Trump’s war posture is now entirely physical: assets move, bases clear, smelly repairs bite, protests flare, and Iran has put retaliation on record. Right, so Donald Trump is continuing his game of chicken with Iran, and the part that’s turned ugly here – well there’s a few of them - isn’t so much the shouting, it’s the receipts, because the United States is trying to project “readiness” while the practical reality being reported is strain, friction, and timetable, and the small detail that he can’t pep-talk a massively faulty sewage system into working. The USS Gerald R. Ford, can be smelt before it is seen it seems as it has been reported as having ongoing, massive sewage system failures, because despite the price tag of the vessel sitting at $13Bn, they ballsed up the toilets. Despite there being 600 toilets to serve the needs of more than 450 ...