Kernow Damo

Right, so Donald Trump entered this war demanding Iran's unconditional surrender, as if he were at a drive-thru shouting for a cheeseburger and expecting Tehran to include a free milkshake. Back in February, he assumed the whole conflict would be finished in four weeks, maybe even sooner if he skipped dessert. Five months of bombing, threats, and increasingly tense victory laps later, Iran still h...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu believed Washington had just handed him a lifeline. He had spoken with America's secretary of state, received promises of strong action against the institution threatening him, and felt confident enough to announce it to his Cabinet as if the outcome was already decided. A very positive development for Netanyahu, certainly. He faced an active arrest warrant, and the mo...

Right, so it turns out Donald Trump has finally stumbled across a problem that refuses to be solved by lobbing another bomb at it. Tragic, really. Iran is striking American military facilities throughout the region. The Pentagon is reportedly scaling back its large presence in Kuwait. In Jordan, hundreds of prominent individuals are calling for the complete removal of the American presence. And no...

Right, so Trump and Epstein lawyer, the odiously Zionist Alan Dershowitz appeared on Piers Morgan's show and, within about five minutes, managed to accuse Professor Mohammad Marandi of being a Nazi propagandist, a supporter of genocide, and someone who hates Jews. He was about as subtle as a marching band in a library. Dershowitz arrived with the guilty verdict already printed, laminated, and prob...

Right, so Donald Trump says America has plenty of missiles. Plenty. Loads. More missiles than America could ever possibly use, or so says the man bombing Iran, threatening fresh strikes, exposing US bases across the Gulf and promising Patriots elsewhere, all while burning through the world's most expensive air-defence equipment like a toddler let loose in a fireworks warehouse and piling on fresh...

Right, so Pete Hegseth went on television a couple of months ago now and announced that Iran's military was destroyed. Combat ineffective he said at the time. Devastated. Finished. Toast. Iran, apparently, exists now only as a cautionary tale for aspiring militaries everywhere. And then, as usual when it comes to the bloviating orange one’s administration, reality gate-crashed the party and wrecke...

Right, so Tell is a Palestinian village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. On Friday morning, a group of armed Israeli settlers came in from the direction of the nearby Havat Gilad outpost, without coordinating with the army. A bunch of armed settlers wander into a Palestinian area they're not supposed to be in, six people end up dead, and Netanyahu's government decides the real problem here i...

Right, so there he is, Donald Trump, locked, loaded, talking as if he is about to star in a low-budget action film that nobody really wanted. Ready to go. Ready to launch another so-called 'massive' attack on Iran. Ready to flatten bridges, power stations, military sites, and whatever else the Pentagon's restless interns managed to jot down on the target list while appearing busy. Except he did no...

Right, so Saudi Arabia's response to the NCC MASA being hit in the Red Sea and sustaining minor hull damage, with the crew unharmed and the vessel still able to continue its journey, was to resume bombing Yemen. Not a ship sunk. Not a crew killed. Not a port knocked out. A damaged vessel that kept moving, and then Riyadh decided the next step was to call in the air force. Just double down again, w...

Right, so Donald Trump needed this war to look like a win, since nothing says "stable genius" quite like turning a bloodbath into a campaign ad. He bombed Iran, declared a ceasefire, and right away began selling the entire fiasco as quick, tidy, and a real bargain in American lives. Iran was supposedly shattered. The missiles were apparently vaporised. Victory secured. Mission accomplished, just w...

Right, so the Houthis sent Saudi Arabia what amounts to a polite RSVP for the Red Sea fireworks, as if missile launches were just another part of the evening's schedule. Tankers immediately began performing the maritime equivalent of a panicked three-point turn, much like learner drivers who suddenly spot the examiner. Trump was asked about the situation and, in his usual style, declared he'd hand...

Right, so Netanyahu’s government has just told Israel’s High Court: don’t force an independent October 7 inquiry before the election. Well whyever would that be then? Let Israelis decide whether to put Netanyahu back in office first. Ask what went wrong under his government afterwards. Vote first. Answers later. That is the timetable Netanyahu wants. But putting it in writing may have been a colos...

Right, so Saudi Arabia just walked away with the nuclear deal Israel assumed Trump was keeping in his oversized pockets until Riyadh decided to behave. Here's the short version: thirty years of American companies pushing reactors, tech, and nuclear parts to Saudi Arabia. No, Mohammed Bin Salman isn't getting a bomb in the mail or a shiny enrichment plant tomorrow morning, but the door is politely...

Right, so by Pete Kegsbreath's own count, Donald Trump's Iran war has now cost the United States thirty-seven and a half billion dollars. That number? They can pull it out faster than a magician with a rabbit. Just look at the precision, decimal point and everything, as if the Pentagon's accountants are splitting atoms, not budgets. But ask one of Trump's top brass how many Americans have been wou...

Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's national security minister and the man politically responsible for its police and prison service, seems to have watched one Bond film too many and decided Israeli prisons were missing something. Not more staff. Not better oversight. Crocodiles. Yes, actual Nile crocodiles. And before you roll your eyes and assume Ben-Gvir was just busy posting another foolish AI...

Right, so two Saudi oil tankers, carrying 2.7 million barrels of crude and all the optimism of a doomed road trip, were steaming towards China and India until they suddenly pulled a U-turn in the Red Sea as if they’d just remembered they left the iron on. Why? Because the Houthis spoke up and warned that Saudi-linked shipping was now fair game if it tried to head south through the Bab-el-Mandeb St...

Right, so Andy Burnham says Britain has just gone through the biggest political shake-up in forty years. Apparently all it took was a few new faces that actually weren’t that new at all. Forty years. Thatcher. Blair. Austerity. Brexit. The full Olympic relay of national self-sabotage. And now, it seems, all it takes to wipe away forty years of wreckage is Rachel Reeves and David Lammy hauling card...

Right, so Israel has torched millions on a US influence operation that includes telling Americans that the starving children, shattered buildings, and eyewitness footage coming out of Gaza might all be some elaborate ruse. Nothing to see here, really. Move along. Don't trust any of that, says the advert. It might all be a coordinated propaganda effort and it’s not like Israel would ever do such a...

Right, so that’s an Israeli journalist describing what Israeli scientists have found on their own crops. Forever chemicals on potato leaves from the Gaza Envelope, that being the Israeli term for the communities, farms and agricultural land on the Israeli side of the boundary surrounding Gaza, mainly to Gaza’s north and east. Detectable amounts in most of the potatoes themselves. And a chemical pa...

Right, so, remember those Saudi oil facilities going up in flames a few years back? Keep that picture in mind, because the war Riyadh spent years pretending it had settled may now be kicking off again and they’ve done it all to themselves. The Saudi-backed government in Yemen decided to lob a missile at Sanaa Airport because a few Iranian VIPs had the audacity to show their faces in Houthi territo...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has made himself a victory film, because, of course, he has. Explosions. Soldiers. Trump is praising him. Congress clapping. Netanyahu in body armour, looking as though he personally carried the entire Israeli military up a hill before breakfast. Lots of fire, lots of flags, and absolutely no sign of the people who have to keep making it all happen, because there is on...

Right, so this is Ben Gurion Airport, Israel's main civilian airport. Open, technically. Except the Americans have parked so many airborne gas stations on the tarmac that airport officials are now warning that 50,000 booked journeys could be disrupted. That 50,000 is not a confirmed body count of stranded souls, just the number of bookings at risk if the military keeps treating Ben Gurion like a d...

Right, so there’s Israel Katz, standing in the ruins of northern Gaza, being asked how all that destruction makes him feel. And he says he feels good. Good. Homes flattened. Whole neighbourhoods turned into rubble. Families were driven from whatever was left. And Katz stood there looking pleased with himself, as if somebody had finally just approved his second floor extension. He goes on to call t...

Right, so Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have struck the runway at Sanaa International Airport because they wanted to stop an Iranian aircraft landing there. That was the official justification. The internationally recognised Yemeni government said the flight had entered Yemeni airspace without its permission, that Ansarallah, the Houthis were trying to establish direct Iranian flights into...

Right, so Donald Trump has declared himself guardian of the Strait of Hormuz. Guardian. Protector. Toll collector. Apparently the man saw one of the world’s most dangerous shipping lanes, made dangerous by him of course and thought, yes, what this needs is branding. And a fee, bearing mind Iran was told it couldn’t do that. The orange one has decided he can though. Small thing Donnie, you still do...