I have some questions, a few issues, just to clear up before we go to war and the nukes start flying and nuclear winter takes over for the next 12 million years. The questions concern the total hypocrisy of the entire political world.

Saudi Arabia has been bombing the Houthis in Yemen for years. No-one complains. People die, children maimed, populations displaced, no problem. Other than for those affected, when its a fucking massive problem. Just not OUR problem. So Saudi bombing is fine. Legal. Then they use a few cluster bombs and there’s outcry. Theresa May takes issue, even the UN roll over and sleep on the other side for a bit, its outrageous. Cluster bombs are illegal!!!!

And made in Britain. Supplied by us. We don’t mind indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations, or merely accept it, until a particular type of bomb is used which WE HAVE SUPPLIED. Ahh, say the government, cluster bombs aren’t illegal, only if used on civilian populations. Well, that’s fine then, you can spend 23 billion quid on cluster bombs but only if you use them in the empty desert.

Cluster bombs are just more efficient at killing people. Therefore, I wanna know where the line is? When is killing innocent, civilian people ok, and why is it any different when you just use a different implement, a stronger tool?

Move over to Syria. Assad and Russia have bombed the shit out of Aleppo for 3 years. There is nothing left of Aleppo and every single day civilians, children, babies, all die. Every day. Then he just changes the method, not the intent, that’d be ‘death!’, just the method. Uses chemical weapons and suddenly there’s outcry.

DO THE DEAD PEOPLE GIVE A SHIT WHICH PARTICULAR FORM OF MUNITIONS KILLED THEM?

I’m not saying chemical weapons are ok. Obviously they’re a zillion miles from even acceptable. But I suppose my main question is: WHAT IS THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE????

Trump (who won his election in part by promising not to intervene in overseas conflict) sits on his lardy orange arse whilst tens of thousands of Syrians are murdered by their own president. Then that President uses a different method of killing people and Trump, with no concrete evidence or proof, sends 59 missiles into Syria. Normal, non-chemical, un-cluster, ‘green’ missiles, obviously. But at what cost?

When we saw the images from the chemical bomb, the knee-jerk reaction from every person in the world in possession of a heart, was ‘punish him!!!’ Me too. But then you have to consider consequences, you certainly need process and proof before assuming moral high ground, and you need to think where it might end.

I suppose my main question, to Trump, Putin, Assad and all the other trigger-happy warmongers, is: WHAT THE FUCK???

Happy Saturday. We can only hope the world doesn’t end before Spurs have finished a season above Arsenal. Never lose sight of the big picture.

A xxxx