More fun and games in Syria this week, Israel launched an air attack and left the sort of destruction you normally only see when the Daily Mail runs an article about binge drinking and British town centers on a Friday night. In response, Bashar Al-Assad, wanting to look like a strong military leader, no doubt quoted that famous line by Lt. Colonel Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn, namely "where are all those darned tomahawks coming from?!"

So what's happening then? Well Syria is currently home to Iranian military advisors and the whole thing is a bit reminiscent of the 1950s when the US had military advisors in Vietnam. Sure a decade later that was openly a US-Russia thing but for a long time it was a Vietnamese civil war, just as for now Syria is technically on the winning side because it's fighting itself. Assad has made suggestions that foreign intervention has threatened to escalate the situation beyond a cold war. I don't think there's any chance of a cold war though, have you seen the weather forecast for Damascus? 70 degrees in the shade.

All this is in the same week as the Iranian nuclear deal has started to unwind with the US reimposing sanctions but the EU desperate to keep trade open; largely because they love cars in the Middle East and both Germany is very keen to sell the new S-Class in Tehran. The US is shut for business though as far as Iran is concerned though although that didn't stop Oliver North back in the 1980s and I'm not sure where the UK stands on the whole deal, although I'm sure that the sales director at BAE systems (the weapons division) is following it closely, call me cynical.