All Your Base Are Belong To Us, The People’s Carcrash, Our Democracy
You’ve heard of de-Baathification? Now what about de-baseification? The gradual chipping back of US strategic assets in the Gulf as each in turn comes under pressure from drone and rocket fire… till only a handful of super-bases remain.
Iran’s president says country is in ‘full-scale war’ after an expansion of US attacks. They’ve struck US interests in Bahrain, Kuwait - and the Houthis are blockading Saudi ports.
The US was unlikely to win this war - but now it seems it could actually lose it.
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Year-on-year sales drops at Volkswagen, and Audi and Porsche, which it…
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