Mark Dennehy

So, four weeks into being bombed flat with the old heads of state assassinated, Iran fires at Diego Garcia, with a weapon that's got twice the range anyone thought they had before the war started and which is capable of hitting everywhere from the largest US air base on that side of the planet to anywhere in western Europe? And they have nuclear material to make into dirty bomb warheads so even shooting them down doesn't help?

Well, this is seeming like a better idea every day, isn't it?
#uspol

Mar 21 at 11:15amWeb
Show thread6x6Mar 21
@markdennehy From very bad, to even worse.
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@markdennehy From Ankit Panda on bsky:
“This also marks the unambiguous end of Khamenei's (the elder's) self-imposed 2,000 km missile range limitation—a message that'll also be received in Europe.”
Show threadMark DennehyMar 21

@bernardlyons The same day a very obviously Iranian chap tries to stroll onto a nuclear base in Scotland.

Heck of a message, that.

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@markdennehy Hopefully he was told to get to the gates and make a big fuss. Getting more than a few metres past the fence on that site is a short road to martyrdom.
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@markdennehy Report in the NYT that the Iranian man and Romanian woman approached the gate and asked to be let in. Thank $deity for that.
Remind me to tell you a story about Faslane some day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/world/europe/iran-scotland-naval-base-clyde.html

Iranian Man Arrested After Trying to Enter U.K. Naval Base, Police Say

The man and a Romanian woman walked up to the gate of the base in Scotland, where nuclear-armed submarines are docked, and asked to be let in, an official said.

The New York Times
Show threadFull Metal ArchaeopteryxMar 21

@markdennehy

Nope

That Fucking Guy started a war as a distraction

Without any forethought, consultation and in concert with another country whose leaders are also acting fascists

All of this a result of a long chain of poor, unguided decisions, many of which knee-jerk reactions and petulant jabs at people who fail to acknowledge his 'brilliance'