And people are falling for the gaslighting already.
At the start of the season we were being fed Olise was a legitimate target for next Summer.
Now after the state of this season the legitimate targets have changed to likes of Wilson and Gordon 🫢
Marcos Senesi, Harry Wilson, Anthony Gordon all heavily linked🫢
The Slot effect.
The banter years are returning.
And you'll be gaslit and told theyd be great signings😢
@davidlynchlfc Still can't tell watching that team what he's trying to achieve in terms of a playing style, we can't attack without being wide open, we can't defend, what's being built?
PSG deservedly through but Liverpool gave everything tonight and if they’d scored when on top, who knows? Still, that was a performance fans can get behind and, unlike many of them this season, suggested something is being built during this season. Key now to finish it strongly.
Regarding Trump's threat/decision to impose a naval blockade on Iran, color me a skeptic.
1. Taking more oil off the market, particularly the only oil that is now getting out from the Persian Gulf, will drive oil prices further up, and the paper price of oil will get closer to the actual price, which should be around $150 per barrel. A dramatic increase in inflation in the US will ensue. Avoiding this is precisely why Trump was stuck in a position where he had no escalatory options out of this conflict before the ceasefire. He still doesn't.
2. Stopping tankers carrying Iranian oil wouldn't just be an escalation vis-à-vis Iran, but also against the countries that are buying Iranian oil, which includes China, India, and other Asian countries. I doubt Trump is ready for that escalation, particularly given the upcoming summit in Beijing.
3. This is also true for punishing countries that have negotiated a toll with Iran for the Straits. That includes Pakistan, which hosted the negotiations.
4. The naval blockade escalation will make the closing of the Red Sea more likely by the Houthis. That would take another 12% of global oil flow off the market. We would now be looking at oil around $200 per barrel.
There are nine or so days left of the ceasefire. Since neither side has explicitly stated that talks won't resume, or that the ceasefire is dead and over with, all these moves should be treated as tactics and threats within the negotiations.
It wouldn't be surprising if these threats are walked back soon (perhaps before markets open on Monday) and a new round is announced.
HOWEVER, there is a time for brinkmanship, and there is a time for serious negotiations.
If the US truly was insisting on zero enrichment in Islamabad, which was not Trump's red line at first but rather Israel's, then the next talks will be rendered a failure - just as the talks in May 2025 were killed by Trump shifting to the Israeli red line.
Still, I don't think that necessarily will lead to a return to war. A more likely scenario is a new non-negotiated status quo in which Tehran retains control over the Straits but doesn't get any sanctions relief, while the US pulls out of the war, and the question becomes whether Israel will continue the war on its own.
@EgyptKingMS11@AnfieldRd96 It was boring passive shite when he started aswell with a few more stepovers, he's a prospect but not ready to start week in week out
@CelineWKMac@AnfieldRd96 All playing in successful teams, what good does it do a 17 year old being threw into a team that's drowning with fans expecting him to be the saviour?
@EgyptKingMS11@AnfieldRd96 He did start games and was no more effective than those he replaced, today the first time he's started and looked any better
Im still in the 'Slots gone in the summer' camp but i got very little confidence in that statement now, especially after all these mixed reports . The only confidence i can take is that I heard it from a very trustworthy source and hes been told from a person he trusts
@jeese241@KrisTitanX@Brad_L_Bowman 'defend and get nothing' except the time you were actually attacked on American soil the whole alliance supported you for 20+ years how it's supposed to work you know a 'defensive alliance', your talking out of your ass
When America was attacked on 9/11, NATO members stood with us. In fact, more than 1,000 non-U.S. NATO service members paid the ultimate price in Afghanistan, never returning home to their families.
When President Biden announced his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces on April 14, 2021, more than 6,000 non-U.S. NATO troops were still serving in Afghanistan, including approximately 1,300 from Germany. That total number of non-U.S. NATO service members was roughly double the number of American service members serving in Afghanistan in April that year.
And some NATO allies remained to the last possible moment. Amid the chaos of the evacuation at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, Norwegians ran the field hospital used to treat the 13 Americans killed in a suicide bombing on August 26.
As late as August 17 that year, nearly 800 NATO civilian personnel remained in Afghanistan for essential tasks, including air traffic control, logistics, communications, and security during the withdrawal of U.S. forces. They stood with us to the end.
Some talk big. Some put their lives on the line to honor their commitments. That is what many of our European allies did. They were true friends and allies to us.
The way we are treating them now is shameful and self-defeating.
From the 2021 file:
thedispatch.com/article/afghan…