Trump to use British bases for ‘surge’ in Iran attacks

I can clearly see what you're trying to do here and it's across many of the threads.

Spouting deliberate misinformation or conspiracy theories without any evidence, in the hope that if you repeat it enough times then maybe some of it will stick.

Except the conspiracy theories and fake information comes across as either blatant anti semitism or as the dim tin foil hat brigade.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/uk-airbase-raf-akrotiri-cyprus-suspected-drone-strike

Not Isra el?
Known for their false flag operations.

The were launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Btw the announcement from the ministry that the drones didn't launch from iran was clear.

Why don't they tell us where they launched from?

Also, no Greek wants to fight against Iran for the benefit is is rael and us or Britain.
If the UK wants to maintain the bases they have to be able to protect it themselves and act only after communication with the Cypriot ministry.

There were no surface to air systems at Akrotiri before the drone attack, I think that they may have brought in some anti drone systems now, but only after the attack and there is still no anti missile defence (like Patriot) in place.

So they should protect it against the illegal occupiers of the northern part of the island, not only drones.

Anyway, I find this reasoning the single most deceptive way for Europe and NATO to enter the war.

Athens has served as a protective power for Cyprus since if was divided up following the Turkish invasion. They aren't protecting Akitori which has dozens of Typhoons and surface to air missiles.

What do the Greeks have to do with defending a British base?

There are 750,000 Greeks living in Cyprus and Greece is right next to it. Akitori is not undefended. There are several dozen typhoons and surface to air missiles based there.

Apologised to its neighbours.

It’s on sky now.

Trump appears to have the role of president of America, Europe, parts of the Middle east.
He can build ballrooms, admire the views, abuse female reporters,organise invasions, steal presidents, bomb countries. he’s entertaining to say the least. Crazy.

On the news it’s saying Iran has apologised and said it will stop attacking its neighbours. They will have to as runnin out of armaments.

China will also be advising them, but trump wont stop until full surrender and a new leader who is American leaning in place, he can’t, or its all been pointless for him, he was never doing this for Irans people . He needs them to stop supporting China. So until he gets them to stop doing that, a new leader who supports the USA, then they will continue to attack Iran.

It's a beautiful plane. A magnificent piece of engineering.

I can see how the government have manoeuvred themselves into trying to make such a fine distinction, but ‘defensive’ vs ‘offensive’ is nonsense isn’t it?

You’re either doing a war or you’re not. If you are, then you attack stuff until you’ve achieved your goal. You can’t run every move past HR.

Starmer took too long to agree this and he did it as he was worried about a leadership challenge, and that’s a shit way to run a country.

on one side, I do think he needs to stay in position, as the alternate will be worse, but he needs to show he’s got some balls on him, as he looks weak and indecisive and that’s just going to ramp up his issues. When you look weak the bullies will slither out in his party,

i think it is right we support the USA on this, there may come a time we need them, and quite frankly I think the us should go in hard and put an end to this.

this isn’t about Iran, trump doesn’t give a flying shit about Iran or democracy in Iran, that was the other gulf states issue , he gives a shit about China, and China is irans closest ally,90 percent of irans oil goes to China, and it goes via a route the Americans can’t see or control, all Irans defence systems are now Chinese, and what’s happening weakens China, the world is watching as they stand back and let their close ally burn, a huge diplomatic issue, as well as the fact the Iranian oil will go. Trump wants a pro America leader in Iran, to significantly weaken China,

china is challenging America to be the new world super power, and trump is putting them back in their place and weakening them. That’s what this is about.

And China can’t act, as they won’t get oil from any gulf state if they do, collapsing their economy, and they’d be taking on America If they did.

starmer made a huge mistake delaying here, enormous. He should have not even waited to be asked, but offered it up. The damage he’s done by being weak and worrying about his own position, could be significant. He has got there in the end, but he has played a key role in the escalation of this.

Well he might as well use them. It’s not like we do.

I find the UK stance irresponsible. It was dragged into a war for the interests of other nations, at a time it does not have the capacity to even protect its own sea borders at home.
Greece is sending warships and planes to protect RAF akrotiri because its completely undefended.
This will eventually spread the conflict to Europe and beyond.