Recent content by Umai

I get the joke, but there was nothing trash about Garbage!

The overturning of the Balogun red card definitely marked the end of the rules based post-1945 international world order.

This war will be over when Netanyahu, Gvir and co. say it's over. Rest of the world, sit tight and hang on.

It was just me trying to be funny. To lighten the apocalyptic mood. To envisage legions of survivalists, sitting in front of mountains of tins of baked beans that they couldn't open.

I keep having a recurring dream that the world is going to run out of tin openers.

I don't pay attention to anything coming out of the White House anymore. It's not worth listening to.

It was just a loose turn of phrase

This. And I'm perplexed that some of the most intelligent people I know are the most ideological, wearing their fanaticism like a badge of honour. Ideology substitutes for thinking and choosing, so why are the brightest also sucked in?

It's strange that a country that has just been laid waste in a preemptive strike is now more determined than ever not to give up it's nuke programme.

"‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards" **Seal of the President of the United States.**

Very pleased to hear that second crew member now rescued.

Starmer now talking of pivot away from US on defence and trade. About bloody time, ...... But then we've heard all that before.

3 Chinese tankers just went through overnight. Beijing says thanks.

Won't be a draft. Would need an act of Congress so I understand, and the infrastructure would take years to re-establish. Plus, it just seems politically outlandish (even in the context of a situation that's starting to sound like something from a Tom Clancy novel).