US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Equally there have been attacks, initially attributed to Russia, that, upon investigation turned out to be Ukrainian. Just as there have been attacks, initially attributed to Israel, that turned out to be Hamas.

China is not better. As I have stated on multiple occasions it is a totalitarian tyranny. The specific problem with Trump’s America is that it has in the space of just one year threatened the sovereignty of multiple countries around the world, ie a foreign policy problem. That is no way to assemble a coalition to contain China.

There you again, team blue has committed X atrocities hence it’s ok for team green to commit Y atrocities

take more than a few minutes to think why this might be an infantile position to take on this subject, especially when living in an undefended country whose very prosperity depends on other countries and people following concepts like rule of law and treaties which Irans neoAxis wants to tear down

we now resorting to conspiracy theories in face of widespread reporting to defend Iranian regime? The hole just keeps dug getting deeper

You’d swear Iran launched the initial attack 3 weeks ago with the language western countries are by and large using. That last paragraph is disingenuous as it doesn’t include Israel and USA as well for what they’re doing.

UK ministers confirm US to use British bases to degrade Iranian missile sites

British ministers have met to discuss Iran's targeting of unarmed commercial shipping, civilian infrastructure and its blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, Downing Street says.

They confirmed the US would use UK bases in the "collective self-defence" of the region, including "defensive operations" degrading missile sites used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"They agreed that Iran's reckless strikes, including on Red Ensign vessels and those of our close allies and Gulf partners, risked pushing the region further into crisis and worsening the economic impact being felt in the UK and around the world."

China LOOKS LIKE the more responsible superpower, appears for the moment from the outside to be the more predictable actor because its leader and his minions aren’t making alarming remarks about other countries every day of the week. I have no illusions whatsoever about Xi’s ambitions - to maintain power in China for the next century the CCP will probably conclude it has to control the world - but Trump is plunging a knife into any effort to contain a CCP-run China which is the main geopolitical challenge for the West. America will need a lot of friends and allies in this enterprise which now looks to be in serious trouble.

None of that would permit attacking a country under international law - it would have been the direct equivalent of Britain bombing towns and cities in the Republic during the Troubles because it believed the IRA were operating here.

The fact you believe the US has only become a bad actor shows how naive you are.

I don’t think it’s at all misleading. Gazans/Palestinians want Israel wiped out. All of them? No. But plenty plenty do. Remember who voted Hamas into power. Yes, 20 years ago. But it was people in Gaza who butchered hundreds of Israelis October 7; Remember 9/11? Who was out dancing on the streets celebrating that massacre?

Simple: it’s ludicrous to suggest what Stradaz did ,as regards comparing Irish democratically elected governments in the south and their relationship/connection to the IRA, to the Iranians and their collusion with terror organizations who want to massacre Israel.

ICJ will determine a finding as regards a genocide.

Experts on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said a judgment on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is unlikely before the end of 2027 at the earliest, amid warnings that the international community should not use the court’s glacial proceedings as an excuse to put off action to stop the killing.

I do not think they committed a genocide, albeit some terrible destruction occurred. I’m hardly alone thinking this.

Of course there are many who disagree and have been constantly pushing the genocide narrative.

Anyway, you’re going off point as usual. My post was in reply to stradaz.

Sounds like something Trump would say, Many dead people, that's war, that's life. Way to downplay a tragedy.