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@StAndrews68

Football fan, aircraft & military history nut. Good pint, good food. Believes in fair play, conscientious integrity and the United Kingdom of Great Britain & NI

United Kingdom Katılım Nisan 2016
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
What do you see here? 🇺🇸 vs 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇳🇱🇧🇪🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇷🇵🇹🇵🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺🇷🇴 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇦🇷🇧🇩🇵🇰🇰🇷🇸🇬🇸🇦🇪🇬🇸🇾🇹🇷🇲🇦🇶🇦 🇦🇪🇴🇲🇧🇭🇰🇼🇸🇳🇳🇪🇭🇳🇸🇱🇦🇫 This is the difference between allied and alone. These soldiers are going into Iran with half a military. Iraq in 1991 took seven months. 39 nations. Half a million troops. British RAF Tornado jets flying deep into Iraq on the first night of the war, hitting airfields and missile sites at low altitude under radar cover, completing over 2,500 sorties across the campaign. 53,000 British troops, the largest UK deployment since the Second World War, including the 1st Armoured Division that punched 290 kilometres into Iraqi territory in 66 hours. 18,000 French troops under Opération Daguet, the second largest European contingent, guarding the left flank of the entire allied advance. French Foreign Legion, marine infantry and armoured units crushing the Iraqi 45th Division and seizing an airfield 150 kilometres inside Iraq in 48 hours. French Jaguar jets flying ground attack missions, Mirage 2000s providing fighter cover overhead. Canadian naval vessels, CF-18s flying combat air patrols and bombing missions, and Canadian forces attacking retreating Iraqi columns on the Highway of Death. Italian Tornados conducting strike missions across 42 days of war. Dutch frigates protecting American carriers and battleships in the Gulf, with Patriot missile batteries deployed to Turkey and Israel. The Greek merchant marine moving fuel and equipment across the Mediterranean. Allies covering $44.5 billion of the war’s total costs. The combined industrial, maritime and military capacity of the most powerful alliance in human history, pointed at a single objective. That machine nearly doubled American reach. It shortened the war. It brought soldiers home. Europe and the allies did not just help. They made America unstoppable. Today, these soldiers are going in without any of it. Into a country with 2-3 million soldiers, ballistic missiles that reach every US base in the region, proxy forces across seven nations, mountainous terrain designed by geography itself. Their allies want to be there. That is what Americans need to understand. In military bases across Europe, British and French and Norwegian officers who trained alongside these Americans, who shared barracks and missions and years of their lives with them, are following this in silence. They are not celebrating. They are checking their phones. They know exactly what the absence of that coalition means on the ground. They have run the same war games. They have read the same terrain maps. They know what a missing supply chain costs in lives. They would come. Many of them are desperate to come. The alliance is there. The will is there. The capability is there. One man made sure the door was closed. He called NATO a scam. Humiliated allied governments in public. Burned seventy years of strategic trust for applause at rallies. So the British SAS isn’t coming. The Canadian logistics chain isn’t coming. The Dutch frigates aren’t available to a president who told their governments they were freeloaders. Every missing ally is a longer supply line. Every longer supply line is more exposure. More exposure means more casualties. More casualties mean more years. This is not Europe’s failure. This is not NATO’s failure. This is the failure of one man who had every ally he needed and chose to burn them instead. Churchill knew it. He said it plainly: “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” That is the difference between a leader who builds coalitions and a man who burns them. One understands that power multiplies when it is shared. The other mistakes cruelty for strength. These soldiers deserve those allies beside them. Those allies want to be there. They are worried, and they are grieving. Trump made sure they can’t come. And somewhere tonight, an American soldier knows it too. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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RogueSailor
RogueSailor@sailor_rog19339·
The Wars objectives were laid out by the Department of War: 1. Destroy Iran’s offensive ballistic missiles and production facilities 2. Annihilate its navy and naval infrastructure 3. Sever terrorist proxy networks 4. Prevent nuclear-weapons development by targeting related sites and degrade the regime’s security apparatus — including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command centers, air defenses, missile and drone launchers and airfields. The job is not finished. But it is on track. Staying the course will finish it. Trump’s strategy is working. His commitment unshaken: "We don’t want to leave early, do we? … We don’t want to come back every two years." Half-measures against this regime have a 47-year track record of failure. 4 weeks into a war estimated to last 2+ months. Once again, America did not ask NATO to participate. American warned NATO/Europe 17 days before it started, that war was a strong probability if negotiation broke down. America did ask NATO members to honor their Joint Base alliances. NATO members said NO, you cannot fly from Joint Bases, and you cannot do overflights enroute to Iran. America fought the war for 3 days, under those constrains, flying from both the American mainland bases and regional aircraft carriers, meeting all combat objectives. In the following days, NATO bases in the Mediterranean and Gulf region were attacked by Iran in Erbil, Iraq, Al Azraq, Jordan, and Cyprus where troops from England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands were stationed. America took No Action to intercept the attacks nor assist them, deciding not to divert military resources for attacks on obviously non-American targets. Certain NATO countries reversed courses and authorized use of Joint bases. Convenient, but not necessary. Day 10 of the war America shifted to a different phase of the war. This opened the possibility of diverting America warships and aircraft reopening the Straits. America asked European Gulf Oil consumer countries if they would participate in reopening the Straits. All said No - Iran is not our war. America decided to not divert any resources to reopen the Straits, as they are neither a strategic nor tactical goal for America.
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David MacMorris
David MacMorris@MacmorrisDa·
@tractorgirly @StAndrews68 Well said, I am glad I live in the US and it’s sad to see Scotland descend into a woke shit hole. I occasionally show neighbors how bad it is, men in women’s spaces, how not to build a ferry. NHS crumbling, Swinney with his banana and Nutella. Almost like a third world country!!
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StAndrewsBlue
StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
@PDRNHPUK Sovereignty. You clown. How? And dont say brexit.... we never had lost our sovereignty. If we had lost it we would never would have been allowed a referendum by the EU!! Just as Whitehall stops Scotland! The only thing farage stands for is his bank balance.
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Paul Rimmer
Paul Rimmer@PDRNHPUK·
Nigel says this is 1940 all over again. A desperate battle to save Britannia. This time the enemy is within. This time a few RAF pilots can't save the many. The many have to arise & join Reform. Farage is our Churchill & you are in the Spitfire!! Let's go.
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StAndrewsBlue
StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
@PDRNHPUK Yes. Fight against everything nasty, divisive , self-obsessed, talentless, narcissistical little establishment grifters like Farage stand for.
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StAndrewsBlue
StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
@PDRNHPUK I know reform and farage will not disappoint, because I dont expect anything that benefits anybody but Farage, Tice etc.
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StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
@PDRNHPUK Reform are not patriots. They will sell this country and its people down the river for 15 pieces of copper.
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Paul Rimmer
Paul Rimmer@PDRNHPUK·
@StAndrews68 Praise God for all Patriots. Now vote Reform & save Britain today.
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Count Binface
Count Binface@CountBinface·
What is the collective noun for a group of c***s?
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StAndrewsBlue
StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
People like @phughes76340646 that truely believes in democracy that they refuse to allow responses and debate. She forgets 9% council tax rises in places like Worcester, after Deform promised to decrease taxes.
Penny@phughes76340646

@GNDRising @Nigel_Farage How are they Making us poorer when they are not even in government 😂😂😂😂

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Narinder Kaur
Narinder Kaur@narindertweets·
Nigel Farage was heckled in London yesterday. His response was that unlike other Political parties, he welcomes all. Now this is a lie. They banned me from their party conference in Birmingham last year.
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StAndrewsBlue
StAndrewsBlue@StAndrews68·
@shiningfourth 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love a spoof account!
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Union Jack
Union Jack@shiningfourth·
Nigel Farage at his finest, What a motivational speech! This is the right man, the only man, the leader Britain has been crying out for.
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
Starmer playing football. The game passes him by. He’s probably one of those shite, talentless footballers who can only contribute by barking orders and taking all the throw ins…because it’s the only way they become visible during a game.
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Inevitable Richie
Inevitable Richie@lazyrichie·
@ZaraD_00 £10 charity bet that he isn’t the next U.K. PM. If I win, £10 to kidney research uk, if you win, just tell me the charity.
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