We’re on the verge of war. It’s just a matter of days. Boots on the ground. Full military… whatever. Total invasion syndrome. We did Iraq. We sorted Afghanistan, we dabbled in Syria and so logically as well as geographically, we need to fight the Iranians just so we can cross off that whole sector of the Middle East and start working on Libya, Tunisia and Somalia for when the weather gets colder in Europe and it’ll keep our troops warm in the winter.

Iran’s a worry. Always has been. Ever since the Clash (again?? twice in 2 days!!) Rocked the Casbah in about 1980, there’s been aggro there. But not like now. Not like today. When they’ve stolen two of our ships and won’t give them back. Unless we release the Iranian tanker we stole in Gibraltar the other week.

And it all comes down to Donald effin Trump.

We had an agreement with Iran about nuclear armaments and their lack of pursuit of such things in the interest of world peace. Because if Iran had nukes they’d immediately send one to Tel Aviv and another to Riyadh. So we had an ‘agreement’ that the nations of the world would not impose financial and trade sanctions against Iran if they stopped chasing the nuclear option. And the whole planet was happy. For the ten minutes until Trump unilaterally decided that Obama was wrong to sign that agreement so he pulled the US out and immediately imposed stringent constraints on Iran, totally fucking up their economy. At which point the Ayatollahs said that if there were sanctions against them, they might as well start enriching nuclear stuff again. And pestering foreign shipping sailing peacefully through the Gulf.

Thus by Trump acting in his own, ‘maverick’, naive and stupid way, he has single-handedly destabilised the region, the Ayatollahs and how Europe AND Britain should respond. Because Europe is under the impression that if Trump pulls out of the agreement, it somehow won’t affect the deal with us. As if there are two agreements, two scenarios, two Irans. Fuck me, one is more than enough.

And now its come to ‘this’!! Ships sailing in neutral waters attacked by Iranian terrorists/pirates. In response to us impounding an Iranian ship in Gibraltar suspected of taking oil to Syria, against the UN law.

Britain is guilty of having been unprepared for what the Iranians have been threatening, guilty of not having protection in the Gulf, guilty of letting Jeremy Hunt state that ‘a military option is off the table’ when it should be saved as the ultimate bluff to a nation that responds to not much else, and guilty of being stupid and trusting the Iranians in the first place.

Yet ‘war in the middle east’… how’d that work out last time? And the time before? And the time before? And…

Happy peaceful Sunday

A xxxx