It’s an air defence destroyer. It’s way too far away to be getting involved with anything in Iran.

It’s there to help defend Cyprus from drone attacks. It says so right there in the article.

It helps that your car will be up on bricks if you stop for more than 5 seconds!

So why isn’t it still around today? And if it was so amazing, why go to such great lengths at preventing people from leaving?

My money is that the US didn’t give Kuwait the heads up that USAF jets would be flying through their airspace, so they never adjusted their Patriot systems to not shoot them down.

To save you doing the conversion, that’s 36.3kg.

Iran are supplying Russia with drones that are used to attack Ukraine. It’s not hard to see why he’s supportive.

Why would working closer with European allies mean becoming a vassal of Brussels?

This is the annoying reality of politics. It’s easy for us to sit on the side and say “just do X!!” but unfortunately the US holds more cards than we do and we need some political capital for other things.

Perhaps the best way for the UK to stop being a vassal of the US is for the UK to join forces with its European allies. Europe together can surely create the capabilities needed to defend the continent.

Agreed.

US Health insurance industry rubbing their hands with the possible issues that the pilots will have from ejecting.

You’re posting literal Russian imperialist propaganda.

I think it means the video cannot be played.

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Why fuck Iranians? The majority are victims of their regime.

Apparently the Aramco refinery in Saudi was attacked. So even their fuel supplier isn’t looking too great right now.

I wonder how the events in the Middle East will affect the logistics of things getting to Aus?

support for the Iraq war was substantial

Not how I remember it, there were over a million people marching in London protesting it.

I wonder if St Austell brewery would be interested in buying it? It would help keep its Cornish heritage.

I’m suprised that it’s such a popular beer though, personally I’ve never liked it.

According to comments on the “other” site, it was shot down by a patriot system (friendly fire).

Geotechnical Data Bill

When engineers dig into the ground for construction or infrastructure projects, they collect data about what’s down there. This bill would require companies and public bodies to share that data and store it in the National Underground Asset Register, a government database of what lies beneath our streets. The idea is that instead of every new project having to survey the same ground from scratch, engineers can access data that already exists – saving time and money, and reducing unnecessary digging.

I’m amazed that this hasn’t been a thing before.