Britain on the brink

 

I have been looking at Britain a lot lately.  Mainly because it was once the country that everyone tried to imitate. Playing cricket and English suits etc...

Not anymore.

We see what is essentially tribal warfare in the streets and after the killing of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man and the attempted beheading of a man in Northern Ireland by a Sudanese immigrant.  Britain's per capita income has plunged as welfare payments are greater that government revenues and the two-teir policing, aimed at native Britions, give the once proud empire the look of a failed state or East Germany c.1988.

There seems to be some hop as the people of Britain appear to be pushing back.

The once respectable British constabulary seem to be as oppressive as the KGB ever was and the Labour government seems to hate the people.  The so-called Conservatives were not that great either, leading to the rise of Reform and Restore parties.

I am not sure what the future holds for Britain, but if history is any guide, a rerun of the id-1600s seems to be over the horizon,

I hope not, but corrupt governments, especially those that resemble the Warsaw Pact from the Cold War, need to get  a good slap in the head as a warning.  Hopefully the idiots currently running Parliament figure it out.

The French Revolution was pretty bad.

I don't want to see a British Revolution.

Might not be up to us.  

Failing and still fail some more

 

Keir Starmer, clearly the worst Prime Minister in Britain's history, is on the ropes.  The Labour Party just lost 1500 local seats in British elections and is clearly going to get trounced in the next election.  Starmer's dictorial dislke of free speech, failure to stop immigration, two-tiered policing, and failure to get crime under control led to this.  

Seemed pretty obvious

Even Wales is talking about independence for the first time since the 1300s!

Britain's per capita income is lower than Mississippi's!

Socialism/soft communism is clearly a failure.

The Labour Party is about to get rid of Starmer and the only hope they have of winning an election in two years is to basically jettison their platform.  Not sure how support for grooming gangs could lead to election success...

Labour, once the party of the working-class, needs to retool itself and get away from the far-left crap that does not work on any level.

Britain used to be the envy of the world.

Now, its a broke, crime-ridden, miserable, repressed embarassment.

Like the Soviet Union never really went away....

Calling it like I see it. 

 

Stil looking at Iran

 

The was was a month long. 

 

The cease-fire might be longer. 

Iran is trying to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage and the US is putting a blockade on Iran.  

Iran is trying to use speedboats to shut things down and they can do some damage.  To be honest, they might carry 50 calibier machine guns and RPGs but they can't sink a double hulled oil tanker.  The ballistic missiles inland might do some damage though.

Apache attack choppers and the A-10 Warthog are perfect for shooting up those boats and hunting for ballistic missiles. They have the speed and armament to clear the strait.  Mines could be an issue but the missiles could really wreak some havoc.

A blockade keeps US casualties low  and Iran's collapsing economy could spark an uprising.

The point I am making is that this can go on for a while.

With Iran's navy and air force gone, this blockade's effectiveness is increased.  It will still take some time.  Of course, patience has never been an American strong suit. 

The Union blockade of the Confederacy and British blockade of Germany during the First World War ever effective.  They did take time though.

So sit back and get some popcorn.

This might be a while. 

Happy Orthodox Easter!

 

The Real Easter...Easter candy at half price :-P

Waiting for the storm

 President Trump's deadline is about to expire and the world will wonder what happens next.

Iran has a history of ignoring deadlines and the US has pushed it back a few times, trying to not destroy power plants in the Islamic Republic.  That would be catastrophic for the people of Iran.

Of course, the leadership, whoever is left, will not have to suffer as much.  Give the US and Israeli tendency to decapitate Iran's leadership, they cannot be having a great time.  In fact, getting a promotion in the Iranian government is the last thing anyone wants.

Any peace deal cannot have Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz since it is international waters and it leave the beaten and battered Iran, ironically, in a stronger position, 

It would be great if the people of Iran rose up but it has not happened yet.

In the meantime, the US needs to keep pounding.  We cannot have another Gulf War 1991 all over again since leaving the Islamic Republic will require us to keep doing this every year. 

At the very least, we need to get the Strait of Hormuz open.

Then, we need to have a serious convo about NATO.  

Happy Greek Independence Day!

 

HAPPY GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY!

 Gyros for everyone!

Try not to smash too many plates...or do what I do and drop a plastic one one the floor and use a broom like a hockey stick to shoot it though the door! 

The Iran War contiues

 

The Iran War continues kind of like we thought it would.  US and Israeli bombing and Iran trying to hit back.  Their decapitated leadership does not seem to have an organized response other than trying to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

They have done that, but we are not sure how long they can keep it shut off.  US forces are still hitting Iran and although gas prices are going up, it is also obvious that Iran cannot send out any oil either.  Looks like the collapse is coming anyway you look at it.  The question is "when?"

Still hoping for a popular uprising.  US forces are hitting Iran's military and security pretty had.  The new Ayatollah has yet to be seen and it is believed he is disfigured or even in a coma.  I am thinking the IRGC is really running things.

This is something both the US and Iran have been planning for since 1980. It seems to be a US sledgehammer against Iranian hornet nest. 

Iran has very little military capability left, but one missile or drone strike on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz can cause chaos.

Of course, the oil companies would probably love that...

In the meantime, more airstrikes.

It took 40 days to knock Iraq down from the air in 1991, so we might be looking at more of the same.

US Marines are on the way fro the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force.  No one is sure what they will be used for but I hope it is not a "boots on the ground" situation.  Are they after the Iranian side of the Striat of Hormuz or Kharg Island (90% of Iran's oil gets pumped through there.) 

Wars take a course of their own.  Looks like it is happening again.  No surprise.

Iran is not every going to be the same.