Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 1 Paid Members Posted March 1 23 hours ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: The UK actually in a rare show of cojones from Starmer denied the US use of British airbases. Sorry to quote myself like a wanker but to the surprise of no-one Starmer is now allowing the US to use British bases. Another fucking U-turn. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 1 Paid Members Posted March 1 Something the US hasn't taken into account, amongst many things: Shi'ah Islam crosses many borders, and its adherents tend to be a bit more cohesive and hardcore than the Sunni. If I were to compare them to Christianity, Shi'ah is the equivalent of Catholicism: very centred around martyrdom and tradition, invested in a central figure. Now, imagine the response if a country bombed the Vatican and killed the Pope. Once again, the US has made the world a more dangerous place. Quote
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted March 2 Paid Members Posted March 2 And on top of that Iran will have been planning their response to a US/Israel attack for years. They are well prepared. So who knows what happens next. Nothing good, I'm sure. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 4 Paid Members Posted March 4 On 3/1/2026 at 11:51 PM, Carbomb said: Something the US hasn't taken into account, amongst many things: Shi'ah Islam crosses many borders, and its adherents tend to be a bit more cohesive and hardcore than the Sunni. If I were to compare them to Christianity, Shi'ah is the equivalent of Catholicism: very centred around martyrdom and tradition, invested in a central figure. Now, imagine the response if a country bombed the Vatican and killed the Pope. Once again, the US has made the world a more dangerous place. Let's not forget that they did it during Ramadan, too, which won't do much to convince Shi'ite extremists that the US aren't embarking on a Holy War to destroy Islam. Nor, for that matter, will be Americans outright talking about it in Biblical terms because the Republican Party and government are infested with millenarian fundamentalist nutters themselves. Khamenei was 86 years old. It wouldn't surprise me if part of the reason the US and Israel hadn't done this sooner, despite both sides of the political divide in America having been jonesing to bomb Iran for decades, is because they knew they could hang on until he died of natural courses rather than giving him the luxury of being a martyr, then using the excuse of a power vacuum to come in and "restore democracy". It's just a colossally fuckwitted thing to do, even by the standards of US foreign policy. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 4 Paid Members Posted March 4 9 minutes ago, BomberPat said: Let's not forget that they did it during Ramadan, too, which won't do much to convince Shi'ite extremists that the US aren't embarking on a Holy War to destroy Islam. Nor, for that matter, will be Americans outright talking about it in Biblical terms because the Republican Party and government are infested with millenarian fundamentalist nutters themselves. Khamenei was 86 years old. It wouldn't surprise me if part of the reason the US and Israel hadn't done this sooner, despite both sides of the political divide in America having been jonesing to bomb Iran for decades, is because they knew they could hang on until he died of natural courses rather than giving him the luxury of being a martyr, then using the excuse of a power vacuum to come in and "restore democracy". It's just a colossally fuckwitted thing to do, even by the standards of US foreign policy. Certainly doesn't help when you hear things like this: https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for Quote A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night. The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to my request for comment. One complainant identified themselves as a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a unit currently outside the Iran combat zone but in Ready-Support status, deployable at any time. The NCO said they were Christian and emailed the MRFF on behalf of 15 troops, including at least 11 Christians, one Muslim, and one Jew. (Full email printed below.) The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enshrined evangelical Christianity at the uppermost levels of the U.S. military, airing monthly prayer meetings throughout the Pentagon. Last year, the Pentagon confirmed to me that Hegseth attends a weekly White House Bible study. It’s led by a preacher who says God commands America to support Israel. Monday’s email from the NCO said that their commander’s remarks “destroy morale and unit cohesion and are in violation of the oaths we swore to support the [C]onstitution.” MRFF President and Founder Mikey Weinstein, a veteran of the Air Force and the Reagan White House, told me that since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning, the MRFF has been “inundated” with similar complaints: These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times" as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation. Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology. Weinstein cited constitutional and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) prohibitions against injecting religious beliefs into official military instruction or messaging. He said, “Any military members seeking to take advantage of their subordinates by advancing their blood-soaked, Christian nationalist wet dreams upon the flames of this latest non-Congressionally sanctioned attack against Iran, should be swiftly, aggressively and visibly prosecuted.” Weinstein added that the MRFF receives similar complaints about Christian eschatology — end-of-the-world theology — “whenever this shit blows up with Israel in the Middle East.” After the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, for instance, the MRFF reported a complaint about an Air Force commander who said at a briefing that, “[T]he war between Israel and Hamas has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no-one can do anything about that.” Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted March 4 Paid Members Posted March 4 Appreciate the World Cup doesn't matter much compared to the lives of the poor bastards currently being bombed in the middle east but Trump's comment that he "doesn't care" if Iran play in the tournament should be the end of Infantino and the current regime at FIFA. The sham process for awarding the 2034 Tournament to Saudi Arabia should have seen an uprising against the cunt anyway. Then that sham peace prize they gave Trump was an utter embarrasment for the game. And now months after that "peace" prize and months before the Tournament, our lord of peace has invaded another of the competitors and made a mockery of the Tournament and FIFA. The world is a hellhole but FIFA are completely unfit for purpose and there should be hell to pay for this. Spoiler - there won't be. Quote
Paid Members JNLister Posted March 4 Paid Members Posted March 4 You think the World Cup's bad, wait for the Olympics which are in a Democrat state three or four months before the 2028 presidential election. By then I'm not entirely ruling out: * Trump is going mental to secure his legacy. * Trump is provoking violence because he thinks it can let him postpone the election. * Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for Presidency and the convention is a violent split between people who think he can run again and people who realise he can't and they need an actual candidate. * ICE is out in force in California against the state's wishes. * Trump blocks athletes from some/all countries entering the US. Quote
King Coconut Posted March 4 Posted March 4 1 hour ago, tiger_rick said: our lord of peace has... made a mockery of FIFA Come come, Tigress. That ship has long since well and truly sailed. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 4 Members Posted March 4 1 hour ago, JNLister said: You think the World Cup's bad, wait for the Olympics which are in a Democrat state three or four months before the 2028 presidential election. By then I'm not entirely ruling out: * Trump is going mental to secure his legacy. * Trump is provoking violence because he thinks it can let him postpone the election. * Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for Presidency and the convention is a violent split between people who think he can run again and people who realise he can't and they need an actual candidate. * ICE is out in force in California against the state's wishes. * Trump blocks athletes from some/all countries entering the US. * Trump announces himself as the only athlete in the games and wins an unprecedented 300 gold medals. I'd allow that to happen if it meany watching the cunt try and do the pole vault. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 5 Paid Members Posted March 5 Kristi Noem's been fired as head of ICE, most likely for being too stupid to prevent it slipping out in a Congress hearing that she engaged in corruption enabled by Trump. Quote
westlondonmist Posted March 5 Posted March 5 On 3/4/2026 at 4:23 PM, Carbomb said: Hmmmmm... That guy is a spy? He looks like a 13 year old that's just got his first suit from Next. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 5 Members Posted March 5 (edited) 57 minutes ago, Carbomb said: Kristi Noem's been fired as head of ICE, most likely for being too stupid to prevent it slipping out in a Congress hearing that she engaged in corruption enabled by Trump. That clip of her in that hearing where the lad says "there's a 140m contract that's been given to a business who don't have a website, a headquarters and didn't exist until 8 days before the contract was announced. Oh and the address it is tied to is a political operative" was a stunning bit of entertainment. Edit: found it on YouTube. Edited March 5 by SuperBacon Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted March 6 Paid Members Posted March 6 A bit more key detail here. After $143 million was given to the 8 day old company, they subbed it out to another company, one that she's had previous involvement with. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 19 Paid Members Posted March 19 So. It's all escalated, with Israel/US' attacks on Iran's biggest facility, and Iran's now responding by hitting the entire energy infrastructure of the region, including one of Saudi's biggest refineries. Because nobody saw that coming. Tens of thousands of people dead, unprecedented environmental damage, infrastructural damage all around a region already fraught to fuck, and no sign of Iran backing down or coming to the peace table (because they were attacked twice during previous talks and don't trust anyone any more). All the while Israel is continuing to attack Gaza, the West Bank (and allowing its scum settlers to murder and rape the population there), and is destroying Beirut (the government has openly said they will do to Beirut what they did to Gaza), and the West and the rest of the Arab world continues to wring its hands and do nothing. Quote
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