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@PatrickTedstone @afneil Same as the last 40 years, containment. The Straight problem has always been there and the consequence of closure well known. Strategic thinking in the White House was to keep it open, it’s as if Trump said sod that let’s close it.

@afneil And the choice from allowing Iran an ever greater mass of missile, drone, and nuclear capability (and sponsoring disruption across the world) (and killing its own people by the tens of thousands) was what…..?

That’s broadly true.

@Annnomoyous @EdwardGLuce While

@EdwardGLuce western European smugness , arrogance , entitlement and world colonziation is coming to an end and many westerners seem to be extra miserable about it.

Trump administration is taking money Europeans and others have paid for arms for Ukraine and other purposes, not delivering said arms, and spending cash to help with self-created Gulf mess. This is not a trustworthy power. Credibility incinerated.

@RightWingWatch Montypythonesque.

Christian nationalists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd agree with God that "women need to shut up": "Women, shut up! Of course. It is literally an offense to God."

@JoanLeslieMc @JimFergusonUK You have no idea what you talking about do you?

@JimFergusonUK The Strait of Hormuz is entering a new era of warfare. The deployment of uncrewed U.S. surface vessels underscores a strategic shift toward faster, more adaptive deterrence in one of the world’s most critical waterways.

🚨 THE WAR JUST CHANGED IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ The U.S. has deployed robot war boats. Uncrewed. Autonomous. Potentially explosive. Let that sink in. Pentagon confirms drone vessels are now patrolling during Operation Epic Fury: • 450+ hours already logged • 2,200 nautical miles covered • Capable of surveillance… or kamikaze strikes This is asymmetric warfare in real time. Cheap, fast, and deadly. Ukraine proved it first — crippling Russia’s Black Sea Fleet with drone boats costing a fraction of traditional weapons. Now it’s in the Gulf. And the math is staggering: • Drone boat ≈ $250K • Iranian missile = millions • U.S. destroyer ≈ $2 BILLION This isn’t just strategy. It’s a complete shift in how wars are fought. The Strait of Hormuz is no longer just a shipping lane… It’s now a testing ground for the future of warfare. Watch this closely.

@MAGATruthUS @EricLDaugh The war ends when Russia stops its aggression and goes home.

Rubio made it clear the real condition has always been simple: security guarantees don’t kick in until the war ends. He didn’t just correct the record, he exposed Zelensky trying to spin the facts on the world stage, turning the moment into a blunt reminder that the U.S. calls the shots, not Kyiv, and the American people will not be played for fools!!🇺🇸

🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio just called out Zelensky as a LIAR Q: Did the US tell Zelensky that security guarantees depend on withdrawing from Donbas? RUBIO: "That's a LIE, and I saw him say that, and it's unfortunate he would say that because he KNOWS that's not true! That's NOT what he was told." "I don't know WHY he says these things, it's just not TRUE." "He was told the obvious: security guarantees are not gonna kick in until there's an end to the war." Wow, Marco just exposed him on the world stage! 🔥

@Katrina80115522 @EricLDaugh @Saggi50 Ukraine was not a threat to Russia as you know. And they had voluntarily give up their nuclear weapons. Aggressors do nothing fairly.

@EricLDaugh @Saggi50 What we are doing in Iran is exactly what Putin NEEDED to do to protect Russia from Nazi UKR & NATO. FACT. What Trump needs to do is give Putin what he has won fairly - let the ppl of eastern UKR vote & decide their future. Sooner than later. Putin will support Trump fully.

@juggleronaroof @arthurblake100 @FurkanGozukara No it’s not. It’s Russian expansionism in action.

@arthurblake100 @FurkanGozukara In truth, it’s the other way round. Ukraine has been helping the US fight Russians since 2022. In fact, since the US engineered Maidan coup in 2014. This isn’t a Ukraine-Russia war. It’s a US proxy war against Russia aimed at weakening the latter, using Ukrainian men as fodder.

Absolute chaos in the alliance. France and the EU are screaming that Russia is helping Iran attack US bases, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio casually brushes it off saying Russia is focused elsewhere. The incompetence of this administration is staggering.

@RuairiAodh @SamRWolf @MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell Er, if the UK was still in the EU but not in Schengen we would still be made to do the ID checks on entering Schengen countries. So no change.

@arkryt @SamRWolf @MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell Yet, you still stated publicly that the UK never being in Schengen was relevant. Unlucky...

Another misery caused by Brexit voters Geneva airport: EU citizens queue for passport control empty. Brits queue for over an hour Brexit voters should have to pay a £5,000 tax surcharge for the misery they have inflicted on the rest of us: Higher prices, job & trade losses

@Claret_Badger @TinkerbelLaFrou @RichardBentall @LarsFJ1 Well that wasn’t very convincing was it because in 2016 a majority voted to get the hell out. People like you never understood that it was not all about money it was more personal than that. The EU gravy train irritated of course but it all seemed so undemocratic to Joe Public.

@arkryt @TinkerbelLaFrou @RichardBentall @LarsFJ1 Sigh.

Just arrived at Pisa Airport. There was a very long and slowly moving queue of Brits (left)waiting to get through EU passport control. I hope most of them were leave voters. I was with my lovely Irish wife, and we passed through the EU channel in a couple of mins (right)

@StratcomCentre Has Trump done the Oval Office meeting with them yet? Telling them how he loves Russia and his best friend Putin. Congratulating them for using up Iranian drones so they aren’t fired at US bases in the ME? Showing sympathy for all of the dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine? Obscene.

Yesterday, an entire planeload of Russian Duma members were given a tour of US government buildings, including Capitol Hill. Here, Russians are seen roaming freely and documenting everything with their western smartphones.

@Love1annother @McFaul And you are a bot.

@McFaul The Ukraine war was started by NATO and the cia. Ukraine is a filthy human trafficking and money laundry for corrupt politicians and thugs. It's all coming out.

Awful. Just awful.

@Claret_Badger @TinkerbelLaFrou @RichardBentall @LarsFJ1 I wouldn’t want to be in the same club as Orban, that’s one. We’re not paying for useless MEPs or electing them, that’s another. Just think if there were no MEPs Farage would still be a nobody.

@TinkerbelLaFrou @RichardBentall @LarsFJ1 Maybe. But now due to extra checks and stamps it's worse. Still, worth it for all those Brexit benefits you cannot name eh?

@SirFrankW75 @_HenryBolton Because they are obvious targets even the US doesn’t put carriers in ‘harms way’. They stand off with their escorts and a submarine nearby as protection (that’s what we need, escorts). the US Marines also provide aircraft, they don’t think they are useless.

@_HenryBolton We flipped from SVTOL design to CATOBAR then back again. Leaving us tied to the least capable version of the most expensive fighter in the world so we don't have enough planes. We only have 2 so we can't risk putting them in harms way. So white elephants.

President Trump has called the British aircraft carriers "toys". He's wrong. They are certainly not "toys". Carriers are difficult to compare. The Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers are smaller than the US Nimitz class ships but are significantly more capable than the US America class ships. In sortie generation rates (SGR - number of launches per day), the Nimitz class is at around 120, the QEII class around 72, the America class around 40, and China's Fujian around 100. The Royal Navy's problem is not it's carriers, it is the appalling lack of investment made into the rest of the Fleet. The RN has some of the best kit in the world, but one ship can only be in one place at one time. Why did Trump make such an inaccurate and insultingly derogatory comment? I can only guess that he a) wanted to embarrass Keir Starmer into investing more in the UK's armed forces and b) wrongly let his petulance at the UK's hesitancy to get involved in the Iran war get the better of him. What's embarrassed our country in his eyes, and in the eyes of the world, is not that the government chose not to participate in strikes against Iran, but that the appalling condition of our armed forces, their shocking neglect by successive governments, and the timidity of our politicians in acting pro-actively to defend our interests and support those of our allies, were laid bare. Below: HMS Prince of Wales, USS Nimitz and US America class and a comparison of the three classes in one photo.

@SirFrankW75 @enviro1993 @_HenryBolton That’s what RFAs are for, resupply.

@enviro1993 @_HenryBolton Attrition. You have to be able to take losses and carry on. We can't with anything. And in any proper fight they'd run out of missiles in a few days.

@alasdairskeil @cicero87BC @_HenryBolton @DCBMEP US Marine Corps is helping because they use the same F35 version.

@cicero87BC @_HenryBolton @DCBMEP And who is supplying the aircraft?

@EdgarHolroyd @_HenryBolton Now the electric catapults on the Gerald Ford. Troublesome whereas the Chinese seem to have got theirs working fine. Then do the heads.

@_HenryBolton You seem to miss out the part that the carriers are constantly in for repairs with a multitude of things going wrong along with emerging imcompatability with aircraft.

@RuairiAodh @SamRWolf @MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell I really couldn’t give a damn my dear.

@arkryt @SamRWolf @MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell Nope. New checks and restrictions don't apply to EU citizens. They do to you. Because of brexit....

@witter_dude @SpencerHakimian No dark goggles for the flash?

@SpencerHakimian I wonder how such a vest would look like. Grok proposed this for 5000 kiloton.

🚨BREAKING: JD VANCE SAYS IRAN WAS ABOUT TO USE NUCLEAR SUICIDE VESTS IN SUPERMARKETS

@CT9397 @PeterTatchell Perhaps it’s not undisputed after all but the EU fans on X think it is. Just try another referendum if you dare.

@PeterTatchell Honest question: Given the undisputed disastrous consequences of Brexit, which revealed the lies its main architects in the Reform party told the British people, why is Reform winning in the polls today? WTF is going on ❓

@SamRWolf @MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell The UK was never in Schengen so no change then.

@MWhitmore16302 @PeterTatchell He didn’t say Switzerland was in the EU. He said they had a separate fast queue for EU folk - which is because Switzerland IS in Schengen you stupid fuckwit.