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On a sinking ship a sailor yearns For his Joy Division oven gloves
On the banks of the Thames انضم Mart 2009
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The UK can't deploy a single ship.
Spain and France won't let America fly from their airbases.
Germany buys its energy from Russia.
I think Europe are the ones who have "pulled out of the alliance."
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Exclusive: Europe is accelerating a fallback plan for NATO in case President Trump pulls out of the alliance on.wsj.com/4tfjNgr
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U.S. natural gas prices are down 28% year-to-date, while European natural gas price average is up 58%.
U.S. gasoline prices are 32% lower than in China and almost 45% lower than the EU average.
And we're eliminating the trade deficit through energy exports.
"Energy Dominance" is not a slogan or an ideology; it is strategic logic. The whole world understood that when it was OPEC with the upper hand. Why can't they see it now?
Source: Bloomberg
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@johnkonrad @TrentTelenko Maybe it's not that important you war monger
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The sad fact is they couldn’t afford to build a proper working Navy even if they wanted to.
Institute of Economic Affairs@iealondon
🇬🇧 We asked Brits where the UK ranks vs US states in income per person. Average answer: 7th. Wealthier than 43 states. The reality: 51st. Dead last. Below Mississippi. Below Arkansas. Below every single US state. 🧵
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@ChrisO_wiki cluster warhead might be good for the drone factory?
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This would put it on a par with the old US Pershing II, China's DF-21, North Korea's Hwasong-7, or Iran's Shahab-3 medium to intermediate-range ballistic missiles (M/IRBMs). The DF-21 is capable of carrying a 600 kg (1,300 lb) warhead, either nuclear or high-explosive.
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Note that a 204 km apogee would, if optimised for range, produce an approximate range of 1,000 to 1,500 km if the rocket is flown on a ballistic trajectory. Moscow is less than 500 km from the Ukrainian border, but this would be a perfect range to hit the Alabuga drone factory in Tatarstan - 1,200 km from Kharkiv.
Dylan Malyasov | 🧐@DylanMalyasov
Ukraine says its intelligence directorate carried out two rocket launches into space during wartime, including one reaching 204 kilometers above Earth. Officials also disclosed what they described as Europe’s first launch of a rocket carrier from a transport aircraft at 8,000 meters altitude, marking a rare aerospace development revealed during active combat operations. Read more defence-blog.com/ukraine-confir…
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UK PM Starmer is single handedly killing the "Special Relationship."
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - UK says it will not be involved in U.S. blockade of the Hormuz Strait, and is currently "urgently working with France and other partners to put together a wide coalition to protect the freedom of navigation." — Sky
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@astraiaintel Both Brexit and Trump prevailed in part because they attracted people who normally wouldn't vote
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As long as the population is convinced to vote at all, the democratic center will basically always prevail.
MAGA's prevalence, for instance, was enabled by the "few and obnoxious" radicals exploiting the space allowed to them by the unmotivated centrists.
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv
More bad news for Putin, as voter turnout across Hungary continues to break records. With some locations as much as 4x higher than previous record. Countrywide totals, as of 1pm, already 54.1% of registered voters have voted. In comparison to previous years at 1pm: 2014: 34.3% 2018: 42.3% 2022: 40.0% 2026: 54.1%
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@almurray But in reality the influx of non career soldiers with other live views that the peacetime empire policing caste during war time improves the effectiveness of the British Army
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Ruh roh
John Frost on internal politics in 2 Para in North Africa.
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@cpscott16 @general_ben And more to the point, IRA terrorism was heavily funded from the US. Not the government but blind eyes were shown.
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Just a reminder: in 1982, when Great Britain was attacked by Argentina, starting the Falklands War, the United States did not come to their aid because the Falklands are not in the North Atlantic and the British did not bitch about it.
In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt.
In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops.
So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.
The White House@WhiteHouse
“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump
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@archer_rs @johnwwilliams Would we have to do the arm gestures? I would be a danger to any interlocutor
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@johnwwilliams The world language will be Italian.
1 - for its classical root
2 - because it sounds nice to everyone else.
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Humankind will never evolve until:
1) We remove all borders, all countries are artificial
2) Eliminate religion of all forms, they are all manmade, time to grow up
3) Establish a one world government, working for the benefit of all people
4) Agree single global language
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Let me guess, Iran won and the USA lost, Iran lost and the USA won. Pick your opinion, plenty all round.
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@thinkdefence As someone who spent most of Sunday pulling up lines on sailing nark buoys, he’s not really dressed for the part and that’s clearly all Keir Starmer’s fault
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Pictured:
A Seaman Specialist onboard HMS Prince of Wales wets down lines with fresh water after being pulled back onboard as the ship slips from Souda Bay, Crete
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@thinkdefence Prob right but it's not just crude ... LNG, fertiliser ingredients, aluminium etc. a ship is 20k+ containers, that's a lot of lorries in the short term. Building rail and more pipelines increases resilience but create more potential chokepoints to defend as well as increased cost
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Whatever happens in the Gulf, think it is a reasonable prediction that gulf states will increasingly arm themselves, harden infrastructure, and where at all possible, diversify routes to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. I know the current prevailing view is that Iran has won strategically, but that might be only in the medium term. Thus, India and China become even more exposed to strait closure risk, not from Iran, but the Gulf States and USA. Route diversion may be eye wateringly expensive and not 100% feasible, but there is no way Iran will be allowed this much leverage over the global economy again.
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Is there anything more infuriating than an electronic form that requires you to fill in a box before proceeding but then, the moment you proceed, wipes the information and tells you that you can’t proceed without filling in the box?
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@archer_rs Wait till he hears about rugby, Gaelic and Aussie rules
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Trump focused on the important issues of the day.
Dov Kleiman@NFL_DovKleiman
Wow: President Donald Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport named football. "This is football, there is no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff." 😬😬😬
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@PeterStefanovi2 “How’s that not having a king working out” followed by 45 minute laughing
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BREAKING: The King will address the U.S. Congress on 28 April as part of his state visit to the country, it has been announced.
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@thinkdefence With drones in the air, using any vehicles is just a reconnaissance by death tactic
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I can't help thinking CR/3 is a better recce vehicle than ajax, and cheaper
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@ArmandDAngour He was aware that Trump would be a handful and needed skilful handling, Mandelson's attraction to rich people was almost a qualification
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Rigby feeds Starmer a line “I didn’t follow my instinct”.
He fails to take it up, and woffles about due diligence.
“Answers were given”.
His instinct was that Mandy would be a political force and a trendy appointee. Why else be “hard on himself” now.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
Been wanting to ask this for a while: ‘When I looked at vetting document, I didn’t get why you put him back into power. Surely your instinct was, I don't want this guy in govt? Are you angry at yourself that you maybe didn't follow your instinct?
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@StephenGrove19 @John_ForemanCBE And which carrier was Diamond defending, exactly?
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@DufferAlert @John_ForemanCBE No, the two go together. We don't just collect ships, what else do you think is the point of the T45s?
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Of course we did exactly this in the 1980s fully understanding the risks.
But Starmer is no Thatcher.
Peter Ricketts@LordRickettsP
I didn’t quite say that. My point was that as long as Iran was threatening to prevent ships passing through Hormuz without their approval, no Western navy would risk sending its warships to escort a convoy which was likely to come under Iranian fire.
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