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@TBrit90 True, although Iran (with serious help from Russia) would throw everything at them, and the US would not be unhappy to see them sunk

Unironically would be good for Iran mine clearance given they have nothing better to do. The RN mcmv fleet is stretched and covering home duties.

@NLwartracker @FreightAlley When Poland and Germany suddenly launch a war for regime change in Belarus, then demand American support, it's great to know that MAGA will all be shouting "hell yeah!"

@FreightAlley Why should a defensive alliance get involved in an illegal war (this war has no UN approval, like others did) who's members where not informed or asked before hand, get involved cleaning up Trumps mess which by the way is destroying the world economy. Tell me please......

If Europe wouldn't assist in a war with a regime that every leader has condemned that has been left nearly powerless, there is little chance they would support a war against China where strong economic and supply chain dependancies exist

@ProjectLiberal @BetseyFossLewis RIP. Taken from us too young

@BetseyFossLewis I'm dead?!

Dr. Dolores Cahill, a lead professor of medicine, warns that people who received the Covid-19 vaccines could die within 3 to 5 years. Studies prove but she is being censored. betseylewis.com/earth-blog/f/o…

@QE1045 Good thread, but those who liked the OP may also be frustrated at the thought that key assets at Portsmouth, Faslane, Lossiemouth et al are undefended against IRBMs

This is frustrating. This would not be a 'quick win', nor would it actually bring much value to UK homeland defence. I explain my reasoning in this thread, as well as some details on the purpose of this specific system within the MISC.

@adle67616 @ManaByte How do you know the Van Allen belts are real?

Earth isn’t flat, the Moon landing wasn’t faked, and space isn’t some CGI dome. These claims fall apart the moment you look at the technology we use every day. None of it works unless Earth is a sphere in a real cosmos. Start with GPS. Your phone calculates your position by comparing timing signals from satellites orbiting Earth. Those satellites move at precise speeds and altitudes that only make sense in a real vacuum. If Earth were flat or if space were fake, GPS would fail instantly. No navigation, no rideshare apps, no airline routing, no global timing systems. The entire system depends on orbital mechanics that match what physics predicts for a spherical planet. Satellite internet, satellite TV, and weather forecasting all rely on the same reality. We watch storms form from orbit. We track hurricanes across oceans using data from satellites operated by different countries and private companies. These systems agree with each other because they are observing the same real planet from space. If space were fake, every meteorologist, every aerospace engineer, every telecom company, every airline, and every military on Earth would have to coordinate a perfect lie for decades. That is not possible. Now to the claim that NASA fakes photos of Earth. This is one of the easiest conspiracy theories to debunk because NASA is not the only source of Earth images. Not even close. Dozens of countries and private companies have their own satellites that photograph Earth constantly. Weather satellites from Europe, Japan, India, and South Korea all produce their own full‑disk images. Private companies like Maxar and Planet Labs take high resolution photos of Earth every day for commercial clients. Amateur radio operators receive live images directly from NOAA satellites using equipment you can buy online. None of these systems rely on NASA. None of them match a single centralized source. Yet they all show the same spherical Earth from different angles at different times. If NASA were faking Earth photos, every other space agency and every private satellite operator would have to fake them too. They would also have to coordinate the lighting, cloud patterns, storm movements, and surface features in perfect sync. That is not happening. The simplest explanation is the correct one. Multiple independent systems are photographing the same real planet. The Moon landing is even harder to deny once you look at the tech. We still interact with the equipment the astronauts left behind. Observatories fire lasers at the retroreflectors sitting on the lunar surface and receive the return signal at the exact predicted intervals. This is not a theory. It is a measurement that universities and independent facilities repeat all the time. You cannot fake a laser return from nearly 240,000 miles away. Even the internet used to spread these conspiracies relies on space infrastructure. Undersea cables carry most traffic, but satellites handle the rest. The timing, routing, and handoff between systems only work because the satellites are actually in orbit. If space did not exist, the global communications network would collapse. The irony is simple. The technology that flat Earth believers and Moon landing deniers use to post their claims is the same technology that proves them wrong. The evidence is not hidden. It is built into the functioning of the modern world. You can reject the conclusions, but you cannot reject the infrastructure that makes your phone, your internet, your weather alerts, your maps, your flights, and your entire digital life possible. These conspiracies do not just fail scientifically. They fail technologically, mathematically, and logistically. They only survive when people stop paying attention to the systems they rely on every day.

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@LC_RFC92 @UKDefJournal As long as someone who might want to nuke the UK thinks there might be retaliation in kind, Trident will remain unused. Its fair to say that with some PMs, opponents may not see a risk

@Nebuliser1 @UKDefJournal Weak government law makers and liberal judges we were nuked we would hold a conference and condemn it nothing more it's more likely we would get a radiation tax than retaliate.

The UK government has confirmed it is considering air and missile defence capabilities for the homeland, including potential protection of major population centres and critical infrastructure. Click image for more. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=68236

@SpitefulMidget @TotherChris To target key enemy personnel, can it put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars?

@TotherChris But does it go shopping on a Wednesday and have buttered scones for tea?

Lumberjack Strike Drone: It’s ok, and it strikes by night, and by day.

@LC_RFC92 @UKDefJournal Why will you never use it?

@UKDefJournal Crazy that we have nuclear missiles (that we would never use) and our only real air defence is whatever destroyer is lucky enough to be out of dock and in range

@thinkdefence If the UK started to develop its own conventional IRBMs, that would be a step towards a sovereign SLBM, if that were ever to be required

No no no, we must stop, completely redesign it so it can use French missiles, and withdraw from AUKUS because of mean tweets. We famously have a massively generous defence budget and nothing but time.

Everything Trump does is about weakening NATO and Europe and strengthening Russia. And this, by the way, has been the case ever since he visited the Soviet Union in 1987. There is little doubt that he is a Russian asset. The only question is why.

At American insistence, the treaty was written with limited geographic scope so that the United States would not get dragged into its European allies’ colonial wars.

@BiankaB12 Who benefits? 1. Russia strategically 2. Trump and his cronies financially

MAGA doesn’t seem to grasp what’s happening to them - or what they’re doing to America. Their movement is systematically dismantling the foundations of American power: its alliance system, its supply chains, the dollar’s reserve currency status, and the global trust in its institutions. That’s the very infrastructure that made America the dominant power of the last 80 years. So, unless MAGA is totally and irreversibly destroyed and deep structural reforms prevent another rogue president from taking office, there is no way back. History taught us that this is how empires fall - not from external invasion, but from within. I don't think that institutional resistance to MAGA is coming through impeachment or prosecution. The only cards left to play are engineered failure and manufactured consequences: > Trump promised a booming economy and low inflation. What Americans will get is crushing inflation and an unaffordable life - turning his own voters, especially independents, against him. > Trump promised to end wars. What Americans will get is proliferation of wars, higher military spending, and compounding misery. He promised everything to everyone and the only strategy left on the table is to weaponise those promises against him. With that said, the rest of the world will suffer collateral damage - that’s unavoidable. But the calculus is brutal and I think in 20-30 years, we will realise it was the least worst option: MAGA has become an existential threat to the Western order, and the only way to save said order is to destroy them politically - completely, and permanently. The people that chose to die on that hill - for whatever personal or ideological reason - will have a very tough life regardless of the outcome. Their lives would be shit whether or not Trump & MAGA are destroyed or prevail.

@TonySonofGina @spooked75 He prepared over time and publicly made the case based on WMDs. Only the UK and Poles were convinced enough to take part in the invasion, but others committed forces to stabilisation afterwards

@Nebuliser1 @spooked75 2nd bush didn’t have a coalition. He had the UK and some polish special forces. The outrage is our supposed Allie’s are getting in the way by closing their airspace etc for American military planes. Some Allie’s they are. Europe knows nothing of loyalty.

Since NATO was founded in 1949, the US has been involved in 20+ military conflicts — more than all other NATO members combined. Korea. Vietnam. Grenada. Panama. Gulf War. Somalia. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. Now Iran. Most of these weren't NATO operations. They were American choices. And now the US — currently at war alongside Israel against Iran — is demanding Europe contribute more to "collective defense." Defense of what? American foreign policy decisions Europe never agreed to? NATO is a mutual defense pact, not a blank check for endless American wars in the Middle East.

@TonySonofGina @spooked75 Before going to war with Iraq, Bushes both spent time preparing diplomatically and building a coalition. Trump just agreed with Israel and attacked, apparently without a long term term strategy, and now acts outraged that other nations aren't joining in.

@spooked75 Stopping a terrorist nation from acquiring a nuclear bomb isn’t in your benefit? They do have missiles that can reach Europe you know that right?

@TBrit90 He's offering a quick victory for the US and Forever War for Europe. Europe should not take the bait, but should focus its limited strength on its own area

Hate Trump or love him but hes right. We all live in a safe space world propped up by US power, its about time we got a reality slap and started pulling our weight to protect our own interests.

@ianrich15813274 Although this is the greatest intelligence operation of all time and key personnel definitely deserve the "Hero of Russia" award, I doubt that we will hear the details

I would say there is about a 90% probability that Putin has something huge on Trump. How would America cope if the proof emerged that it twice elected a traitor? We may find out.

We have been given precious insight into our own airbase vulnerability, it is our choice what to do with it. Whilst we can lament past decisions, they are in the past, and no doubt made in good faith at the time. Lets think about solutions

@Hamdzfacts @Defence_Index As long as soldiers don't want to walk everywhere, they will want vehicles. If the vehicles have armour, fewer soldiers will die in them

@Defence_Index What the point of these, its free kills for drone, same with tanks that can easily double tapped If needed.

🇫🇷🇨🇾 BREAKING: Cyprus is in talks with France for a deal involving nearly 200 armored vehicles, including around 80 Griffon and 100 Serval units. The discussions follow France’s recent military deployment to support Cyprus, highlighting growing defense cooperation between the two countries.

@CZseventyfive @IntercityFC I think the OP is being sarcastic. There have been years of comment that ASBMs make carriers obsolete. Here is evidence that basing aircraft on land is also not risk free

@IntercityFC How is a destroyed E-3 at an airbase related to aircraft carriers? Maybe the UK carriers might be obsolete but we’ll never know since they’re at port more often than deployed nowadays.

The aircraft carrier is obsolete due to ballistic missiles.