47 "asked for help" not because he needed it. He just wanted to know when push comes to shove who will stand with Western Bully.
Now He Knows.
The Real Reason Why Europe Won't Fight: It's Not About the War
When the EU's foreign policy chief declared that the conflict in the Middle East was not Europe's war, she was not making a strategic assessment. She was making a domestic one. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world's energy supplies. Daily Gulf oil exports have collapsed by sixty per cent in a fortnight. Germany is facing an energy price shock. Rachel Reeves is watching her fiscal headroom evaporate in real time. France is warning of inflation. These are not countries for whom Middle Eastern stability is an abstract concern. They are countries whose economies depend on that shipping lane remaining open. The idea that protecting it is not their war is not a foreign policy position. It is a fiction maintained for a domestic audience.
The domestic audience in question is not hard to identify. Every government that has refused Trump's request shares the same political constraint. Germany has over five million residents of Muslim background. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Britain has communities whose political representatives spent the past fortnight marching under Khamenei's portrait toward Downing Street. The calculation being made in London, Berlin and Brussels is not about international law or strategic prudence. It is about which communities those governments cannot afford to antagonise and what those communities might do if they felt their governments had taken the wrong side. Not our war means not on our streets. The foreign policy is being written by the demographics.
Trump named it with characteristic bluntness. "Britain used to be the Rolls-Royce of allies", he said. Then he described his phone call with Starmer, in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom told the President of the United States that he needed to consult his team before deciding whether to send minesweepers. Minesweepers. Not troops. Not bombers. Not a declaration of war. Minesweepers to keep open a shipping lane that Britain's own economy depends on. Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind. That exchange tells you everything about the state of British leadership that a thousand opinion columns cannot.
The humanitarian statement on Lebanon follows the same logic. Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint warning to Israel about its ground operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that has spent decades arming itself to destroy the Jewish state and that attacked Israel the moment Khamenei was killed. The statement called for immediate de-escalation. It described the humanitarian situation as deeply alarming. It said a significant ground offensive must be averted. Not one word about the organisation that started the war, built the tunnels, fired the rockets and continues to operate with Iranian funding and Iranian weapons. The language of humanitarianism is being applied selectively, and the selection follows the same demographic logic as everything else.
This is the pattern that has defined the Western European response to this entire crisis. Not principle. Not strategy. Not law. A set of Left-wing governments that have spent twenty-five years building electoral coalitions that now constrain their ability to act in their own national interest. They cannot send ships because of who lives in their cities. They cannot back Israel because of who votes in their constituencies. They cannot name Hezbollah as the aggressor because of who marches in their streets. The Strait of Hormuz is closing and the Rolls-Royce of allies needs to consult its team. This is what the long march through the institutions has produced. Not our war. Just our problem.
"Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind."
UAE's stance is clear. And they have signed the Ibrahim Accords.
🚨 UAE DOUBLES DOWN WITH U.S. AND ISRAEL
During an interview with American media, UAE Minister for International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy said the United Arab Emirates is strengthening its partnerships with the United States and Israel despite continued attacks from Iran.
Key quote:
“Our relationship with the U.S. is a longstanding strategic partnership… built on decades of trust and mutual respect.
This doesn’t deter us… we’re also a resilient bunch and we don’t take to being bullied around.
If anything, we are doubling down on our friends and further cementing the strong ties that bind us.” @selenaryan_
In times of need Western Bully delays the decommissioning of aircraft carrier. No Excuses, No Complaining. Just Kick Ass, Roll Up the Sleeves and Work Harder 24/7.
(In WW2 half the Pacific Fleet of Carriers had wooden flat-tops because steel was in short supply).
If something didn't Work, Make It Work.
Not Like Wanker Starmer, can't put out even one Destroyer because he puts up with Lazy Wharfies who work 9-5.
According to a report from Breaking Defense, the U.S. Navy has officially delayed the decommissioning of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) until at least March of 2027 to maintain a fleet size of 11 active carriers. Its replacement will be the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), which is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in mid-2027.
wakakakaka… very amen in using archival military preparations for modern warfare.
Mfer, sending those mothballed carriers to distant sea is likening to get a retired old soldier to arm in his twilight year against a marching & spiritual war machine.
A crude oil tanker, Karachi, operated by Pakistan’s National Shipping Corp., has exited the Strait of Hormuz and is heading toward Pakistan, according to ship-tracking data. The Aframax vessel cleared the strait on Sunday and was seen off Oman’s Sohar by Monday morning, becoming one of the few tankers to leave the Persian Gulf since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began.
Indian LNG tankers have also previously cleared the Straits of Hormuz , averting a LPG cooing gas crisis in India.
But that happened because India quietly made it clear if the India-bound ships failed to get through unharmed, the Iranian warship currently sheltering in an Indian naval base would be "invited" to leave....basically throwing them to the wolves waiting in international waters.
So... Iran IS susceptible to nice "friendly" pressure.
France 🇫🇷 has now deployed around 8 000 men across the Middle East, including ~50 Rafale fighter jets and ~12-14 ships 🇫🇷 Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier (+/-26 Rafales, 3 E-2D Hawkeye + helicopters) 🇫🇷 2 amphibious helicopter carriers (Tonerre and Dixmude), total 30-35 helicopters 🇫🇷 ~8 destroyer (Forbin, Alsace, Courbet, Languedoc, Aconit, Chevalier Paul, Amiral Ronarc’h ?, Provence) 🇫🇷 ~1 auxiliary ship (Jacques Chevallier) 🇫🇷 ~1/2 nuclear submarines 🇫🇷 24 Rafale fighter in Jordan and UAE (usually 10) 🇫🇷 1 500 men in Djibouti 🇫🇷 900 men in the UAE 🇫🇷 1 200 men in Iraq (Chammal) 🇫🇷 800 men in Lebanon (United Nations) 🇫🇷 300 men in Jordan (Chammal)
-> 🇫🇷 air defense reinforcements to Cyprus, UAE, Jordan (and possibly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait).
These have been deployed in multiple countries for years, while air-defense and fighter jets reinforcements arrived. The Navy is mainly in eastern mediterannean, but at least 4 ships are present in the Red and Arabian seas.
France mission in the Middle East is purely defensive and France for now refused to participate in a risky mission to help the americans to reopen the Hormuz Strait that the war they started closed.
47 "asked for help" not because he needed it. He just wanted to know when push comes to shove who will stand with Western Bully.
ReplyDeleteNow He Knows.
The Real Reason Why Europe Won't Fight: It's Not About the War
When the EU's foreign policy chief declared that the conflict in the Middle East was not Europe's war, she was not making a strategic assessment. She was making a domestic one. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world's energy supplies. Daily Gulf oil exports have collapsed by sixty per cent in a fortnight. Germany is facing an energy price shock. Rachel Reeves is watching her fiscal headroom evaporate in real time. France is warning of inflation. These are not countries for whom Middle Eastern stability is an abstract concern. They are countries whose economies depend on that shipping lane remaining open. The idea that protecting it is not their war is not a foreign policy position. It is a fiction maintained for a domestic audience.
The domestic audience in question is not hard to identify. Every government that has refused Trump's request shares the same political constraint. Germany has over five million residents of Muslim background. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Britain has communities whose political representatives spent the past fortnight marching under Khamenei's portrait toward Downing Street. The calculation being made in London, Berlin and Brussels is not about international law or strategic prudence. It is about which communities those governments cannot afford to antagonise and what those communities might do if they felt their governments had taken the wrong side. Not our war means not on our streets. The foreign policy is being written by the demographics.
Trump named it with characteristic bluntness. "Britain used to be the Rolls-Royce of allies", he said. Then he described his phone call with Starmer, in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom told the President of the United States that he needed to consult his team before deciding whether to send minesweepers. Minesweepers. Not troops. Not bombers. Not a declaration of war. Minesweepers to keep open a shipping lane that Britain's own economy depends on. Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind. That exchange tells you everything about the state of British leadership that a thousand opinion columns cannot.
The humanitarian statement on Lebanon follows the same logic. Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint warning to Israel about its ground operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that has spent decades arming itself to destroy the Jewish state and that attacked Israel the moment Khamenei was killed. The statement called for immediate de-escalation. It described the humanitarian situation as deeply alarming. It said a significant ground offensive must be averted. Not one word about the organisation that started the war, built the tunnels, fired the rockets and continues to operate with Iranian funding and Iranian weapons. The language of humanitarianism is being applied selectively, and the selection follows the same demographic logic as everything else.
This is the pattern that has defined the Western European response to this entire crisis. Not principle. Not strategy. Not law. A set of Left-wing governments that have spent twenty-five years building electoral coalitions that now constrain their ability to act in their own national interest. They cannot send ships because of who lives in their cities. They cannot back Israel because of who votes in their constituencies. They cannot name Hezbollah as the aggressor because of who marches in their streets. The Strait of Hormuz is closing and the Rolls-Royce of allies needs to consult its team. This is what the long march through the institutions has produced. Not our war. Just our problem.
"Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind."
Wakakaka…
DeleteWith this AI generated thrash, what more can u fart about?
Remember, GIGO is the golden rule of modern computational algorithm
UAE's stance is clear. And they have signed the Ibrahim Accords.
ReplyDelete🚨 UAE DOUBLES DOWN WITH U.S. AND ISRAEL
During an interview with American media, UAE Minister for International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy said the United Arab Emirates is strengthening its partnerships with the United States and Israel despite continued attacks from Iran.
Key quote:
“Our relationship with the U.S. is a longstanding strategic partnership… built on decades of trust and mutual respect.
This doesn’t deter us… we’re also a resilient bunch and we don’t take to being bullied around.
If anything, we are doubling down on our friends and further cementing the strong ties that bind us.”
@selenaryan_
https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/2033580352023736592?s=20
so, send yr naval frigates, no matter how insignificant, to aid golden hair's call of Hormuz union!
DeleteIn times of need Western Bully delays the decommissioning of aircraft carrier. No Excuses, No Complaining. Just Kick Ass, Roll Up the Sleeves and Work Harder 24/7.
ReplyDelete(In WW2 half the Pacific Fleet of Carriers had wooden flat-tops because steel was in short supply).
If something didn't Work, Make It Work.
Not Like Wanker Starmer, can't put out even one Destroyer because he puts up with Lazy Wharfies who work 9-5.
According to a report from Breaking Defense, the U.S. Navy has officially delayed the decommissioning of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) until at least March of 2027 to maintain a fleet size of 11 active carriers. Its replacement will be the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), which is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in mid-2027.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2032873998988579296?s=20
wakakakaka… very amen in using archival military preparations for modern warfare.
DeleteMfer, sending those mothballed carriers to distant sea is likening to get a retired old soldier to arm in his twilight year against a marching & spiritual war machine.
No, 47 doesn't need NATO. They Talk Only No Action.
ReplyDelete47 was just testing to see who was willing to step up. Now he knows.
Total Naval Aircraft 231 Manned Aircraft and 3+ UAS Heading Toward or already in CENTCOM AOR
132x F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
15x EA-18G Growler
12x E-2D Hawkeye
18x MH-60R Seahawk (carriers)
18x MH-60S Seahawk (carriers)
28x MH-60R Seahawk (destroyers)
2x MH-60R Seahawk (cruiser)
3x MH-60R Seahawk (LCS)
3x MQ-8 Fire Scout (LCS)
Total VLS cells, missile tubes and box launchers: 2,052
🛳️ Ship Class Breakdown
Aircraft Carrier (CVN)3
Destroyer (DDG)18
Cruiser (CG)1
Guided Missile Submarine (SSGN)1
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)3
Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB)1
Fleet Replenishment Oiler (T-AO) 3
Dry Cargo Ship (T-AKE)2
Cargo Ship (T-AK)1
Mine Countermeasures Ship (MCM)4
Coast Guard Cutter (WPC)6
Special Mission Ship (MV)1
wakakakaka… remember to get them record s on the epitaph of this war
DeleteI think this Paki oil tanker was trying to say something to IRGC with this unusual trail....ha3
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/mintelworld/status/2033463626573471896?s=20
A crude oil tanker, Karachi, operated by Pakistan’s National Shipping Corp., has exited the Strait of Hormuz and is heading toward Pakistan, according to ship-tracking data. The Aframax vessel cleared the strait on Sunday and was seen off Oman’s Sohar by Monday morning, becoming one of the few tankers to leave the Persian Gulf since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began.
- Bloomberg
Indian LNG tankers have also previously cleared the Straits of Hormuz , averting a LPG cooing gas crisis in India.
DeleteBut that happened because India quietly made it clear if the India-bound ships failed to get through unharmed, the Iranian warship currently sheltering in an Indian naval base would be "invited" to leave....basically throwing them to the wolves waiting in international waters.
So... Iran IS susceptible to nice "friendly" pressure.
It's no different from Putin's campaign to destroy Ukraine, which you fully support.
ReplyDeleteIs this the goose or the gander?
Starmer please take note.....
ReplyDeleteFrance 🇫🇷 has now deployed around 8 000 men across the Middle East, including ~50 Rafale fighter jets and ~12-14 ships
🇫🇷 Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier (+/-26 Rafales, 3 E-2D Hawkeye + helicopters)
🇫🇷 2 amphibious helicopter carriers (Tonerre and Dixmude), total 30-35 helicopters
🇫🇷 ~8 destroyer (Forbin, Alsace, Courbet, Languedoc, Aconit, Chevalier Paul, Amiral Ronarc’h ?, Provence)
🇫🇷 ~1 auxiliary ship (Jacques Chevallier)
🇫🇷 ~1/2 nuclear submarines
🇫🇷 24 Rafale fighter in Jordan and UAE (usually 10)
🇫🇷 1 500 men in Djibouti
🇫🇷 900 men in the UAE
🇫🇷 1 200 men in Iraq (Chammal)
🇫🇷 800 men in Lebanon (United Nations)
🇫🇷 300 men in Jordan (Chammal)
-> 🇫🇷 air defense reinforcements to Cyprus, UAE, Jordan (and possibly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait).
These have been deployed in multiple countries for years, while air-defense and fighter jets reinforcements arrived. The Navy is mainly in eastern mediterannean, but at least 4 ships are present in the Red and Arabian seas.
France mission in the Middle East is purely defensive and France for now refused to participate in a risky mission to help the americans to reopen the Hormuz Strait that the war they started closed.
https://x.com/clement_molin/status/2033645918285926523?s=20