Plot twist of the year: Starmer found a spine?
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Well, well. The worm turns.
There’s no coalition this time. You’re on your own murca (well you’ve got your boyfriend Israel but they’re a bit tied up massacring children at the moment)
Unfair to Israel. They are also massacring women, the unarmed, the injured, the red cross etc etc. They are massacring or killing just about everybody. So please be fair to their efforts and not just limit them to children!!
Looks like they recently killed a 19 year old American citizen too, but he was brown so they will get away with it
Their snipers activelly target children in Gaza and they activelly supported their boy Epstein with his sex ring using children.
There's clearly a very special relationship between Israel and children.
What could possibly go wrong? The short victorious "war" rallies citizens, especially those who the nationalistic (MAGA / NRA). It diverts from domestic issues like employment, the economy, ICE raids etc. It allows low scrutiny and speedy legislation changes. All at the low low cost of lives and future threats of retaliation.
And remember how we treated the Afghani's who helped the coalition during that war? Yeah, there will be absolutely no local support this time round.
Trump:
Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford, in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime
Can someone please do that to us.
"America first! We don't need anyone!"
TFW the Brits are like, nah, we don't want to help you overthrow the shah of Iran.
This whole thing can go haywire (including many civilian deaths), especially under Trump. It makes sense for UK to tell them to leave UK out of it. Besides, while going after Iran's regime is somewhat popular opinion - US doing it on the other hand suddenly makes it sound much more controversial.
I'm with you, on all counts. And I think not wanting to touch USA's shit is a legitimate take right about now. Shit, it was the wrong take to back in 2001/2003, and it was the wrong take back in *checks notes* most of US history, but right now for sure. We got our own problems now anyway, many of which were directly caused by the USA, so...
Well good they won't need to, it's been done since a while
