Roast the Week
It's not a war. It's a very soft war.
On Monday Donald Trump explained that America is not at war with Iran: "This isn't a war — it's a very soft war."1 That night, American jets bombed an Iranian island.2 On Friday they bombed it again, and he called it "minor".3
So it's a soft war with hard bombs. Like a pillow fight, if the pillows were fighter jets.
Elon Musk spent $158m trying to stop James Talarico winning a Senate seat in Texas.4 Talarico won, and said: "Texas is not for sale."5
To be fair to Musk, he did check. Thoroughly. For $158m.
Across Europe, 32 bomb threats grounded and diverted planes in four days.6 One was signed by a Russian far-right group, the Male State. A Telegram account linked to it replied: "What Male State? It hasn't existed for many years."7
Which makes it the only thing this week less real than a soft war.
And in Paraguay, President Santiago Peña resigned. Congress refused to let him, because under the constitution a former president becomes a senator for life,8 unless he has been impeached first. So Congress impeached him instead, and the Senate removed him by 44 votes to nil.9
Most countries' politicians spend years trying to get into the Senate. Peña had to be removed from the presidency to keep him out of it.