Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 43, and post the second sentence:

‘Polish plans had never intended the great uprising to take place until ‘the defeat of Germany becomes inevitable’.’

Polish plans had never intended the great uprising to take place until ‘the defeat of Germany becomes inevitable’.

I don’t disagree with you except for ‘you would expect the king to be there’. This has me confused - they are celebrating 250 years of overthrowing monarchist rule. I wouldn’t expect the King to anywhere near it.

I can appreciate what Warren is doing and can imagine that he takes a lot of stick. I can also imagine it’s very frustrating and I felt that this came across in the tone of the opening line of the post.

That’s as maybe but I am very clear as to what is moral and ethical.

Read it; not very comprehensive nor compelling, more like ‘it’s legal because we said so’.

The launch site of the drone strike on RAF Akrotiri has bot been conclusively been shown to be in Iran (as far as I am aware).

Apologies for any confusion I may have caused. US strikes were ‘pre-emptive’ based upon a perceived imminent threat that was not supported by US Intelligence assessments but rather Trumps gut feeling. These are what are legally questionable and the use of UK bases is what makes us complicit.

We don’t have any assurance other that they are. The legality of the strikes are seriously questionable (pre-emption is unlawful). The UK Govt’s approval of the use of UK bases makes us complicit. Check out Chapter IV of UNGA Resolution 56/83 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

Speaking as someone who has personally prepared the bodies of 26 servicemen and women for repatriation and cared for hundreds of wounded soldiers and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have no desire to see our leader wedding ourselves to Trumps deranged war.

Whilst I am under no illusion that the Iranian regime Is murderous and brutal and needs to be removed, it is not for us nor any other nation to do that. The Iranian FM has made it clear that they view us as complicit and there is now no way for us to broker a de-escalation or cease-fire. 5/

It is no great leap to imagine RAF planes taking part in these strikes, and then…., and then…..
By aligning ourselves with the US, we also make it more and more challenging to seek a way of de-escalating this situation with others. De-escalation requires conversation 4/

At the very best, it makes us complicit, at the worst, we are drawn inexorably into committing more and more to this quagmire. In a matter of days, we’ve gone from no use of bases in the UK, to allowing bases in the UK for ‘defensive’ strikes, to now allowing bases in UK for a wider target set. 3/

But I take issue with the sneering tone of your initial post. It is legitimate to question the wisdom of the choice to allow the use of UK bases in support of US actions that are questionable from both a moral, ethical, and legal standpoint. 2/

Cards on the table, I’m no fan of Starmer. I follow you Warren because your content is a great balance against the idiocy in the MSM and accept that the current Labour Govt are, by orders of magnitude, a great deal more competent than the last lot. 1/

Oh my fucking god!

You may not be a fan of Polanski but you dent your credibility and cause harm to the credibility of the Labour Party when you post this kind of thing without a quantifiable source. Bordering on misinformation

Another excellent take on the bull 💩 being peddled by the right wing media.

Oh, that makes it OK then? How sure are you that the bases are being used for these purposes? I mean, it’s not as if the US is being run by an administration that constantly lies now is it?

Years later, he revisited the landing beach and saw nearly every French person he met were riding bikes that they’d ‘liberated’ from the beaches

I once had the pleasure of meeting a Normandy Veteran whose Bn were issued bikes for the invasion. The plan was for them to land later in the day and use the bikes to ‘catch up’ to the front. Whole Bn ditched them as soon as they landed. 1/2

And this is why Starmer was wrong to allow the use of UK bases. Iran, and Iranian backed militias, are not going to make the distinction between whether we ‘didn’t take part in initial attacks’ or didn’t. Use of UK bases is, in their eyes, implied endorsement of US/Israel illegal war.

Precisely where did he encourage migrants onto small boats. What is wrong with this Labour Govt?

Goddamit Waitman!

I sort of agree with you. I do think allowing use of UK bases was a misstep; Iranian leadership won’t accept the ‘nuanced’ view that we’re not engaging in attacks. They will see use of UK bases as implied endorsement of US’ illegal attacks. Otherwise, I think he’s doing OK on international stage.

Queue the ‘it’s just a phone’ responses.

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