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I'm more curious about the black bits.

Gavin Newsome was being interviewed recently by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. He recounted being in a meeting with Trump and Jarrad Kushner when Trump said Ivanka should have married Tom Brady. It was an interesting interview, worth watching:

Leave your ex in Sydney, stay where you are, extend your place and get a dog. 😊

You can be just as lonely renting somewhere else. If everything is pretty good where you are now, apart from the distance to a larger town, maybe it's being on your own too much that's the main problem?

All the talk seems to be about Trump and his motives and expectations, but there's not much being said about Netanyahu in initiating this war. Trump was obviously intent on doing something because he sent the Navy and Airforce into the region, but I'll bet he didn't know what he was going to do with them. However, when Netanyahu got tipped off that Khamenei was going to be in a meeting with his senior leadership, there was no way he was going to pass up the opportunity to knock him off. I think he probably said to Trump, "I'm going after Khamenei, and If you don't do something the Iranians are going to lob missiles at your fleet and air force so you had better get in first before they respond". That probably pushed Trump into action but left him floundering for excuses to convince the US population that America was in dire peril from Iran. Nobody knows how this ends, least of all Trump. All Trump wants at this point is a reason to declare victory and walk away because he can't afford politically to string this out for too long. Therefore he'll deal with anyone in Iran who will talk to him and make him look good. Meanwhile, the Iranians are not lying down and are doing their best to drag the rest of the region into the war. Netanyahu is now attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon. Overall, it's a mess.

And Russia.

I read a report that said that both Mahommad bin Salman from Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu from Israel put pressure on Trump to take this opportunity to attack. The Saudi's would be very happy to see the Khamenei gone.

If this becomes a mess, which is likely, Trump’s base will be very unhappy.

He and Netanyahu are more interested in triggering regime change than getting some kind of agreement on nuclear development. In his statement justifying the attack Trump listed all the Iranian attacks on US interests snd personnel going back decades. Putin won’t be happy because he may not get some of the drones he needs.

It would probably take around three years to design and build it starting from scratch. Even if it was built, I doubt that Trump will ever get his name on it. He will hopefully be in jail or in an aged care facility by then.

Even the Liberals wouldn't sign Australia up to that transparently corrupt outfit.

Trump has had his wings clipped by the Supreme Court who ruled that his IEEPA tariffs are illegal. He’s not a happy camper.

The last Royal to be arrested was Charles 1st in 1649. He was convicted of treason and lost his head. I wonder what Andrew will be charged with.

Can’t turn or are just in a hurry to get away?

Since then, a US Judge has ordered the Trump administration to put the posters back up.

in this space.. on the same page... circle back... low-hanging fruit... bring to the table... brain dump... get buy-in... game changer... take it off-line... reinvent the wheel... onboarding... in my wheelhouse... top down... putting out fires... There are heaps of them and they're all irritating.

It seems that Musk blocked Russia's illicit use of the Starlink network a week or so ago at Ukraine's request. It's now hampering Russia's communications and use of drones on the front which is obviously good news for Ukraine. Lets hope he doesn't change his mind next week.https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/starlink-used-by-russian-forces-deactivated-battlefield-ukraine-says-2026-02-05/

That was interesting. At the end of the video they make the point that as effective as they Australian’s methods were in the field, they resulted in high levels of PTSD and long term difficulties adjusting to civilian life after the war.

It's so well done you can't tell.

Took me a while to work it out but I got there despite my relative youth.

Nice photo. Lots of detail visible if you zoom in.

There's plenty of videos on uTube in the same vein as that article, generally saying how the Australian SAS soldiers far outclassed the elite American troops in the jungle. I'm not sure how much is true and how much is hype. Here's a typical one.

Because I would have quoted your comment in my reply.

They are, but it wasn't a response to your comment, Nev.

So crypto is not even worth the paper it’s written on then?