The Traitor Papers
The shameful support for an illegal war
Britain’s biggest newspapers are demanding that our Armed Forces put their lives on the line in an illegal, unprovoked war at the behest of a foreign leader. That’s not patriotism, it’s treason.
And yet these rags will be the first to get their poppy on the masthead come November and wallow in the blood of the war dead, months after encouraging our young to add theirs to the tragic pool.
A Sun headline thundered: “Keir is pandering to Muslim voters by not joining my Iran blitz, slams Trump as he tells PM to ‘stop letting foreigners in’.”
It’s no surprise to see the racism and Islamophobia from The Sun, but the use of ‘blitz’ is interesting, given that it owes its place in the English language to a Nazi attack on our country.
Their editor then spewed: “It is near unprecedented for a US President to have to publicly lambast a British PM for his lack of support in confronting a global threat.”
Er, what global threat? America and Israel are the global threat and the biggest obstacle to world peace since Adolf Hitler.
“Sir Keir seems to think slavish adherence to the most rigid possible interpretation of international law is the same as strong leadership.”
So obeying the law is bad now? Got it. That’s why the News of the World closed, isn’t it? Lessons learnt: none.
“It’s not just pathetic. It’s shameful.”
Their last line is true at least. The Sun’s determination to allow British troops to die for America and Israel is not just pathetic, it is shameful. The Sun is terrified of harming our fictitious special relationship, as it clings to its Empire mug of sweet Indian tea and does the bidding of the deeply patriotic Australian-American Rupert Murdoch.
Keir Starmer has simply asked for legal justification for killing people. It’s not unreasonable. Especially when Trump cannot provide one.
At one point US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, suggested they started the war because they knew Israel was about to strike Tehran. The next day he said “I never said that,” after Trump said it was not the case. That’s leadership, libs.
Trump continues to criticise Starmer, saying he’s ‘No Churchill’. Thank God he’s not, as Churchill’s last intervention in Iran, alongside America, sowed the seeds of Iran’s despotic regime today. In 1953, Iran had a thriving democracy with a popular democratic leader, Mohammad Mossadegh. MI6 and the CIA jointly orchestrated a coup, motivated by Mossadegh’s plans to nationalise their oil industry, so that its vast income could be enjoyed by Iranians, rather than Britain and the USA.
They restored the deeply repressive rule of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, whose brutal regime led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the theocracy that now rules the country.
It’s worth remembering that Trump isn’t an anomaly. Britain and America have always pulled this shit, avoided responsibility and blamed foreigners. America does not care about democracy. It cares about oil.
I’m not a huge fan of Starmer, but he deserves some credit for learning from the tragic mistakes of Tony Blair in Iraq and not jumping slavishly into war criminality, as the editors of The Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express would have him do, as would Badenoch and Farage. Unusually for right-wing grifters and treasonous hacks serving off-shore masters, they are not in tune with the country this time. Very few support this unnecessary war. Even fewer would want their children to die in it. Nobody joins the British Army to die for oil, or Israel. Or to keep the US President out of prison.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is the only European leader to really stand up to the bully and call him out. Trump wants to punish Spain for saying “No” to him. I wish a few more adults in his life had done so.
The American author and journalist Ryan Grim, reported that: “An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the US, to be part of an Indian naval exercise. The US pulled out of the exercise at the last minute and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.”
This is the ship that Secretary of War and Epic Shit, Pete Hegseth, has been bragging about; sinking an unarmed ship 2000 miles from Iran.
Grim continued: “Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
“I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media – mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic – is complicit.”
This is the evil that the most powerful voices in the British media want us to stand side by side with. Pathetic and shameful is right for these modern day Lord Haw-Haws.
Vincent, thank you for this. Nothing says serious national debate quite like a pack of millionaire-backed tabloids foaming at the mouth for other people’s children to be shipped off to die, then dressing it up as courage. The same papers that treat international law like an annoying parking ticket suddenly want the country to salute and stop asking questions. Funny how legality only becomes optional when the bombs are heading in the direction they fancy.
That is exactly why we cover the front headlines every day at Satirical Planet News. Somebody has to keep an eye on the daily parade of hysteria, tub-thumping and recycled empire cosplay masquerading as journalism. Your piece gets to the heart of it, the people screaming loudest for war are rarely the ones expected to pay for it.
So yes, thank you for writing it. In a media climate where too many front pages read like audition tapes for the Ministry of Propaganda, plain speaking still matters. We are also adding you to our recommended reading list, which is either a mark of quality or a terrible career move, depending on how much you enjoy upsetting the professionally unhinged.