Harry's Farm has a video just out that talks about (after some dry stone wall chat) about the diesel and fertilizer price spikes
What do we reckon to the Russians ‘lending’ some of their hypersonic missiles to the Iranians for ‘trials’ just as the US Marine Expeditionary Force passes through the straits? It’s not like they haven’t had any notice.
Honestly if Hesgeth is actually planning on putting a MEU on Kharg island even if it is supported by the 82nd, it's going to be 1 pointless. The Iranians can just shut of the pipeline to the island, 2. a bloodbath: It's a very small island and easy to aim at, and 3. there are civilians living there, and they become your problem if you occupy the island.
I can't think that even he's that stupid. (which sounds like famous last words)
It seems that war isn't doing much for either President Trump's or Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity at home. Netanyahu has to push a successful budget through parliament in the next few days (31st) or face a snap election that he'd most likely lose. He's facing elections in October anyway and he needs to buy that time, so he is,
"That effort to avoid an early contest has included allocating funds to political allies to secure a majority vote for the budget in parliament..."
"JERUSALEM, March 25 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget and stave off early elections he would likely lose, with the war in Iran so far doing little to improve his standing in the polls." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-seeks-avoid-snap-vote-iran-war-gives-no-boost-polls-2026-03-25/
this war is not helping dementia don's blood pressure
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mhxevsgjek2q
He’s now just the online equivalent of that weird bloke at the end of the street who writes lots of letters to the local paper in green ink
this war is not helping dementia don's blood pressure
The irony is, he will have forgotten this by tomorrow.
Latest news from some US media is that Trump (because he has dementia, and they don't want him agitated) is being shown a daily 2-3 minute montage of [as one staffer put it] "stuff blowing up". Which is partly why he gets upset when the actual news broadcasters tell him about things happening that he has no idea about, because he has no idea that what he's seeing is faked.
Leader of the free world ladies and gentlemen...
Real Salazar energy there, then?
The irony is, he will have forgotten this by tomorrow.
Only realised he wasn't talking about the US until half way through reading that.
Long, but worthwhile read.
Long, but worthwhile read.
While I'm not going to try to defend targeting a school, that article is riddled with error.
It was that the people refining the technique of bombing stopped asking what the bombing was for.
This in a passage referring to WW2 'prescision bombing' errors and aiming capability were a well know problem after initially the USAAF thought that their systems were very accurate and realised that in fact they weren't. They very much stopped and asked what they were bombing, how they were bombing and its resulting civilian casualties. This is ahistorical.
Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits.
This is just plain wrong. A B-52 dropping high altitude sticks of Mk83 maybe, but that's not how the vast majority of bombs are delivered.
It was well reported that Barron Trump bought a significant amount of oil before the strikes on Iran started
The inner circles all profited from this war. Easiest money to make.
TBH, it’s not a new thing.
This wasn’t exactly how I remember WW2 played out in those ‘70s films so beloved by the gammonati.
Slop script, slop voice, slop graphics slop animation, please stop.
Half a billion made from one trade over the weekend just before Trump suggested that the Strait was going to be open.
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Al Jazeera reporting that around a million Iranians have been called up and are prepariny for the potential US invasion.
Let the fun begin.
Jeremy Bowen was giving an update on the situation on Radio 4 this morning. Trump is sending another 10,000 troops to the region, to invade a country that has never been successfully invaded, with very good reason. Looks like boots on the ground is imminent. We'll see how that plays out when the body bags start arriving back in the US.
He was also reporting that Marco Rubio is apparently the only sane voice, who's urging caution, unlike Hegseth and all the other gung-ho loons who are itching for a ground war.
So much or no more wars Trump. Sounds like all these MAGA nutters have undergone a Damascene conversion and now fancy a blood-soaked Middle East quagmire to call their own. You've got to take your hat off to Netanyahu. He's been incredibly successful in getting these idiots to do exactly what he wants
Let the fun begin.
I'm guessing it's been the prologue up to this point.
Glad I have a bit of savings for when I lose my job soon.
You've got to take your hat off to Netanyahu. He's been incredibly successful in getting these idiots to do exactly what he wants
Bin Salman -of journalist dismembering fame- is also pushing hard for Trump to take out Iran with more bombs & troops, I reckon he sees himself as taking a big chunk of Iran for Saudi
I read an interesting article this morning that brought some reality to the potential success of the last few weeks of bombing Iran to surrendering - whilst USA/Israel may have been using even biglier bombs than in previous USA bombing of foreign lands .. those previous ones proved none too successful in hindsight, despite the initial claims. And what makes bombing Iran so difficult is the geography of the land (very mountainous fortress surrounding most of the country, and also the fact they have been preparing for this for decades).
As USA and Israeli bombs increasingly kill civilians and family members of those recently protesting against the Iranian regime, then regime change looks increasingly unlikely as the country will very likely come together against USA and Israel.
Its impossible to see how America fixes the damage Trump has done. Heads will literally need to roll to serve as lesson for any future corrupt takeover of the USA.
Glad I have a bit of savings for when I lose my job soon.
Hopefully they're safe.
Was surprised to see my portfolio is only down 6%..... Fear that might change soon.
Iran are trolling....
Among all the props handed out to the Iranian SM team, can we not lose sight of the fact that they are in fact part of a murderous Theocratic dictatorship that has warned its citizens all of just a few days ago that protesters taking to the streets will be shot on sight?
thanks
then regime change looks increasingly unlikely as the country will very likely come together against USA and Israel.
listening to a podcast a couple of days ago, the Iranians being interview (admittedly ex-pats). most of whom were in touch with family back home were more than aware that still the biggest threat to them was the regime, and not external forces.
I'd imagine that the number of Iranians killed by American and Israeli bombing is a drop in the ocean compared to the number their own government have killed. I doubt the regime would let the fact that they're at war distract them from murdering tens of thousands more of their own citizens should they feel they need to, to keep themselves in power. Their goal here, with regard to the Americans, Israelis and their own populace, is simply survival. Survive and they're 'won'
they are in fact part of a murderous Theocratic dictatorship
Nothing at all like the US then?
As Pete Kegsbreath holds a prayer meeting calling for "overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy"
Yeah, religions are great.
can we not lose sight of the fact that they are in fact part of a murderous Theocratic dictatorship
As opposed to the murderous far-right dictatorships executing the war against them? Lets be honest, in any comparison between the people governing US, Iran and Israel, which ones look like the most sensible, restrained, and grownup?
I see a Thai flagged cargo vessel has been hit and run aground while trying to transit the strait. Iran allowed a Thai tanker through a couple of days ago.
So an accident that they hit it? Or they (or somebody else) did it deliberately.
Either way, not exactly safe passage.
Nothing at all like the US then?
As opposed to the murderous far-right dictatorships executing the war against them?
It doesn't need comparing with anything, it's just a fact. Just because the USA has acted illegally and they're lead by a demented narcissist doesn't prevent pointing out the obvious problem with the Iranian regime.
As opposed to the murderous far-right dictatorships executing the war against them?
As with so many conflicts, there are no 'good guys' here
I dont aim to get into conspiricy stuff but makes sense kind of.
Plus i suspect the attack on Cyprus was a false flag, and even the long range towards The Diego Garcia base seems a bit of a waste of their resources.
Plus the Americans seem to be doing everything they can to bring the UK into this war with stories on how England could be hit by an Iranian missile.
Either way, not exactly safe passage.
A mate has spent his life working in corporate insurance of the type needed to insure, say... a fully laden oil tanker. He said that there's no way on earth that any insurance company on the planet would touch you for sailing one through there at the moment. It doesn't matter what Trump and co have to say on the matter, the presence of escort ships, or finding a crew prepared to do it, it ain't happening.
was a false flag,
Re the ambulances..... I wouldn't put it past either Israel or the Septics having set them alight.
I dont aim to get into conspiricy stuff
Don't then.
No need - there's plenty of home grown british nutters who will do it "for fun".was a false flag,
Re the ambulances..... I wouldn't put it past either Israel or the Septics having set them alight.
A mate has spent his life working in corporate insurance of the type needed to insure, say... a fully laden oil tanker. He said that there's no way on earth that any insurance company on the planet would touch you for sailing one through there at the moment. It doesn't matter what Trump and co have to say on the matter, the presence of escort ships, or finding a crew prepared to do it, it ain't happening.
Unfortunately the neoliberal doctrine is when the markets fail, the public pays, I wouldn't be surprised if governments start guaranteeing/"insuring" shipping through the straight to get oil flowing.
On the tanker insurance I imagine you aren't going to sail unless the insurance would cover not just the cost of the tanker and it's cargo but also the loss of revenue while you find a replacement. I've never actually tried to buy an oil tanker but I imagine it's slightly harder than buying a new car.
Dunno about that: https://www.shipsforsale.com/sv/ships/shipid/73/last-och-tankfartyg_8_tankos?S_ID=22
It's probably more expensive than buying a new car, but I reckon a wheelbarrow full of cash, a longer beard and a merry crew of salty dogs and I could be on my way to being a blockade runner.
I wouldn't be surprised if governments start guaranteeing/"insuring" shipping through the straight to get oil flowing.
The US have been setting up an insurance system. No one seems willing to test it though and it might just be a trump fantasy whilst taking a break from acing the dementia test for the nth week in a row.
Apparently Lloyds and co are willing to insure its just the premium weighting is roughly the same as a car insurer would apply to a teenage boy who has already had a ban for drink driving and another for dangerous driving asking for insurance on a ferrari.
in any comparison between the people governing US, Iran and Israel, which ones look like the most sensible, restrained, and grownup?
Is the answer: the one that murdered 30,000 of its own citizens for the temerity to protest?
I could be on my way to being a blockade runner.
Buy a narrower one that can fit through the Suez canal and you'll have the Europeans begging for your services
yeah, You can insure these ships, but the Iranians are still going to ****ing sink them and sunk ships aren't any good at carrying things.
The US have been setting up an insurance system.
Is that an actual thing or one of an endless stream of lies.
irrelevant anyway because the security risk is too high
I see the French are the first to publicly come out and say to the iranians 'hey, this is **** all to do with us, its those mad bastards, so can we get some ships through please?'. I'm sure they won't be the last.
This is Trump destroying the alliances that have existed since the second world war in real time. It won't be long until America has no friends left. The looming economic crisis, needlessly caused by their mindless idiocy, will make sure of that
Er... aren't the G7 meeting in France today? That'll be an interesting chat.
On the tanker insurance I imagine you aren't going to sail unless the insurance would cover not just the cost of the tanker and it's cargo but also the loss of revenue while you find a replacement. I've never actually tried to buy an oil tanker but I imagine it's slightly harder than buying a new car.
Would they not also have to pay something for retrieving the wreck and "cleaning up" a million barrels of crude oil washing up on the shores of the littoral states? I don't know about this kind of stuff.
Or maybe a million barrels of oil washing up on UAE beaches is part of someone's ecocidal plan?
Is the answer: the one that murdered 30,000 of its own citizens for the temerity to protest?
Crikey ICE have been busy
Not really, but not as clear an air gap as you'd hope
It's like a fight between three ****s in the pub, they all need to lose
Er... aren't the G7 meeting in France today? That'll be an interesting chat.
they've sent Rubio he's the 'sane' one & is saying itll all be over soon...
Trump meanwhile is building up troops , so if netenyahu gets a sniff of America winding down he'll happily escalate things (see todays attack on a heavy water plant)
i am quite looking forward to Iran sharing more info on Patel's email hack.., coke n.hookers etc
Probably some Epstein / Starmer / Putin related information as well as the C&H online orders
The US have been setting up an insurance system.
Is that an actual thing or one of an endless stream of lies.
Yes, it's an actual thing. No, it isn't insuring anything because the conditions for it offering cover haven't been clarified yet.
It was expanded on 20th to include liability cover but conditions still hadn't been clarified,
The DFC and the U.S. Treasury unveiled the plan to deploy maritime reinsurance, including war risk, in the Gulf region, on March 9th. A few days later, Chubb was confirmed as the lead underwriter of the facility, which will insure losses up to approximately $20 billion on a rolling basis.
Chubb states that the offering will apply to vessels that meet eligibility criteria provided by the U.S. Government, and that the insurance coverage will only be available to ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz under certain conditions. It’s currently unclear what these conditions are.
https://www.reinsurancene.ws/chubb-reveals-structure-of-dfcs-20bn-gulf-maritime-insurance-facility/
President Trump told Iran that "They have to open up the Strait of Trump, I mean Hormuz" in the context of a joke rather than a slip.
Apparently, battering the world economy is a joke if your audience at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Miami is making money at the world's expense.
Is the answer: the one that murdered 30,000 of its own citizens for the temerity to protest?
Or is it the one that killed 70,000 (and counting) for the temerity to exist?
Is the answer: the one that murdered 30,000 of its own citizens for the temerity to protest?
Or is it the one that killed 70,000 (and counting) for the temerity to exist?
Give this was the question:
"Lets be honest, in any comparison between the people governing US, Iran and Israel, which ones look like the most sensible, restrained, and grownup? "
I'm quite surprised you're siding with the US. That's a departure from your usual position.
I'm quite surprised you're siding with the US. That's a departure from your usual position.
What on earth are you talking about? No. On second thoughts, don’t try to explain.
It's like a fight between three ****s in the pub, they all need to lose
It's really hard to decide who to support in this conflict....