Mark Burnley

SNAFU rings true as well.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Also remember Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s captivity was ended when the UK paid off a debt incurred in cancelling an order of Chieftain tanks in 1979, in case anybody wonders how long non-democratic countries remember things. My son’s kids will be dealing with the fallout of today’s war.

War causes refugees, refugees increase migration, increased migration leads to populism, populism leads to incompetent leaders, incompetent leaders lead to war.

You might find loops opening in season 2 of The Wire for example, but because the canvas was “crime in Baltimore” and not “global natural disaster plus Truman show and The West Wing” the loops might seem less jarring.

I can't verify this info is true, but if it is... HOLY SHIT.

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

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Trump will tell you there’s a lot of beachfront to develop in southern Iran.

The answer might be as simple as season one was written as a stand-alone with enough loose-ends to commission a new season, and season 2 was written knowing seasons 3 and 4 have the green light already.

The ep 4 dialogue about parenthood was *chef’s kiss*, the outcome was a Threads-level difficult watch.

Also - imagine if Ukraine had had, through this last year & *especially* through this last winter, even a tenth of the anti-missile defences (e.g. Patriot missiles) that Donnie Dumbpfo has now burned through shooting down Iranian drones during his 'Files? What Files?' Iran adventure. Slava Ukraini.

Brumgasam, obviously.

Let me see if I get this straight: the 'f*ck your feelings' crowd went to war with Iran based on....feelings? Got it.

Also, if a pilot gets shot down over Iran, there is currently no way of getting them back. Massive political cost if it happens, and they haven’t thought it through at all.

This was part of the reason for taking 12-18 months of faux UN resolution diplomacy and troop build-up pre-Iraq. It bought time to stockpile ammunition and scale production. A drop of the hat decision to go high intensity will fall apart.

If you punch someone while they’re down, you’re a cunt. This is a basic rule.

What happens if/when a US pilot get shot down over Iranian territory?

Is it really though? In the Falklands War, Type 42s and Type 22s had to team up because each could only do half an air defence job. What’s at Cyprus already plus a Type 45 is probably more capable than the entire Falklands Task Force.

“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.

Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...

But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

#beastmode

All bollocks this, spouted by a complete imbecile. The next state visit we put him in stocks and throw rotten food at him. K?

Parenthood in a nutshell. #Paradise

There will be regression to the mean when people figure this out. Both reminiscent of Corbynism.

Punch a stranger in the face, and then in your statement under caution claim that you prevented getting a black eye yourself because the stranger might have been punched by someone else.

Paradise, episode 4. Christ.

IFF should be a minimum for both Kuwait and the US. Something screwed up massively here.

If this is Threads, we’ve got until the middle of next week.

The only good thing about the current situation is that gas and oil prices shooting up again will make it abundantly clear that abandoning net zero and not totally prioritising renewable energy sources is a really very bad idea.

Armilla patrol - Wikipedia

Usually my dad was part of the Armilla Patrol, which was a complete bugger for us because it meant he was gone for 6 months. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armilla...