Pakistan managed to delay the threatened intensification of the US/Israel/Iran war. A very worried and angry President Trump accepted the ten point plan as part of another negotiation. That ten point plan is said to include Iran controlling and charging for use of the Straits, US withdrawal from Middle Eastern bases and US promises against future military intervention. It is unclear what the US gets in return without seeing language on the nuclear issue which began the conflict. Presumably the US will still argue for its rather different fifteen point plan. The US can claim it has destroyed a lot of Iran’s military capacity to do more harm.
If a final deal does indeed deliver control of the Straits to Iran and allow them to levy a tax or charge on shipping, that is an important win for Iran. It is also another cost and risk to business in the Middle East. It is clearly a big improvement on the current defacto position of no western cargo getting through and major disruption of Asian supplies. The US presumably rejects the Iranian demand to pay them reparations but high levies on trade is a form of doing that.
What do you think Trump should do now? Can both sides credibly claim a win as they wish to do?
April 8, 2026
Does not sound like much of a deal for the USA or the rest of the west for that matter ?
April 8, 2026
It sound like capitulation to me if the US accepts these terms. The Mad Mullahs still in charge and blackmail to transit the Straights. No doubt pipelines will be hurriedly built to the Red Sea but that will limit tanker size through the suez or have the Houthis attacking entry to the Indian Ocean.
Not much to show for the amount of ordinance used
An interstellar point off topic, some German windfarms are coming to the end of their subsidy period. Many are proposing to shut down because at 3.9c per killowat they have become enviable due to operational and maintenance costs
Another blow to milibrains assertion that wind is cheapest.
April 8, 2026
‘ Can both sides credibly claim a win as they wish to do?’
They already have made such claims. Credibility is another matter.
Whether the peace holds is anybody’s guess. Allegedly gulf states were targeted after the ceasefire, as were targets in south Lebanon.
Breathing time for US/Israel to rebuild stocks of armaments. Trump may assess any political damage he has suffered or may encounter. His US political opponents may push harder for actions against him.
April 8, 2026
@David Peddy – reflect on the aims of the intervention, it was never about the USA they had nothing to gain. They don’t need the oil, the gas or need to use those international water ways.
Those that use the USA as their police, the US taxpayer to pay for their defence, are the only ones set to gain anything.
Love him or hate him POTUS is not the problem it is the Socialist Pariahs, usually unelected and unaccountable that are condition to sponging of others that will be crying if this leads to the USA receding behind its own borders….
April 8, 2026
And of course there can be no negotiation with Uncompromising Islam.
You have two choices: submit or defeat them.
In fact the USA/Israel have beaten the State If Iran, but how do you propose the 14million Mozlems on every street holding the 76 Million Persians hostage can be beaten?
Trump is angry because the $7 billion of small arms he provided to be distributed to the PERSIANS was stolen.
We need to think about this because not one of the 57 states conquered by Islam has ever escaped the iron grip. Unarmed populations are sitting ducks, and the British nation is unarmed and ripe for the picking.
April 8, 2026
Talk is better than War so it’s a start, I bet Putin and his cronies are now having second thoughts as to invading more land seeing the might of the USA in action , also Starmer and his merry men seeing the war as to a distraction to the mess he’s making in the U.K. and local elections just around the corner, I see Oil prices have plunged following Donald Trump’s ceasefire with Iran, with crude oil dropping from $117 to $93 per barrel – offering welcome relief to drivers, now let’s see these money grabbing leeches reduce the fuels as quickly as they put it up I won’t hold my breath
April 8, 2026
@Mick – I’d love that, but the leeches will see a chance to grab more, for themselves and their prolific ego’s. Those in working households are predicted to be around £900 worse of in 2026 due to increased taxes & charges, those not working are the net gainers. Even that is not the point, the removal of £900 is the removal of money from the economy, that £900 less spending and the direct crippling of a basket case that is paralysed. Having a Socialist Parliament means they will raise taxes thinking that alone is the economy.
April 8, 2026
Well they will charge what they can get like most businesses. Otherwise you go bust or get bought out by others who will charge what they can get.
Customers have to shop arround to force them to compete in price to get the sales.
April 8, 2026
@Lifelogic – cross purposes there. The leeches, the Government, Rachel Reeves looking for open gaols to score more tax, as they have yet to max out every-ones bank accounts
April 8, 2026
Defeat is worse than war. The freedom to fight is a very important one.
April 8, 2026
you mean just like the Ukrainians you oft described as beatable in days, weeks, months – now its years.
April 8, 2026
I see Starmer is trying to take some credit for the ceasefire between Iran & America by building his ego up by being out in the Middle East, if I was Mr Trump I’d tell him to bugger off it’s got nothing to do with him or Europe the guy his so far up his own arse in fact he can stay out there our country is better off without him
April 8, 2026
Now that is a good idea. Syria would welcome him I’m sure even though they have refused to accept the 700,000 Merz proposed returning.
April 8, 2026
Trump should resign, before he starts WW3. And if he doesn’t, his Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment. The man is clearly suffering from a mental illness
April 8, 2026
So you’d rather se the Mad Mullahs with a bomb which they wouldn’t hesitate to use.
April 8, 2026
@Ian Wragg – of course he would. Mental illness is closer to home
April 8, 2026
Oil plunges after US-Iran ceasefire and deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz. Well done Trump with the pathetic invisible Starmer not even initially letting him use our bases, continuing with doom loop economics, the net zero lunacy, huge open door low skilled & net cost immigration levels and muttering about international law.
He is also right on the net zero hoax, drill baby drill, freedom of speech, controlling borders, the net harm Covid vaccines and you do have to admire his self effacing modesty.
Perhaps it is Mr Gold who is suffering from the Net Zero delusion religion and Trump derangement?
April 8, 2026
I have still heard of no rational benefit from this £60bn Moon flyby. Someone on the BBC came up with smoke alarms as a spin off from Apollo. Note quite sure that the best way to develop “smoke particle in the air detectors” is to spend billions on moon missions and hope for a spin off. I can think of rather cheaper ways over 100 million times cheaper.
Still perhaps they will come up with something more positive than the millions of lives the cash cold have easily saved on Earth. I await with interest!
April 8, 2026
‘oil plunges’ – it doesn’t on water…..as the next damaged tanker will show.
Sorry couldn’t resist it.
April 8, 2026
SG,
Trump will not resign. His cabinet are yes men. Any action would be from politicians on the outside.
April 8, 2026
Oh you mean the ones who stole that 2020 Election and are fighting to have everyone legally in the country or not, vote in US Presidential elections? Why bother with a voters role?
April 8, 2026
He might well have prevented or at least delayed WW3 with his intervention.
April 8, 2026
This isn’t finished yet. It may kick off again. Trump in a corner is more unpredictable than ever. But to answer your questions briefly…
Trump and the US are no longer credible actors. They make a pretence of negotiation and then they or their associates assassinate their interlocutors. Indeed they have not been the prime actors in this war: as Rubio stated, the Israelis started it and the US felt compelled to follow.
The US has lost not just lost its diplomatic credibility, but also its military credibility. In an era of asymmetric warfare it is unable to defeat a smaller adversary (already proven by the Houthis) , or protect its allies (proven in this war). It can still project huge destructive force, but that is not always enough to impose its diplomatic objectives.
The question is not so much what Trump should do (spin his defeat as some sort of victory, stop killing people, withdraw US from the ME, prepare to be prosecuted), but what the Iranians can do. They can survive.
This means they can continue to be a restraint on Israeli aims to become the regional hegemon, charge (with Oman) ships to use the Gulf, and rebuild.
If they have any sense they will develop a nuclear ICBM asap, the same as most medium sized powers around the world will now do. The North Korean approach has been vindicated. With a nuclear armed Likud Israel as a rival the Iranians need a deterrent, fast.
April 8, 2026
Wanderer. You’re obviously a fan of a Theocracy threatening the world with its unhinged religious ideas which want to eliminate western nations.
Like him or loathe him, Trump sees the problem and was prepared to act. Israel is the bulwark against these crazy people.
April 8, 2026
IW,
The current Israeli government are ‘the crazy people’.
April 8, 2026
@Ian Wragg +1 – some, as with 2TK and the UK Parliament, just don’t see the bigger picture
April 8, 2026
IW, Isn’t Israel as a Jewish State a theocracy since its 37th legislature (2022) essentially made of religious parties: Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit and Noam?
Are the decisions taken by PM Netanyahu and his ruling coalition not geared towards an Israel, not only not democratic but a Halakhic state with a right to the whole of ‘historic’ Palestine and Torah’s law applied to whoever will be unlucky enough to be there when this change happens?
April 8, 2026
Wilkie,
It has been a theocracy and an apartheid state since it was set up. It was always expansionist too, with an objective of a so-called ‘Greater Israel’.
It successfully concealed this for most of its existence with hasbara and friendly Western governments, prepared to overlook/cover up any issues.
Terror has been it’s policy from the very beginning to encourage the flight of Palestinians. Land stealing, and worse, continues by the so-called ‘settlers’ who are never called to account.
April 8, 2026
@IW. I’m not a fan of Iran’s government any more than anyone else’s. It’s their business, not mine. But on the issue of them wanting “to eliminate western nations” I think you should look at the evidence.
The well known slogan “Death to America” refers to government policies, not the destruction of the country and its people. No Iranian leader has been quoted as calling for the destruction of Western nations themselves, though they have called for the destruction of one nation and one nation alone repeatedly (Israel). Iran’s Supreme Leader and presidents often condemn Western policies, sanctions, and military actions — but not the existence of Western countries. Even in periods of intense tension (such as now) Iran’s official statements focus on proportionate retaliation or resistance, not annihilation of western nations. Contrast that with US rhetoric. And compare with Israeli rhetoric.
Israel is not a “bulwark”. Against what? It does not defend or share our values. We should encourage it to find a less belligerent way of existing in its neighbourhood.
April 8, 2026
W,
“Israel is not a “bulwark”. Indeed.
It is a monkey on the back of the USA and those who are affected by US foreign policy
April 8, 2026
Well the rest of the Arab states don’t agree with you. They have sided with Israel and the USA against the mad mullahs.
When a country is taken by a terrorist enterprise, it’s NOT ‘their business and nothing to do with us’. You might remember the decision Blair made with support from the UN re Yugoslavia.
April 8, 2026
Agree
April 8, 2026
The only logic one can find in how Trump will react is to listen to the reports by his niece, a Phd in clinical psychology; what he hates most is losing and being thought weak. To stop the fighting better tell him he’s won a great victory, damn the terms. The terms required by Iran are clearly terrible, were going to have to pay a lot more for goods through the Straits, or find a different route. Iran keeps the enriched plutonium so the risk to the world may well be worse now.
April 8, 2026
Why worse? You and the brain dead phd are content for The Islamic Republic to survive intact, their plutonium is at 60% enrichment and they need 3% enrichment for nuclear power, you are happy for the terrorists to demand tribute to use an international waterway… should we demand tribute for all shipping in the Channel? We would make a fortune from the rubber dinghies!
So what’s your problem with The USA and Israel losing?
I mean Iran has hit 15 countries, 14 of which are NOT Israel, but I’m sure they will all be pleased to crawl on their belly with the coward British to lick the boots of these 14th century genocidal maniacs.
Sooo much better than having a WAR😱😱😱
April 8, 2026
Leave Israel alone and Israel will leave you alone. The problem is that its neighbours don’t want to do that; so many consider it their purpose in life to deny every Israeli a foot on the earth. Israel occupies the Golan Heights because Syria used it as a vantage point to attack Israel and forfeited it.
April 8, 2026
Yep.
April 8, 2026
W,
Yes. However, not just loss of diplomatic and military credibility.
The rest of the world will reassess the value of relying on the United States. The dollar will lose its role as a reserve currency. More trade will be made without the use of US dollars. With America such a huge debtor country, this will hurt its economy and undermine its role as the hegemon.
April 8, 2026
Nothing to do with Iran.
Those were the problems Biden and his magic pen left.
April 8, 2026
@Wanderer – “Trump and the US are no longer credible actors ” And Sir Kier Starmer?
April 8, 2026
This deal does not seem acceptable. It’s like something the EU would come up with. Maybe Trump is showing the West and other Gulf states that he has to finish the job. I’d expect Trump to attack before the end of the two weeks.
April 8, 2026
Maybe not.
If Trump can persuade the Iranians to dismantle their nuclear capability then that’s a WIN for him (and good on him).
Whilst at the same time, the Iranians have proven they don’t need nuclear weapons to defend themselves. They can do a pretty good job with conventual weapons (which also feeds into the argument why they don’t need and shouldn’t get a nuclear weapon). And they will get something back as well. So WIN for them as well.
Israel is a winner too as Iran would then be without a nuclear weapon. So WIN for Israel.
This is how civilised people in business and civilisation and culture work. WIN-WIN-WIN! (As opposed to WIN-WIN-LOSE or whatever as I think Trump might be learning).
April 8, 2026
Trump needs to stop running a war by media and give the very welcome ceasefire negotiations a chance
Clearly the negotiations are going to be very difficult it would appear that Pakistani has been a good mediator
April 8, 2026
I think you will find Trump and his forces did rather more than just Media. But good media in warfare is also vital.
April 8, 2026
No doubt advisors told the EGO there will be many downed aircraft, dozens if not hundreds of returned body-bags to USA. And probably told now or never to claim some sort of victory.
April 8, 2026
Iran no longer has the power to inflict a defeat on the USA.
They can and do hang (and worse) Persians every week, but of course that is standard practise regardless of the war.
April 8, 2026
its not a question of win or lose – it is how does USA inflict the horrors threatened without significant collateral losses. Do you really think Trump is mad enough to try to quell Iran into some sort of white flag waving after using their land forces, missiles, snipers, landmines etc against the servicemen.
April 9, 2026
That’s not the issue or the dilemma. See what I posted below.
April 8, 2026
The can is kicked. Profits are taken on the markets and in two weeks we go again.
Having a country that can control a piece of water (unlike our ability with the channel) is a big problem for the world and Iran now knows it.
We are in deep do do until pipelines and factories are built bypassing the Straits.
Republican will be wiped out in the mid-terms, the US economy will continue to grow with little intervention (see the Obama years) and President Trump will make ever more outlandish social media posts as a lame duck in his last two years.
Pay the tribute to Iran and start building.
April 8, 2026
OK Neville.
April 9, 2026
It was always the women on Jerry Springer who would fight a hopeless cause.
The men weighed up the facts and the likelihood of a swift @£$3 kicking on TV
April 8, 2026
It does mean, the UK Parliament, the Government, through the good offices of Rachel Reeves can now charge all vessels passing through the International waters of the English channel they right to levy a transit tax?
Although the problem is as of now, those that would be policing it can now ‘work from home’
April 8, 2026
He should keep talking – he has an enormous capacity for negotiation and he has a team skilled in all aspects of getting a good deal.
Clearly he doesn’t want to keep on bombing Iran into submission. If he’d been as manic as some have portrayed him he wouldn’t have stopped sending the big bombs.
That doesn’t mean he should ease the pressure on Iran – it’s vital they are kept in no doubt that Trump will win and Middle Eastern friends will no doubt be encouraged to help keep the pressure up in whichever way is possible.
The one vital thing he must achieve is giving the people of Iran enough of an opening such that they can also be involved in running the new Iran.
April 8, 2026
The situation is classic no compromise with the infidels Iranian Islamic culture. They have only accepted a set of condition for cease fire that endorses their own wants and ideals there is no compromise, no acknowledgement of the right of Israel to exist and prosper in peace. There is no acceptance that nuclear enrichment must cease, the wishy washy comment about not owning nuclear weapons does not prevent a proxy owning nuclear weapons designed and made by Iran. That proxy could be Pakistan or whoever.
The Iranian push to formally control the straights of Hormuz is where the thing will flounder. That strategic waterway must always be free to traverse by all nations. It must never be in the control of the most dangerous Islamic authority yet to emerge in the Middle East.
We should welcome the cease fire and hope it builds into a meaningful permanent arrangement for peace in the region. Iran does not need to enrich uranium when Russia has offered to supply all of its needs for civilian nuclear power. That offer from an ally of Iran was rejected by the previous Ayatollah. Let us hope the new incumbent where ever he is has a wiser attitude to world concerns….
April 8, 2026
Cynical old me thinks that these two weeks will allow Trump to prepare properly for a ground invasion, something which had not been done when this war kicked off at the end of February – just as the then negotiations had come to a conclusion agreed to by both sides but not yet ratified ….
April 8, 2026
and more time to bully the European countries over possible end of NATO support.
April 8, 2026
No bullying required.
NATO was defeated in Ukraine, the contempt and empty aggression of the useless Europeans is the excuse for Trump to withdraw from Ukraine and NATO. No small win for Trump.
April 8, 2026
What of the 30,000+ protestors killed by the government of Iran ….who’s helping them, the bully has been slapped but not stopped
April 8, 2026
I think there needs to be underground pipelines laid to circumvent Iran’s dominance of the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthi’s dominance of the Bab el Mandeb Strait. The pipelines need to run from the Gulf through friendly countries ie: Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel out to the Mediterranean Sea. There is already a 4 million barrel per day pipeline through Saudi to the Red Sea but the capacity is insufficient and it does not circumvent the Bab el Mandeb Strait.
The elimination of all shipping costs and the removal of Iran’s jackboot on 20% of the global oil supply would be a very welcome outcome.
April 8, 2026
Why? Better to just pump oil and gas in the North Sea,
April 8, 2026
Amazing isn’t it? So many supposed learned experienced folk who can’t see the wood for the trees.
Pump the damn stuff up and get stuck in building nuclear power stations.
April 8, 2026
We can’t provide enough oil supply to revert the global oil price back to USD 70. In the process we would exhaust all our reserves too. Best to find a lasting solution to the Iranian danger to oil supply.
April 9, 2026
You are wrong.
Also if Trump can resurrect Persia the world supply of oil will ballon, the price will be well below $70, maybe $50.
April 9, 2026
Please explain why I am wrong.
Why do you think Britain has enough oil reserves to get the oil price back to USD 70 and keep it there sustainably despite the Strait being blocked for god knows how long?
We curently have 38 million barrels of oil in strategic reserve which therefore can only offset the 20mn / day shortage from the Gulf for a mere 2 days.
We have 1.5 bn barrels of proven oil reserves which will need to be extracted asap to offset the current 20mn / day shortage. That would offset the global shortage for a mere 75 days. Then our oil reserves are spent and the world is back to square one again with oil back at USD 100 per barrel. Not a wise move.
April 8, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s pipe bombed by IRGC today, along with four other countries.
April 8, 2026
There is no update on impact. The Petroline is an underground pipeline so it may well have not been impacted. If there was such a pipeline for all Gulf oil and it was deep enough / reinforced above then the risk of impact would be mitigated.
April 8, 2026
It turns out it was the pumping station so no oil being pumped.
April 9, 2026
Ever heard of ‘Bunker busters’?
April 9, 2026
Ever heard of repairs? Also this pipeline is proving remarkably effective. It is operating at 7mn barrels per day which has been restraining the oil price. We should be very grateful for Saudi foresight back in 1981.
April 8, 2026
Some ceasefire. The Strait was open for 10 minutes Israel reports.
April 8, 2026
I just fail to see this deal lasting
April 8, 2026
History tells us that cease-fires only prolong wars
April 8, 2026
Well not quite so simple why would a rationally run country who are hugely far out gunned restart a war when they have a ceasefire in place – unless that is they wish to commit suicide. When the balance is more fine then perhaps they both sides do rearm then start again. Alas so many governments are not remotely rational. Some even seem to like economic suicide (as we see with Starmer’s deluded rabble).
Also history is rarely the same today as yesterday. This as war and other technology and modern comunications changes so many things. The changes in the last 20 years in these areas have been massive.
April 8, 2026
Can’t think of one instance where a ceasefire shorten a war, our history is the best barometer of our future
April 8, 2026
Technology changes and circumstances always differ so history is not reliable and anyway how do you know how long any war would have lasted without the ceasefire (in order to compare)?
April 8, 2026
It will certainly be amended but hopefully it is a first step that leads to better things.
April 8, 2026
Well Trump might have accepted Iranian control and charging for access through, but err….his tankers don’t go through. What do all the countries who do use the 2 mile wide shipping lane think of this?
Of course Trump assumes what he agrees will be accepted.
When the next tanker gets hit what will Trump do about it?
April 8, 2026
Why does Trump have to do anything?
April 9, 2026
Saudi and UAE could target Iranian tankers. Of we can’t use the Straits, neither can you. They can buy missiles and drones from Ukrainine.
April 8, 2026
I thought the actual or implicit war aims were to, once and for all, stop uranium enrichment and Iran’s sponsorship of global terrorism – which can only be achieved by toppling the current regime. It’s difficult to see either being achieved now. Looks like Iran will prevail as things stand.
April 8, 2026
Well wait and see what happens a new type of Iran may well follow – I am rather more optimistic and the alternative of no action was surely even worse!
April 8, 2026
Anyone who has read Lord Alanbrooke’s War Diaries will be aware of his very low opinion of the strategic abilities of the American High Command, and it would appear that they have learnt nothing over the years since. How did it escape them that control over the Straits of Hormuz put the Persians in a very strong position indeed in a world with major dependence on Middle Eastern oil? Or perhaps Mr Trump just shut his ears. I think now that any outcome that restores free navigation of the straits will be a success for Mr Trump, but quite possible not an achievable one.
What Mr Trump has now managed to do by his threats and bombing, is to establish support for the new military dictatorship in Tehran. At the outset, in what looked like a limited attempt to destroy military and perhaps nuclear hardware, I supported Mr Trump’s actions; I never thought assassinating the Ayatollah was likely to bring down the religious regime; it was too hydra-headed, and what has replaced it is arguably worse.
Ironically we have the wherewithal in this country to make the Straits of Hormuz more or less irrelevant to us, but a Government that is too stupid and pig headed to allow that to happen.
April 8, 2026
It did not escape them – they were surely aware of all the risks of action and the risk of inaction.
April 8, 2026
Who is supporting the Military Islamic Regime in Teheran?
April 8, 2026
The Russian invasion and this Iran business highlight how we in the west are so vulnerable to our own greedy capitalists. The damage to western economies of the Russian sanctions and the latest increase in energy prices way exceed any bomb damage that could be inflicted by the other side.
Also, the bombs cost more than the targets they are destroying.
Why do we just accept that the speculators should be able to increase prices and enrich themselves, whilst working class persons are expected to lose their lives or be maimed for life in the cause of these wars ? Why is it the working class has to pay a price, while the billionaires get ever richer off the wars ?
April 8, 2026
Presumably you are now living off grid and don’t use a car or public transport. You need to consider the environmental damage you cause by chopping down trees – yours or thieved? – to burn in your fireplace to heat the water for your tea and baths, while you sing the Red Anthem. Pehaps you don’t use hot water, only cold, if so, my apologies. No doubt you make your own clothes from cast offs from others, not having your own sheep and cotton fields and processing facilities that need energy from oil and gas. And of course you never consult a doctor because you refuse to use modern pharmaceuticals, which come in part from petroleum products, and you refuse the services of a hospital because they use electricity from oil and gas and have emergency diesel generators.
I’m sure your sacrifices to make more funds available for defence will be appreciated. Just one problem, though, defence requires oil and gas too.
April 8, 2026
KB,
True.
Why? Because the billionaires buy governments and get them to do their bidding.
The political system allows this to persist, under the pretence that voting addresses the interests of the majority.
April 9, 2026
No actually that is ‘big business’ and the system is called ‘Corporatism’ – preferred by the little German Corporal and all German leaders ever since.
Germany thrived on the currency we British gave them, the Deutschmark. But of course they hated us for it and launched their own currency in their own ‘Empire’ the Euro.
Germany pays the price once again, this time we must NOT save her.
April 8, 2026
President Trump’s running commentary in his Truth Social account is probably more accurate than the questionable “reporting” by the MSM. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump
April 8, 2026
Yes. Pity he reverted to foul language but I believe he was under extreme pressure. $7 billion worth of small arms intended for the Persians for self defence and to overwhelm the badji on the ground stolen and the plan scuppered.
I bet Churchill swore a few time too, but not pubicly.
April 8, 2026
What next? Who knows, but President Trump should keep going until the current regime in Iran is defeated or weakened, so the people can rise up again and overthrow it. The Strait of Hormuz must be opened so ships can pass peacefully, without paying to do so. Iran’s nuclear ambitions must be destroyed completely because they would use nuclear weapons if they had them.
Pipe lines for oil must be built to avoid Iran and the Houthis blocking sea routes. Trump must also cut Iran’s income by any means because what will collapse the regime quicker than anything is not being able to pay the thugs in the military, IRGC, and police. If Trump loses, the West loses, even though most of its leaders do not have a clue what is at stake.
April 8, 2026
Building new pipe lines – easier said than done over such vast tracts. particularly for LNG.
Something of a three-pipe problem, Watson! 🙂
April 8, 2026
Religiously motivated thugs don’t need paying, collapsing the economy even more (it’s on its knees) will starve the population he is trying to protect.
It’s very difficult.
April 8, 2026
It is now all OK, Sir Kier Starmer is headed to the Gulf, ? Why, to regurgitate International Law of the ‘High Seas’.
Pure cynical photo opportunity to make some one somewhere believe he has a purpose other than being a coward refusing to stand up for UK Citizens and the UK as a Nation. Hiding from all the destruction he is orchestrating at home with the support of his destructive Parliament. – what a waste we have 3 more years of this embarrassment
April 8, 2026
when you look around especially the comments sections of most media outlets, there is a tendency from those that hate the USA to suggest Trump has lost some of his marbles.
Then closer to home, as reported on Guido..
“There’s work to do. It’s early days…”
He added there is “a real sense” of relief after the supposed ceasefire. He claimed his ‘leading’ work to reopen the strait was crucial “because the impact on our energy prices, you can see it on a daily basis over the last 39 days, it’s our job to make sure that the strait is open, that we’re able to get the energy that the world needs out and stabilise the prices back in the United Kingdom.” What will that work entail when the only navy warship in the region is docked for repair?
https://order-order.com/2026/04/08/relieved-starmer-still-a-lot-of-work-to-do-to-open-strait/
Is that Guy all ‘there’ total dream land. He has lead the work to open the strait, his work was ‘crucial’ ….
April 8, 2026
Strait was open 10 minutes.
For Britains sake I hope the oil and gas stop. We need to get rid of our own ‘mad mullah’ Red Ed and drill!
April 8, 2026
If only we the UK was self sufficient in oil & gas ….oh what a UK we’d be !
April 8, 2026
Iranian attempts to charge for transit and favour some state’s ships over others are as contrary to international law as are its closure of the Straits and threats to commercial shipping. UN Convention on The Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arts 41 – 44.
1. Why is Starmer’s Gang , led by international lawyers, not helping the US to enforce the law?
2. Is Trump really, seriously, going to allow Iran to breach international law
April 8, 2026
Macron etc actually negotiated paying voluntarily.
So much for international law!
We are back to the law of the jungle and the strong man wins.
April 8, 2026
War Secretary Hegseth talks about capital V for total Victory but it sounds more like V for Vanquished.
Trump’s biggest problem seems to be the price of petrol in America which would lead to his undoing.
April 8, 2026
As I see it, we have been in WW3 since the rout from Afghanistan. That greenlit the invasion of Ukraine and Israel. The Chinese and Russian menace against us via cable cutting and cyber warfare was stepped up, as were the incursions of submarines and spies. Then there has been our ill judged misadventure in Ukraine which we never admit to. Trump has tried all along to detach Russia from China but the EU Mafia and their hangers on in London will have none of it. They want more and more war with the number 1 nuclear power, while persecuting Israel for her self defence. So Trump and Israel have been fighting Russia, China, the Islamic Republic, North Korea and now no longer Venezuela, with the EU Mafia doing its damnedest to obstruct, helped of course by the media. Iran has been arming Russia and the terror proxies; China has been arming Iran and aiding HAMAS; while Turkey has been arming Ukraine and giving moral support to HAMAS. Venezuela was supplying China with cut price oil and so was Iran. China and Russia are both after Greenland which Denmark can’t defend.
Trump was tackling all this in the right order but cursed with treacherous self proclaimed friends and allies who can’t see the big picture.
HAMAS used negotiations to stall, to rest, to regroup, to rearm, to lay more booby traps, to recruit. Maybe Trump has taken a leaf out of their book and in two weeks the war will resume.
April 8, 2026
It’s not that bad.
Russia is not supporting Iran (just windowdressing), they are NOT fighting Trump. Russia and Israel are the big arms producers now. China’s stuff proved to be second rate.
China is NEVER going to weigh in on the side of Islam.
With the western Globalists dead in the water, and Islam beaten, China hopes to the last ‘One World Power’ player – Communism – standing.
April 8, 2026
Iran also claims the right to continue to enrich uranium. This would be an obvious sticking point with Trump. Also, a charge to use the Straits of Hormuz (leaving aside its illegallity under Maritime Law) would provide the regime (as would any amounts of US compensation paid directly to the regime) with billions of crypto and yuan, giving it a golden opportunity to replenish its military arsenal to twice the size it had before the war – and to replenish its uranium stocks.
April 8, 2026
137 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 7th April 2026 …
April 8, 2026
Is that a battalion or just a company.
April 8, 2026
Bit of a worry Starmer’s flown out there to discuss opening the Strait, will probably result in him paying Iran £30bn.
April 8, 2026
Contrary to what the useless television and supposedly expert commentators are saying, Trump and America has ended up ahead, at least while Trump remains President because every other country will be afraid to chance their arm against him and Iran will not be getting nuclear weapons while he is President. I expect one of two things will happen -either the standoff will continue for years (as in Korea) without any formal final agreement or America will resume war with Iran fairly soon so as to finish off the job
April 8, 2026
The Nations Embarrassment! – Putin mocks Starmer with warship in Channel
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/08/russia-warship-mocks-starmer-in-channel/
Last month, Sir Keir gave special forces the authority to capture the armada of rusted ships illegally ferrying oil to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, saying he would hit the shadow fleet “even harder” if they sailed through British waters. However, Britain is yet to seize a single Russian vessel.”
Sir Keir said: “Putin is rubbing his hands at the war in the Middle East because he thinks higher oil prices will let him line his pockets.
“That’s why we’re going after his shadow fleet even harder, not just keeping Britain safe but starving Putin’s war machine of the dirty profits that fund his barbaric campaign in Ukraine.”
Labour is planning to rebrand Sir Keir as a global statesman in an attempt to avoid wipeout at the local elections next month.
Sources told The Telegraph that Labour was planning to use Sir Keir’s stance on Iran to argue for him to remain in No 10.