The USA has spent at least $15 billion so far – probably a lot more. It has the freeedom of the skies and has destroyed the Iranian Navy.. It has said it has blockaded Iran ports – yet 28 vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz after visiting Iran ports with at least 2 loading up with oil at Kharg Island. How did they do that? Apparently by switching off their tracking devices! WTF! We are not talking about kayaks or canoes but merchant vessels. So either the technology of satellites and reconnaiscance aircraft is not all it is cracked up to be – or America is turning a blind eye – perhaps to allow China to get supplies? Is this an uptodate example of the economics of war espoused hilariously by Catch 22. trump announced after a few days of the war that ‘America had won the war”. In conventional terms he may be correct, but as the Vietnam experience showed – military dominence is only a part of warfare. So the rest of the world will continue to suffer as Trump feeds his ego. Will petrol at the UK pumps hit £2 litre? And will this lead to higher food prices. Maybe the capitalist economies of the west need something as drastic as this to reintroduce an element of sustainability into the market economy?
Only with a reintroduction into the EU can this be feasible. The UK is too small and can suffer from climate induced hazards that affect farms. Within Europe it should be a case of swings and roundabouts. The same goes for solar and wind power – it is highly likely that, given the infrastructure, power could be routed around on calm cloudy nights.
And the papers are full of the increase in anti-semetic crime and Starmers call for a halt to pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Is he really that fucking stupid. A start would be with sanctions against Israel; then laws increasing punishment for inciting crimes of hatred. I would increase these crimes to include the press and internet companies. The press should not be able to pedal anti-migrant ‘facts’ without putting them in context. Of course there crimes committed by migrants, but as a proportion of those committed by white Britons they are likely to be proportionately fewer. These are not ‘news’papers – but pedallers of right wing bollox.
At home I have planted out cosmos seedlings and watered tomato plants – they should be able to go into big pots later next week. Greek basil is also sprouting. I am also making oat flour strawberry and lemon cookies.