I have had focus elsewhere. Will notify you if I learn of it, but strongly doubt it as it makes no sense to me politically.
Very good source on the fighting in Kurdistan (I cannot post all of these combat videos, I also just post 10 % of combat videos I come across in the Ukraine thread; only the most intersting or novel). Too many videos. https://x.com/vvanwilgenburg
But Iran is hammering Kurdistan, and have been all day.
Erbil airbase maybe most noteworthy, but lost of attacks
Example:
Major news today is that the US destroyed salination plant in Iran (WHY???) and the massive oil tanks and are going after the Iranian pwetrolium industry, which is a massive escalation
Iran has now responded with Countervalue targeting, aiming for similar targets. This is so, so bad.
While US goes for water (again, WTF???)
ISR goes for oil, which is arguably a legal target at least
They hit all of these, not going to post videos or pictures of them all. It is many.
Meanwhile, Iran hits another ship and retaliates and set fire to oil in the Gulf states.
Bad night
Extremely unprofessional to upload this video, but whatever.
If they were fighting Russia, shelter would now be geolocated and targeted and those people would die (and before anyone says “but it’s not Russia”, you train for the worst, not ideal conditions and culture takes time to change if you have to do it fast against say, China).
The latest back and forth between Starmer and Trump is interesting in that I wonder if the motive, from Trump’s side, is linked to longer term plans of regime change.
The appeasement is due to weakness in terms of economic and military might and driven by fear of a permanent rift with the US.
But I agree, the appeasement is super easy to understand for the Baltics and border states, UK is not a front state, so have time to rebuild its armed forces if it really wants to. But they keep kicking that can down the road, which is why appeasement will continue.
Political cost of cuts in various sectors (culture, social, taxation on the rich etc.) is deemed as higher than political cost of rushing and expanding rearmament. Which is a typical pov in Western Europe among politicians in power.
