Goodnight, and good luck youtu.be/Zr4xlgZqQkg?...
Speaking of ground troops, time for a geography lessonπ€
The magnificent Iranian plateau is super rugged with massive northeast & southwest running mountain ranges with both ice and (rare) salt glaciers but also two expansive salt deserts (one being one of the hottest spots on earth)
Kyiv is under ballistic missile attack.
Very loud explosions.
Deep night.
Nothing new, but the sounds are still awful.
Kyiv under attack tonight
AP: Drones struck energy infrastructure and facilities of U.S. contractors in Basra in southern Iraq. The drones targeted a compound housing foreign oil company offices and warehouses, triggering fires at facilities linked to U.S. energy services firms.
Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports.
Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."
Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.
Irish Examiner weekend edition #TomorrowsPapersToday
Irish Daily Mail front page #TomorrowsPapersToday
NBC: Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
The Guardian: Trump demands Iranβs unconditional surrender #TomorrowsPapersToday
The B1 bomber is capable of carrying cruise missiles
BBC 10pm news reports a βgiant U.S. bomberβ has arrived at a UK airport
Daily Telegraph: Putin helps Iran attack the U.S. #TomorrowsPapersToday
Pres. Obama at the Jackson service:
"We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day, we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions."
"If we don't step up, no one else will. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him."
#TomorrowsPapersToday The National in Scotland
CNBC: Dow falls 450 points, posts worst week in nearly a year as oil tops $90, jobs data disappoints
Wales playing with heart #SixNations #IrevWal
Realpolitik
Weekend FT: Qatar warns Gulf will be forced to halt exports of oil and gas βin daysβ #TomorrowsPapersToday
Saturday press preview #TomorrowsPapersToday
Petrol pump prices β½οΈ 6.3.26
Former President Obama giving oration at Jesse Jacksonβs memorial celebration of life in Chicago
Update: Ghanaian UNIFIL forces in Lebanon were attacked today and there were casualties. Irish troops are providing support after the attack. Defence Forces have condemned the attack
Defence Forces in Dublin say all Irish UNIFIL peacekeeping troops in Lebanon are safe and accounted for
π¨ Brent crude oil price hits $90 a barrel
Wall Street opens lower π
Cuba next?
Trump posts there will be no Iran deal without an unconditional surrender
All eyes on Wall Street open to see how markets react to this and growing energy shock/war fears
CNN: U.S. economy lost 92 thousand jobs in February, worse than expected.