Mike Lowe 👀
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Mike Lowe 👀
@mikelowe916
Mechanical and Marine Engineer teaching Royal Navy Air Engineers, kept in line by the lovely Helen
Fareham, England Katılım Kasım 2013
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@mjfree Nope having watched his disrespect to the artemis 2 astronauts I'm not sure why anyone would want to be treated like that..
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@HannahIamthest1 And you know 6999 were on the balcony with big John.
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@ThrillaRilla369 Okay gall stones that caused severe sepsis that almost killed me..
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@TomcatJunkie Its not about want, it's about need... I see you and I applaud you... Well done
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@Classic_Lib_M @VickyRichterUSA Yeah right so north African Muslim countries who you have such fantastic relationships with.. Don't forge the azores are Portuguese so European, and they are essential for transatlantic operations...
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Bases can be replaced. If not permitted to actually use the base to defend US interests then they really serve no purpose for the US. The US has long been known for building and operating bases. If Western Europe no longer feels the need to even tolerate us then we will find partners who will.
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America’s “Favor” That Powers Its Empire
U.S. troops in Germany are not there out of charity—and certainly not to “protect” Germans. They are there because without German soil, American global reach doesn’t function.
Ramstein is the largest U.S. air base outside America. Stuttgart hosts EUCOM and AFRICOM—the command centers for operations across Europe and Africa. Landstuhl has been the lifeline for wounded U.S. soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan. Even drone operations in places like Somalia rely on infrastructure routed through Germany.
Remove that, and you don’t weaken Berlin—you blind Washington.
Yet somehow the narrative persists: America is doing Germany a favour. That Europe is the dependent, the beneficiary, the so-called “freeloader.”
It’s a convenient story. It’s also strategically backwards.
Because the reality is simple: those bases are not acts of generosity. They are instruments of power. And they exist in Germany not for Germany’s benefit—but for America’s ability to operate far beyond its own borders.
Take them away, and the question isn’t what Germany loses.
It’s how much the United States does.

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@invinceabel @VickyRichterUSA No you can, because Europe is your airbridge, every transatlantic deployment uses European bases, whether via Iceland, it's a reality, so your alternative would be to start building bases in those friendly north African Muslim countries, that will I'm sure work out well for you.
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@VickyRichterUSA Right. What a bunch of crap. We can project power from anywhere in the world. We don't need those bases. But you may want to brush up on the countries that are offering us huge bases on their soil at no cost to us. Perhaps then you will understand.
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@stuey_beef Comrade Stammer need to appease his communist masters...
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Why hasn’t the Chagos deal already been abandoned?
We’re talking about handing sovereignty of Diego Garcia — a cornerstone of UK-US defence — to Mauritius…
…a country now accused of shutting its airspace at China’s request to block Taiwan’s president.
At what point does this move from “controversial” to “completely untenable”?
Because this isn’t new information about the world. China’s influence, global tensions, strategic risk — all of this was obvious before the deal was ever proposed.
So why are we even here?
Why did it take mounting pressure for the Government to even pause?
This should have been ruled out from day one.
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@Highwayman114 It's called a happy balanced marriage, I have one also, however with the added fun of farts.
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@Fatbaldbloke1 My wife swears it's the best, I am frankly in agreement with you...
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@TomcatJunkie Because it had everything that makes a fighter special, good performance, exceptionally good looks and was loved.
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@BearJFK Much of the Royal Navy estate is in the same or worse condition, the wardroom at Portsmouth, some of the training facilities in Gosport, service accommodation in establishments it isn't the fault of the Navy, it's lack of investment in facilities.
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Falling to pieces due to poor upkeep. They said the same with the old War Office and developers spent comparatively little and the place is now a golden hotel.
Spreadsheet banditry, soulless rationality and a healthy dose of corruption, leads to institutions becoming just that: soulless.
And we wonder why people then feel even less attachment and desire to conserve.
Percival Merganser@lennylaw
BRNC is falling to bits and the developers are circling like vultures. It will be sold and officer training will move to Raleigh and Collingwood.
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@RojBlakeB7 It's all respective, higher wages = higher prices = higher costs of living, the number will just become more on paper and less in reality.
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It isn’t just an extra £1-2 for a coffee you 🤡 it’s an extra £1-2 for everything you buy.
Dr Rob Croton@rjcroton
@RojBlakeB7 @iWalkOutdoors @LastBlairite Having to pay £1-2 extra for coffee isn’t going to wipe out a 17.9% wage increase.
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@RightPulseNewss @Tedestrela Maybe it's time for the UN to disband as well it's seems that they interfere in governance but they are impotent in addressing the challenging world we have become
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