"Unless every European leader is stupid beyond stupid, Europe just had a “come to Jesus” moment."
Andrea Widburg - American Thinker
"Like Carthage before it, Iran delenda est (that is, Iran must be destroyed). The world will be much safer and happier when a non-Muslim Persia arises from Iran’s ashes."
"Yesterday, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK base. Both missed, but one got near the target. The attack is significant because it proves that Trump was absolutely right that this war needed to be fought, and fought sooner, rather than later.
Diego Garcia has been in the news of late, so it made a nice, symbolic target to prove Trump’s point.
The base is located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 2,500 miles due south of Mumbai. The islands are “only” 1,250 miles northeast of Mauritius, a dot in the Indian Ocean, due east of Madagascar. For very complicated reasons, Mauritius has laid claim to those islands, which have long been under British control.
In May 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government announced that it would transfer the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius. Trump strongly objected, saying that the islands, which house Diego Garcia, still have strategic value. Obviously, he was already thinking ahead to its value vis-à-vis Iran, and his objections were so powerful that, this February, Britain delayed the transfer.
However, although it delayed transferring the islands to Mauritius, the British government didn’t want the U.S. to use the base in the war against Iran. It eventually announced that the U.S. could only use the base “defensively.”
Defensiveness arrived yesterday:" . . .
"In other words, Iran just proved that it can attack every country within a 4,000 km radius of it. Imagine if those missiles weren’t armed with conventional warheads but were, instead, nuclear-tipped? Given Iran’s apocalyptic jihadism, it would control almost half the planet."
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