Bruce Williams

Veteran Naval Officer

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

X is a polemicists playground. A virtual megaphone to enrage, disturb and ill-inform. Responses are ignored allowing fake news to proliferate. And no matter how much I and others like me might wish to correct the record it never is. I'm 66 tomorrow and enough is enough - goodbye!

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Where were the mass protests in Western capital cities when 500 000 Muslims died in Syria?

Where were the protests over the 200 000 dead Yemeni Muslims?

Or the 24 000 massacred Burmese Muslims?

Why is it people only start marching when Israel defends itself against Hamas?

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@LawDiscoveries @HumzaYousaf @UNRWA Is it legal? Do they have the authority to use tax money external to Scotland??

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

The Scottish Government has topped up its funding to @UNRWA to a total of £750,000.

The work @UNRWA does is absolutely vital given the humanitarian catastrophe we are witnessing.

The recovery will take years, Scotland will be a partner in those efforts every step of the way.

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@HumzaYousaf @UNRWA I’m clearly missing something - when did the Scottish Govn competency stretch to issues outside Scotland? Tax payers money £0.75m being used in this way may be appropriate but currently that responsibility lies with Westminster not Edinburgh. Am I wrong???

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@WayneBarnesRef You will be hugely missed!

[Hampshire Prints @Hantsprints]

HMS Vanguard decides that she'd much rather have a pint at the still and west in Old Portsmouth than head to the scrapyard (1960)

[Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald]

The leadership of Hamas, from the comfort of Doha, seems to be ready to sacrifice as many Palestinians as it takes to achieve their genocidal aims.

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

This sort of headline infuriates me. What exactly do they think the FCDO can do here? Its a warzone, with very limited comms and a dangerous fastmoving situation.

We need to stop acting as if we can expect a response based on the idea Palmerston is still the Foreign Secretary.

[Jane @Jane06723722]

@implausibleblog So this was just “a glass of wine”…. With catered in food, music & dancing!
IT WAS A PARTY… and no amount of twisting words can change that!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hugo Keith, "Did you drive to Barnard castle?"

Dominic Cummings, "Yes"

HK, "Did you take your wife and child in the car?"

DC, "Yes"

HK, "Why did you need your wife and child in the car in order to test your eyesight" #CovidInquiry

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@implausibleblog WTF! Sorry expletive is necessary. Complete failure to recognise responsibility is sickening. Lack of a moral compass in someone who clearly thinks he is somewhere above the majority. Shouldn’t there be criminal proceedings for mischief in high public office?

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@visegrad24 Classic deflection tactics by Putin

[Richard Dunley @redunley]

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Every time I come back to look at the RN's Maritime Operating Concept I am baffled by how anyone thought that this makes any sense.

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@redunley Precision in delivering effect requires clarity in direction and thought - clarity in explanation that anyone would grasp. This is just mumbo-jumbo pseudo-intellectualism not worthy of the RN.

[Hampshire Prints @Hantsprints]

HMS Naiad and HMS Andromeda, The cod wars.
ITN (8 mins)

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

We're all terribly at ease now.

We seem to have entirely forgotten the fact that -- above everything else -- Ukraine is fighting a war of defense against one of the world's largest military powers that enjoys an immense stock of resources, along with a colossal material legacy of the Soviet military.

It's a fucking man-made miracle that, over 600 days into the full-scale invasion, we are where we are, and 80% of Ukraine's territory is free from occupation and has *relatively* peaceful life.

Neither Kyiv, nor Kharkiv, or Odesa, or Lviv, are under Russian occupation.

Just recall the days of February 2022 and Russia's Kyiv-in-three-days bravado.

Back then, did any of the critics of today's Ukraine expect the crushing defeat of Russia's blitzkrieg at Kyiv?

Or the sinking of the Moskva cruiser? Or the fact that Russia still being not even close to having Donbas captured by the end of 2023? Or Ukraine's Kharkiv breakthrough? Or the triumphant liberation of Kherson?

Or the Snake Island? Or the battle of Bakhmut that lasted a year? Or the Russian defeat at Mykolaiv? Or drone attacks on Moscow & the Kremlin? Or Russian strategic airfields and Black Sea Fleet HQs being wiped out?

Or Ukraine's military mastering dozens of Western-provided weapon types, from artillery to advanced air defense, on the fly? Or Russia losing close to 2,500 tanks in combat? Or the fact that Ukraine survived a winter of Russian missile attacks on the heating and electric supply grid?

Or the fact that Russia was forced to declare mobilization for the first time since 1941 and 1914 and to mass-recruit suicidal convicts? Or the Kremlin begging Iran for drones and North Korea for ammo to go on?

Or the fact that Ukraine completely retook the initiative in the war and initiated a full-scale counter-offensive operation to possibly bring the war to an end? Or Ukraine talking not only about the national survival but the return to the legitimate national borders of 1991 as the war's ultimate end goal?

How many of those things were realistically expected as half of the world was sighing, shaking its head, expressing concerns, and saying Ukraine would be done for soon?

Some of us need to come down to earth and recall it that Ukraine has stood against Russia all this time.

It's a fucking man-made miracle that, 615 days on, we're talking about THIS.

We've made a light-year-long way over the last 20 months.

Especially given the fact of how little the chances were and how disproportionate are the combating powers.
And how little and late Ukraine gets its resources to go on fighting.

However, this thing works the other way around, too.

Some people need to wake up and realize that Ukraine is combating a defensive war against Russia.

So if we want this all to end in a good way, Ukraine needs to get all the necessary instruments BEFORE it mounts a potentially decisive, extremely difficult counteroffensive -- not AFTER the operation fades away due to insufficient resources provided to her again due to the fear of "escalation."

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@save_children Ok i want to believe you - how did you arrive at those numbers? Based on what sources/intelligence??

[Bruce Williams @BNBW3]

@visegrad24 Lame, pathetic and cruel. This is not an acceptable way to protest a cause (no matter how valid one might think it is).