British PM Keir Starmer – possibly assisted by ChatGPT – has drafted a bland and pointless tweet in response to Israel’s pre-emptive strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Earlier this week, the UN confirmed that Iran was violating nuclear proliferation agreements by enriching uranium. This is a clear threat to the security of the free world, but of course, this did not mean anyone expected the UN to back up its determination with meaningful action to stop it. So Israel has.
Anyway, StarmerBot lectured:
The reports of these strikes are concerning and we urge all parties to step back and reduce tensions urgently. Escalation serves no one in the region.
Stability in the Middle East must be the priority and we are engaging partners to de-escalate. Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy.
Does he really imagine there is any point to this ‘intervention’?
Meanwhile, it has been reported that most of the Iranian Air Force’s top leadership has been eliminated in a targeted strike while they met in their underground bunker.
This is not, as Starmer would put it, an “escalation”, it is what competent planning and a will to win in an existential war looks like. It isn’t hard to see why it disconcerts many western leaders. This really illustrates how we in the UK, and throughout the West have substituted bluster, hubris and posturing for actual competence. Israel makes us look pathetic and unprepared (which of course is what we are).
As the world faces a real prospect of war, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is playing silly games and failing to budget for our armed forces even as Putin taunts us.. But if there is an escalation of global conflict, bland tweets aren’t going to protect us.
Instead, we should be wishing Israel every success and doing what we can to help to neuter the emerging ‘new Axis’ powers. And emulating their resolve.