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Better start saving for next winters fuel bills

TheCatWoman

Today petrol has jumped by 2p a litre on the forecourt, gas has almost doubled in price so we can expect a deepening of the cost of living crisis. Thank you very much to Donal Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu....not.

Ok nobody I know liked the regime in Iran, but just blowing them up was never going to work, did it not occur to them that the Iranians would fight back? The clerical regime in Iran is just as entrenched as the Catholic Church, you wouldn't expect to blow up the pope and St Peters in Rome and have no one to take over. I'm sure the Iranian regime has just as much structure and fall backs as the Catholic Church does. Now we all seem to be getting dragged in, I'm really pleased Starmer said NO to Trump using our bases, there's no legal basis for this war and I suspect that as ever America just wants us along to help with the death toll, it's about time a British PM didn't follow the US blindly into its foreign wars.

Whats even worse, is that from everything they keep saying, they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends.

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  • in reply to profdanger

    Encouraging to see.

    I have listened to some political commentators saying that Arab countries would feel let down by Trump after agreeing to allow US bases on their land for protection. Instead they have become a target for missiles from Iran, and despite promises from the US that they would effectively protect, they haven’t stopped all attacks from killing and injuring innocent people and damaging buildings. Even if the war stops now, it is going to be a long time before tourists want to go to these countries. Trump doesn’t seem to have considered that. 

    Countries who have traditionally relied on the US as an ally now consider it an unreliable partner. I hope politics can change dramatically after Trump and that international relationships will be conducted in mutual respect. 

    A poll in the UK a day or so ago shows that the public here think the US is more of a threat to world peace than China is. I’m sorry I don’t have the source as it was something I heard in the radio. 

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  • in reply to profdanger

    Encouraging to see.

    I have listened to some political commentators saying that Arab countries would feel let down by Trump after agreeing to allow US bases on their land for protection. Instead they have become a target for missiles from Iran, and despite promises from the US that they would effectively protect, they haven’t stopped all attacks from killing and injuring innocent people and damaging buildings. Even if the war stops now, it is going to be a long time before tourists want to go to these countries. Trump doesn’t seem to have considered that. 

    Countries who have traditionally relied on the US as an ally now consider it an unreliable partner. I hope politics can change dramatically after Trump and that international relationships will be conducted in mutual respect. 

    A poll in the UK a day or so ago shows that the public here think the US is more of a threat to world peace than China is. I’m sorry I don’t have the source as it was something I heard in the radio. 

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    It has the potential to spiral into a world war, one missile was shot down by the NATO system after entering Turkish airspace. The article said if Tükiye decided to, they could call on NATO for defence then all NATO countries could be dragged in. 

    Trump is saying the same things that Putin did in his illegal invasion of Ukrainian. 

    I can't mention the other one without becoming over emotionally angry so I will just hold my tongue.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    It makes the argument for less reliance on oil and more investment in renewable energy increasingly urgent. There’s no point in having oil when our access to the biggest sources is cut off because the US and Israel have a notion to go to war illegally and without a plan.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I just hope that whatever president comes after Trump will focus the entirety of their career on rebuilding trust with our allies.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    If I lived in a country next to Iran I'd be wondering the same thing.

    I agree Trump is a bigger threat to the world than China, or pretty much anyone else, I might put Israel up there with Trump, Netanyahu is just as bad.

    I think America has proved itself an unreliable ally since the Trump presidency.

    I suspect Trump will think that everyone can go to America rather than anywhere else, just as we can buy oil and gas from them too.