From America With Love, Your Country Needs THEM, Self-Immolate After Reading
Multipolarity1 Feb 2024

From America With Love, Your Country Needs THEM, Self-Immolate After Reading

All the greatest romances are love/hate.

As The Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of geopolitics, Iran and America have always danced a dance of angry fascination with each other.


Now, as the Middle East burns, their kismet is truly aflame.


With an overstretched Joe Biden about to call in the airstrikes, we’re in the foxhole, figuring out if they’re actually gonna go all the way this time.


Or if this is just one more round of heavy petting.


Ever since a British general let slip the prospect of reintroducing conscription, the British media has been convulsed by a debate over the most trivial aspects of the question. Whether we still have Blitz Spirit. Whether Gen Z are too fat. Which ethnicities would be prepared to fight for the multiculti regime.


There is, however, a bigger picture — something to do with war in Europe?


Finally, this is the week that the FT handed their old enemy Viktor Orban a lifetime’s supply of PR gotchas. In fact, The Plot to Blow Up The Hungarian Economy might be the funniest special ops disaster since the Bay of Pigs.


Hatched in Brussels, this bomb had no trigger, no fuse, no gunpowder — in short, it conformed strictly to EU regulations.


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