This is genuinely extraordinary: https://t.co/bCioDPpxC4
Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is."
He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly."
He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."
This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies.
Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons.
I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1
Nobody warned me,
So Mandem I’m warning you,
Do not sneeze while you’re pissing,
Your willy will fall off,
I’m going hospital now with my willy in my pocket,
The wife’s livid.
F’s in the chat.
Glad is the world and fair this night
With stars about its head,
And the hall is filled with laughter and light,
And fires are burning red.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Doncaster Elections 2025
Let me be perfectly clear, the English Devolution White Paper published last week will have NO impact on the Doncaster 2025 elections.
This is yet more #misinformation & political games from the former @Conservatives MP for Don Valley.
NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. https://t.co/UUxYqpTF72
Someone heckles Keir Starmer about the mass slaughter of children in Gaza.
Starmer laughs and suggests he got his pass from the 2019 Labour conference.
Genuinely vile behaviour.