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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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  • "A ​whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website, in a statement directed at a nation that takes pride in ​being one of the earliest centres of civilisation, dating back thousands of years into antiquity.

    "However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds ⁠prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World."
    - Reuters, 4/7/26

    Seriously feeling sick right now. He’s doing all of this simply because he wants to be known for being responsible for “one of the most important moments in the […] history of the world”

  • in reply to profdanger

    It’s beyond horrific! 

    His primary concern is himself.

    The trouble is that nobody knows if he is serious or not because he often changes his mind, talks gobbledegook and tells many lies. At the same time he could be deadly serious.

    Somebody on the radio said that the only way that he could wipe the entirety of Iran out would be to use nuclear weapons. 

    Imagine being part of a family in Iran right now, perhaps one of the many people who have spent their lives seeking a peaceful existence. What must be going through their minds right now? 

    I don’t know how the political system in the US works but I wish there was some way of putting that man under lock and key because he is out of control and extremely dangerous, primarily to Iran today but also to the world. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    But the US has the 25th amendment to remove a President if he is unfit for office but there is slim chance of this happening according to press reports. I agree with you on his many social media posts that push alternative reality to its limits. It really is frightening. Of course Iran would fight back and close the straight, they announced it  last June.

  • in reply to LucyLandRover
    LucyLandRover said:
    the US has the 25th amendment to remove a President if he is unfit for office but there is slim chance of this happening according to press reports

    A pity if there is only a slim chance. 

    Some of the MAGA cohort have become uncomfortable with his rhetoric although the hardliners aren’t wavering.

  • in reply to LucyLandRover

    It always surprises me that the American governments are so surprised when people fight back, I mean do they really think others will just roll over belly up and surrender?

    I hope the ceasefire holds it's very fragile, Israel needs to stop bombing Lebanon and Iran needs to open the straits of Hormuz, if they'd have said give us a couple of days to get mine sweepers out and clear it, it would at least be seen as justified in keeping them shut. But I fear they're drunk on the power of still having a military capable of doing something and America and Israel seemingly unable to stop them.

    Now that the price of oil's coming down I wonder if all the petrol stations that were putting thier prices up on a daily or twice daily rate will be as eager to bring them down again? Somehow I suspect not.

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  • in reply to LucyLandRover

    It always surprises me that the American governments are so surprised when people fight back, I mean do they really think others will just roll over belly up and surrender?

    I hope the ceasefire holds it's very fragile, Israel needs to stop bombing Lebanon and Iran needs to open the straits of Hormuz, if they'd have said give us a couple of days to get mine sweepers out and clear it, it would at least be seen as justified in keeping them shut. But I fear they're drunk on the power of still having a military capable of doing something and America and Israel seemingly unable to stop them.

    Now that the price of oil's coming down I wonder if all the petrol stations that were putting thier prices up on a daily or twice daily rate will be as eager to bring them down again? Somehow I suspect not.

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