The US government can not be trusted. The UK government can not be trusted. The Iranian government can not be trusted. The Israeli government can not be trusted.
I think I am starting to see a pattern.
No war but a class war.
Countries whose names start with vowels can't be trusted?
Austrians right about now
Heck, Australians too
And maybe the aliens ^idk^
Yeah, our government's tonguing the Netanyahu-owned Orange Anus, too.
No current country deserves humanity, perhaps some future government will.
Is there any government that can be trusted? I feel like no matter what system or ideology is used, a society is always going to end up with a weird ruling class that's corrupt, power hungry, and is fond of using authoritarian tactics.
Mother anarchy loves her children
if i was president you can trust me 👍👍👍👍 lol
What a surprise.... No one could have seen this coming.
Starmer the flim flam man. He stands for nothing and will go with anything, he has no morals.
Probably in the Epstein files. (The UK leaders).
I may be naive, but I honestly didn't think UK would allow this, when Starmer clearly stated the war on Iran is illegal. Especially not after USA has been caught in several war crimes.
Didn't he literally say he'd allow their use for "defensive" strikes? He's never really been hiding it.
Every strike is a defensive strike
No it's not.
It is in kid starvers twisted mind
The best defense is a good offense...
How is a bunker buster on a bomber defensive?
Defensive is to scramble plains to shoot down missiles. An attack is not defensive in my book.
Yall are naive as shit. The fucking pedophiles are against their buddy pedophiles they’ve been fucking kids with? Do you really believe that shit?
I ~~could be wrong but I think the way foreign litany bases work is that they are in the thinnest legal sense "sovereign foreign territory." To which I mean, the activities conducted on these bases are outside the control of the country who's land they occupy.~~
Edit: I was wrong, amd the US are just tennants on the land which makes this a very questionable thing that they are doing.
This is a common misconception (it doesn’t actually apply to embassies either, from which the myth arose). Every military base of a nation within another nation’s territory is governed by a status of forces agreement (SOF); usually a large general SOF for all locations in the territory and also a narrower SOF that applies to that site specifically.
Nnnnope. They are RAF bases, with a nominal RAF CO. The USAF are tenants.
So UK bases are just a valid military targets now lol
I would assume anything the epstein empire (america/israel) have bombed are now legitimate targets in any country that loads bombs onto their planes. This would suggest junior schools, hospitals, shopping malls all have targets on them and there’s nothing you can do about it. americans voted for WWIII. congrats.
Iran considers UK military bases to be valid targets anyway.
If you're Iranian. So are all your neighbors, including hotels, and any ship in nearby waters.
Goddam UK, didn't Starmer say he WOULDN'T allow this?
This is participation in war crimes!
It would be more out of character for Starmer to keep his word.
All the little pedos gotta stick to the script
Yes they lie to pit working class British against working class Americans.
Soooo WWIII it is then?
Those are "defensive" bombs!
Those must be them defensive bombs that only fall on people who are attacking you.
These must be the defensive bombs they keep talking about.
Fascists helping fascists. The new Axis of evil.
I thought the UK wasn’t going to be complicit in this illegal US/Israeli mass murder campaign?? I thought they denied access to their bases for this. Guess not.
Poking around an ADSB tracking site will very quickly illustrate the flight path of the logistics chain to the middle east, as well as the European bases passed through along the way.
Herr Schtarmer
Imagine if all US miitary assets were targeted, globally
Nobody could do this.
I don't understand the downvotes, you are absolutely correct. No one nation would be capable of targeting every US military base in other countries.
It's not about targeting the whole thing it's about targeting links in the chain. If you took down 1-2 links in the chain the frontlines are impacted.
Dozens of countries host US military bases. While currently unlikely, the individual host nations could absolutely forcefully overtake or otherwise expel the bases within their borders while the US flounders about in Iran.
The US has just shown it can't protect it's bases, and their presence only invites more conflict.
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