General Sir Richard Shirreff; "they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters"
Posted by Gerard on March 6, 2026, 12:51 pm
"Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is."
He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly."
He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."": https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2029743059861397764
Some actual sense from the chinless war-pig class.
I've seen quite a few sources suddenly come to the realisation that the evil empire assassinating the supreme leader, during Ramadan, at the bidding/with the help of the apartheid state is just about the worst tactical move they could possibly make. There are so many similarities to Hasan Ibn Ali (I think, I'm definitely no scholar on any of this, but the original Shia Martyr) they have served it up on a plate to completely alienate the entire Shia world.
Of course, or at least you would think of course, there must have been someone in the state department who had a clue about this but was probably shouted down by Kegbreath well into his second bottle of Jack and screaming about "maximum lethality! FUCK YEH".
Fucking morons. The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: Some actual sense from the chinless war-pig class.
I gather that a lot of Sunnis are just as upset.Clio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
on March 6, 2026, 12:51 pm