Boggart Abroad: defence

Saturday, April 04, 2026

In A Crazy War When The Best Option Is Retreat The Choice Will Always Be Escalate

People are asking how we got into this crazy war that now threatens to spiral out of control and affect us all materially even if our homelands are ot directly involved in the fighting.

The narative peddled by the American / Israeli lobby to the Gulf Cooperation Couci (GCC) states and Iraqi government (as confessed by that Iraqi MP) was based on the premise that Iran would fall within 3 days, after they killed Khamenei, there’d be a regime change, various rebels and pro-westerners would take over – basically it’d be a cakewalk like Venezuela. That’s how they got the Gulf States on board with the plan to attack Iran.

Simply put, it was a failure of deterrence by Iran. Iran was too soft and was seen as weak by its enemies. To succeed in deterrence, getting nukes would be one method. Shutting up reformists who kept messaging they want to surrender would be another. In fact Iran need never have had a problem getting nukes, in the 1980s I worked for several years in the UK nuclear industry, and in the organisation that employed me (as a computer specialist) we had a number of Iranian scientists who had been working in britain and decided to stay when the Ayatollahs took over.

These guys were highly regarded by their British, French and American colleagues ,and I ;earned in conversation with senior managers that having them on board was regared as a major success by our governments. The Iranias were ahead of us in nuclear research, perhaps because they focused on practicalities rather than getting bogged down in Science - Fiction inspired theories. There were plenty of equally talented scientists who did not get out of Iran, and maybe did not want to. But they had their own nuclear research facilities, their oil provided the money to fund research and they had the people to develop nuclear weapons, directed energy beam weapons and much more.

So why did Iran not develop these technologies for defence purposes when, for almost 50 years western gvernments had been demonising the theocratic,authoritarian regime? We can only speculate, but while we know Iran has been a major sponsor of terrorism, acts of violence and destruction are attributable nly to the terrorist groups rather than Iran itself.

The scenarios incorporated into the propaganda narative justifying recent attacks on Iran, arms race, Iran going nuclear, threat to western interests, developing an aerial dfence shield etc doesn’t matter. Other than the fact that despite the claims made for 'renewables' by green loons, the world still runs on hydrocarbons, there are no valid reasons why western governments have been fearful of Iran.

As for asymmetrical attacks? Same idea. Failure of deterrence, Iran's regime could have closed the Strait of Hormuz whenever it wished, but they didn't. So the US government is not deterred, they convince themselves Iran is too scared of US military power to hold the global economy to ransome. But Washington gambled that Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz and strangle their own economy, and the Ayatollahs called their bluff.

A planned vote at the UN Security Council on a draft resolution authorizing the “use of force” in the Strait of Hormuz has been abruptly postponed, exposing deep divisions among major powers over how to respond to complications arising from the imposed war on Iran.

The draft, submitted by Bahrain and backed by the United States in UNSC, would further escalate the US-Israeli war on Iran. However, the delay, officially attributed to the Good Friday holiday, comes despite the predetermined voting day, raising questions about underlying political disagreements.

China has warned that authorizing such measures risks further escalation, while Russia has denounced the text as “biased”, signaling potential obstacles to its authorization.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the idea of a military operation in the strait as unrealistic, cautioning that it would be prolonged and expose global shipping to greater danger.Other NATO members feel the same.

With no new vote date announced and veto threats looming, the future of the resolution remains uncertain, highlighting the growing complexity the US has created at a critical global energy chokepoint.”

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Sunday, February 08, 2026

Europe: A Sinking Ship Any Sane Nation Would Be Afraid To Re - Embark On

posted by Helena Hankart

Many opinion writers in mainstream news and commenter in alt_media are pushing the lie that the majority of Britons want us to rejoin the EU. This 'Brexit was a disaster' narrative is based on results from a few dodgy opinion polls in which very small samples of the populare were interviewed and the questions asked displayed a marked pro - EU bias.

Insofar as opinion polls have any significance, the polls that count are voting intention polls for the next General election (still three and a half years away and if a week is a long time in politics three and a half years is forever,) and currently, according to the Politico poll of polls Reform, the ani - EU party is streets ahead on 29% with Labour on 19%, the Conservatives at 18%, Greens 14%, Lib Dems, 12% and a plethora of fringe parties, cranks, nutters, one issue fanatincs and the SNP taking up the slack. Then there are the 25% of those entitled to vote who simply can't be arsed.

Assuming the can't be arsed party's supporters split evenly between Return and Eff Off Europe, that gives a comfortable majority for the status quo. And quite rightly too.

All the economic and political evidence says Europe is doomed. Not just a bit shaky, but up shit creek god and proper doomed. And the kicker? It's trying to drag us Brits down with it, like a mate who's had one too many at the pub and insists on a piggyback home.

Mario Draghi’s major report to the EU Commission noted that Europe's industrial base is "static", bureaucratic code for shrinking. The German economy propped up the EU for decades but now, thanks to mass immigration, out of control welfare budgets, insane policies like Net Zero, Germany finds itself in the same dire straits as the rest of Europe. Defence spending A pathetic 2.2% of GDP, while the Yanks chuck 3.5% at it and the South Koreans nearly 5%. Patents? Europe’s slipped from second to fourth globally, with China filing more than the whole West combined. No wonder. Over in Brussels, they've got 100 tech laws policed by 80 agencies – the Digital Services Act, AI Act, Cyber Whatever. Xavier Niel nails it when he says:_

"If I want to build an AI company, I'll go where it's easier in terms of regulation. And right now, that's not Europe."

Spot on. Europe’s unicorns? One-third scarpered to the US between 2008 and 2021. No EU firm's cracked €100bn market cap in 50 years. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley's churning out trillion-pound behemoths like they're the standard size for tech firms.

And the industries? Solar power: Germany was king in the 2000s, 150,000 jobs buzzing. Then China subsidised eight kinds of crap out of it (an amazing feat as there are only seven kinds of crap known to science,), slashed prices by half, and now owns 90% of the market. Europe's slapping tariffs on the surplus, but it's like putting a plaster on a severed artery. Europe's only area of economic growth is in benefits paid to unemployable asylum seekers.

Cars? BYD's doubling sales in the EU despite 45% duties, because they bother innovating for what punters actually want: longer wheelbases, in-car karaoke. Europe? Still churning out diesel slugs for the school run. Chemicals? Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos is getting hammered by cheap Chinese imports and "bonkers" green rules that punish you for going green. Energy costs? Sky-high, thanks to self-inflicted CO2 taxes that just shift the filth to Beijing. As Tom Crotty says, it's "lost jobs and increased CO2." Genius.

And the UK? Post-Brexit, we're not exactly roaring but at least we're not lashed to the EU’s Titanic. Half our goods trade's still with the EU, making us their third-biggest mug after Uncle Sam and China, but rejoining? The Rejoin camp, led by Starmer, would hand us back to the pre Brexit regulatory meat grinder that sparked the whole divorce in the first place.

Europe's got talent and money – high savings, wealthy nations with investments ticking up interest and dividends despite the rot. A crisis or a shock to the system, like Milei in Argentina might get things moving for them. But what about us us? We're the plucky escapee, free to pivot in the direction of market forces, not drowning in directives.

Rejoining now would be like a medieval wiccan volunteering for the dunking stool. Why would any sensible country want to do that?

Europe is doomed. Not just a bit wobbly, mind you – properly, catastrophically, "pass the cyanide" doomed. Economic stagnation, woke ideologies, mass immigration by professional benefit claimants And the kicker? It's trying to drag us Brits down with it, and our Dear Leader Starmer is fully on board with the project.

Mario Draghi’s major report to the EU noted that Europe's industrial base is "static", code for declining. A pathetic 2.2% of GDP, while the Yanks chuck 3.5% at it and the South Koreans nearly 5%. Patents? Europe’s slipped from second to fourth globally, with China filing more than the whole West combined. No wonder. Over in Brussels, they've got 100 tech laws policed by 80 agencies – the Digital Services Act, AI Act, Cyber Whatever. Xavier Niel nails it when he says:_

"If I want to build an AI company, I'll go where it's easier in terms of regulation. And right now, that's not Europe."

Spot on. Europe’s unicorns? One-third scarpered to the US between 2008 and 2021. No EU firm's cracked €100bn market cap in 50 years. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley's churning out trillion-pound behemoths like they're the standard size for tech firms.

And the industries? Solar power: Germany was king in the 2000s, 150,000 jobs buzzing. Then China subsidised the hell out of it, slashed prices by half, and now owns 90% of the market. Europe's slapping tariffs on the surplus, but it's like putting a plaster on a severed artery.

Cars? BYD's doubling sales in the EU despite 45% duties, because they bother innovating for what punters actually want: longer wheelbases, in-car karaoke. Europe? Still churning out diesel slugs for the school run.

Chemicals? Jim Ratcliffe's Ineos is getting hammered by cheap Chinese imports and "bonkers" green rules that punish you for going green. Energy costs? Sky-high, thanks to self-inflicted CO2 taxes that just shift the filth to Beijing. As Tom Crotty says, it's "lost jobs and increased CO2." Genius.

What does the EU do about all this? They impose new restrictions on free speech to preven discussion of these failings.

And the UK? Post-Brexit, we're not exactly roaring but at least we're not lashed to the EU’s Titanic. Half our goods trade's still with the EU, making us their third-biggest mug after Uncle Sam and China, but rejoining?

Remember the €6bn French tantrum over military funds? That's the vibe: endless haggling, zero gain. Our leaders are bureucrats, they would love to let the EU handle socil and economic policy and have NATO take over foreign and defence matters, We'd bin "Global Britain" for a seat at the losers' table, watching our talent flee to where ideas aren't strangled at birth. Claudio Irigoyen calls it "secular decline" More like assisted suicide.

Europe's got talent and cash squirreled away – high savings, wealthy nations ticking up despite the rot. A crisis might spark reform, à la Milei in Argentina. Fine, let them sort it. But us?We voted to be free of all that, why are our leaders so eager to take us back.

Rejoining now would be volunteering for the dunking stool. Why would any sensible country want to do that?

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Just How Close Are We To World War Three
Have you read or heard in your news supplier of choice of the recent massive troop movements in Israel, the massive build up of British, French and American warships around the approaches to the Persian gulf or just how badly the situations in Egypt and Libya have deteriorated since ...

Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,

How Hillary Clinton Planned The Syrian Holocaust We bring you evidence that the destruction of Syria was planned by the USA and Israel long before the US engineered 'spontaneous uprising'known as The Arab Spring ...

Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.
While the west has been distracted by events in Gaza and Ukraine, and the neo - fascist 'left' have suddenly discovered the joys of anti Russianism and anti Semitism, the FUKUS axis sponsored genocidists of ISIS have discovered another inoffensive minority to exterminate now that the Syriac Christians have fled.

More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...

Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War. As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin Will Egypt Seize Libya For Its Oil

If the conflict in Syria, currently showing signs of spreading to Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan were to escalate into a regional war, a proxy for east and west to butt heads without sustaining too much domestic damage, is Egypt likely to take advantage of the distraction and

Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,

"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its ~~Dupes~~ Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation

Another Obama Sponsored Genocide - not Alawi or Christians In Syria but Yazidi in Iraq.
While the west has been distracted by events in Gaza and Ukraine, and the neo - fascist 'left' have suddenly discovered the joys of anti Russianism and anti Semitism, the FUKUS axis sponsored genocidists of ISIS have discovered another inoffensive minority to exterminate now that the Syriac Christians have fled.

More Than ISIS, Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency
The story emerging in Iraq is of another American foreign policy fuck up, a total misreading of the situation by the world's most parochial global power. By December 2013, Sunni leaders had become tired of the jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) actions in their areas and publicly supported the Iraq government’s military campaign against the group’s bases. Unfortunately the ISIS rebels were armed with US military technology and Obama was calling for the resignation of the government in Baghdad, prompting Russia and Iran to support them ...

Poison Gas Used In Syria Sparks Calls For Western Military Invasion
Claims circulating in Washington, London and Brussels that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian conflict have prompted less conspiracy theories and more intelligent discussion that we might expect. Even so commentators in mainstream media have divided into two opposing camps – those who believe that President Obama's failure to ...

Syria's Dirty War Looks Set To Get Dirtier
'From unobtrusive, anonymous offices scattered around the middle east, in Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, CIA officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a programme of massive arms shipment to Syria's rebels. The western powers operation to support those trying to overthrow the Assad regime is officially denied and ...

Islamic Cleric Announces Fatwah Allowing The Legal Rape Of Syrian Women By Anti Assad Rebels

An Islamic cleric has pronounced a fatwa that permits US-backed FSA rebels to rape non-Sunni women in Syria as part of a "sexual jihad" that has so far involved girls as young as 14 being transported to remote areas of the country to service the needs of ...

Over 4000 Civilians Have Died In Forgotten War. As attention has focused on Syria ans then on the efforts of the Obama administration, in its dying months, to avenge the defeat of the anointed successor Hillary Clinton and discredit the election victor and President - elect Donald Trump, and simultaneously demonize Russia and President Putin

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Monday, January 19, 2026

Trump's Tariffs Are About So Much More Than Greenland

Donald Trump's moves in relation to taking over Greenland are not about territory or mining rights, the reality is they have all been about deterrence. European members of NATO have neglected defence issues for three decades and are now seen to be weak and ineffectual militarily. While I do not see Russia as a direct threat to western Europe because despite all the efforts to demonise Putin by mainstream media, the causes of the war in Ukraine went beyond local animosities and concern NATO expansionism rather than Russian imperialism.

What the war has done however is expose the wests weakness and the dependence of Europe on the USA for its defence. The real point of Trump's threat to impose tariffs is to remin European leaders how dependent they are on Americal military strength. Europes main military powers have been so busy 'saving the planet' and civilising the third world they have neglected their defence capabilities to the extent that none is capable of defending their own biorders.

‘An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as [Sino-Russian] power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.’ - Conflicting Modernities, Cambridge University Press (no longer available online or to purchase)

That is where we stand. The U.S.A has had enough of this.

What are the European nations threatened with tariffs doing now? Wringing their hands and blethering about 'rules based order,' because that is all that they are capable of.

The goal of the EU is to forge its own order of world commerce, in large part to counteract Trump’s expansive protectionism. But Team Trump is suspicious of Europe’s willingness to accommodate China’s agenda.

Trump wants Greenland, and will break NATO to get it, but the greater game is over the future of a wider world.’ Without the USA, the rest of NATO cannot even defend themselves let alone Greenland.

The EU set out in an anti U.S. direction some time ago. Britain under the Labour Party has thrown its lot in with the EU and appears, certainly in the matter of the new Chinese embassy in London, to be accommodating China’s agenda. Denmark has, within it embassy in Beijing a representational office for Greenland.

‘Basically, both Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been present in China for two years…The representation is housed in the buildings of the Danish Embassy in Beijing and will be particularly dedicated to political, cultural and also economic cooperation between the largest island in the world and the most populous country in the world. Accordingly, some business representatives from Greenland were also present at the opening.’

https://polarjournal.net/greenland-opens-own-representation-in-china/

Socialist fascist government by unilaterally disarmed countries, accompanied by much hand wringing, is economic and national security suicide. However the shared consensus and unanimity of the 'West' has evaporated.

The harmony and unity of individual Nation States has been assaulted by Democracy being subverted in the veiled campaign of International Socialism, or as they like to pretend to call it, Globalism.

Britain, at least, should be grateful to President Trump for making this ever more apparent.

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

UK Government's Story On The Afghan Data Security Leak Changes By The Hour

During two years and more than 20 court hearings, ministers argued a super-injunction was necessary to give them the chance to relocate tens of thousands of Afghans to the UK after the ignominious withdrawal of allied troops from Kabul, with costs of up to £7billion cited regularly.

Yesterday the Ministry of Defence was saying the numbers were in the single-digit thousands and the costs £400 million to £800 million.

However in October 2024 Healey’s presentation to the home and economic affairs committee of Cabinet members: ‘This paper... argues for a reformed Afghan Resettlement Programme that could see c.36,000 settled. Assuming minsters are content to proceed as recommended, we would be aspiring to develop a programme which resettles c.36,000 people (of which c.3,500 are already in the relocation pipeline).’

Afghans whose identities were revealed in a military data leak had no automatic right to asylum, the Defence Secretary has said.

The personal details of some 18,000 Afghans who applied to be relocated to the UK were leaked but only a total of 6,900, including their relatives, have been accepted for refuge in Britain under a secret asylum scheme.

John Healey said most of the people on the list were not eligible for the scheme, even though their names had been leaked as they had not worked alongside or served with UK forces.

Serious doubts have been expressed by many commentators that any party to this is telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It would be charitable to say that some of the things that may be said are said out of a lack of knowledge of the whole situation. The case is that the story changes with such amazing regularity it seems nobody really know what is going on.

This is bad enough as it is without the usual supects jumping on the bandwagon to offer their crackpot theories.

It is so much worse than has been reported, ...serving Army families having to vacate long held married quarters and move up to an hour away from camp because the Army need to keep the refugee families near to army bases because the Afghan males in the extended families are so disruptive in the local communities...Afghan males wandering into local primary schools and threatening teachers for letting english boys and girls play football together...supposedly endangered men, fleeing Afghanistan in fear of their lives, returning to Kabul briefly on scheduled flights for family weddings...the Army not letting female soldiers have any dealings with the male refugees for fear of their being assaulted...it goes on.

What a mess we are in. We live in a totalitarian state and every word that falls out of a politicians mouth is a lie. The last paragraph is laughable. Why the need for the super injunction? I’m also looking over my shoulder for other underhand dealings this week that they are trying hide whilst this story takes front page. And to think the powers at be take this country to war on the fake narrative of protecting “democracy” in other countries.

Successive government's have treated us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and feed us s**t, this leak has exposed parliament, totalitarian, undemocratic, never mind the free speech. 7 billion?, on what? All I know is that this once great country has betrayed the people with lies. Wouldn't be surprised if there is civil unrest coming, just remember, who is your neighbour.

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What Is All That Aid Money Really being Used For
Nuclear Power Risks or How To Stop Worrying And Love The Atom
Oil Shale Salvation
Are The Cultural Poles Flipping

Flight From FreedomFleeing from freedom seems like a contradiction, after all we usually asdsiciate flight with escaping from captivity. In this first part of Existentialism for Beginners however the author identifies a human instinct that predisposes us to seek illusory safety by conforming and being part of the crowd rather than embarking on the lonely life of the free thinker, the person who truly makes their own decisions and follows their own path.

Electronic Tattoos To Replace Passwords and Pin Numbers?
Science was ever fascism's whore. A warning about the latest wheeze the science tits have developed for their Fascist bosses, RFID tattoos. The plan is these things will keep tabs on everything you do all the time and you will not be able to access the internet, your mobile phone or your bank and credit card accounts without one.

GM Food Needed To Avert World Food Crisis
The GM Foods Nazis are revving up for a good whine again. Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no scientific qick fix to the ''enormously serious'' problem of producing enough fod to feed the world's rapidly growing population in the future as we face problems such as climate change, population growth and energy shortages. He told BBC Breakfast News: ''If there are genetically modified (GM) organisms that actually ...

Iceberg Alley BluesWe must stop using oil say the politicians and scientists as it becomes more imperative that exploration begins in Iceberg Alley off the Canadian Coast, elsewhere in the Arctic and in other sensitive locations. They are just trying to soften us up for carbon taxes of course. Nobody knows better than politicians that the world runs on oil and that alternative non polluting sources are a long way short of being able to supply energy needs .... Coal Fired Power Stations Win ReprieveIn what looks like a u-turn on green energy policy the coalition government have abandoned plans to support and subsidiese operators of sustainable energy generating plants. While environment activists and green campaigners are calling this a betrayal the case may well be that in the harsh reality of governing claims made by green energy firms look totally unrealistic ...
BHP Drops Bid For Potash of CanadaMining giant BHP Billiton has abandoned its takeover bid for fertiliser group Potash Corporation after it was blocked by the Canadian government. We should start to appreciate Canadians more perhaps. A few months ago The Daily Stirrer was praising two Canadian sceptics for exposing ...
The Growing Problem Of Rising Food PricesWhile the warmists rant about carbon and the Church of Scienceology Cult rave about climate science. there are threee real and immediate problems facing us that nobody is talking about. These are overpopulation, water shortage and food price inflation. This article deals with food prices, links at the bottom lead to our posts on population and water scarcity.
How Our Creature Comforts Are Baking The WorldAs the arguments rage on between the Climate Science Wankers lobby and the sceptis, realists and out and out deniers we observe that still nobody who gets media coverage, nobody who is talking sense about climate chaos, carbon based fuels, deforestation or over population is really being heard. Quite simply there are too many of us and we want too much. Who needs science or politics to understand that?
Has Everybody Forgotten Obama's War
The American military machine has just chalked up the grim statistic of its 2,000th fatality since America troops first surged into Afganistan to defeat "insurgents" whose families had lived in that country for many generations. The invasion was justifed in the aftermath of September 11 by the myth that Afghanistan was a ...

Obama Talks The Talk But Dare Not Visit Afghanistan In Daylight
Todays mainstream news papers and broadcast bulletins are full of the Superhero Barack Obama's daredevil visit to Afghanistan. The man who liberated Libya single handed and took out Osama Bin Laden (or a Pakistani pensioner with a beard) in a daring solo raid behind enemy lines stormed into the Afghan capital, Kabul, made a speech that left hundreds of Taliban fighters dead and saw others fleeing for the mountains with their arses on fire then left again all in the space of ...

Has Everybody Forgotten Obama's War
The American military machine has just chalked up the grim statistic of its 2,000th fatality since America troops first surged into Afganistan to defeat "insurgents" whose families had lived in that country for many generations. The invasion was justifed in the aftermath of September 11 by the myth that Afghanistan was a ...

Afghanistan - Another Effing Fiasco
So Gordon Brown's Labour Government thinks our troops can be leave Afghanistan with honour by the end of 2010 do they? How long has The Daily Stirrer been telling you these people are idiots? They never did have a very firm grip on reality and it is slackening all the time. Since the day George W bush decided to invade Afghanistan in retaliation for the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the ...

]The Taliban Are Shafting Us Up The Khyber
As Barack Obama rehearses his speech to the American people in which he will declare victory and announce he is sending 35,000 extra troops to help organise the celebrations, news of how bad things are over there is starting to leak out. Up to now we have heard little on the progress of the war strategy other than ... [ Daily Stirrer - Nov 2009]

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Monday, February 17, 2025

Strategic Defence Review Lobbies For Incresed Spending On Military While Reeves Struggles To Find £12bn For Starmer's Current Spending Pledge

by Colonel A Sealy - Farquhar, 17 February 2025

Rachel Reeves will have to bump up taxes by an extra £12bn if she wants to boost defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP in line with Keir Starmer's pledge to NATO and at the same time avoid a fresh round of austerity.

Economists have warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s ambition to bolster the defence budget implied the Chancellor would have to raise taxes or cut spending by £6bn a year alone if she wanted to hit the target by the end of the decade. Unfortunately Starmer and other European idiot heads oif government want that now because they fancy their chances of holding the line against Russia in Ukraine if President Trump cuts off the supply of arms and money to Kiev. Starmer has also allied himself with European warmongers who claim, without anything to substantiate their paranoid ravings, that if Ukraine falls Putin plans to advance right through Europe to the Atlantic coast. They back this up by suggesting The Kremlin is already conducting a campaign of intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage against European nations.

Ensuring that no Whitehall department faces real-terms cuts to its budget for day-to-day spending during this parliament would mean that £12bn of tax rises will be needed, according to the Resolution Foundation.

While Labour has not set out a timetable for raising defence spending to 2.5pc of the economy, military chiefs tasked with carrying out a Stratefic Defence Review, with a view tio reparing the UK to face Russia in armed conflict shortly after the Labour government took office have been piling pressure on the Prime Minister to go further and faster amid demands from Donald Trump to lift spending to as much as 5pc of GDP.

This means Chancellor Reeves faces the prospect of being forced to break her promise not to “come back with more borrowing or more taxes” less than six months after her record tax raid. Alternatively, she risks angering public sector unions by imposing deep spending cuts to unprotected Whitehall departments such as transport and housing.

While the Chancellor has suggested funding for Starmer's delusional posturing will come from cuts to spending and welfare, the Treasury has left the door open for more tax rises in March against a backdrop of low growth and higher borrowing costs.

Military spending demands and the pressure to protect certain government department’s budgets mean unprotected departments face finding total cuts of up to £12bn, or the equivalent of 6pc in real terms over this parliament.

Clearly, defence spending can be a technological driver of growth and the Military Industrial Complex a generally stable provider of employment and therefore taxable income. But UK’s relative economic position vis-à-vis the US and western Europe (and why not eastern Europe and the east?) is very much more dependent on service industries, which are best served by (a) a government which supports innovation and entrepreneurship, (b) a government promoting good relationships with all countries in the world and (c) inexpensive and stable energy supply. All of these things are under attack by the Labour governments foreign, business and energy policies.

The EU is a restrictive market so it was a good idea to leave it. As a small example, I recently learned that Japan imports its strawberries from Serbia, one of the few European – strawberry producing – countries not in the EU. Japan is a big market!

There is no Soviet bloc anymore and the Cuban missile crisis should remind you how understandable it is that a country will not accept another country placing missiles aimed at its main cities directly on its border. This was the main reason for Russia's first militarily approaching Kiev to convince the Ukrainian government that Moscow was serious about not having NATO missiles on its border and, when that was unsuccessful (because Russia naively believed France and Germany would convince Ukraine to step back), Russia was forced to invade.

We should not forget the US and NATO build up of weapons and military training in Ukraine since 2014 (and probably before), the push by the Obama and Biden administrations to fast track Ukraine into NATO nor the CIA training of Ukrainian insurgents at a dozen secret sites on the border to Russia (as reported by the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html).

Some pundits have said we must never allow ourselves to be put in a position where we have choose between aligning ourselves with the United States or Europe when, firstly, there is no reason for the two to be exclusive and, secondly, USA has just distanced itself from Europe (including UK) in telling us that Ukraine is forthwith our problem. That sounds rather like the US playing its standard role of school playground bully: you either do business with us or we sanction/tax/tariff you! But the world is tired of such behaviour which is one reason why BRICS is so successful.

My point is that UK should keep itself well away from all conflicts and, instead, encourage peace and wealth through business while having a healthy and strong defence force, but it should only be used for defence and not for aggression.

And the only intimidation, blackmail, and political leverage we are suffering from is from our own politicians.

Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

As Russia Steps Up Infrastructure Bombardment Ukie Air Defence Success Claims Are Fake

Throughout the past few months Russian forces have been conducting mass missile and drone strikes against Ukraine targeting, with considerable success according to reasonably reliable sources (nobody truly knows the full situation of the conflict, tht is the nature of war,) while the Ukrainian air defense troops claim they have intercepted and destroyed the majorityof the bombardment and sometimes even claim they have destroyed more missiles and drones than the Russians have launched according to data from United Nations sataeelite data.

After yesterday's wave of strikes which once again inflicted damage on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Ukrainian media repeated such claims:

Russia's largest attack: Ukraine's defence forces destroy over 200 out of 236 Russian missiles and drones - Ukrainska Pravda

Russia launched 236 aerial weapons on Ukraine on Monday, 26 August. Ukraine's air defence downed 102 missiles and 99 attack drones.
Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of Ukraine’s Air Force, on social media.
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All available weapons and equipment were used to repel the air attack: aircraft, anti-aircraft missile troops of the Air Force, mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian defence forces, and electronic warfare units. A total of 201 air targets were shot down in the air combat: 102 missiles and 99 attack UAVs:
- 1 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile;
- 1 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile;
- 1 Kh-22 cruise missile;
- 99 Kh-101, Kalibr cruise missiles, and Kh-59/69 guided missiles;
- 99 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.

This adds up to a claimed success rate of 80.3% against missiles and 90.8% against drones.

These numbers are fantasy.

The highest strke rate Ukraine could feasibly achieve is probably around 20-25 % (colonel Trukhan cited his expert sources of air defense).

80% of missiles could be the best case scenario, something RUAF could achieve (well, higher), where the trajectory is more-or-less known (not the case in Ukraine where missiles and drones can take rather long detours and approach from unexpected angles, with IRIS-T, Patriot or NASAMS systems then pointing in wrong direction).

Nato radar aircraft from Poland, Romania or Black Sea have tough time covering low flying missiles, let alone drones. Ukraine has to use their air defense radars to scan the low altitudes to see these missiles, which carries a high potential of RUAF discovering and hitting the radar. And there were reports of radars being struck among the attack few days ago.

The number of impacts by incoming missiles registered by locals is a more reliable source to go by, and those amateur observers have filled a long list with information on many hits on strategic targets. After the several waves of attacks there remained reports of BDA drones circling the central and eastern portions of Ukraine. Will Russia launch an immediate follow-up strike is now the question. Much of the Ukie electrified railway system has been knocked out, and likely needs further degrading; same with the electrical power system. Also, the boasting of having neutralized the Black Sea Fleet was proven to be just that, as many missiles have been launched at the flotilla, but very few have struck targets. How much damage has been inflivted on \russian warships is unclear, but most of those ships are still active and firing on Ukie targets.

Source: Moon of Alabama

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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Ukraine concludes security agreement with Luxembourg - (not a joke)

Back from a few days well eaned rest following our extertions in the run up to th UK election.

via Moon of Alabama

https://ukranews.com/en/news/1019111-ukraine-concludes-security-agreement-with-luxembourg

Ukraine has concluded an agreement with Luxembourg on security cooperation and long-term support.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on the Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"In Washington, together with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Luc Frieden, we signed a security agreement between our states. Luxembourg will continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine and will continue to support the protection of the lives of our people. The agreement is focused on political and value interaction between our countries," he said.

Zelenskyy noted that Luxembourg supports sanctions against russia, Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO, and will also help protect and restore cultural heritage.

According to the message of the Office of the President, this year Luxembourg allocated EUR 80 million for defense assistance to Ukraine and will provide support with the same dynamics throughout the ten-year term of the agreement. In general, since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, this country has provided military support to Ukraine for more than EUR 250 million euros.

Luxembourg, as a co-leader of the IT coalition, will support Ukraine in training in the cyber sphere.

The agreement also refers to expanded cooperation in the field of defense industry, assistance in attracting funding sources and support of Ukraine's efforts to integrate the defense industry into NATO and EU defense and security standards.

Separate blocks of the document concern humanitarian aid and support for Ukrainian internally displaced persons. Luxembourg will facilitate the release and return of all Ukrainians, especially children.

The article doesn’t mention anything about how many Patriots, HIMARS or F-16s Luxembourg will be supplying, nor any thing about joint naval exercises...

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang

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