will be trying to get a shot at the USS Abraham Lincoln with.
2. Closing the Strait of Hormuz. A mixture of missiles and midget subs could target oil tankers.
3. A mass missile saturation attack on an American base.
This is FDR ASKING Congress for the authority to declare war on Japan AFTER Japan had attacked Pearl Harbour in Dec 1941. Trump hasn't asked Congress for his actions in Iran. His actions are thus illegal.
Prediction:
The Iranian regime will be partially removed. Iran will balkanise into various Syria style armed groups. The death toll will be huge and it will go on for several years. The US will declare victory in a few weeks and move on to the next whatever.
The sweetest nature. Beau indeed.
Unpopular view but I'll say it:
Massive failure for the left in general if RefUK win despite overwhelming support for left & centre left parties. The fact that both the Grns & Lab are more concerned with each other than they are actual fascism says a lot.
Comedy aside, this is what happens when you embark on a series of gun boat diplomacy tasks without giving the lead ship a break. The USS G Ford has been in the Med, then the N Atlantic, then off Venezuela and now back to the Med without a break.
Well he wouldn't have been the sailor king if he hadn't got pissed up and jailed in Gibraltar.
Where is the proof that white working class boys are discriminated against? This is utter rubbish. It's just off the shelf far right victimhood nonsense. Everything about these people makes me want to 🤮
She's a genius.
The Hounds of Love album. The A side is a fantastic bunch of 80's pop songs and the B side, The Ninth Wave, is pure prog rock, and she pulls them both off on one record.
We are in the situation where I know, you, know, the government knows, everyone and his dog knows that we should be closer to Europe economically, militarily, and diplomatically and yet they refuse to do it because of the dwindling number pf phantom ex-Labour Brexit supporters. Madness.
I think she means National Socialist policies.
