We really are a laughing stock

[Alex]

I don't know why they're bothering with peace talks.  Iran/Hezbollah will just regroup and come back stronger, they need to be finished off !

[klondike]

They do but it seems that Trump is finding out that they are a lot more resilient than he thought. Right now it looks to me like Iran are winning this and he has run out of ideas.

[muddy]

I don't think they are winning .
They have no navy no airforce and no income .
Sooner it later they will capitulate I only hope it's sooner but how can you deal with religious fanatics ?

[klondike]

Exactly. They are fanatics. They have been spending the countries wealth on attacking the west ever since they gained control.

Now they have been pushed to the limit and until all the leaders and their equally nutty Iranian National Guard are dead they will make it dangerous enough to get through the strait that the insurance wont be available to try.

I have no idea  where it will end but it wont be anywhere that can be described as a great victory for either side.

Regarding no income they are being supplied with weapons by that other bankrupt fanatic Putin.

[muddy]

If they were how would they be getting them now ? 
They have been stockpiling weapons for years but many of these have been destroyed .
How will they get more ! 

[klondike]

Russia. Putin is an ally and admits he has been helping them. He is known to have been giving them targeting information and is copying their Shaheed drones in Russian factories for use against Ukraine and now sending them to Iran too

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/european-intelligence-agencies-russia-supplying-drones-iran

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/from-drones-to-rocket-fuel-china-and-russia-are-helping-iran-through-supply-chains/

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting

They can't continue indefinitely but nor can the Americans. Trump has had to ask for emergency funding for more munitions. Partriot and Tomahawk missiles have been used at an alarming rate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y73gwk1qdo

[muddy]

That's not good but by blocking off the movement in the straits of Hormuz surely this will stop the supply of cheap oil to Russia and China ? 
Unless they have a pipeline somewhere .

[klondike]

Russia has its own oil. China do get oil from Saudi Arabia and the Iranians were letting those through but they also have other sources including Russia although the Ukrainians are slowing applying their own explosive sanctions to that source with their drones and missiles.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/least-40-russias-oil-export-capacity-halted-reuters-calculations-show-2026-03-25/

The western sanctions on Russian oil were not especially effective with Russia running a huge fleet of "shadow" tanhers. Trump is likely to extend the lifting of American sanctions in the hope that may stop the ever upward world oil pricing that will be costing him dearly in the US mid term elections.

[CHF]

So the world is an even more dangerous place since Trump started his latest lunacy.  

[muddy]

As Iran no longer has nuclear capability - at least for some years  I would say that the world is considerably safer .
Who wants nuclear weapons in the hands of a medieval, religious death cult ? 

[klondike]

True enough but they don't need nukes to destroy the world economy.

[Michael Rolls]

But they do to destroy Israel

[muddy]

It's an incredibly mad obsession to want to destroy Israel .
Israel has no borders with Iran there seems absolutely no good reason to want to eradicate it .
However it has paid its proxies Hamas , Hezbollah and the Houthis to do just that .
Why ? 
For decades they have done this using money that could have benefited Iran .
Instead it has paid for terrorism on a global scale .

[Vlad]

The British Army has used a civilian ferry to send troops to mainland Europe en masse for the first time in a generation.
It comes as the soldiers prepared for drills on the continent over how to respond if a NATO ally was attacked.

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The soldiers, from the 7th Light Mechanised Brigade and known as the Desert Rats, then took trains to central Germany to report for the drills.

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