Dubai expat crisis Man in suit: Attacks imminent? Phew! I thought you said 'a tax imminent! PHOTOBUBBLE: NICK NEWMAN
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Dubai expat crisis Man in suit: Attacks imminent? Phew! I thought you said 'a tax imminent! PHOTOBUBBLE: NICK NEWMAN
By Nick Newman.
Hegseth: “No nation takes more precautions to ensure there is never targeting of civilians than the United States of America.
“Iranians target civilians. We do not.”
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Caine: “They are fighting, and I respect that. But I don’t think they are more formidable than we thought.”
Caine: “The Iranians are adapting, as are we... we are adapting faster than they are.”
Hegseth on Iran: “Trump has set a very specific mission to accomplish.”
(uh, help Russia?)
Hegseth on Mojtaba Khamenei: “He would be wise to heed the words of Trump.
“As for his status, I can’t comment on that now.”
Hegseth: “Today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran.”
Hegseth: “They fire missiles from schools and hospitals.”
Hegseth: “For 47 years, these barbaric savages in the Iranian regime have murdered our brothers in arms—my guys, your guys, our guys.”
TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth: “This fight hits home. Our generation understands this fight.”
General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “We continue to strike the Iranian Navy and their capabilities in order to do things like sustained movements through the Straits of Hormuz.”
I haven’t ever listened to him. Maybe I should start.
New raffle to help the Ukrainian war effort.
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'Thistle Grove, South Kensington', from 'My Recollections and Reflections' (1913) by Yoshio Markino
'Primrose Hill' by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk
'Big Ben over Westminster Bridge' (c.1910) by George Hyde Pownall
(Private collection)
EU Council President Antonio Costa said Russia has emerged as “the only winner” from the Iran War.
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
Screeching 180 from Reform leader Farage who’s gone from Trumpian “Bomb the Islamists” to “We cannot get involved directly in another foreign war, we don’t have a Navy, we can’t even defend our own military base in Cyprus” overnight.
He’s seen the polling showing the public don’t support the war.
Tooting Common.
Thank you. I will.
I like that.
Spring sun shines through the silhouette of bare trees
Morning Bluesky.
And it’s hallucinating.
Reporter: “You promised the Iranian people you would help them, but it sounds like you are willing to end this fight after your military objectives have wrapped up. Isn’t that a betrayal?”
Trump: “I would like to help them if they can behave, but they have been very menacing....”
Reporter: “You said the war is "very complete." But your Defense Secretary says "this is just the beginning." So which is it”
Trump: “You could say both.”
Trump: “They talk about the son of the shah. They talk about other people. But, you know, hasn't been there in many, many years. We have a formula that's been very good so far, and I think it will continue to be good. The relationship is extraordinary with Venezuela.”
