The British Political Class Lord Haw Haw Hard for Bibi and Trump

 

Well, we all knew that the United States was going to take illegal unilateral action against Iran didn't we?  Top hint was when Sir John Sawers former C at MI6 was wheeled out on the media to brief the press about how he thinks the United States should further shatter the United Nations Charter with preposterous arguments along the lines of "Well, Israel has started this war now, might as well join in."  Presumably this is the government "de-escalating" things.  Or maybe it's the government trying to sugar the pill that Trump left the G7 early because everyone else said "Don't bomb Iran" but Trump was looking for something "Better than a ceasefire".  For those of my readers who are not British C is a codename - you can guess what the other three letters of the code are?  Does anyone remember when Civil Servants were grey figures like Sir Humphrey Appleby who claimed to impartiality for constitutional reasons?  Well, if they're so impartial, why when they resign do they all express such vociferous and hawklike views with regard to foreign policy and war?  In the good old days, MI6 lied to us assiduously that Iraq had nuclear weapons and we were "45 minutes from doom" but these days they expect us to believe that just having some fissile material that you might be able to possibly get enough of to make a bomb out of one day is enough to justify taking military action that's totally illegal.  I won't say unprovoked because the complex relationship between Iran and Israel is a little more complex than that but clearly (because Bibi said it) the bombing of Iran was an action that Israel had been planning for some time therefore it cannot be "immediate" and "necessary".  When you point this out to Israeli mouthpieces there's a whole load of whataboutery but the reality is they should at least go through the motions of taking their disputes to the UN before launching into unilateral action.  Still, there's plenty of US Senators who are jolly today believing that war war is better than jaw jaw.  More fool them.  You'd think at least the warmongers could get some new material than WMD lies - going to show us Colin Powell's Powerpoint again? - but they don't even have that much respect for us.  So the usual suspects are out Quislinging hard.  "Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security. Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat" says former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer who must know this is downright illegal.  Piers Morgan meanwhile promotes pum that "Key difference between President Trump’s attack on Iran and the Bush/Blair attack on Iraq is that Saddam had no WMD, but Iran’s been rapidly enriching its uranium from 3-60% for what can only be one ultimate purpose: weaponising it to build nuclear bombs."  If you read that carefully what it says is that it was wrong to invade Iraq because it had no nuclear bombs but okay to bomb Iran because it had no nuclear bombs.  Such is the topsy turvy logic of the warmonger.  Rishi Sunak has also been rushing out to give Israel and the US political cover as has Kemi.  I wonder how when an emboldened Trump invades Canada or Greenland they'll sell that one?  This is why I don't post here much anymore.  It's too depressing.  If you tried to keep up with all the warmongering and lies you'd go mad...

Anyway, seeing C made me think of M in the EON Bond films.  To avoid them being banned in certain countries and maximize his sales Albert R. Broccoli changed the books so all the villains are international criminals and members of SPECTRE (until the copyright disputes) and it creates a comforting world in which whilst M and General Gogol are rivals and even enemies there is a mutual respect between them.  As the Master used to say woolly thinking but comforting when worn close to the skin... Many of the films actually start with discussions down the United Nations about how to avoid war as a result of the distrust being generated by the villain's manufactured conflict.  If only the real world was actually like that ...but I guess the idea of world peace has gone for a burton because no one anymore remembers the 22 million dead of WWI and the 75 million dead of WWII anymore except when all the now regularly replaced Prime Ministers stand outside the Cenotaph once a year dressed in black mouthing platitudes about how they remember them.  Still, slightly better than Trump who can't even do that and uses such events as campaigning platforms and when he visited Aisne-Marne cemetery in France called the US fallen "mugs".  

Truly it is hard to find a more revolting man.