.......even if he wants to because he's lost control of Netanyahu.
The Israeli military is going berserk with the full blessing of Netanyahu. The US giving him support was a disastrous mis-calculation and now Israel seemingly doesn't need Trump anymore.
If he thought he would have the Iran business done and dusted in about a week, and he would come out of it as King of the World........well, his biggest mistake (among many) so far.
ronib 9.34: "Yes of course MaizieD but how do we extract ourselves? We seem implicated whether willingly or not".
US and Israel are waging this war. Trump has attempted, without success, to persuade/bully other allies to join them as active partners. UK/Starmer has made UK's position, to date, clear- thus nothing currently for the UK to "extract' from.
How do you explain that Diego Garcia with a range of 3,800 km from Iran was within striking range? Casdon. Paris, Berlin, London are all in range.
I imagine trying to hit Diego Garcia was nothing more than a practice run
One missile failed in the air the other was intercepted, nothing more than what is known as ^willy waving^
I assume that USA know what missiles they have GrannyGravy13, launching an attack on a place is not necessarily an indication that they actually had the capability to reach it. I suspect MaizieD is correct in assuming that Israel want us to believe they can reach the UK, They want to escalate the war and think we will respond.
I assume that the U.K. government is being advised by the military?
If there was the remotest chance that a missile could be winging our way we would almost certainly by now have been “practicing” with our phone warnings and know what to expect in this event.
Iran posses little physical threat to Europe, unless it’s friends join in then we really are buggared.
^We really don't know how far Iran have got with their intercontinental missiles.^
Precisely. We don't know.
Do you think it might be in the interests of Israel to suck us into their war by hinting at the possibility of Iran attacking the UK ?
I think you have just hit the proverbial nail firmly on its head.
POTUS is making noises regarding pulling out of this manufactured war, Israel will do whatever it can to prolong the fighting and hopes for so called mission creep and new allies…
It was the Israel Defence Force that sent the information that London Paris and Berlin could be hit by an Iranian missile. We really don't know how far Iran have got with their intercontinental missiles.
Turbulent Times? Is that written by Richard North the UKIP guy, Ronib?
I know very little about missiles but doesn't the distance vary according to the weight of the explosive it's carrying? I think Germany and the UK are probably fairly safe but if Trump bombs Kharg and destroys Iran's capacity to produce oil, Iran will retaliate and then the world will be in an absolute mess for years. FGS those around Trump need to stop this madness before it escalates any further.