Something tells me Mojtaba Khamenei might not be ready to let bygones be bygones.
10.03.2026 22:32
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Something tells me Mojtaba Khamenei might not be ready to let bygones be bygones.
Wall Street is among the few forces capable of constraining Trump, as his Iran war rhetoric just showed
A large part of the reason why the US Navy has been able to get away with underinvesting in MCM is... NATO.
The sharing of capabilities meant that the US could leave MCM to European allies, who became rather good at it.
This didn't take into account the US fighting a dumbass war, w/o NATO.
Honestly I'm only surprised it's taken this long.
They don't even have to deploy that many - the shipping lane is narrow and even the threat of mines is enough to stop any sensible commercial ship captain from risking it.
One does not successfully Leroy Jenkins through a minefield.
Revisiting this from last November: my comments for @warontherocks.bsky.social on how the US should address missile defense interceptor shortages. Turns out ... we did not do any of this.
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British Airways: We've cancelled all flights to and from Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and Tel Aviv until later this month and to and from Abu Dhabi until later this year.
What does the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran mean for Ukraine? Meduza spoke to top Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak for insight.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
There is no war, but the war will end soon and is just beginning.
Trump:
“Based on what Jared Kushner told me, I thought Iran would attack us.”
Not his intelligence agencies. His fucking son-in-law.
Dropping oil sanctions on Russia will undermine US goals in Iran, @valdisdombrovskis.ec.europa.eu warns Trump.
We must "strictly enforce the G7 [oil] price cap...the opposite would be self defeating...as we know that Russia is also supporting Iran's war effort" #Oil #Iran #Ukraine #Russia #Trump
A rare chance for thousands of aspiring officials to secure jobs at the heart of the EU is turning into a scramble for member countries to place their citizens in influential roles. Full story 👇
I guess both Trump and Putin are good at faking victory…
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Yes I think we will….
George W Bush declared mission accomplished in Iraq on 01 May 2003 -just over a month after the intervention-we all remember how that went…..
This is very interesting as my sister and I are getting messages about books our late historian mother wrote, asking if we want to put in a claim re copyright
'The Seeds of Scotland’s Highland Clearances', by Cat Scothorne, for @historyworkshop.org.uk.
CBS reporter: In a phone interview, President Trump told me the war could be over soon: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.” He added that the U.S. is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5 week estimated time frame.
Oil price tanking.
Either Trump is about to end the Iran War or he's manipulating the market to enrich his cronies.
Video footage shows what appears to be a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking in the vicinity of an elementary school next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval complex, according to eight munitions experts.
"Reform does not need to win diverse urban seats outright to reshape the political landscape. It only needs to normalise the idea that losses there are somehow suspect. Once that logic takes hold, any unfavourable result can be reframed as a problem with the electorate rather than the message."
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
Forensic analysis of videos and satellite imagery shows how the US-Israeli strikes damaged Iranian hospitals, schools and gyms near targets. CNN’s Katie Polglase and the investigations team report. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/w...
In memory of Pete, we have launched the Pete Duncan Memorial Fund, which will support PhD students at the School. Donations can be made via peter-duncan-2026.muchloved.com
A classified report found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment.
More than 400 desalination plants are in the Gulf. More attacks on such plants would be devastating--one of the many worries running through my mind over the last few days as this war widens. 90% of Kuwait's drinking water, for ex, comes from desalination. Low's piece below is a good refresher.
"No one should have to die for a foreign country." As Trump demands Iran's unconditional surrender, a MAGA rift risks midterm seats
An important perspective, which should not be viewed with complacency but rather with concern about how far the US and Israel will keep going long after any Iranian missile and drone threats are ground down
Breaking - US consulate in Dubai has been hit and is on fire
@cnn.com
Similar with Iraq ….one minute WMD self Defense, the next humanitarian intervention and the next the revived authorisation of SCR678 ‘all necessary measures’ from 1990 to ‘enforce the will of the UN Security Council ‘
