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By Boiler
#108344
Jeremy Bowen on Trump's war of distraction.

Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn't working
Far from capitulating or collapsing after Israel and the US killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first air strike of the war, the regime in Tehran is functioning and fighting back. It is playing a weak hand well.

In contrast, Trump has given the impression that he is making it up as he goes along. He follows gut instincts, not the pages of intelligence and strategic advice that other presidents have ploughed through.
Well worth a read.
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By Boiler
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Yet these days, it'd be unthinkable if fuel rationing were to be introduced, as it very nearly was in 1973. How many here are of an age where they can remember the coupons being issued? I remember them - and as my father part-exchanged his Vauxhall Victor for a Ford Zodiac (a car with twice the engine size of the Victor!) in August 1973, the Victor was snapped up by the garage.

https://old.thememoryboxfoundation.co.u ... ooks-1973/
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