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On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:12:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 10/05/2026 22:54, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 09/05/2026 18:14, rbowman wrote:
>>>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>> He's started a war against Iran in order to Be Important, just like
>>>>>> buddy Putin.
>>>>>> But in the end its just another pile of steaming turds. Even
>>>>>> invading Iran wont fix the problem, just get a lot of Americans
>>>>>> dead.
>>>>>
>>>>> Even worse he started it to make his buddy Netanyahu happy or,
>>>>> perhaps more accurately, Miriam Adelson. Of course the whole fucking
>>>>> mess goes back to the Brits making Chaim Weizmann happy.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah., We can blame America on the bloody Brits. they started it.
>>>> EVERYBODY has something on Trump. He doesn't care.
>>>
>>> I enjoyed King Charles during his recent visit to the U.S.  Trump
>>> tried to take sole credit for winning WWII by proclaiming, "If it
>>> wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German."  The King responded, "If it
>>> wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French."
>> 
>> Sole credit is a bit much but WWII would certainly have gone rather
>> differently without US involvement, and personally I’m grateful for the
>> American support.
>> 
> Less support than self interest.

War is good for bidness. A lot of unpleasantness could have been avoided 
had Wilson remained neutral and let the Europeans sort their problems out 
in WWI.