@Keir_Starmer@azamatistan Ah, for years no action against the prolific ru shadow fleet activity in the English Channel and now all the sudden discovered boldness - need to shore up your security posture vs clueless public after the DIP drama and defence ministers resignations. Starmer is just pathetic
@thinkdefence V credible threat to the Baltics territory to fracture NATO and overrun our forces there. “battered” russia has 10x more tanks and infinitely more drones, backed by 150+ brigades, new warfare trained. + Our critical infrastructure/cities are vulnerable to precision strikes.
@LukePollard If this DIP disaster doesn’t change post the two resignations and damning letters, every self respecting MoD minister should resign. There is no time to sugar coat the lies of this PM and HMT.
Faced with a choice between a Defence Secretary who wanted to spend more on our armed forces, a Chancellor who wouldn’t, and an Attorney General who enjoys suing them, the Prime Minister decided he could do without … the Defence Secretary.
@wahlstedt007 Lots of bots.. well done Germany for waking up (albeit limited to govt and some parts of industrial society). The problem is 🇩🇪arrogance - tanks, artillery- “the old tested hardware”.. this and the next war are about autonomous, scalable mass systems ->software centric..
@philchalk@Microinteracti1 Billions were invested in lasers during the Cold War.. by US and Soviets. russians even wanted to do controlled, underground nuclear explosions to properly power lasers.. The Form factor today is already very advanced, within our physics. Can’t change refraction laws unfort
@philchalk@Microinteracti1 Pls read up on refraction law, power density per sq inch required at various distances - comes a container sized, VERY expensive module under the laser gun, which may be able to lit up a small drone at 1km distance. But with 10 drones - that big, 1bln system will die
@CumbrianFella_ Surprised there are people in the UK who would think russia is NOT our enemy.. After all poisonings, sabotage operations against the UK and its infrastructure. Invading Ukraine - territorial integrity of which we undertook to protect when Ukriane gave up nukes (+100y partnership)
@nexta_tv I am all for cornering russia and broader energy choices (and I like Azerbaijan). Let’s just be honest and competent. Azeri gas volumes to Europe are tiny.. for whole Europe like 10bcm/year.. out of that only a small part for Germany/Austria.. that’s a drop in the ocean
It is telling, once again, that it takes a Trump outburst for the general public to become aware of the dramatic capability gap Europe faces in the missile domain.
Europe is virtually as exposed without an American long-range fires battalion as it was before.
The real threat to European security is not a hostile America, it is Europe's own obliviousness and incompetence.
@VantagePointHQx@WarMonitor3 Sure. A person should have a choice to smoke, but then he/she should not expect the govt )and other citizens) to fund the cancer treatment and other ailments later in life.
@EuroBriefing Every more or less substantial war has been funded with debt.. by every country. annual taxation of the living generation is not set up to sustain war-fighting ..