[Spridgets] NO LBC - My opinion on Iran (for what its worth)

[John Farley]

Daniel, thanks for sharing your thoughts    It is refreshing and sobering
to hear perspectives from non USA folks.
John F.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 4:13 PM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Well there is no Spridgetly 'traffic', at least in my in box and having
> little to no Spridgetly news I am posting my opinion on Iran.  So, delete
> now or read on and argue with me if you like.  I guess some of you are
> Trump voters and will neither admit you were mistaken or don't believe you
> are but can't put together a justifiable argument.  Well, we only know what
> happened when Trump was elected and what sort of worse for America it might
> have been (or not) if Kamala had been elected.  Well I am not an American
> citizen and didn't get to vote.  I am also not wealthy so didn't donate
> money to any political party.  So, my comments are NOT political, they are
> my opinions on things as I see them looking from a neutral position.
>
> Well taking Maduro out of Venezuela, whether legal or not was a good thing
> in my opinion because it weakened China in lots of different ways including
> making them less bold and therefore made them less likely to make a
> reckless decision.  In the UK if the last government trusted China too
> much, this one isn't much better.
>
> Believing Iran was planning to create a nuclear weapon and use it is
> something I believe.  I mean if you have more oil than you can ever use why
> would you need nuclear power, unless you thought you might help to reduce
> global emissions and simply make money letting others do it.  That's a
> simple argument no-one seems to put and I can't think why.  Attacking Iran
> whether legal or not to ensure there are no longer a nuclear threat does
> seem like a good idea to me.
>
> However, there are some 'spanners in the works'.  Being friendly to Putin
> who is helping Iran seems at odds with the military objectives of
> neutralising Iran.  On the other hand attacking Iran once more weakens
> China which I think is a good thing.
>
> Trump flip-flopping on whether American needs help to deal with Iran or
> doesn't and then insulting all your old friends and allies is never going
> to help America and came across to many as childish and bullying.
>
> Not understanding how NATO works and then insulting it because it doesn't
> do what you think it should do, even when it is not supposed to, is never
> going to help America.
>
> Believing Europe is weak militarily and won't pay for it's defence and
> will have Russia rolling tanks over it in days after America leaves NATO is
> something for the Kool-Aid drinkers and Fox news viewers.  Likewise America
> pulling out of NATO and all its bases in Europe would work out badly for
> America.  However, saying you will do something as a bullying threat is for
> fools.  NATO would indeed be weaker and worse off without American in it
> (though Canadians and Danes might disagree) but the flip side is that
> America would be worse off and weaker outside NATO (not just airfields
> think intelligence and RAF Croughton for starters).  Also think about the
> U2 (or whatever) flights out of Akrotiri in Cyprus, which by a quirk of
> history is Sovereign British territory.  America is making those flights
> for a good reason so no-one tell me how many spy satellites you have.  No,
> I haven't broken the official secrets act or anything like that because I
> read it in the Times newspaper (the attack on Akrotiri was seemingly not
> the runway as first reported but the American hanger that houses the U2 (or
> whatever).
>
>      Also forgot all those comments about how much America brings and
> spends in local communities in Europe.  My experience as a veteran is that
> the UK buys local abroad and if you are in Akrotiri, in Cyprus (and I was
> twice) the local RAF shop will contain packets of fries (we call crisps)
> that has a Zebra on them.  To a brit that means they are Zebra flavoured
> but from memory I think they were ready salted.  However, go anywhere in
> the world, including the UK, and go to the USAF shop (BX) and there is no
> local goods, rather everything is American and shipped from America.
>
> Apart from the many insulting and ignorant comments I have read from
> Americans (and more recently Argentinians) some believe Britain no longer
> has a Navy simply because it didn't have a spare ship to send to Cyprus (it
> didn't need to send a ship there is a military runway at Akrotiri)  Well we
> do still have a navy including nuclear powered nuclear submarines with
> nuclear weapons.  Also we had to handle a russian submarine threat which
> had to be closely monitored about the same time Trump was saying Britain
> wasn't helping him, well he wasn't helping is monitor the russian threat.
>
> Some Americans are concerned that having burned through a massive stock of
> missiles of various types America is weak and vulnerable.  It is weaker but
> that doesn't mean vulnerable as the only 'outfit' that might kick its ass
> would be Europe and they have no plans to, despite being insulted and
> treated so shabbily.  Russia is not a threat to NATO or the US and neither
> is China.  America is however, much poorer but only if it wants to
> restock.  But while America keeps insulting NATO countries for not spending
> enough on defence and boasting about how much it spends maybe it could
> consider spending less?
>
> I don't know much about the Petrodollar but it's on its way out from what
> I can tell and that will be a price America has paid for its actions of late
>
> Will America cease to be a superpower, well I guess with a massive amount
> of debt even without replacing all its missile stocks (that will take years
> as well as a lot of money) it still will be, but a smaller one.
>
> Has America made a fool of itself and lost the respect of many nations?
> Well I guess maybe but perhaps more accurately it has given ammunition to
> it's enemies which hostile nations (communists: Russia, China and N.Korea)
> will use against it or more likely help others to use against it.
>
> I guess that 'someone' has got rich out of this but most others will be
> poorer long term.
>
> Does Israel run America and Zionists will control the world, I don't think
> so.
>
> So, how is your Sprite running?  Mine is getting closer for a trip to the
> rolling road and is running ok.  Also because the top speed of my Sprite
> was only 115 mph I knew it didn't have all the power it should have.  Well
> another 6 or 7 mph more might not seem much but that's actually a lot of
> power less.  How do I know?  Well I have CDa data from real life full scale
> wind tunnel testing for a start.  The rolling road data when I get it will
> enable me to update my spreadsheet and I can then 'model' that data for a
> standard Spridget and various modifications.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Daniel - my other books are not about Spridgets!
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