Oh good lord, it’s an acronym.

Milan 2026 took place between the 19th and 25th of February and involved 18 warships from various countries.
The war on Iran began on February 28th.
They were just going home. They weren’t war-ready. That’s it.

Hello @ofcom.bsky.social , a bit of weekend reading for you, so you can catch up with your Legatum chums.
@labouruk.bsky.social should have dealt with media ownership rules on day one. It’s not possible to have a functioning democracy with endless overseas propaganda filling every channel.

Has he called them “suckers” and “losers” in public yet?

I can’t quite believe the crass ignorance of the US administration.
War is pain, death, grief and terror.
Understanding that is what keeps us from making such decisions lightly.
Hegseth is obviously deriving sexual excitement from it, and Trump just shrugs. They don’t seem entirely human.

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

You probably need to check the dates. The undeclared war only started a week ago - a bit of a surprise to everyone not on the golfcourse when the decision was taken.

Trump hasn’t even decided why it started yet.

Paying tax is a civic duty and part of the social contract we enter into with our government. The hard-right have recast it as a punishment and something to be avoided. This attitude alone should demonstrate who they are and why they are not fit to run a country that functions for everyone.

Hilarious.
The UK government should definitely plug this tax loophole. The US doesn’t allow this pantomime.

A Ukrainian company reaches finals of Pentagon drone supply competition

A Ukrainian company reaches finals of Pentagon drone supply competition #Ukraine

Ukraine war briefing: Trump urges Zelenskyy to ‘get a deal done’ with Russia US president again suggests Zelenskyy needs to compromise; Ukraine president says US is seeking its drone expertise for the Middle East. What we know on day 1,472

🤬 Trump again saying that Zelensky is in a weak position - “Now he’s got even less cards” - and repeated that “Putin is ready to make a deal”, without any evidence.
Trump thinks US support for Ukraine is wasteful to the US (*Irony Alert!!!) but admires Putin, whom he invited to Alaska last August.

It’s related to his daddy issues- he desperately wants the strong man to like him, however meanly that man treats him.

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

And this is all he had to replace Noem.

WAPO: “.. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”

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“No stupid rules of engagement” = terrorism.

Just so that we’re clear on the matter.

@houserepublicans.bsky.social
“Justice the American Way”
War is pain, terror, grief, loss and death.
Your infantile representation of it as a teenage boy’s fantasy, populated by cartoon characters, suggests that you and your Secretary of War are getting quite a thrill from all this misery.

Make these hideous ghouls pick up body parts on the streets of Tehran. Tie them to an F15. Put them in a rubber dinghy and fire torpedoes at them.
Let them spend their last moments on earth understanding that they are not playing CoD, that war is pain and blood and grief and terror.

Democracy died in darkness.

Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in ...

The naval exercise MILAN 2026 was hosted by India and included 74 countries.

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“No stupid rules of engagement”, or the Geneva Conventions, as we used to fondly call them.
This ship was 2000 miles from the war zone, in international waters and no help was given to the dying.
When other nations decide to blow up Americans, will Trump want the “stupid rules” to apply again?

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Brilliant! Isn’t there are charge of bringing the office into disrepute? Misdemeanour in public office?

We must never forget Ukraine’s needs. Keep them in international focus! 🇺🇦🇺🇦

They’d blown it up - we all saw the music video and Hegseth’s pubescent thrill. Also it was 2000 miles from the theatre of war. They contravened the Geneva convention twice. It’s what Hegseth means by “no stupid rules of engagement”

My son was backpacking and decided to visit Iraq (“Hi, I’m in Iraq!) a couple of years ago. He had to hire an armed guard to escort him to Baghdad. I had some wild nightmares. Actually, the people he met couldn’t have been nicer, but Bush left the Taliban in the deserts. What mess will Trump leave?

Let’s hope they find something dodgy in his suitcase.

They take themselves way too seriously to be this crass. Genuinely, can’t imagine any other regime behaving like this and not understanding why this is A BAD THING.