I would be interested in reading a first draft, though whether you'd find my comments useful I leave to your judgement. (View Post)

I'm not saying Iran is unimportant or ignorable, but Britain and the US decided in WWII that they had to prioritise, and didn't add the USSR to their list of adversaries. The war on Iran ha… (View Post)

Ukraine should be the Western priority right now, and the war of choice that the US has launched on Iran has led to more Patriot interceptors being used in a week than have been supplied to Ukraine o… (View Post)

Iran was doing okay as a constitutional monarchy until the Brits and the Yanks persuaded the Shah to take direct control from the democratically-elected Prime Minister who was a bit too lefty for the… (View Post)

The thing is I don't think Trump is that invested in the war. He's not ideologically committed to it in the way that Putin is to the conquest of Ukraine. So in the politically worst-case sc… (View Post)