In '91, the Royal Navy led mine clearing efforts in the Gulf because the US didn't have sufficient capability. Fortunately, in the last 35 years, the US Navy has... ah.
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In '91, the Royal Navy led mine clearing efforts in the Gulf because the US didn't have sufficient capability. Fortunately, in the last 35 years, the US Navy has... ah.
A large part of the reason why the US Navy has been able to get away with underinvesting in MCM is... NATO.
The sharing of capabilities meant that the US could leave MCM to European allies, who became rather good at it.
This didn't take into account the US fighting a dumbass war, w/o NATO.
It is easy to accuse Hegseth of pursuing a strategy of tactics.
The harder thing to think about is what does this imply in terms of strategy more generally?
Strategists might hope Iran is anomaly. Given the media & tech environment though, this could easily become the norm.
In a field with stiff competition this will turn out to be the stupidest American war ever.
Someone must have married a sped-up video of Marine Traffic AIS in Strait of Hormuz with audio from Big Jet TV . . .
Want to piss off the Daily Mail? Then vote Green.
Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Today we have a double debunk:
1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain
2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄)
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Twitter conversation between sj and Amarion: sj: Its true, the 1/3rd pounder burger failed in the US because ppl thought quarter pounders were bigger Amarion: Yeah cause they are???? sj: 1/3>1/4 .33> .25 Amarion: what are those signs
Wanna see the greatest tweet of all time
Unpopular opinion but gas prices have always been too low.
Cheap gas means urban sprawl, giant useless pick up trucks, shitty transit options, shitty rail options and dangerous or no bike & pedestrian options.
Oh and burning less gas means the climate apocalypse gets postponed
This map feels like a metaphor for how we live our lives. We carefully step around conflicts (that are in no way inevitable in the first place) and carry on with our banalities. I’m not saying we shouldn’t but it does feel representative of our condition.
If they do drop the 82nd and 101st into Iran then I guess we get to find out how MARKET GARDEN would have gone if everything was much stupider.
The UK used less coal in 2025 than they did in 1600, when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. Source: buff.ly/Ifmz1Eo
Daily Mail Twitter post: Flying a Union Jack Flag is branded a ‘tool of hate’ in government's leaked social cohesion strategy. Multiple Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags are displayed prominently along a road, amidst greenery and a building in the background.
“A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to 'exclude or intimidate'.
It warned that the: 'EXTREME RIGHT HAS TRIED TO TURN SYMBOLS OF PRIDE INTO TOOLS OF HATE'”
Okay…
This is the Daily Mail Headline 👇🏼🙄😖
This is a fucking travesty.
“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.”
(A year’s worth of production or more, btw)
kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...
Let this sink in.
Four years ago, the US expected Ukraine to fall within days and even withheld military aid because they thought it’d be wasted. Today, the US — the most powerful nation on earth — is asking Ukraine for military aid.
Never underestimate Ukraine. Arm them to win.
Me too!
The speed with which I smashed that ORDER button for this shirt.
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
The reason I should not be a national leader is that I would not be able to stop myself from adding “say thank you” to my list of demands.
Airports Overwhelmed By Dubai Influencers Filming 'Emotional Return Home' Videos https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/03/05/airports-overwhelmed-by-dubai-influencers-filming-emotional-return-home-videos/
It’s like Dunkirk but they’re all wankers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Little known is that this behaviour exhibited by large whales is the inspiration behind the Luftwaffe developing the 'rotte’ loose pair formation. Attacker goes for one, leaving the other free to position to their six.
Good point, but also misses I think a very crucial piece of social context: Britain in 1982 was a country where large elements of the political and military establishment remembered the wholesale violence of the Second World War
This lifeboat is a bit uncomfortable…
My my, how the turn tables.
"Every bullet and air defense asset we give Ukraine is one that we can't use to defend Taiwan."
-proceeds to drop 2,500 kinetic strike packages on Iran in four days for no apparent reason triggering a response that drains every Patriot Missile on two continents-
Can we stop comparing *any* UK leaders with Churchill please? Thatcher wasn’t Churchill, Boris bloody Johnson wasn’t Churchill, and Keir Starmer wasn’t Churchill.
Even Churchill wasn’t the Churchill everyone imagines.
Just shut up about Churchill.
It is impossible to imagine Eisenhower saying he would fight “without mercy” even against the Nazis; nor would he have reveled in the thought of death and destruction.
He would have regarded it not only as deeply un-American but also beneath his dignity as a serious career soldier.