US Election & Presidency

British Airways not flying to UAE for the rest of the year it was announced mind you if you were going there i would use there carriers as they are much better than British Airways

My guess is it'll be finished when Iran is bombed into submission

Several news outlets reporting that US intelligence is seeing indications that Iran has begun to mine the strait of Hormuz

^ How are they doing that. They don't have any ships or planes. Trump says so.

Inactive.....rrrrright

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ridiculous...


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...35850.html

(10-03-2026 20:34 )Charlemagne Wrote:  ^ How are they doing that. They don't have any ships or planes. Trump says so.

Apparently they are using small boats that only carry about 2-3 mines each

They don’t even need real mines. They could be out there with Wile E. Coyote’s ACME Mine kit. It doesn’t matter. … Only the threat of mines is enough to disrupt shipping through the strait, which will drive up the price of oil, which will prolong the economic pain for everyone…

On the upside, it’s a little fun to watch MAGA eat itself on social media.

Cargo ship on fire in strait of hormuz after being hit by unknown projectile crew have been evacuated

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who serves on The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on twitter:

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

Here's what I can share:

Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.

But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.