The ultra-low cost American budget carrier Spirit Airlines shut down last week. Rising jet fuel prices due to the Iran war were the final straw for the struggling company, and pose a massive challenge for airlines the world over
#WWIII
https://tripwirereporting.substack.com/p/spirit-airlines-shuts-down-amid-global

In 2026 the word "ceasefire" has absolutely no meaning

#Geopolitics #Politics #WWIII

This is what WWIII looks like, terrorist acts on the streets supported by foreign states and we're all on the front line.

Trump's war on Iran is effecting us all, and we're daren't blame the Paedo for it now, oh no! He's White.....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/29/golders-green-attack-claim-highlights-rise-of-shadowy-iran-linked-group

#IranWar #GoldersGreen #London #WWIII #Iran #Israel #Trump #USA #UKPol #UKPolitics

Golders Green attack claim highlights rise of shadowy Iran-linked group

HAYI has taken responsibility for a string of incidents targeting Jewish sites, but investigators say the latest claim may be opportunistic rather than state-backed

The Guardian
It was so much easier to #debate #bible stuff when it was more like "How many #angels could dance on the head of a pin?" than "What misquoted, misinterpreted Bible verse will the #christofascist #regime use in their bid to start #WWIII and ignite #armageddon?"

We're in World War Three and our political class wants to sell us out to the richest aggressor....

#WWIII #EpsteinClass #NetworkState #Politics #PeterMandelson #Trump

It’s time MPs levelled with us: Britain is already at war, and we’ll need to do two things to survive it

Cyber-attacks, disinformation and blockading of supplies. This is what living in a war zone can look like now, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian
Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran have collapsed. The fighting has not started yet and the war is in a strange limbo as both sides blockade each other amid a growing energy crisis
#WWIII
https://tripwirereporting.substack.com/p/us-iran-peace-talks-cancelled-as

#WWIII #China #Iran

"Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.

The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them. Meanwhile, modern conflict, from Ukraine’s drone war to naval engagements in the Red Sea to Iran’s own mass missile and drone salvos, increasingly favors systems that can be produced at scale and replaced when lost. The F-35 is a masterpiece. But a force designed around a masterpiece is not designed for long, protracted wars, and U.S. adversaries know this.

(. . .)

None of this should suggest that the F-35 is a bad aircraft. Rather, the argument is that a force designed predominantly around the F-35 is a brittle force. The joint force should cover a wide spectrum of contingencies, from permissive raids against isolated adversaries to sustained, high-attrition campaigns against nuclear-armed peers fielding dense defenses across vast distances. No single platform covers all of that, and budgets are finite.

The problem is not unique to the F-35. The Pentagon’s requirements process is built to maximize desired performance, not to discipline design by what the industrial base can actually produce at scale. The acquisition system then attempts to execute against those unconstrained demands, turning production realities into a downstream problem rather than a governing input at the outset. The same issue plagues or threatens to doom other tactical aviation programs, shipbuilding, and much more. Just as it took the brutal reality of naval warfare in the Pacific to shift the Navy’s love from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, it may take the catastrophic failure for limitations of exquisite tactical aircraft to overwhelm the forces keeping them drinking up most of the trough."

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/

The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War

Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It

War on the Rocks
The two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire Wednesday as talks between the two countries collapses and a resumption of the war seems imminent
#WWIII
https://tripwirereporting.substack.com/p/us-iran-ceasefire-nears-end-with
Three in court over attempted arson attack at Persian media company in London

Boy, 16, among those charged in connection with attempted firebombing at Volant Media offices in Wembley

The Guardian