Ben Harnwell

It's because whatever you say about the European branch of our sociopathic overlords, they know how unpopular they are broadly because of the immigration issue anyway.

You've got the far-right iteration sort of nipping at the heels.

They realise that getting their countries involved in a third Gulf War in as many decades is politically suicidal.

They don't want any...

They don't want to keep the whole, they don't want anything to do with this.

They don't even want to be tapped in to keep it straight.

Well, no one's particularly stepping up at the moment.

President Trump is calling a party, saying the party's on.

But at the moment, the music may be playing, but no one wants to go to this party.

Apart from, as you mentioned earlier on, your Gulf allies.

And this is what I put out on Getter this morning.

You do have, and this is what Semaphore carried, that officials from Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE

have told their u.s counterparts that they want the conflict to continue until tehran changes its behavior but as of yet have offered no boots on the ground to send in and as you've been highlighting consistently see if look i quickly close with this point this observation because you mentioned it just before the break and you said it's a very important consideration how much is um

this war affecting what's going on in Ukraine.

And yes, President Zelensky has been, bless his little cotton socks, has been trying desperately to insert himself into this narrative as well, and largely failing, but he is doing what he can do.

But I'd like to reframe your question, Steve, because I don't think it's so much...

The fact isn't so much how much is this war affecting what's going on in Ukraine.

It's how much has what happened in Ukraine over the last three or four years affecting the operability for the Gulf War.

And this brings us to the Patriot battery situation, which Poland has refused to help.

And that is nobody, if you ask, if America asks which country now, which of our allies has Patriot batteries,