Gulf War No.37: Iranistan

[Dorset Boy]

In contrast, NBC haven't had an item on the 100+ schoolgirls killed by an Israeli missile attack. It's no wonder Americans seem to be bewildered and/or ignorant.

Oooop Brian, Auorasaab made you look a bit foolish and very one eyed up above!

 

[First Aspect]

I am reading that Iran has tend of thousands of stockpiled missiles and drones. Enough basically to carry onuch longer than either the US or Israel.

Trump has already expressed publicly that he's surprised that Iran has attacked it's neighbours.

What now?

 

[BoldonLad]

I am reading that Iran has tend of thousands of stockpiled missiles and drones. Enough basically to carry onuch longer than either the US or Israel.

Trump has already expressed publicly that he's surprised that Iran has attacked it's neighbours.

What now?

No idea of the fine details but:

The masses will suffer

The “wheeler dealers” will line their pockets

Religious idiocy will survive

No lessons will be learnt

On a local scale, this Friday evening, one of my drinking pals, who has been forecasting total collapse of the world order, for as long as I can recall, and, buying gold as a hedge, will be crowing about how much his hoard is worth.

The rest of the group will drink their usual quota, and, discuss football, women, how crap Windows is, the rising cost of council tax, and the demise of pubs.

😂

 

[Pblakeney]

To do whatever Israel tells them?

That is in game, not end game.
Unless the eradication of the Muslim faith is the end game.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oooop Brian, Auorasaab made you look a bit foolish and very one eyed up above!

Fair, though I should have been more precise and said it hadn't been mentioned at all on their Bluesky feed.

 

[AndyRM]

Lest we forget (because Donnie will have)...

 

[CXRAndy]

You need boots on the ground to have any hope of achieving that, and even then it is not likely to go they way you want as we have surely learnt over the last 20 years.

Or you need the people of Iran to rise up and take control of what is left of the Islamic regime.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Or you need the people of Iran to rise up and take control of what is left of the Islamic regime.

As every historian will tell you, there has never been regime change without boots on the ground. EVER.

 

[Dorset Boy]

From an L&G Update:
Ready reckoners from the Federal Reserve suggest that every $10 on oil prices adds 50bps to inflation and takes the same off GDP, with the impact on Europe likely to be nearly twice as big due to the dependence on imported LNG.

 

[briantrumpet]

As every historian will tell you, there has never been regime change without boots on the ground. EVER.

There was some historian on Bluesky yesterday saying exactly that: he'd studied *every* aerial assault since WW1 in detail, and that was *always* the case.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

In contrast, NBC haven't had an item on the 100+ schoolgirls killed by an Israeli missile attack. It's no wonder Americans seem to be bewildered and/or ignorant.

There is a campaign photo of Hannah Spencer on the Greens thread which has been proven as a campaign photo taken weeks ago. It is doing the social media rounds with far right bulls******* trying to claim it was taken after Khomeini's death and is her and two Muslim chaps observing a minutes silence for him. The people spreading it know what they are doing but the my guess is the people on the receiving end will be ignorant of the facts. What alarms me is the basic lack of fact checking by people. I can only assume if you fail to do so it is because you don't actually want the facts, just a version of your own 'truth'

 

[CXRAndy]

From an L&G Update:
Ready reckoners from the Federal Reserve suggest that every $10 on oil prices adds 50bps to inflation and takes the same off GDP, with the impact on Europe likely to be nearly twice as big due to the dependence on imported LNG.

Maybe they Europeans should put boots in Iran to stabilise the oil price. Whilst they're there, finish off the Islamic regime.

Kill two birds n all that

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I do think Starmer has done a more than competent job in handling Trump so far. However, have we now reached the point where Starmer and the rest of Europe can finally just tell him to f*** off?

 

[briantrumpet]

Eek.

 

[secretsqirrel]

From an L&G Update:
Ready reckoners from the Federal Reserve suggest that every $10 on oil prices adds 50bps to inflation and takes the same off GDP, with the impact on Europe likely to be nearly twice as big due to the dependence on imported LNG.

Oh that’ll end up being Rachel’s fault.