Stories are that the Iranians have seized a Portuguese flagged vessel, the ship is reportedly linked to an Israeli shipping magnate. Not sure this is quite the retaliation thats been talked about but… (View Post)

Its the immigrants of recent decades rather than the descendants of the large post WW2 migration that have delivered much of the rightward direction. (View Post)

The Irish governments own statistics office will tell you that the headline figure, whilst calculated according to the way these things are done, also doesnt anywhere near reflect the actual wealth o… (View Post)

Israel's expeditionary warfare capabilities are limited. They dont have the conventional reach to put Iran flat on its arse by striking fom above. (View Post)

As others have pointed out downthread the sense now is that an Iranian state on state attack on Israel is imminent. Interestingly its the US & Israeli anonymous briefings and not so anonymous sta… (View Post)