Middle East

[albion_pigeon]

About to explode.

Depressing times, we're in the most dangerous situation in my lifetime at least.

I'm obviously 98

[Dumbo]

What have I missed?

[albion_pigeon]

What have I missed?

Do you just go out of your way every day to be a complete bellend? 

Or is it just your general personality?

[Dumbo]

What have I missed?

Do you just go out of your way every day to be a complete bellend? 

Or is it just your general personality?

Fucking hell.

[albion_pigeon]

What have I missed?

Do you just go out of your way every day to be a complete bellend? 

Or is it just your general personality?

Fucking hell.

Fucking hell what?

[MrBater]

I also don't know what in particular has happened.

[Cheshire East Baggie]

We 60-somethings were brought up to believe that the Cold War was a time of great peril to human civilization. That's what we were told and it was easy to believe. Like the more recent threats of "Terror" and "Debt" and "the EU" which have driven Government policy and public imagination for 20 years or so.

I'm with Pidge - the current state of the Middle East, backed up by the shitshow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, put the world we live in closer to catastrophe than ever before. Last time it kicked off properly (1939) no-one had the technology to kill us all in one blast, either economically or actually. These things are quite possible nowadays. It all makes petty squabbles about Brexit, immigration, pro-life v abortion and some of the issues listed above fairly trivial. It could all go horribly wrong, and it's hard to see who can encourage or impose some common-sense to sort it all out.

[Dumbo]

I also don't know what in particular has happened.

Do you just go out of your way every day to be a complete bellend? 

Or is it just your general personality?

[CaptainFantastico]

Iran has lost its patience with Israel after Israel lost its patience with Irans proxies.

Biden has headed back to the White House, Iran has hijacker a British owned Israeli cargo ship and its possible though not certain that Iran is about to launch a direct missile attack at Israel. Where that leads is a set of dominoes no one wants to catch fire

[MrBater]

I also don't know what in particular has happened.

Do you just go out of your way every day to be a complete bellend? 

Or is it just your general personality?

It's a special skill tbf