Mark Philip Rennie

The Soldier Who Stole England's Crown Jewels youtu.be/4Yr9CXCxcBw?si… via @YouTube

California at $7/gallon is exactly what happens when Hormuz is effectively closed and crude cannot move. A truck running LA to SF now costs $1,200+ in diesel alone, up from $800 last year. That is not just transport inflation, it is every retail shelf in the West getting squeezed. The 2022 record will not last the week.

Russia's main TV channel is airing songs about how great life is without the internet. Getting even closer to North Korea.

@CliffClavin10 @AlliJB1 instagram.com/reel/DUFZduTjN…

@adamrobin84 a joke to try on the others instagram.com/reel/DWKpvifDI…

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Manual steering, maximum trust 😮‍💨 youtube.com/shorts/3C4NSRn… via @YouTube @CliffClavin10

i get told a lot EVs wont work for trucks, they drive between cities, they do, vast majority of truck trips never leave the urban environment. If we can make this fleet #EV, there will be more than enough fuel left for the long haul uses, and farms. Cities will be far cleaner.

Now this is a car!

On D-Day, one man earned the only Victoria Cross of the entire invasion. His name was Stanley Hollis. A former merchant sailor and lorry driver from Middlesbrough, Hollis landed on Gold Beach on 6 June 1944 with the Green Howards. That morning he charged a German pillbox alone — firing into the slit, climbing on top, throwing grenades — then pushed down a trench and captured a second bunker. Later that day in Crépon, he dragged a Bren gun forward and fired from the hip to draw enemy fire, saving two pinned-down comrades. The only VC awarded for D-Day. Presented by King George VI. Earned before sunset on the longest day. © MilitaryHistoria #drthehistories

This is an original document in which Ian Fleming proposed the creation of an elite commando unit for Naval Intelligence. It later evolved into the renowned 30 Assault Unit – still active today @Commando_Ops! The document is signed ‘F’ for Fleming:

🚨There are 3,200 ships carrying 20,000 mariners TRAPPED in Strait of Hormuz who have RUN OUT of water and food and who have been REFUSED access to restock. Whilst the world watches ….. many fail to see the disaster unfolding in plain sight. Let that sink in 😔👇

Roasting the Jeep Compass youtube.com/shorts/WIfS2gP… via @YouTube via @RyanMcbeth So what do you think @AlliJB1

Good time to repost this

Babcock has secured a five-year contract from the UK Ministry of Defence to manage and service its white fleet of non-combat vehicles, including cars, vans and trucks. Click image for more. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=67784

Well the RAF is glowing in its praise of Wildcat and Merlin helping to build the RAF air picture Vs air threats. Not once did it mention that they are RN assets maintained by RN techs. Great example of the RAF playing inter service games... raf.mod.uk/news/articles/…

While many wait for the all-new BMW iX3 and BMW i3, the first BMW with NACS charging port (SAE J3400) is already available in the US: the 2026 BMW i5 M60. evchargingstations.com/chargingnews/f…

Vietnamese airlines are to raise ticket prices due to the ongoing fuel shortage. Vietjet is cancelling a large number of flights between Vietnam and Japan starting April.

@mercoglianos somthing to look into: x.com/Eng_china5/sta…

@shanaka86 This is the same HMS Anson that left Australia a few days after arriving (in November or December) becuse it was going to take part in naval exercises with Australian and Japanese assets called Exercise Malabar, which was maybe planned up to 3 to 5 years ago?

BREAKING. The country President Trump called “very late as usual” just parked a nuclear submarine within Tomahawk range of Iran. HMS Anson, an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, is now positioned in the northern Arabian Sea with cruise missiles capable of reaching targets deep inside Iranian territory. Britain did not announce this with a press conference. The Daily Mail published the positioning. The submarine speaks for itself. HMS Anson left Perth earlier this month and traveled 5,500 miles to the Arabian Sea. It carries Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles and Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes. Its Rolls-Royce reactor will not need refuelling for 25 years. Its pump-jet propulsor makes it one of the quietest submarines in any navy. It does not need to surface to strike. It does not need permission from Washington. Starmer authorises launches through Permanent Joint Headquarters at Northwood. This is a British weapon under British command. The sequence matters. On the first day of the war, Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean. Neither hit. Trump publicly criticised the UK as “very late” and “disappointing” in its response. Starmer initially hesitated on US requests to use British bases for strike operations. Then Britain authorised the use of UK bases, including Diego Garcia, for operations to prevent Iran from attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by warning that British lives are now at risk. Britain responded by sending a submarine that can put a Tomahawk through a window in Tehran from underwater without surfacing. The escalation ladder from “very late” to nuclear attack submarine took less than three weeks. Starmer’s calculation is not ideological. It is economic. The UK imports significant quantities of LNG and oil through Gulf supply routes. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately 20 percent of global seaborne oil trade. British energy prices are already surging from the Hormuz closure. British pharmaceutical supply chains depend on Indian manufacturers who depend on Gulf crude. The same supply-chain vulnerability that connects Modi’s Nowruz phone call to Ohio pharmacies connects Starmer’s submarine deployment to British gas bills. The submarine is not defending democracy. It is defending heating costs. The Astute-class is the most capable attack submarine Britain has ever built. Seven are planned. Five have been commissioned. HMS Anson, the fifth, entered service in 2022. At 97 metres and 7,800 tonnes submerged, it carries a crew of 98 in a hull designed to operate at depths exceeding 300 metres. It is smaller than the American Virginia-class but rated quieter by multiple independent assessments. It carries fewer missiles but needs fewer sailors. In a strait where stealth matters more than volume, the boat that cannot be heard is more dangerous than the fleet that can be seen. The UK is now the third nation with strike capability deployed in the war theatre, after the United States and Israel. France has the Charles de Gaulle carrier group for air operations. Greece has a Patriot battery defending Saudi refineries. Twenty-three nations signed a statement. But only Britain has put a nuclear-powered platform carrying land-attack cruise missiles underwater in the Arabian Sea with the authority to fire them on the Prime Minister’s order. Trump said late. Starmer sent a submarine. The missile it carries can reach Tehran. The reactor that powers it will not need fuel until 2047. And the man who authorises the launch is the same man Iran threatened by name when it said British lives are at risk. The threat was noted. The submarine arrived. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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