All in a day's work

With the exception—perhaps of Afghanistan, whose fate was determined to some degree by the UN—nobody these days needs an excuse or a real reason to start a war. Nowadays the UN looks as impotent as it ever really was in averting conflict. Once some self-deluded autocrat decides war is a good thing, nothing gets in the way, least of all logic. Back in 2003 we ended up in a war because it was said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This year war on Iran is happening to stop their nuclear programme, which Trump claimed had been ‘obliterated.’ If you ‘ave ‘em or you ‘aven’t it makes no difference. This war of course is what Israel’s government has been itching for since the Islamic revolution in 1979. The likes of Netanyahu will point to long standing statements from Iranian leaders that they wanted to eradicate the state of Israel, and the clearly aggressive behaviours of Iran’s proxies was seen as evidence of that. But then Israel has not done anything to address its own addiction to warfare, always aided and abetted and funded by the US, albeit with a brief respite after Israel shot up the USS Liberty and killed dozens of US service personnel back in 1967. The US ship was in international waters at the time. All par for the course.
 
At least it looks like Starmer has grown a wee bit of spine in this latest bout of blood letting, so much so Trump has basically called him a useless idiot, and now with Sir Tony ‘WMD’ Blair chiming in. So SAD. AREN’T THEY CHUMS ANYMORE? Tony at least now has the excuse as a member of Trump’s Board of Peace (as they say, you couldn’t make it up) of becoming one of Trump’s useful idiots. Watch out Melania, Tony’s coming!*
 
*Nothing untoward is suggested here, but Melania should consider fixing an Oddjob rim to one of her wide-brimmed hats just to be on the safe side.