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You can see the British Online Right getting more and more antisemitic as the war happens in real time

Cyprus raises doubts about future of British bases on island after drone strike Foreign minister wants ‘conversation’ about closing UK military sites following lack of warning of impending attack on RAF Akrotiri

Donald Trump going ape in the Middle East leading to yet another British colony being lost is an amusing side plot in this very dark timeline

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He seems like someone who mourns King Farouk

Lord Glasman, obsessed with Britain's model for the Middle East from 1950

Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.

"Shit, all the pensioners who were going to vote for us and mutter Soon No Pope about the SNP think we're anti-Catholic"

- Lord Offord, sometime this afternoon

"I dread even saying this... but I think that we've ended up in the wrong place on trans, and we've done that by treading very self-consciously and not actually following our hearts, which is that trans people are on the margins, they are vulnerable. "If the Labour Party doesn't look after trans people, what are we about? "They're most likely to get beaten up. They're the ones who are most likely to have prejudice against them. We should not be indulging in anything that marginalises them even more."

Emily Thornberry’s words on Radio 4 in response to the Green win in Gorton and Denton.

This is why wins like this are so important, whatever you may think of the Greens (much like the immigration rebellion brewing).

I think it's very bad to lose a grasp of which parties are threats to liberal democracy and which ones you merely don't like.

Well given we installed the father of the current Sultan's father and have sold them a lot of military hardware I don't think it's correct to say it's oil keeping us there, transition aside.

They requested the use of bases in advance, that's the reason Trump is chirpy on Chagos

Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

Make yourself feel slightly better, or at least differently depressed, about bleak global news by reminding yourself that Kemi Badenoch thinks the *only* reason Keir Starmer could possibly have had any concerns about this war is his electoral dependency on British Muslims.

Aye, which is why I said initially, because he changed his position (whether under duress we won't know for a few years)

Fundamentally don't trust people who enjoy this kind of content. It is my basest anti-militarist belief. The military is a tool you never want to have to use, not a photo op to show how ready and tough you are for killing foreigners.

Starmer's team make sure to squash any kind of respect I had for him initially refusing the use of bases and replacing it with disgust

You effectively need a British Indian Army style force to make it remotely feasible and why exactly would the IRGC officer corps suddenly rush to become US NCOs?

given how big Iran is (90M people!) and the terrain... trying to think of how many troops you'd require to successfully maintain order

We maintain relationships with the GCC countries because of their oil yes, none of this requires us to station troops there or indeed to be as accommodating to them as we have been, especially as we scale up renewables and nuclear.

The Cypriot colonies are for intelligence gathering and RAF power projection. The naval base at Bahrain was reopened due to the US's abortive pivot to East Asia. The reasons for Chagos are well known.

Rhodesians of Arabia

HMS Boglin is too mouldy to go to war (black mould, landlord will not reply to emails)

The second RAF planes start bombing Iranian targets, these guys will go one step further and so on and so forth. They want a success like the First Gulf War in a conflict that's like the Suez War.

This is all just Pax Britanica cosplay.

And by hook or by crook, they will see us occupy Qom!

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

*Aberdonians heard screaming in the distance

$150 a barrel....

Keir Starmer, John Healey, reject modernity, embrace tradition (Labour Ministers withdrawing East of Suez)

The idea that we can continue to play the traditional role of senior American vassal in the Middle East is fanciful.

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The credible left line on defence in the UK is we need complete and utter focus on the GIUK gap and providing support to allies in Eastern Europe resisting Russian tyranny.

It's actually really funny that we all thought she'd be gone by now and she's just...still there