No more rum in the Royal Navy, which commanded the seas when it ran on the stuff, mostly before nuclear weapons existed, and long before Trident. And in nuclear deterrence's own terms, there must no more be nuclear weapons in Iran than there were in Iraq, or Iraq would never have been invaded and Iran would not be facing an armada even as defined by Donald Trump. Iran under the present regime is no democracy, yet it is still more democratic than it would be under either of the actually existent alternatives. Iran will go to whichever of three contenders gave Trump total control over where the oil and gas went.
One of his suitors is the absolute monarchist but fake royal, Reza Pahlavi, who is almost a complete stranger to Iran. Another is the Mojahedin-e-Khalq of Islamo-Marxist terrorists whose collaboration with Saddam Hussein was up to and including fighting for Iraq in the war with Iran, a country where it, too, has now been almost completely unknown for two generations. And the third is the present regime, just as Trump kept the regime in place in Venezuela, where it is not doing too shabbily. That may be the least worst option. What a world.
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