Hegseth: "The war in Iran is protected by God." Pope Leo XIV: "Do not involve the name of God in choices of death. God cannot be enlisted in darkness."

This is genuinely extraordinary: x.com/MicloutT/status/202944… Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is." He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly." He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans not allowed to attend Aston Villa UEFA Europa match due to safety concerns. This is what happened last time the genocidal racist violent hooligans visited Europe @pularjs

Sky news reported in 2024 about claims of Russian interference to support Reform UK in the general election. Now, former Reform UK leader for Wales, Nathan Gill, has now pled guilty to accepting Russian bribes. Why are the press not all over this?!