OK thanks, used to stay down the road at Cullen when I worked in Aberdeen by the way.
Understood Bahrain but was struggling with the Cyprus threat.
I nearly bought a car there once.
I mean I'm as in the dark about the likely degree of response as everyone else, I'm only guessing that any western asset in the area will now become a legitimate Iranian reprisal target. As PV says though, the piracy prize for the US far exceeds even all the rare earth in the east of the Ukraine. What's one lost base to them? Do they deserve any of the prize, no of course they do not, as always.
Trump the puppet is gambling hugely here, maybe they think they have a better shot at total world power if they try to take it piece by piece since going straight for the bear has failed? Greenland, Venezuela, Iran all have the same thing going for them that Iraq, Libya, Syria had.
Surely it's obvious by now to everyone what their playbook is, Hussein, Maduro, Qaddafi, Putin, Al Assad, it doesn't matter, their media always portrays them as heinous villains to the gullible just before they go in and wreck the place. It's almost laughable and I'm sure every BRIiCS country fears they will be the next. Iran is the first one with the nuclear threat though of course, and Israel seem to be really playing with fire today imo.
The big question though has to be, will the game get moved? We deserve to know.