[Maark Abbott]

Back to our regularly scheduled despair, Cardboard Keir has allowed use of our bases to the US in their war of aggression which will (inevitably) make us into a target again.

Well, a bit of hope was nice whilst it lasted.

[QuickTidal]

Maark Abbott, on 02 March 2026 - 05:02 PM, said:

Back to our regularly scheduled despair, Cardboard Keir has allowed use of our bases to the US in their war of aggression which will (inevitably) make us into a target again.

Well, a bit of hope was nice whilst it lasted.

Not that it excuses it, but the Iranians attacked Cyprus, which IIRC is a UK base so does that not force his hand?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2026 - 05:26 PM, said:

Not that it excuses it, but the Iranians attacked Cyprus, which IIRC is a UK base so does that not force his hand?

Worth bearing in mind that it was apparently Hezbollah that attacked Cyprus, though of course they're acting as an Iranian proxy.

More to your point, the drone hit hours after Starmer's annnouncement. Though officials are speculating that it was launched prior to the announcement, they gave no indication that they were aware of the launch at that time or that it precipitated Starmer's decision:

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A Cypriot news agency reported that the damage to the airbase had been caused by small low-flying drones launched by Lebanese Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group from the country – but no formal confirmation had been issued by the UK Ministry of Defence on Monday afternoon. [...]

The drone struck hours after the UK agreed to let the US use British military bases to attack Iranian missile sites, but officials indicate the possible flight times mean it was launched before the prime minister announced the new policy.

https://www.theguard...ed-drone-strike

[Maark Abbott]

QuickTidal, on 02 March 2026 - 05:26 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 02 March 2026 - 05:02 PM, said:

Back to our regularly scheduled despair, Cardboard Keir has allowed use of our bases to the US in their war of aggression which will (inevitably) make us into a target again.

Well, a bit of hope was nice whilst it lasted.

Not that it excuses it, but the Iranians attacked Cyprus, which IIRC is a UK base so does that not force his hand?

The timing, like Tiste mentions, is what makes the UK a target. If we'd disavowed ourselves and THEN been hit, then sure. That's retaliation. But otherwise we're enabling American imperialist aggression and realistically by doing so we've already played our hand.

Also bears mention that (to my knowledge) this decision did not go via Parliament, so the perception of the current government at a time where there are fascist sharks in the tank is that they are weak and not much more than lackeys to America. Of course those same fashy twits will start screeching about small boats and Iranian men as soon as refugees from this begin arriving, but they don't really have the capacity to work out the correlation in most cases.