kent_white

Mr C has been fighting the good fight for about 40 years now! 🤣

It was amazing mate. I was literally sat round at my hotel bar, on the banks of the river Nile enjoying the most amazing sunset with a cocktail, looking out over the Valley of the Kings. You know when you have a moment where you have to pinch yourself 😊 I'd love to go back

I do think he's right about the climate change bit though. If we don't collectively sort our shit one way or another - scenes like this are going to be commonplace. I very much doubt that's what this was mind.

I had one of the best holidays of my life in Luxor in Egypt. Absolutely fascinating place and lovely people. Polar opposite of Morocco for me.

Well - that's me convinced 😁

It's good news if it happens. But Gaza is decimated anyway now. So it's mainly just rubble, death and trauma the poor bastards will be returning to.

Trump is a stain on the US. The other day - I heard him asked whether he though Russia was supplying targeting information to Iran that is used to harm US troops. His answer was that he didn't think so (they are), but that even if they were - it wasn't having much of an effect so he's not bothered. This is days after 4 more US servicemen were killed. He's absolutely pathetic. Imagine any world leader saying that? They'd be laughed at.

It does seem extraordinarily unlikely tbh! Maybe if they had had a cardiac arrest after hypothermia. But it's been too warm. Possibly hyperthermia too - but I imagine it would be too early in the morning to reach that kind of temperature. So yeah - does seem implausible at first glance.

Be a welcome relief if this actually happens! 👍

Morocco is the least favourite place I've ever visited. And I tend to like most places I go to. Or at least try to make the best of them. Shite food, expensive to get a drink, treated contemptuously. Never again.

Yeah there's a possibility that the IDF might support. I'm not sure about the other gulf states though - even the Saudis. I've read other people talk about troop numbers and they're all fairly consistent in that it would need to be an enormous force. And it would leave the US vulnerable elsewhere (like the Pacific for example). What we absolutely can't have is Iran being able to charge a toll and/or be able to shut down the SOH at will. They would become a superpower overnight. Largely because they would have Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain by the bollocks, as they all use the SOH for exports - and they would be able to manipulate the global price of oil, making them massive players on the world stage. Russia and China would be rubbing their hands too. Militarily Iran might be heavily curtailed in the short term. But they're actually in a much stronger position strategically than they've been for a long time. Trump has been an absolute disaster for the west. Actually much worse than I imagines when he came into office for the second time.

I don't either if I'm honest. I imagine there would be extremely heavy losses for the Americans and DT seems to only want to pick fights in places where he thinks it's going to be an easy win, with little risk. If he really believed Iran posed some thought of imminent threat of developing a nuclear weapon - or that it was some sort of existential threat to the US, we'd have had boots on the ground by now. But he doesn't. So we won't. That's my guess anyway.

Are you saying that because the US was part of the D-Day landings in 1944 - they're not allowed to criticise elements of the US administration 82 years later? PS - there were no US soldiers in the Gold, Sword or Juno landings. Gold and Sword was us Brits. Juno was largely Canadians.

I was listening to the former allied commander of NATO forces in Europe talk about this yesterday. He reckoned the US would need somewhere between 800,000 and a million troops on the ground to achieve a full scale ground invasion. I just can't see it.