RE: Another belligerent missive from Trump6 Apr 2026 11:39
" forget who made this comparison, but the point was made that, in Suez, the refusal of the US to back the British and the French marked the end of the empire and that Iran is close to being the reverse situation, with the British and the French (amongst others) failing to back (in full) the US."
just about every politician at the time made that point Ocelot. In fact it was an act of complete stupidity - read Alastair Hornes offical biography of Harold Macmillan. It's hard to see, 70 years on, what what, if anything, was passing through their minds but only a bunch of supreme idiots would launch an invasion 6 days before a Presidential Election, without telling the Americans.