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Pragmatist with a bias towards Science, Technology and being environmentally responsible. Oh and I think Brexit is a bloody stupid idea.

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

I’m going to be doing this challenge trying to help raise some money for cancer research next month, if any of my followers are able to contribute I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. https://t.co/UyqBXqj86G

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Hard to believe I’m even writing this.

Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

“If [Europe] decides that it will support us in a course aimed at destroying the Russian empire, it will be destroyed very quickly.

Russia has never won a war against Great Britain or against Britain’s allies. Never!”

— Denis Shtilerman, Fire Point's CEO

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@sonyxperia Satire right?

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@Acyn That’s numberwang

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@Gundamator @TBrit90 Buying American

[doll bun🏳️‍⚧️ @The_Bunny_Doll]

Historically the UK and Japan have exchanged their native plant species, cherry blossom trees being a main one, and since 2016 Japan has gifted over 7,000 cherry trees as a sign of friendship, that's why you randomly see them all over the country, this sort of thing has been going on for over a century now, a specific species of tree called the Tai-Haku actually went completely extinct in Japan for centuries, but a British ornithologist called Collingwood Ingram discovered a dying tree in someone's garden, and he was able to send cuttings over to Japan via the Tran-Siberian Express and successfully reintroduce the species back to Japan, so every Tai-Haku in Japan is descended from the cuttings of the last dying tree in existence, which just happened to be in a random garden in Sussex

[Link🇻🇦 @ZeldaZealot]

Runs in the family I guess

[Rouge 🇫🇷 @BaguetteWeapons]

I don’t get how people can disagree about the Falklands not being core British clay

- islands
- shitty weather
- sheep

That’s basically Great Britain 2 southern hemisphere edition

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@ArnulfoCarden17 @sentdefender @NiohBerg You claim to be an army vet but don’t know what nations have amphibious assault capability.

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@ArnulfoCarden17 @sentdefender @NiohBerg They don’t have the capability to land forces on the island and if they tried they’d be stopped mid journey.

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@EricTrump Not sure the French would fight the war for you now.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Q: Is your expectation other countries will assist in effort to blockade Iran?

TRUMP: Yeah. Other countries are gonna also.

Q: Which countries, sir?

TRUMP: We don't need other countries.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

And today’s popular music: “blockade” by Trump.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.

Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

We warned you back in 1776 that it would end in tears.
This is on you, France.

[ali @ali__samson]

Americans needing 155 aircraft including bombers, Transport and dozens of fighters to do a job which the Brits could do with four SAS soldiers and a flask of tea.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand.

Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes.
Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports. 
That is now over.

Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington.

Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic.

Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.

You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.

And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Lenderz.bsky.social🙈🙉🙊 @Lenderz]

@WarMonitor3 Royal Navy, please learn the names of things