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Trump and Netanyahu have been reduced to making excuses, burning through defences, and somebody’s already trying to cash in on it too... Right, so US Central Command has admitted that three American F-15E Strike Eagles have been shot down over Kuwait by Kuwaiti air defences in an apparent friendly-fire incident, with all six aircrew ejecting and being recovered, and that is the sort of sentence that ought to stop you dead, because it’s not just “an incident”, it’s the mask-off reality of this mess: the people running the most expensive military machine on earth have got their allies shooting their planes out of the sky, and they still want you to believe they’re in charge of what happens next. Donald Trump has then gone on to tell people the “big wave strikes” have not even happened yet and that a bigger one is coming, and you can hear the arrogance in that because he is talking about escalation like it is a phase in a project plan, a four-week job he’s telling us as his own side shoots his own planes out of the sky and fire rains across air bases, US military shipping and Israel as if that means nothing, like he can schedule chaos and still pretend he’s somehow managing it, that he’s in control of this mess, while the first visible proof of this war’s reality is allied air defences accidentally shooting down their own assets. Keir Starmer has gone to the Commons and said a drone came down within 800 yards of British personnel at RAF Akrotiri, nobody killed fortunately, but you can’t say that sentence out loud and still pretend Britain is standing off to the side can you?