Current Affairs - 2026

[Mervyn and Trish]

Trump either does not understand or has zero respect for international law. What he is threatening would be a war crime. No ifs, no buts, no excuses.

[david63]

Trump either does not understand or has zero respect for international law. What he is threatening would be a war crime. No ifs, no buts, no excuses.

He has no respect for any law be it international or domestic. It matters not anyway as there is nothing that can be does as the US does not recognise the ICC

[Chalgrave4]

Trumps disregard for rule of law and civilised behaviour is only matched by similar behaviour of the Iranian regime.
Both as bad as each other.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I wouldn't disagree that the Iranian regime are appalling. But it was Trump who started this war with no plan of how to end it. And Trump who is threatening that a civilisation will die tonight. Sounds like genocide to me. And his condition for not doing that? The opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Which, I vaguely remember, was open before he started this madness. The man is certifiable.

[oldbluefox]

Trumps disregard for rule of law and civilised behaviour is only matched by similar behaviour of the Iranian regime.
Both as bad as each other.

I think that is the problem on all sides - Iran, Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah all equally guilty and now the Madman from the States has joined in and made matters worse. Sorry for all the innocents who have been killed, lost their loved ones or been displaced for the sakes of an ideology or determination to demonstrate how powerful they are but lack the nous to know how it affects everyone else.

[Stephen]

The whole world knows he’s a head case except himself.

I wouldn't be surprised if this deadline comes and goes with more made up lies to follow why he didn’t carry out the threat. And i hope he doesn’t carry out the threat for the sake of all the innocent lives caught up in this.

[oldbluefox]

Mad mullahs vs Yankee basket cases. No idea what will happen next mainly because they don’t know either.

[Onelife]

Can someone tell me what would happen if it was found that Iran did have/were working towards nuclear capabilities? Also your opinion as to which country would use nuclear weapons in defence of their religious ideologies first? I personally don’t think waiting to see is an option.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Trump destroyed their nuclear capability in November. He told us.

[Onelife]

Trump destroyed their nuclear capability in November. He told us.

What do you think?

[Mervyn and Trish]

He was lying then or he's lying now. Or both. Take your pick.

[Onelife]

He was lying then or he's lying now. Or both. Take your pick.

So the possibility of nuclear capabilities still remains?

[Mervyn and Trish]

To be honest I'm more worried Trump might use nuclear weapons tonight than that Iran might in years to come.

[Onelife]

To be honest I'm more worried Trump might use nuclear weapons tonight than that Iran might in years to come.

I wouldn’t be surprised to wake up in the morning to find that Trump has used the total destruction threat as a distraction for sending in ground troops.

[towny44]

Can someone tell me what would happen if it was found that Iran did have/were working towards nuclear capabilities? Also your opinion as to which country would use nuclear weapons in defence of their religious ideologies first? I personally don’t think waiting to see is an option.

India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons and neither of them can be considered as particularly stable countries. So adding another to the list is hardly likely to tilt the world much further.

[Onelife]

Hi John, as far as I am aware neither India or Pakistan use cleric based theology to underpin their nuclear strategies/options

[oldbluefox]

Looks like Trump has been let off the hook and given a way out of the mess he has created.
Meanwhile did you notice the human chain on the bridge consisted of women and children!!! Hmmmm!

[Onelife]

Looks like Trump has been let off the hook and given a way out of the mess he has created.
Meanwhile did you notice the human chain on the bridge consisted of women and children!!! Hmmmm!

My wife commented on seeing that….the question is, did they go voluntarily or were they pushed?

[david63]

Looks like Trump has been let off the hook and given a way out of the mess he has created.

I suspect that it is only temporary despite his claim of a "victory". The terms that Iran have allegedly asked for will be totally unacceptable to Trump and all the while that "negotiations" are taking place Iran will be regrouping.

Iran are playing the best hand - they are allowing shipping through, agreeing to a ceasefire, agreeing to negotiations so that when it all goes pear shaped, which it inevitably will do, they will be able to claim the moral high ground.

Trump is a "dead man walking" as he has not got a clue as to what to do other than to bully and issue threats as neither he nor any of of his top military advisors have any experience of a war (he sacked the generals that had the experience as they disagreed with him).

In my view this war is far from over.

My wife commented on seeing that….the question is, did they go voluntarily or were they pushed?

We will never know but my guess is that it was probably a bit of both - there were the zealots who went voluntarily and at the same time forced others there.

The clever thing about that is that any attack against those bridges would without any doubt constitute a war crime and Trump would have the whole world against him - that is if the military actually went ahead with such an attack. My guess is that despite what Trump ordered the military would not have carried that out.

[Stephen]

I might make the most of it and go and fill the mower petrol can now oil prices are coming down

[towny44]

I wonder if Trump is going through the Mano-pause, that, hopefully brief period in his case, between life and death where men go totally doolally?

[Mervyn and Trish]

While of course I welcome the ceasefire, if it lasts, what has the conflict actually achieved?

If Iran had a nuclear stockpile and ambitions before, it still has. If Iran was antagonistic towards Israel and the US before, it is more so now. The regime hasn't changed. The people that were oppressed still are. The Strait that has reopened was open before.

Anyone who believes this was ever about nuclear weapons or freeing the Iranian people is sadly wrong.

It was always about propping up Netanyahu's position as a hard man and distracting from Gaza. It was about pushing Epstein out of the headlines. It was about controlling more of the world's oil, just like Venezuela. It was about making huge profits for Trump and his buddies, the only people to have benefited from the conflict.

The only benefit for the rest of us is it's taken Trump several steps closer to disgrace, impeachment, removal from power and hopefully prison.

[Mervyn and Trish]

And let's not forget there was a deal under which Iran agreed not to develop nuclear weapons. Trump scrapped it, solely because Obama had negotiated it.

[david63]

It was always about propping up Netanyahu's position as a hard man and distracting from Gaza. It was about pushing Epstein out of the headlines. It was about controlling more of the world's oil, just like Venezuela. It was about making huge profits for Trump and his buddies, the only people to have benefited from the conflict.

Not forgetting the taking focus off Ukraine.

The only benefit for the rest of us is it's taken Trump several steps closer to disgrace, impeachment, removal from power and hopefully prison.

Unfortunately I cannot see any of that happening any time soon unless by some miracle the Democrats take a significant majority at the primaries later in the year.

[Mervyn and Trish]

We can but hope!

Meanwhile Warmonger Netanhayu steps up attacks on Lebanon.