The UK will only have any independent military weight as part of a European military structure, where it's strongly needed ; next to the US it's an irrelevance, as we can see. The current g… (View Post)

Seems to be working ok now. Further to the below, this is another excellent thread, by a Telegraph journalist in fact I think, on the humiliating terms of Trump's original deal : https://twitter… (View Post)

On Saudi Arabia being the first to recognise them, that may be more interesting than it looks. The Saudi state hate islamist movements like the muslim brotherhood and IS they consider a genuine threa… (View Post)

Yes, this would fit with the sense and hints I've gradually picked up over the last couple of days, despite most of the media apparently already having decided, and immediately jumping to the co… (View Post)

I'm not sure about their analysis on this. The Afghan Taliban has strong links.to the Pakistani ISI, whereas the Pakistani Taliban doesn't. (View Post)