Frédéric Pierre pas comédien
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Premier représentant spécial chargé de la lutte contre la Québecophobie. Allié des profs et infirmières. Je boycotte Kellogg's.
« Mot en n » : Radio-Canada ne doit pas s’excuser, plaident d’anciens ombudsmans ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/18951…
The Pentagon spent $93 billion in September 2025, rushing to use its budget before the fiscal year ended, according to watchdog Open the Books. Reported purchases under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth included $98k for a Steinway piano, $5.3M in Apple devices, millions on crab, lobster, and steak, and $225M on furniture.
President Trump just told the United Kingdom he does not need their aircraft carriers. The post on Truth Social is extraordinary not for its tone, which is vintage Trump, but for what it reveals about how the president understands the strategic position of the United States ten days into this war. “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer. But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won.” Already won. Three US carrier strike groups are deployed in the Persian Gulf. That is 25 percent of the entire operational carrier fleet committed to a single theater. The Carl Vinson was diverted from the Indo-Pacific, where the 2022 National Defense Strategy identified China as the pacing threat. THAAD interceptor stocks are being consumed at rates the production line cannot match for seven years. Two AN/TPY-2 radars have been destroyed. Hormuz remains closed. Oil is up 34 percent. Kuwait just cut production because its storage tanks are full. The Strait that carries 20 percent of global petroleum has not reopened. Iran is still launching hundreds of drones per day. And the president says the war is already won. Into this, the United Kingdom offered two Queen Elizabeth class carriers with up to 50 F-35B jets. They would provide rotational relief for strike groups at maximum tempo since February 28. They would extend air coverage over the Arabian Sea and free American assets for the Pacific. HMS Prince of Wales has been placed on high readiness. The UK has not formally committed. Trump’s response was not “welcome aboard.” It was “we will remember.” That phrase carries consequences beyond Iran. Every NATO member considering whether to contribute forces just received a signal that late participation will be punished. Every Pacific ally watching China observe this war just learned the president values the domestic narrative of unilateral victory over allied burden sharing. The special relationship survived two world wars, the Cold War, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. It has not been tested by a president publicly humiliating a prime minister for offering military support during an active conflict. In 1991, the UK deployed carriers to the Gulf and Thatcher told Bush not to “go wobbly.” That contribution was welcomed. In 2026, the UK considers the same and is told the war is already won by a president whose interceptor stocks are measured in months and whose three carriers cannot simultaneously defend the Gulf, deter China, and rotate for maintenance. The war is not won. The carriers are needed. And the president just told the world otherwise because the domestic narrative required it. The most dangerous gap in this war is not between American interceptors and Iranian drones. It is between the president’s description of the war and the war itself. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
