Funny how you get to read this stuff in a ‘foreign’ newaspaper.
(Should be paywall free)
Think that’s (or used to be) part of JMSC on portsdown hill.
I designed some of the stuff in there for NMIC (national maritime intelligence centre) who look after UK waters and had a very interesting tour of the place I can’t tell you about ![]()
Think I might have described some of those “minority report” screens in the article’s photo at Lopwell
Invasion force on standby
Russian jets ‘dangerously’ intercept RAF spy plane over Black Sea - BBC News Russian jets 'dangerously' intercept RAF spy plane over Black Sea - BBC News
Russian drone hits Romanian apartment building, injuring two people. (For clarity - Romania is an EU country and a member of NATO.)
Romanian President Nicusor Dan reported the drone to be a Russian Geran-2, carrying about 30kg of explosives.
I noticed he was very careful to say it was a rogue drone that was knocked off course and doesn’t consider it to be an attack.
Politician being sensible and level headed ![]()
How many years have passed since Trump promised to end the war?
Trump is a credibility-free moron. Only drooling imbeciles take anything he says seriously.
No idea if we ‘like’ the BBC these days, but the article on Iran’s damage to the US massively contradicts what Trump is saying, and what most US news networks are telling Americans.
CNN ran this story weeks ago.
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So the Beeb weren’t wrong, then.
US advisors war gamed the closing of the Straights of Hormuz.
Trump for some reason ignored all the advice.
presumably Bibi told him that Iran would capitulate within a week
(paywall free)
Sanctions being enforced then ![]()
…before the opening of a major economic forum designed to attract foreign investment into the country.
Thousands of guests from 130 countries are due to attend, including a low-key US delegation.
So Iran know that Trump is locked into a ceasefire as Congress will not approve more fighting/bombing. Netanyahu is going to start having tantrums when Trump doesn’t back him up ![]()
This is going to turn into his Vietnam (not that Private Bonespurs saw any action in Vietnam)