When his aircraft landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, President Zelenskyy was met by Prime Minister Mark Carney – the head of government of Canada.
When he landed at Miami, Florida, not a single U.S. official met Zelenskyy.
Canada is Ukraine's ally. The U.S. is Russia's proxy.
@OborneTweets Not sure about “senior”, Peter. But definitely interesting. Reminiscent of Tommy Tugboat’s (who is a good guy) time as David Richards’ representative on Earth.
@michaeldweiss@JEyal_RUSI From the early 90s, NATO was indeed a solution looking for a problem. But now (or since 2008/9) it is again a solution to the problem of Russian imperialism.
@historicfirearm Extraordinary isn’t it? On a point of detail, they are probably closer to 70 years old, but who can imagine a design from 1855 being regarded as capable in 1935? As sign how much SA design has ossified.
@haynesdeborah@JohnHealey_MP@BritishArmy AJAX is a cruiser tank. A concept proved invalid in 1940-41. Thirty years (FRES) to deliver an overweight, under-capable vehicle that also happens to make its crew ill. Bloody joke, that I got very tired of defending at MOD.
@shashj@edwardlucas A company of airborne (ultra) light infantry? They’d last about 30 (heroic) minutes in a full-on fight v heavy forces. If you want to deter, demonstrate mass and scale and lethality.
Awful pictures. Still staggering that nearly 2 years into WW1, our General Melchetts were still using ineffective and wasteful tactics.
We tell ourselves that the big breakthrough was the tank,
but neglect the Ger MP18 armed stormtroopers and the Fr Chauchat teams.