UK showing why it had no spine to stay in EU
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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Germany allowed logistics for this war, so UK is not the only one.
Okay let's be honest here, no major actor in the EU has anything resembling spine; they all go weak in the knees when Uncle Sam calls.
Spain appears to have a spine
Yeah but it's not really a major EU actor AFAIK. They're important to the EU but don't really shape its policies in the same way, say, France or Germany do. This is probably due to aforementioned spine, but either way if I'm not mistaken Spanish priorities aren't very relevant to EU foreign policy. I actually added "major" specifically to exclude Spain, though it is debatable whether that was accurate or not.
Because Andrew was merely the crown jewel of Mossad's UK blackmail operations? We all understand that's Israel's control lever here right? Rich people on tape raping and killing kids.
Spineless Starmer and his Tory Lite cohorts...
The poodle tradition is still strong
Here is how you stop Iran targeting you. You tell the US to fuck off and leave.
On brand for the UK.
Can someone find any way the US attack can be defined as "defensive"? Seriously, even as devil's advocate, I fail to see any. "Preemptive" is already questionable, but defensive is flat out lying
Stitch your lips to our assholes because you are now in our murder suicide pact with Israel.
Spineless
Seems pretty consistent for a Government that unwaveringly supports Genocide as long as the aggressors are of the "right" ethnicity and the victims are not.
In other news, Iran today struck an RAF base in Cyprus
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/reports-of-possible-iranian-drone-impact-at-british-air-base/
Is this when the kids say FAFO?
yay. let's all lick dumpy's boots!
How many hours it took them to dump his phone memory and find some compromising materials ? 6 or more ?
slaves doing slavery