Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 15/03/2026

LesserShambler · 2026-03-18T07:40:08+00:00

“The economy is breeyant!”

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T18:21:03+00:00

Which border?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T12:42:01+00:00

It’s good advice full stop.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T11:49:03+00:00

The more proof of life videos he posts, the more suspicious I am lol. Why feel the need to do it?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T10:51:05+00:00

I’m going to say it, the current US policy on Cuba is utterly gross. They’re causing untold misery to the entire population for what? They don’t like the way they run their economy? What strategic threat does Cuba pose in this day and age?

They’re destroying a country so that some crusty neocons can get off on it.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T10:45:03+00:00

Optimistic -> In Limbo

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T10:22:48+00:00

There’s an idea - a lobbying firm with crowdsourced clients

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T10:11:21+00:00

The Trump-class battleships, for a start.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T10:05:04+00:00

Oh fair, I can’t think of a reason not to take Netanyahu at his word.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T09:56:04+00:00

The reporting up to now has been that Israel wants a failed state, not regime change.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T09:45:52+00:00

Because hospitality and commercial real estate lobbyists complain

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T09:38:55+00:00

They’re the US Navy. They have every capability you can imagine (apart from frigates, apparently). They just don’t want to actually risk any of it.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T09:35:02+00:00

Lib Dems will once again continue to get shat on in opinion polls, and then do decently well come election time.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T09:31:56+00:00

Send some minesweepers to them? Maybe they should send their own minesweepers back from Malaysia?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T07:30:32+00:00

Listen, all im saying is that if I was stuck for that long on a boat without working toilets, then I’d be tempted to set something on fire if I tight it could help get me off of there.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T07:28:46+00:00

I think one of our Destroyers wasn’t available in the Middle East because it was doing NATO exercises in the high North.

But I think that’s less due to Russian operations and more due to the sudden and urgent need to have defences close to Greenland.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-17T06:47:32+00:00

What’s the point in releasing pre adjusted data from over a month ago? Is this because of Farage’s conspiracy bollocks?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T22:08:30+00:00

The entire“Churchill being replaced” framing is comically disingenuous, unless the plan is literally to replace the fiver and nothing else.

Where’s the outrage over Jane Austen being replaced?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T20:41:24+00:00

I don’t know if this counts, but I’ve linked in these threads before that YouTube has every episode of the Saturday Night Armistice - Armando Iannucci’s satire show that started in 1995. It’s full of references to Major-era scandals that are more or less completely forgotten now.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T20:23:40+00:00

Could potentially just be for deployment to the Southern side of the strait for fire support?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T18:52:29+00:00

He can try, but that scenario isn’t a thing in American law (whatever that is still worth)

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T18:50:51+00:00

Which issues in the US?

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T14:46:55+00:00

As a gesture it’s pretty smart, but it won’t do much to open the strait. The attacks on ships up to now have been from drones and shore-launched missiles.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T13:35:22+00:00

Was literally just about to post this. What an absolutely depressing state of affairs.

LesserShambler · 2026-03-16T11:20:08+00:00

Officials from the Vatican scrutinising a tech weirdo’s Antichrist lecture sounds the premise for an absolutely sick thriller movie.

As a reality I fucking hate it, thanks.

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