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Stop being so literal. The point is that allowing someone to use your runway to commit an illegal act makes you culpable, but you know that. And you've got to be pretty daft to believe that Netanyahu is the saviour of the middle East, that Donny is the saviour of the world, and that Iran are so anti Israel that they'd be willing to see their entire nation and people wiped out.

It was an analogy that people with a Trump esque moral compass wouldn't understand.

That's a right mixture of sense and stupid. Agreed re article 5. I'm not sure of your point re 4, 6 and Trump because you went off at a stupid tangent and didn't explain. 6, arguably, means the bases are outside of scope as when NATO became a thing, Cyprus was geographically not in Europe but Turkey coming into NATO probably makes that a moot point. Article 4 may help there though. Re your Trump/Starmer point (rent boy hard on FFS, you're not 12). I think the issue on the back of Trump's latest dig at Starmer isn't about us not helping others, it's about Trump storing up another resentment and having an excuse not to give us the benefit of any doubt.

Happy with that line up, although I'd have played Stephens - seems little point playing the rest of your preferred back 4 but leaving one man out. They've put a decent side out today though, but I reckon we'll give them a good game.

The faux outrage is because it's brown people on horses. It's nothing more complicated than that.

Course

The only thing these blokes were "draped in" was brown skin. Let's have a direct and relevant comparison - if they were just two white blokes on horses, nobody would give a monkeys.

What's odd is the outrage. Sure, it's weird, and some Scouser claims that they'd been out of order, but people don't get arrested for riding a horse.

Explain what you see that isn't there mate...

The video shows two blokes trotting around on horses, and another bloke claiming that they were chasing people. They may well have done, but the video doesn't show anything.

Sauna's.

Bruises

Do you not use red? Prices gone nuts round here. 168 at one of the Romsey garages yesterday.

Boring

Take the keyboards away, and I reckon you two would get on like a house on fire. He'd be a hybrid of uncle Albert from only fools and Ness from Gavin & Stacey regailing you with unbelievable tales of chance meetings and life experience. You'll be so blown away you'll want to adopt him as your own Uncle SoG, and want to build an annex so he can come and stay a few times a year. It'll be lovely. As for me and Hypo, feck knows how that'll go.

It was never a bad thing that he wanted to know what the actual plan was. It was also right to question the legality given that a) the independent assessors had said that Iran were nowhere near nuke capability and b) there was no imminent threat to the US (and frankly no threat at all. Once Iran started going mental and pinging drones and missiles everywhere, Including towards British interests, supporting the defence of that made sense. He was bang on about not using our runways for the initial strikes though. They were illegal and unjustified, and would have been akin to lending someone your car to go and do a drive by shooting.

Hungry

Seaman

I'm not sure what winning looks like to Israel. Gaza isn't over, and Lebanon never was. They love a war of attrition. The US public, and global economy, won't.

A small price to pay for the already safe Israelis to be safer. Or something.

I think this war on Iran will trump lt big time.

This is Trump! He's pretty much said the only rules are the direction of his moral compass. Don't expect consistency.

I meant in terms of being a war time president possibly meaning no mid terms.

The impact on the US economy, and beyond will be grave. The petrodallar and US debt are joined at the hip. I haven't really considered how a long term war could help Donny perhaps being able to swerve the mid-terms, but I wonder if there's a selfish political angle that outweighs the US economy.

Without a ground invasion, Iran will put whoever it wants in charge. The longer it goes on the more that will be necessary if the US want to win, but the longer it goes on the more the global economy, in particular the US economy, is decimated. Quite what Trump really wants I'm unsure though, but it definitely isn't the best for the people of Iran.