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Because I picked up Sydney on a completely different point. I had no intention of wasting my Saturday thread hogging with you. Also because it’s irrelevant. The Houthis are terrorists carrying out illegal attacks on shipping. I’m glad they’re getting bombed.

How do you know what he means? He doesn’t know himself half the time!

No you’ve completely misunderstood the point, which is simply “money makes the world go round”. In times of peace, arms companies simply switch their attention to making deterrents instead. China and Taiwan have never gone to war, but I lived in Taipei for three years and we had an American...

Mate. "Massive money spinners". How do you suppose the world would work if governments didn't have money? It's literally how the world economic system, GDP, borrowing, trade, everything we rely on works, including the building materials used and alcohol consumed in Western Australia. I tell...

And according to this ECFR report they very much were. https://ecfr.eu/article/iran-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-a-marriage-of-convenience/

Maersk, Evergreen et al started to reroute shipping out of the Red Sea due to a 'highly escalated security situation' in December, way before any Western Navy action in that area. They may have said they were attacking goods bound for Israel but it's pretty hard for them to know if they were or...

Firstly, if Israel is attacking an Iran-backed Jihadist group I would imagine all of us would be 100% behind it. The objections are surely around attacks on civilians, hospitals etc which have literally nothing to do with Iran. Iran and Hamas are a marriage of convenience anyway. 7 October was...

Firstly, the Houthis firing rockets at Israel IS them getting involved. I used the phrase 'get involved'. YOU have decided what you think I meant by that, but it's not what I said. They had no reason, bar Iranian backed aggression, to attack Israel. Israel is not attacking Iran or Yemen. And...

Yes it is. They have absolutely no need to get involved. It's an aggression inspired by Iran who have ensured that Yemen is an ungovernable basket case, and it has been way before 7 October. There is absolutely no way Israel is going to stop its current actions just because Hilda's new 42'' 4k...

Sorry, but that's an unknown and straying into whataboutery. Israel wouldn't be flattening Gaza if it wasn't for 7 October. It also wouldn't be doing so if it didn't have a flawed democracy that allowed the lunatics to take over. The lunatics might not have taken over had the Palestinians not...

Attacking the Houthis is self defence, pure and simple. They were issued with a cease and desist, they carried on, now they've been given the equivalent of a little tickle to allow them to see things more clearly. Peaceful international shipping is being targeted by foreign terrorists. I'd be...

Sorry, all I was meaning about sources of reporting, videos etc is that there is value in both OR either dismissing the report or the source. Almost every media outlet has an agenda and angle because they're after a particular market. In the US you know what you're getting with CNN and also...

No one's winning an argument here. The same four or five people are posting repeatedly and they've not yet once got the 'other side' to agree. It's like the mini-Brexit thread du jour. The IDF aren't going to pull out of the Gaza Strip because some bloke on a football site asks them nicely nor...

I’m sure this will end in more thinly veiled threats off board, but this isn’t how NSC works. If you post an opinion or source you should expect it to be challenged. It’s the whole raison d’etre of a message board.

Yeah, I’m the next Sidemen. Weird response from someone who’s used Timbuktu as a racial slur.

Yeah, a small city in Mali pressuring the IDF is bound to work.

If you get that upset by the word 'mad' I'd sit down and have a nice cup of tea if I were you. NSC might not be the place you want to frequent. Unless it's 'Tory' that you think is an insult? As for slander I think you've just slandered Starmer there. Let's not do that again please. Apologies...

Yet you’ve just dragged it off topic again to make a point I answered before your post. But yes, crack on. This isn’t the thread for me, I’ve no desire to be on it.

You’ve misunderstood, probably wilfully. Can you imagine an NSC where every post was several paragraphs with multiple source references? Or where every thread had the same user as the majority poster? As a mod, my duty is to the majority of the users and to help Bozza maintain the NSC culture...

We have to consider the board as a whole. I’ve tried to be subtle and not call people out but, since you’ve raised it, Zeberdi is posting at a rate of 284 posts a month since he joined, and was knocked out ill for some of that time. That’s a higher rate than I can see for any other poster...