@Daily_Express I opened your story on the Abraham Lincoln, I looked for a place to say what I wanted about you pushing Google on me!! I do my best to not use Google, it's a Monopoly and hard to do. I rarely use the search engine! Amazon, Meta, Walmart, Target are all companies I try not to Use!
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."
No one should be accepting any use of "preemptive" from either DC or Jerusalem. If it's a quote, put it in scare quotes and note that it's nonsense.
If you need a refresher, here it is, from my piece last June:
Four years ago I arrived at the Ukraine border within 24 hours of Russia’s attacks. From the start, we promised to stand with the people of Ukraine. We have kept our promise. Since 2022, our @wckitchen team has served more than 295 million meals to families surviving the war, from train stations and de-occupied towns, to cities under constant attack.
When heat and power go out in the cold winter…we bring hot meals. When supply chains break…we find new ways forward. We keep innovating alongside Ukrainians with our community kitchens, frontline food kits, and rapid response teams after strikes.
Today we honor all of the Ukrainians who make this work possible. We especially honor our friends, volunteers, and all humanitarians who lost their lives. Their courage demands that we keep cooking…and keep standing with Ukraine. #ChefsForUkraine
Irish rockers U2 becomes the latest high-powered musical act to condemn the federal immigration raids with the surprise release of a six-track EP that kicks off with a song for Renée Good. https://t.co/Jvuxxx6e1w