John Leech

@Telegraph Well done Ukraine 🇺🇦, the smug comfortable Europeans are bothered about the price of petrol and diesel, while Ukraine fights for her survival! Come on guys get real and smell the coffee

🔴 Moscow claims drones hit a refinery and damaged a pipeline near St Petersburg 🖇️: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

@BBCWorld Get him out, another first cousin of Putin's

Who is Viktor Orban, Hungarian PM fighting to stay in power after 16 years? bbc.in/4sbM5a9

@KremlinTrolls @ConorHogarty Correct

@Defence_Index @MoorcroftRico The Dictator Trump strikes again, first cousin of Putin!

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four U.S. military branches, with concerns raised by officials that some may be targeted due to race, gender, or perceived ties to Biden-era policies, according to NBC News.

@Telegraph Distracting his MAGA poodles 🐩 from his failures

🔴Pam Bondi shown door amid speculation US president unhappy with her performance as DoJ head Pam Bondi said that helping Mr Trump try to make America ‘safer and more secure’ had been the ‘honour of a lifetime’ 🖇️ telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/0…

@shanaka86 @katydid2fury Correct, he is using the firing of the CoS and the Attorney General to distract his MAGA fans, poodles 🐩 from his failures, what a clever clown 🤡

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@WSJ On the Dictator' orders to distract his MAGA fans from his failures

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted the Army’s top general Thursday, the latest top military leader removed in a Pentagon that has seen a purge of its top ranks under the Trump administration. on.wsj.com/47I1Uhz

@cnnbrk The Dictator is back in action, distracting his failures by firing the Chief of Staff and Attorney General. The most dangerous narcissistic clown 🤡 the United States ever breed!

President Trump has ousted Pam Bondi as attorney general, a source familiar with the matter told CNN cnn.it/4tnEq9J

@TheEconomist Get Putin's first cousin out and help make Europe safer for us all

Voters in Hungary have a chance to sack Viktor Orban’s unpopular government. They should take it. To learn why, register to read the full story (it’s free) economist.com/leaders/2026/0…

@WSJ Correct

Iran is seeking permanent leverage over the Middle East with new rules for the Strait of Hormuz. 🔗: on.wsj.com/3O2Un68

@BBCWorld WOW, the dictator, (Putins first cousin) continues to make our world 🌎 a very unsafe planet

Hegseth asks US Army Chief of Staff to step down bbc.in/4bQOVN6

@RoyalNavy May he rest in peace on heavenly waters

‘Truly one of a kind’ – Farewell to Harry Waddingham who has died aged 109. Harry joined the Royal Navy at 16 in 1932. He saw extensive action throughout the 1939-45 conflict in the European/Mediterranean theatres of war. ➡️ royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/apri…

@BBCWorld Another dictator, destabilising our world which is getting closer to another world war

Burkina Faso must 'forget' about democracy, military leader says bbc.in/41bOuGU

@BBCWorld Then nice people in the white coats need to take him away

Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn't working bbc.in/4tfBCeW

@IrishTimes The people in the white coats need to take him away before he does more harm and damage to this very volatile world 🌎 we live in.

Trump used to think war was a bad thing. Now he has an appetite for global violence irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/…

@connachtrugby @KiaRenmore Bravo Zulu 👏

We keep motoring! 🚗 5 wins on the bounce 😍 @KiaRenmore | #MovementThatInspires

@thejournal_ie He is correct, good judgement 👏

Independent Senator Michael McDowell has called for a referendum to introduce a cap on the number of TDs who can sit in the Dáil in the future. What do you think? jrnl.ie/6996390

@NavalInstitute Lt Cdr Beattie, in command, clever and brave

#OTD in 1942, HMS Campbeltown rammed the gates of the Normandie dry dock at St.Nazaire in German-occupied France. Commandos then disembarked to destroy machinery and other targets. The delayed-action explosives hidden on Campbeltown detonated hours later, knocking the dock out of service for the remainder of the war and killing several senior German officers who were touring the ship. HMS Campbeltown had been USS Buchanan before being transferred to the Royal Navy in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

@_Mark_Keane @r_debarra @pdforra Bravo Zulu 👏

I'm proud to mark 36 years of service with the Naval Service @pdforra . I am honoured to have served at home, overseas at sea, alongside dedicated colleagues and friends .A journey defined by commintent, resilience, and pride in service.

@OnthisdayRN @RoyalNavy Born in Dublin

#OnThisDay 1941 A @RoyalNavy Fleet under Admiral Cunningham in HMS WARSPITE inflicted the Italian Navy’s largest ever defeat at the Battle of Cape Matapan off the coast of Greece. Cunningham lost only 3 men and no ships whilst the Italians lost 5 and over 2,300 men. #remember