World War 3

[Boydy]

BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg4qx62kkxxt
Israel-Lebanon latest: Iran preparing to launch missile attack on Israel, says US, as Israel invades southern Lebanon - BBC News


Here we go, lads. Was nice knowing you.

[Baz]

Thought this was about a super tactic. Disappointed!

[Yevrah]

Interesting to see Sir Small Beer's take on the severe consequences Iran might face.

[Pepe]

Why do you expect this to leave the region?

[Magic]

We can't have the world ending and this thread title mods please fix.

[Spikey M]

I go to Turkey in 2 weeks. Can the Middle East pump the brakes please ffs

[Spikey M]

Why do you expect this to leave the region?

Lammy.

[Magic]

I go to Turkey in 2 weeks. Can the Middle East pump the brakes please ffs

I wonder if we could have an Ottoman empire again after the Shias are wiped out.

Has anyone checked on h3nn0rz...

[Kikó]

Wouldn't be happening if Conservatives were in power

[Ben]

The last time Iran postured like this a few months ago, they fired a couple of shitty missiles and a pack of drones earmarked to get shot down over eastern Ukraine at irrelevant targets, just to show they'd done something.

Iran need to step it up big time. The April attack was nonsense. I guess if they do then it's a sign they're shitting themselves about Hezbollah being neutralised.

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[Magic]

The Daily Heil's top story today is about Princess Beatrice being pregant again. Wild but says it all about their audience. Covid v2 plz.

[Magic]

Air raid alerts in Israel. Let's get this party started bois.

[Giggles]

Wipe the bastards out :drool:

[randomlegend]

Air raid alerts in Israel. Let's get this party started bois.

You're aware there are daughters in Israel, right?

[Spikey M]

Won't their Iron Dome thing just shoot the rockets out of the sky again anyway?

[Magic]

You're aware there are daughters in Israel, right?

Nothing will get through. I meant so me and my people can start the purge of Islam. Give us the green light, Ayatollah.

[Magic]

That's it, lads. It begins...

[Magic]

The live footage is mental, holy shit.

[Ben]

Pretty suicidal from Iran this you’d think, unless they back off now and the missiles turn out to have not hit a whole lot.

[Dark Soldier]

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[Manc]

If there was ever a time for Don to return.

[Magic]

Lol one of the reporters just dived off screen on Sky.

[-james-]

Have they hit anything or are they just lobbing them into the desert again?

[Dark Soldier]

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[Dark Soldier]

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[Pepe]

If there was ever a time for Don to return.

Looking at that hit rate, he is probably the one in charge of aiming.

[Spikey M]

The BBC are reporting that the dome is stopping "most" of the missiles, but from the videos all over twitter it looks like Israel is getting its shit rocked. If they're actually hitting buildings, rather than landing in the middle of nowhere - as James says - then it's hard to see this not resulting in a wider war and I would not want to be in Iran right now.

The Yanks need to get on with this election so whoever wins can actually deal with this.

[Gray Fox]

So is this Israel getting some fuck around and find out, or is this just a for show response?

[Magic]

I wonder why they haven't mobilised fighters to take some down?

Are they just letting them hit so they can green light a complete destruction of Iran?

[Magic]

So is this Israel getting some fuck around and find out, or is this just a for show response?

Looool it's the other way about mate. Iran is about to absolutely find out.

[Gray Fox]

Looool it's the other way about mate. Iran is about to absolutely find out.

I've been ignoring this entire shit show as much as possible tbh.

[Spikey M]

I've been ignoring this entire shit show as much as possible tbh.

What's happening is about the equivalent of us firing a load of missiles at America. It's basically suicide.

[Gray Fox]

Ah so it's IRL version of the you have chosen death meme then.

[Pepe]

Israel started it, right?

[Magic]

No injuries? :D

Edit: lol airspace opening again. Bonkers.

[Dark Soldier]

No injuries? :D

Yeah they're chatting shit

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[Magic]

IDF saying no injuries and Iran saying 80% hit their targets.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah they're chatting shit

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That shot where he looks back to see a huge queue of them is nuts.

[Spoonsky]

Israel's twitter is a laugh.

https://x.com/Israel/status/1841165266832490925?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam p%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

What are rockets normally meant to do?

[Spikey M]

Ah so it's IRL version of the you have chosen death meme then.

I can't remember which Gangster film it is, but in one of them you get a scene where a made guy accidentally kills another made guy from one of the other families, and the Don's all sit around a table basically discussing who needs to die to make it all OK, because the other Don has to respond to not look week, but also doesn't want shit to spiral.

I suspect conversations like that are going on behind the scenes and they've basically got some shadowy Israeli to deliver them a nod on doing this. That's the only way it makes sense.

If it is a legitimate attack designed to kill and take out Israeli infrastructure, then yeah. They're probably fucked.

[randomlegend]

Looking at that hit rate, he is probably the one in charge of aiming.

His nose means he's got that wide range prey vision not that depth perception predator vision.

[Bam]

What would happen if one of these missiles went stray and turned something like The Church of the Nativity into rubble?

[Spoonsky]

https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1841167259391160660

HUMAN SHIELDS

[Lewis]

I'm glad this thread title was changed from 'Ww3'. Why can't we have all capital titles?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"They bombed kids, we must strike back".

[Pepe]

I'm glad this thread title was changed from 'Ww3'. Why can't we have all capital titles?

Same reason why we cannot have Harold.

[Lewis]

Anyway, my bird is in Iran at the minute, and we have trains and hotels booked for a trip next week. Can I buy travel insurance against them now in case Tehran gets nuked?

[Bam]

When did you get a bird on the firm?

[Spikey M]

There's already been enough bloodshed, but I tell you what, if you cunts don't start posting these tweets properly there's going to be more.

[Shindig]

Next week Lewis will be on the news telling everyone she's definitely, 100% sure she's not a spy.

[Spikey M]

Lewis bagging a Persian ting. My man. :drool:

[Pepe]

my bird

You wot mate

[Magic]

Well that's the biggest revelation on the board to date.

[Spoonsky]

Taz had a sex change and moved in.

[Pepe]

:lol:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe he means his racing pigeon.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Taz had a sex change and moved in.

:D

[Spikey M]

Get back here with more info Lewis ffs

[Magic]

Change the thread to Iranian Trannie instead.

[Kikó]

Lewis dying in Iran with Taz 😎

[-james-]

Anyway, my bird is in Iran at the minute, and we have trains and hotels booked for a trip next week. Can I buy travel insurance against them now in case Tehran gets nuked?

:eek:

[Lewis]

Elsewhere, my friend's brother works in Jerusalem, and this week he went to Tel Aviv for a hair transplant. They basically told him to live on plain chicken and stay inside for two weeks to protect it, and now he's scuttling to the bomb shelter in a loose-fitting baseball hat. If it all falls out because of this he will take the Ayatollah down himself.

[Pepe]

Playing it cool. :cool:

[Magic]

Israel saying they'll respond tonight. :drool:

[niko_cee]

Iran rather called their bluff on that one so lol if that in itself was a bluff. How fucking stupid are these people?

[Ben]

Natch, Israel saying this is the only casualty of the missile attacks, which I don't buy. But fuck me this made me guffaw. I'll just put the link and not embed it as it shows a guy getting flattened so click at your own risk.

https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/1841212818051174778

[Spikey M]

I'll let you off this once, but fucking watch yourself.

Edit: that looks fake as fuck. :sherlock:

[Lewis]

Natch, Israel saying this is the only casualty of the missile attacks, which I don't buy. But fuck me this made me guffaw. I'll just put the link and not embed it as it shows a guy getting flattened so click at your own risk.

https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/1841212818051174778

Properly lolled out loud at that Tom and Jerry shit. :lol:

[Shindig]

Some fella decided to get stab happy in Tel Aviv. Hopefully it wasn't Lewis' bald mate.

[Manc]

Or his new boyfriend.

[John Arne]

UN doing a cracking job.

[Spikey M]

The only death was a Palestinian. :rosebud:

[Ben]

The only death was a Palestinian. :rosebud:

1) Israel are outright lying and something valuable was hit. Therefore we'll see a direct response soon (bomb the island with all the oil?), or

2) Israel had all the intel from the US well in advance and let it happen knowing it will be a damp squib. Israel hold all the cards in the region now and they will keep taking out Iran's proxies to weaken them into regime change.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'll go with both 1) and 2).

[Manc]

The only death was a Palestinian. :rosebud:

Therein lies the problem.

[niko_cee]

I assume the whole process of missile interception allows you to see where the missile is likely to go, so any that do 'get through' are presumably of low priority in terms of being stopped. I would also assume that any significant military infrastructure probably comes with its own air defence system generally. Paired with everyone in the country being in secure shelters it's probably quite hard to inflict significant causalities with such ranged efforts, save by landing the debris on random mooks.

[Spikey M]

1) Israel are outright lying and something valuable was hit. Therefore we'll see a direct response soon (bomb the island with all the oil?), or

2) Israel had all the intel from the US well in advance and let it happen knowing it will be a damp squib. Israel hold all the cards in the region now and they will keep taking out Iran's proxies to weaken them into regime change.

Probably both

[Magic]

Khamenei tells West to 'get lost' in first remarks since attack on Israel

:harold:

Can't wait until this cunt's Google Pixel explodes in his face whilst he's watching CP.

[Spikey M]

What's fun about this particular war, is that there's no pretence that either side is the good guy. Just horrible cunts all round and civilians paying the price. I still don't understand people that are taking sides in this.

[igor_balis]

What's fun about this particular war, is that there's no pretence that either side is the good guy. Just horrible cunts all round and civilians paying the price. I still don't understand people that are taking sides in this.

Sorry to be a typical lefty Corbynista, but I think Israel are, on balance, the "bad guys", in the context of the War itself, but I'm under no illusions that the other side are top lads either. I'd say I'm 60/40 on team Palestine, and I think that's reflective of most people one way or the other. I don't think THAT many people really are taking sides in the way you imply, and social media nutters will definitely exaggerate the perception that they are.

[Magic]

There are no good guys or bad guys in the same way there's no right or wrong.

All we can do is just kick back and watch the civilian death toll mount up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In the west we are conditioned to root for underdogs. Palestine is a clear underdog so people sympathise with it. When the Islamic Republic starts getting involved I think a lot of that probably dissipates.

[Yevrah]

And were involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East. Excellent.

[Magic]

In the west we are conditioned to root for underdogs. Palestine is a clear underdog so people sympathise with it. When the Islamic Republic starts getting involved I think a lot of that probably dissipates.

All that conditioning from having our boots on the throats of indigenous people.

[Spikey M]

Sorry to be a typical lefty Corbynista, but I think Israel are, on balance, the "bad guys", in the context of the War itself, but I'm under no illusions that the other side are top lads either. I'd say I'm 60/40 on team Palestine, and I think that's reflective of most people one way or the other. I don't think THAT many people really are taking sides in the way you imply, and social media nutters will definitely exaggerate the perception that they are.

I disagree. Israel are more capable, but ability isn't a moral question. A moral question would be:

What's more evil:

A) blowing up a hospital.

Or

B) parachuting into a festival, murdering a load of people and kidnapping a load more.

I'm not sure I can decide. It's a draw.

[Boydy]

And were involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East. Excellent.
Well, it is the blairites in charge of the Labour government. They fucking love this shit.

[igor_balis]

In the west we are conditioned to root for underdogs. Palestine is a clear underdog so people sympathise with it. When the Islamic Republic starts getting involved I think a lot of that probably dissipates.

Quite possibly. Although I'd argue the underdog thing is a more specifically British phenomenon. Yanks love dominant champions and leaders.

[Ben]

Israel did another war crimes bombing last night whilst everyone was distracted btw.

"Fuck them all" is my stance right now.

[Kikó]

Can't believe Britain are in a war. Typical Blair.

[Ben]

Israel bombing the Russian military base in Syria.

That's one way to get the Americans on board with your plans.

[phonics]

I don't think there's literally any point of the last year you can't say they weren't on board with.

[Ben]

They've been trying to keep a leash on Israel for sure. Trump winning is looking less and less likely (who would go all-in with Israel) so they need something to happen to get the Democrats to loosen their grip a bit.

If the Americans were giddy for getting it on already then we'd be seeing air raid sirens in Tehran.

[Spikey M]

There'll be nothing but platitudes and calls for calm until after the election. The Democrats can't afford to lose their pro-palestine voters or their Jewish voters.

After the election... who knows.

[Boydy]

The democrats have already lost pro-Palestine voters.

[Boydy]

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Also I wouldn't be so quick to rule Trump out yet.

Where is Harris at the minute as well? She seems to have become very quiet over the past couple of weeks after an initial surge of popularity.

[niko_cee]

Presumably most union members are old now [BOOMERS!], and therefore more likely to be Republican/easily misled by modern communication strategies.

[Ben]

There's been two attempts on Trump's life in the last few months. That he isn't miles clear in the polls off the back of that is pretty damning.

[Spikey M]

The democrats have already lost pro-Palestine voters.

They'll say that, but they sure as shit aren't going to want Trump in power, so - much like I did with Labour - many of them will hold their noses and vote for them at the last minute just to make sure the other lot don't get in.

[Magic]

Iran says any country helping Israel is a 'legitimate target'

:harold:

[Giggles]

The whole middle east should wipe Israel off the map that was created for them. Total extermination of the animals.

[niko_cee]

Stay classy County Kildare.

[Giggles]

Stay classy County Kildare.

Why though? They're doing the exact same, with the same sentiment, for the past year themselves. A truly evil nation.

[Manc]

Mr. Potato Head on team tea towel.

[Giggles]

Mr. Potato Head on team tea towel.

I hope the board mong will get the same warning I got for using the same phrase.

[Bam]

They still send warning on here?? :harold:

[Magic]

North Diarrhea are sending 10,000 cucks in to the meat grinder in Ukraine. :harold:

[John Arne]

Death imminent.

[Magic]

It's time, spooky bois. :drool:

[Spikey M]

Death imminent.

What?

[John Arne]

You may have missed the news of Israel launching a few more rockets at Iran.

[Spikey M]

Oh, Israel and Iran again. Ok. :yawn:

[7om]

How does all this realistically end? I’m not talking about the memes or lols, but how does this Middle East shit come to a conclusion? Because I can’t actually see a way back from how much hatred there is between everyone involved.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It will end with Mohammad bin Salman being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Up until then, who knows.

[Spikey M]

How does all this realistically end? I’m not talking about the memes or lols, but how does this Middle East shit come to a conclusion? Because I can’t actually see a way back from how much hatred there is between everyone involved.

Zero chance of anything changing in our lifetime unless there is a huge war and a very decisive winner/genocide.

Short of that this plays out for centuries in a similar way that European history did with the Protestants and Catholics.

[Ben]

When do the UN (and the US I guess) step in on Israel? There was a period earlier in the year where they told Israel to wind their neck in and stopped shipping arms for a bit, but this month they're literally just blowing up residential blocks in Gaza, killing dozens of women and children in the process. Even Russia shows way more restraint than these lunatics.

[Spikey M]

After the election. No leader wants to fumble an international incident in the lead up to an election and it's ultimately less damaging to let poor brown people get blown to bits while occasionally saying "careful now (down with this sort of thing)" whilst also allowing you arms manufacturers to continue their weapon sales than it would be to take a clear (and potentially unpopular) position.

As for the UN. Well, this is just what they do, isn't it? All talk, no action.

[Ben]

I get that they're going for it before the election, but allowing brazen genocide to happen is insane, something which Israel's backers (including us) are now complicit in.

[Boydy]

We're going to see some horrible blowback on this in the coming years, I reckon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The main risk for the West is that it allows everyone else to whatabout their own various genocides. It'll take a lot to convince me that a weakened Israel will ever be in our interests.

[Spikey M]

It will take even more to convince me that allowing a genocide to take place, then accepting refugees from that country is in our interests.

[John Arne]

With Russia in Ukraine and Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, this is basically carte blanche for any country to invade another and then to tell the UN to fuck off with their complaints.

There is a somewhat famous story in Vietnam when a journo asked a Vietnamese politician about the UN, he answered "We don't have such a high regard for the UN as you do.' ‘How so?’ ‘Because during the last 40 years we have been invaded by 4 of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council.’"

[Yevrah]

We're going to see some horrible blowback on this in the coming years, I reckon.


It will take even more to convince me that allowing a genocide to take place, then accepting refugees from that country is in our interests.

Indeed, we really are inviting the perfect storm.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It will take even more to convince me that allowing a genocide to take place, then accepting refugees from that country is in our interests.

I think it's happening whether we 'allow' it or not. I think Netanyahu is that desperate.

[Spikey M]

I think it's happening whether we 'allow' it or not. I think Netanyahu is that desperate.

Absolutely, but there's a big difference between accepting asylum seekers fleeing a genocide we tried to stop and accepting asylum seekers fleeing a genocide that we helped to happen.

[niko_cee]

US lifts ban on Ukraine using ATACMS against Russia, official confirms

As we've been reporting, US media say President Biden has approved Ukraine's use of long-range missiles supplied by the US to strike Russia.

The BBC's US partner CBS News has this confirmation - A US official confirms the administration is lifting the ban on Ukraine using ATACMS for deep strikes into Russia.

:Popcorngif:

[Spikey M]

It's baffling to me why the president doesn't change pretty much immediately upon the result of the election becoming clear.

Now, obviously I have no idea what's prompted this. Perhaps Trump has been involved in the decision, but it seems unlikely and I can't see any positives in a system that allows an outgoing government to salt the earth and poison the well on their way out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We do it right. Votes in at 10pm, new prime minister putting his/her choice of breakfast cereals into the Downing Street cupboards by 10am.

That said, I imagine protocol would dictate that President-elect Donald J. Trump would get briefings on this sort of thing.

[niko_cee]

Wait, is this 'permission' only to the extent that they can target bits of Russia that they are currently occupying? :cab:

The original prohibition was pretty daft, but if that's the case then that takes the biscuit.

[Shindig]

Sounds more like a deterrent, then.

[Magic]

Wait, is this 'permission' only to the extent that they can target bits of Russia that they are currently occupying? :cab:

The original prohibition was pretty daft, but if that's the case then that takes the biscuit.

The same "targets" that have now dispersed beyond the range of the long range stuff lmao.

[Shindig]

Well, then. Deterrent successful.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I see the Germans are going rogue again. The first line of our foreign policy handbook should be never trust the fucking Germans.

[Boydy]

What have they done?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The German chancellor called Putin the other night to try and urge peace talks, without consulting his allies. Putin responded by bombing Ukrainian energy. Allies are now seething at Berlin as the agreed strategy is to do everything related to Vlad on a united front.

[Ben]

Their Government has fallen apart so it was probably a last ditch attempt to do something "great" I guess. He always seemed a bit out of his depth at the top level I thought.

Obviously at this point the logical play is to sit tight and wait for Donald to sort it out. Indeed the G20 rhetoric today indicates that's the plan too.

[Boydy]

I see we've pissed off the Chinese.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Once a simpering human rights lawyer, always a simpering human rights lawyer. Statesmanship is big boy stuff.

[niko_cee]

'Arnaud Betrand' seems a bit of a div though.

Apparently Ukraine have started using their new toys.

[Magic]

ICC want Nety arrested. Lol.

[Ben]

Well the reports of them targeting buildings full of women and kids is pretty widespread so it's pretty logical.

But Benny comes out and immediately screams antisemitism while Biden calls it outrageous, and now the ICC looks the bad guy. :cab:

[Spikey M]

Not to anyone paying attention (without an axe to grind). They've also done the same for some Hamas mad lad.

[Magic]

When you have cancer you don't target the cancerous cells. You annihilate everything.

[Ben]

Alright Adolf.

[Magic]

A disgusting comparison. Didn't know there would be a pogrom on TTH.

[Spikey M]

That is bang out of order Ben, other than calling for the genocide of the Jews, a penchant for taking odd positions on matters of low importance and a brain wasting disease, they have very little in common. I mean, Magic hates dogs.

[Magic]

I hate big dangerous dogs, yes. They're on my oven list.

[Luke Emia]

Not to anyone paying attention (without an axe to grind). They've also done the same for some Hamas mad lad.

Effectively they seem to be saying both sides have been cunts maybe everyone should start thinking like that. Regardless of your viewpoint on the whole situation in the Middle East what Hamas did last October was fucking disgusting. But, it doesn't give Israel the right to do what they have done for the past year or so either. Yet it seems impossible to have that viewpoint you either seem to have to be Team Arab or Team Jew and if you think there is even the slight amount of nuance and both sides have been absolute shitbags in this whole situation you get called racist by both of them.

[phonics]

Israel also knew what would happen in October and let it happen so they could do exactly this.

[Magic]

Israel also knew what would happen in October and let it happen so they could do exactly this.

Bullshit.

[Manc]

When you have cancer you don't target the cancerous cells. You annihilate everything.

Post of the year.

[Spikey M]

Effectively they seem to be saying both sides have been cunts maybe everyone should start thinking like that. Regardless of your viewpoint on the whole situation in the Middle East what Hamas did last October was fucking disgusting. But, it doesn't give Israel the right to do what they have done for the past year or so either. Yet it seems impossible to have that viewpoint you either seem to have to be Team Arab or Team Jew and if you think there is even the slight amount of nuance and both sides have been absolute shitbags in this whole situation you get called racist by both of them.

I agree completely.

[phonics]

Bullshit.


Top aides to Benjamin Netanyahu are suspected of trying to blackmail an IDF officer in the military secretariat of the Prime Minister’s Office in order to modify minutes of top-level security discussions in the hours before the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza, Hebrew media reported Friday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-aides-said-suspected-of-blackmailing-idf-officer-to-alter-records-from-oct-7/

The only way Netanyahu stays out of jail is if the war never ends.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why is there such a tendency on the left (sorry phonics, but that's you) to underestimate the rank incompetence of their opponents and overestimate their capacity for incredibly well co-ordinated malevolent schemes of almost unimaginable complexity?

I guess people are always wanting order when in fact it's chaos.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Actually, I'm being unfair. The right love doing that as well.

[phonics]

Because to live in a world where 'Incompetence' is the reason tens (and lets face it they stopped counting ages ago, probably hundreds) of thousands of innocent people must be murdered aided by my own country rather than malevolence is so fucking evil it makes me want to jump off a bridge.

[niko_cee]

Effectively they seem to be saying both sides have been cunts maybe everyone should start thinking like that. Regardless of your viewpoint on the whole situation in the Middle East what Hamas did last October was fucking disgusting. But, it doesn't give Israel the right to do what they have done for the past year or so either. Yet it seems impossible to have that viewpoint you either seem to have to be Team Arab or Team Jew and if you think there is even the slight amount of nuance and both sides have been absolute shitbags in this whole situation you get called racist by both of them.

There are fouls on both teams, those penalties will offset, first down.

[Boydy]

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Is this good?

[randomlegend]

When you have cancer you don't target the cancerous cells. You annihilate everything.

Medically inaccurate.

[Manc]

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Is this good?

Sir Beer Korma should call his bluff.

[Yevrah]

If this is the way WW3 starts then fuck me, how utterly pointless it will all have been.

[Spikey M]

If he drops one of them in central London, how far would the blast go? :uhoh:

[niko_cee]

Hasn't this 'red line' already been crossed?

Vlad ain't gonna do shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This isn't how WW3 starts. WW3 will start somewhere a long way from Europe.

[niko_cee]

If he drops one of them in central London, how far would the blast go? :uhoh:

The blast wave would take one look at Shoebury and head back towards London.

[Spikey M]

Cockroaches (as the locals are known) the only survivors.

[niko_cee]

I see Gatwick has been having some sort of security incident, and something's been going on outside the US Embassy. Are we now doomed to being swatted forever by these twats?

[Shindig]

Sounds like it wasn't even terror related. Probably some gimp packing kitchen knives.

[Magic]

It's obviously going to be Israel and Iran.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd put my money on India v China. India is fundamentally much shitter than China and by mid-century that's going to have become a huge frustration to them.

[Lewis]

I would love to know how Two Tier Keir sees this panning out. The boomers I work with think Russia is days away from collapse, so that explains their boosterism; but he must be getting briefings off people who don't just believe what the Telegraph and veterans pages on Facebook tell them, so how does he think Ukraine gets anything out of it from here?

[niko_cee]

Still don't really see how from an American perspective this doesn't remain one of the best military testing situations going, where they can let Ukraine run up a tab to be settled in 'the peace' to follow, shift all their old/ageing stock and continue to seriously degrade a strategic rival. Even in art of the deal Trump land, he has a zero sum view of the world, so can both America and Russia 'win'?

[Giggles]

I'm just hoping it's London and not Manchester.

[Luke Emia]

So unknown drones spotted flying over RAF Feltwell, Lakenheath and Mildenhall I live within 15 miles of all of them and literally a ten minute drive from Marham.

You lot all worrying about London and Manchester but I could be in the epicentre in the middle of fucking nowhere.

[Magic]

Fingers crossed.

[Spikey M]

My favourite Center Parcs is round there too. It'll be a cold, dark nuclear winter day before I go back to fucking Woburn, Putin, you cunt.

[Luke Emia]

My favourite Center Parcs is round there too. It'll be a cold, dark nuclear winter day before I go back to fucking Woburn, Putin, you cunt.

Literally the most middle class quote ever.

[niko_cee]

RAF Lakenheath being the centre of operations for the USAF in Europe. Yeah, I reckon you're pretty safe there.

[Lewis]

Also where most of the UFO sightings in Britain used to take place, presumably because the aliens were interested in what they were doing.

[Spikey M]

Probably just anal probing Luke's mum like the rest of us.

Sick burn bro.

[Boydy]

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For fuck's sake.

[Spikey M]

How we laughed when they said "it'll be worse under Labour".

[Magic]

That's excellent news and about time we stood up to these Ruzzian pricks. Should have done it in 2014.

All they've got is propaganda and trolls, nothing in the way of actual force. You can never appease a bully.

[niko_cee]

I think the tweet is a bit of a sensationalist interpretation of the story.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm not going to Ukraine again...

Well, not unless I have a guarantee that my dick is getting touched that's for sure.

[Spikey M]

I'm not going to Ukraine again...

Well, not unless I have a guarantee that my dick is getting touched that's for sure.

Get packing. (https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/ukrainian-pow-castrated-by-russians-in-sickening-video/)

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the tweet is a bit of a sensationalist interpretation of the story.

I don't know why people still take that account seriously. Anyway, if we're going to deploy troops it should be against the French, not with them.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Get packing. (https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/ukrainian-pow-castrated-by-russians-in-sickening-video/)

Not what I was hoping for but I guess it's the best I can hope for.

[Magic]

I don't know why people still take that account seriously. Anyway, if we're going to deploy troops it should be against the French, not with them.

Bring back the auld alliance. :drool:

[Manc]

Israel bottling Lebanon.

[Ben]

The speed at which these Syrian rebels are advancing is phenomenal. Aleppo at the weekend, Hama yesterday and already at the Homs city limits with reports the Syrian Army are already evacuating. At this rate they'll be having their Christmas turkey in Damascus.

Russia are trying to help Assad but it's doing nothing. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in the wider arena. Russia and Iran are desperate for Assad to remain, and even the West was beginning to rehabilitate him (Italy had already reopened their Syrian Embassy) because last time they let rebels run amok we got ISIS.

It's fascinating to observe.

[Magic]

Isn't there like multiple different rebel groups? Even Christian and non-religious?

[Lewis]

If you were drawing the borders today you would have Latakia and Tartus as a defendable separate state and then leave the rest of it to the apes, and you could see it going that way if Turkey and Israel would rather have Al-Qaeda on their borders than Iran.

[Giggles]

You lads should probably take a holiday from drawing borders at this stage.

[John Arne]

You lads should probably take a holiday from drawing borders at this stage.

:D

[niko_cee]

This whole Syria business seems to have happened rather quickly. I assume this is merely a reflection of how much less capability their alliance mates are now able to exert. I'm sure I'd read the other day that Assad had buggered off to Moscow but it seems that that is being denied. He should probably think about it.

[Spikey M]

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the CIA haven't learnt a thing from previous disasters and have funded/armed the "rebels".

[Boydy]

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Fair play, Liz.

[Magic]

Lol at the 'raeli's cheeky land grab.

[Ben]

Not content with crippling Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as invading Syria to capture extra land which just happens to contain a valuable water source, the Israelis are now going hard on the Houthis.

Iran are fucked.

[Magic]

:drool:

My bois.

[Manc]

Are you Jewish?

[Spikey M]

0.05% or something on his 23andme report. :D

[Spikey M]

Shalom.


Anyone else done this DNA test?

I'm 100% European, 95% British and Irish and 5% Ashkenazi Jewish specifically Ukraine or Poland. So someone in my family has cheated on someone else with a Ukranian or Polish Jew. :cool:

[Magic]

:cool:

[Manc]

Can we get his username changed to Bubbe? At least until the war is over.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Arab's brave face theory on all this is that: 'Russia have given Syria back to USA in exchange for their parts of Ukraine'.

At first I thought that might have some legs, but, yeah, no.

[Boydy]

Pretty sure the US (and therefore us) will either invade Iran in 2025 or we'll be at proper war with Russia. Possibly both.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That doesn't seem the Donald's way, does it?

[Shindig]

I really don't think the yanks want to set foot on Arabian sand again.

[Lewis]

The Saudis bombed the piss out of the Houthis for years to no avail, so good luck to Israel attempting that one from further away.

[Ben]

Pretty sure the US (and therefore us) will either invade Iran in 2025 or we'll be at proper war with Russia. Possibly both.

Nah. Trump is Mr. Isolationist.

He will let Israel go after Iran if they so wish, and he'll back them to the hilt. But I can't see any direct involvement.

I also maintain Trump will somehow be a big part of Ukraine suing Russia for peace.

[Spikey M]

Afghanistan and Pakistan now kicking off.

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[Bam]

Gutted about this. Hope they both win.

[Manc]

Team Afghan for me.

[Spikey M]

I'm just waiting for the Indians to take a weird stance on it. That's always fun.

[Boydy]

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So Trump just sent someone and told them to stop and they just did?

What the fuck has Biden been playing at for the last year.

[John Arne]

Yeah, it's weird. Obviously, way, way too late - but a ceasefire is great news, whoever finally "did it".

[Magic]

Is there much left to cease firing on lol.

[phonics]

What the fuck has Biden been playing at for the last year.

He wanted it to happen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why wouldn't he? Russian ally disappeared, Iran diminished, it's been a great year for US interests in the region.

[Yevrah]

If Trump was behind it it's a rookie move not to have waited until he was actually in office.

[niko_cee]

Jeremy Bowen on the BBC has just referred to the Qataris as the 'catteries'. I fully endorse this twist of pronunciation.

Doubly so as I guess it stems from the need to say the country as Cat-uh as opposed to Catarrh. Can't have your cake and eat it etc.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've always been a Catter/Catteries man, and the Arab says khAAAAtarrr, so I'm sticking with it.

The main headfuck from him is Dubay instead of Dubye. Might start going with it.

[Giggles]

I heard it said as Cat-are enough during that world cup that it's imprinted on me now.

[John Arne]

Israel has broken the ceasefire already.

[Magic]

Isn't it Cutter?

[Spikey M]

Israel has broken the ceasefire already.

Starts on Sunday, no?

[Manc]

Kuh-tar.

[Ben]

Starts on Sunday, no?

I've never understood why ceasefires never kick in immediately.

"You're allowed to keep murdering people lads but only until breakfast on Sunday."

[Spikey M]

I've never understood why ceasefires never kick in immediately.

"You're allowed to keep murdering people lads but only until breakfast on Sunday."

Agreed. World War 1 not ending until exactly 11am felt the same.

"Keep up ze fight boys"
but we already surrendered?
"It's only 9:00, keep shooting"

[Jimmy Floyd]

In the second world war there were bands of Nazis who kept the fight going long beyond the surrender(s), to say nothing of the Japanese and their jungle antics. Some people just love war.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36718p52eyo

Ruh-roh.

[Boydy]

Hopefully just a bargaining chip in negotiations. :uhoh:

[niko_cee]

Hasn't 'The Kremlin' basically come out and lolled off Donald's ceasefire proposal?

Which means they're probably going to need those men when he gets fed up and declares war on them [as much use as they will be].

[Disco]

That Russian digital camo is gopping, bring back Partizan.

[Shindig]

They're going to need those men to hold territory regardless. Even in a ceasefire, Russia will want military uniforms seen. Unless the UN peacekeepers gets involved like it's Kosovo.

[Boydy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html

Phone footage of those 15 rescue workers who were killed by Israeli soldiers that shows they did have their lights on.

[Bernanke]

Wait, so you're saying the IDF lied and put 15 medics in a mass grave trying to cover it up? I'm shocked.

[Ben]

Holding IDF to account is anti-Semitic though, so we’re not allowed to do that.

[Lewis]

If India and Pakistan goes up - and lol if it does - the rolling chimp outs over here could be spectacular.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bring it on.

[Lewis]

We should give Ukraine-like support to both of our Commonwealth allies.

[Spikey M]

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[niko_cee]

:D

I was about to come on and say the same thing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We should give Ukraine-like support to both of our Commonwealth allies.

I'd support a military aid package whereby we buy a one way ticket and reasonably priced military fatigues for anyone living in the UK who wants to fight for their mother/fatherland in their hour of need - and obviously take their family with them to help rebuild their glorious nation(s) after victory/defeat is secure.

[Shindig]

Suspend those apps where they send money back home, too.

[Magic]

I'd support a military aid package whereby we buy a one way ticket and reasonably priced military fatigues for anyone living in the UK who wants to fight for their mother/fatherland in their hour of need - and obviously take their family with them to help rebuild their glorious nation(s) after victory/defeat is secure.

I think the more likely outcome is billions of refugees.

[Kikó]

Suspend those apps where they send money back home, too.

Yay. Push everyone into the hawala system.

[Ben]

Is it actually going to kick off? I would have expected a stronger response from India.

[Magic]

At least both sides won't rape and pillage as they're too busy doing that to themselves.