DerekPlews

Thankyou @NJ_Timothy you have described him and the issue accurately. “The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.” C.S. Lewis

As a defenceless, broke and confused Britain, crippled by its net-zero fantasies, is forced to negotiate with the US-Israel battered IRGC pirates to secure some expensive maritime access to middle-eastern oil supplies, the real, dog-eat-dog, competitive world moves on. As President Trump said, and quoted in this excellent piece: “The future will be determined by the ability to protect commerce and territory and resources that are core to national security.” And if any oil-dependent nation such as the UK has so depleted its moral or physical ability to fight for what its needs, it’s many enemies and piratical competitors will hold all the cards at any negotiating or “conflict resolution” table. As this writer says: “In a world of energy-resilient powers, the nations that neglect both their resources and their sea lanes will be the first left in the dark”. This isn’t “Trump’s Suez” as the deranged commentators would have it, but ours. Born of decades of self-destructive defence and energy policy, compounded by a lobby-corrupted, conceited, terminally weak national leadership that cannot separate “self interest” from true “national interest”. The current oil crisis is nothing like 1973. Iran is not Opec telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04…