The US military has reportedly moved aircraft out of a second British airbase following an Iranian threat, weeks after American bombers were withdrawn from RAF Fairford.
The evacuation came just as Donald Trump ominously warned of another wave of strikes, threatening the nation with raids “five times bigger” than seen previously.
Speaking by phone to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Primetime on Monday night, the president put another enormous bombardment on the table.
Meanwhile, Iran is insisting months of military pressure has failed to bring its 92 million-strong nation to heel.
The nation’s biggest powerbrokers know that the conflict has made the US very weak internally, with the recent midterms showing exactly how many of Mr Trump’s supporters have left him.
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Elsewhere, the man in charge of America’s military is suddenly fighting against a push from within Mr Trump’s party to eject him from the job.
Nvidia has been urged to do some “overdue succession planning” amid the scandal engulfing its CEO, Jensen Huang, who’s admitted to having an affair with a woman the US government suspects is a Chinese spy.
And one of Mr Trump’s answers in his sitdown interview with 60 Minutes, concerning whether he is capable of forgiving his perceived enemies, has sparked a debate about the President’s Christian faith.