Trump and Netanyahu have been reduced to making excuses, burning through defences, and somebody’s already trying to cash in on it too... Right, so US Central Command has admitted that three American F-15E Strike Eagles have been shot down over Kuwait by Kuwaiti air defences in an apparent friendly-fire incident, with all six aircrew ejecting and being recovered, and that is the sort of sentence that ought to stop you dead, because it’s not just “an incident”, it’s the mask-off reality of this mess: the people running the most expensive military machine on earth have got their allies shooting their planes out of the sky, and they still want you to believe they’re in charge of what happens next. Donald Trump has then gone on to tell people the “big wave strikes” have not even happened yet and that a bigger one is coming, and you can hear the arroga ...