It does make me wonder if the Soviet Union would have done better if it had spent a miniscule fraction of its military spending on instead bribing western politicians. Perhaps they tried to but we ha… (View Post)

I predict a quick shift from "Iran blockading Hormuz is great because it humiliates Trump" to "Trump blockading Hormuz is wicked because of all the people who will die". (View Post)

That depends on what the police decide to spend their resources on. Having even more plods patrolling through the wilds of twatterland would be unlikely to make the streets safer. You'd be on st… (View Post)

Spending wasn't cut. Cuts in some areas were more than matched by increases in others. Now it would be easy for any political party to acknowledge that these spending increases (mostly for the b… (View Post)

Did anyone else see this from ITN archive this week: Hormuz Tanker War | US-Iran Battle During Iran-Iraq War (1987) Across the summer of 1987, Iran and the US were engaged in a direct, but limited ta… (View Post)