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@INArteCarloDoss He's misjudged the Persian people. They've withstood empires for thousands of years. However much they dislike their current regime, it's preferred to becoming US puppets like the Iraqis and others.

US is losing the war and Congress needs to step in. When a President starts to threaten the enemy with war crimes it comes when military options have been exhausted. Trump is now in a lose-lose situation : either he degrades US deterrence further or he commits a war crime.

@JChimirie66677 Andrew Neil is a master of pointing out the obvious in hindsight.

Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality. Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response. The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise. Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks. "Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."

@Khaledhzakariah He's corrupt.

Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the greatest leaders of our time. He warned everyone Iran was developing capabilities that would enable them to target Europe and Americans. For nearly two decades, they refused to this. Today, he's been proven right. I suspect the British government will send him their gratitude, and an apology? Baruch HaShem, the truth always prevails!

this poor woman was put on anti-psychotics because she kept saying there was a man in her loft. one problem: there actually was a man secretly living in her loft this is a plot to a horror novel i’m horrified lbc.co.uk/article/man-hi…

@chefsevenn Hearty.

describe this meal in just one word..

@MrMBB333 Look up the Pearl Jam album cover for Binaural.

WE’RE LOOKING TOWARD IT… MOST DON’T EVEN KNOW There’s a region in our sky where stars are forming right now. It’s called the Hourglass Nebula — and it sits in the direction of the Milky Way’s core. Not empty space. Active. 👇 Ever looked up and thought about what’s actually out there? 📸-Hubble #MrMBB333 #Space #MilkyWay

@joncoupland Milkshake.

Cupholder 😄👍

@anon_opin And it's Farrah *Tap*, you heathens.

I'm getting really pissed off with all the Americanisms that are creeping their way into British society. It's a dog LEAD, no you can't pet my dog, you can PAT it, and no, you can't get a coffee, not unless you're going to go around the counter and make it yourself.

@DanielLDavis1 You've watched Top Gun 2, right?

This post and graphic depict just a portion of the exceptionally difficult military task of conducting a ground operation at KHARG Island. It is a virtual impossibility for the USS Tripoli or USS Boxer groups to transit the Gulf of Oman, pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and pass through the Persian Gulf to get to KHARG. They would almost certainly be damaged or destroyed long before arriving, having to pass thru the hundreds of miles of the gauntlet of death of Iranian shore batteries, and several categories of missiles, which could be launched from anywhere in Iran to reach the island. That leaves only helicopter or Osprey tilt rotor aircraft to insert troops, and that means even more dangerous path to get in, and a virtual impossibility to keep sustained over time. There is therefore nothing to gain, a great deal to lose, and in all likelihood, would result in dead marines or soldiers, and hand a foolish victory to the Irania forces. God help us if we make such a foolish attempt.

@matoxley It's easy to assume safety is the main priority. Read the court judgment in Byrne v Motorsport Vision and you'll see it's not as professional sometimes as it ought to be.

Just a thought - and I could be wrong of course - but maybe this is the sort of thing that happens when the man in charge of #MotoGP circuit safety is the nephew of the CEO of MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group?

@kelvmackenzie It's only Guildford. Will probably cause £25m of improvements.

@DachshundColin I doubt Tom even understands what all that waffle he typed means. Be damned if I do, either.

@anon_opin Or better, a good glug of port.

A pint of Guinness is much improved by a very heaping dessert spoon, or two, of Golden Syrup.

@AdameMedia "press 1 for retreat, 2 for regret"

lsraeI has been getting bombed every 90 minutes for three weeks btw.

@PaulNuki Hard to find the words. So much damage to us all, for a war with no objective other than harm for harm's sake. Hopefully this will help cement Trump losing Congress.

Looks like Trump is getting ready to raise the white flag #SuezMoment

@WalshFreedom @AIPAC Who cares where the funding comes from? It's an Israeli lobbyist and US citizens should be aware that US politicians are being funded specifically to further the interests of Israel, which sometimes may conflict with the interests of America.

Everytime I bring up @AIPAC, I’m bombarded by people who attack AIPAC by claiming it’s a “foreign” lobby or it’s an agency within the Israeli government that must register as a “foreign” agent. ALL of that is false. All of it. AIPAC is an American organization, representing millions of American citizens, and it’s 💯 funded by American citizens. Look, I support AIPAC, you’ve got every right to oppose AIPAC, but at least be factual about what the organization actually is.

@AutoPap 47. I like it, on the outside at least. Apart from the fake Hofmeister kink. That's horrible detail.

Anyone who's my age will probably look at this and wince. However we're not the demographic BMW are appealing to anymore. Do the younger people on here like it?

@adamcooperF1 @AstonMartinF1 Smells like one of those leaks designed to flush out some action. Perhaps Stroll becoming impatient waiting for an answer from Wheatley/Audi?

Is Jonathan Wheatley really on his way from Audi to @AstonMartinF1? Hearing contrasting views tonight, but there could be some logic to such a move: crash.net/f1/news/109160…

@gsmales I guess it's one way to make an average car incredibly expensive to run, service and fix.

Thursday’s used car spot is this 2004 Volkswagen Passat 4.0 W8 Estate. Producing 275bhp, these could cruise at 155mph, although 0-60 was relatively slow at 7.5 seconds. A real sleeper. #Volkswagen #VW #ClassicCars #ModernClassics #2000s

@TheBishF1 @sepangcircuit Was one of the toughest for the drivers physically. High heat and humidity.

#OnThisDay 21 years ago took place the 2005 #MalaysianGP, won by Alonso (Renault). I miss Sepang & reckon it’s underestimated. This pic shows why: Heidfeld, Montoya, Massa & Schumacher running side-by-side through one of the circuit’s distinctively wide turns #OnThisDay in 2005.