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Sky love a backstory ……

some clarification of this terrible incident. Some of you would no doubt have seen some ‘skewed’ (that’s polite) social media posts about the perpetrator and his background - the news I’ve seen from Russia states that the boy has awoken from coma with no signs of brain damage 🙏

No way did the Iranians not know that the Americans were about to bomb fordow (thankfully): hence they would have evacuated their workers there (and also the other two sites). Their anti aircraft defences were impotent (isr had long since knocked those out) but they still had working radar systems.. The size of that American attack group would have pinged up like a Xmas tree (despite many of the aircraft being ‘invisible’). the Americans knew that Iran had no defence the idea that the pilots risked their lives in combat is a stretch - it was basically a training exercise.

How much do we have to pay them to take him ?

Chinese leant on Iran not to close Russians ambivalent (but defo wouldn’t have minded oil prices rocketing - on balance they certainly wouldn’t have tried to dissuade ). I agree that trump would not have wanted that action for obvs reasons - he posted over the weekend that he was watching oil prices and warned against them being increased purely for gain (does he understand markets!). I think he authorised the strikes on Saturday night cos he decided it was the quickest way to finish the conflict as he could then lean on BN to cease and the Iranians would have little reason to continue once fordow was struck and if the isr’s were to cease their attacks.

Psr sale with a forest player going the other way elliot may have given himself a knee injury with that first goal celebration.

And that ! (though poor defending)

As was that

Oil prices dropped after Iran’s tepid response on Monday evening ahead of the announcements. If the war was still ongoing today then I doubt oil prices would be much changed from where they were mon evening. Obvs they dropped significantly once this ceasefire was announced a few leaders referencing how fragile this ceasefire is this afternoon which is worrying.

Apparently drugged up according to reports (and known to authorities) there’s also stuff on SM about him which is currently totally unsubstantiated ( apparently you can just make stuff up - who knew?) l avoided watching the footage so I didn’t see how shocking it was.

K/off shortly in the eng Netherlands semi temp 33C !!!! why don’t they have evening starts at this time of year for semis ??.

Reckon we have to get the reminding 4 wickets within the next five overs or we won’t have time. And track looks way too flat and true for that MATCH DRAWN

That lbw appeal from Trevaskis looked v close on replaying it

I was surprised reckon they’ve now ruled themselves out of second place.

Brave call maybe they can see something in a wearing wicket ??? (Though no evidence based on their 2nd innings ) and derbys have started fast

Reckon Gloucester might decide a draw is ok for them rather than risk losing - would put derbys 2 results beyond them in the table rather than 1. Glam defo happy with a draw as you say.

Could be both ?

Very responsible from the captain

The response was supposed to ‘shake Tehran’ (according to the rw nut job) or at the very least be a strong response it ended up as two bombs dropped on a radar station north of tehran so pretty symbolic and trump will hope that Iran doesn’t react to that

There were some reports yesterday that the Americans had asked starmer if Britain wanted to take part in Saturday night’s attack and starmer had passed on it. are we to join the dots that trump doing the dirty work with the MOP’s gave him leverage to force BN to agree to a ceasefire sooner than he’d have liked???. And if that’s not the case and there are strategic reasons for BN’s decision (eg. defensive weaponry running low ) then trump retains that serious leverage re events over the weekend.

Must be some arm twisting going on behind the scenes but it’s all in line with what I was thinking yesterday evening after the ‘attack’ on Qatar assuming this ceasefire breakage and any response can be kept in check then the light at the end of the tunnel is still there.

I wonder if I’m right then I’ll refer back to this post I can’t say what I’m thinking cos it will likely be too controversial for the thread - just hope that today was the lowest point of the past 20 months and there is light at the end of the tunnel

Our nige upper class ?? I’ll have you know he’s all beer and sandwiches !!

Macron doesn’t have to make public his opinion - but as you say there’s no love lost between him and trump. Presume they will meet tomorrow at the NATO summit ?

It was in my original post but because it’s a) then b) isn’t relevant