Nige Grant

Retired grumpy old man

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@PGCougars Watch Bettenson this coming camp. Stronger, faster and a two way centre.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@Photogpr @mark_slapinski Eugene, you are the idiot! Just showing that you don't proof read anything before posting!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@EvaSamxpxic 18

[Benonwine @benonwine]

“Roger Moore’s recitation of Rudyard Kipling’s Tommy is as powerful today as ever. A timeless reminder of how quickly society forgets the men and women who stand ready to defend it, until they’re needed.”

This is such a powerful and moving recital from the late Roger Moore.🇬🇧🙏

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@509298 @BritishArmy @RoyalArmdCorps @RoyalTankRegt Remember it well, my first med man exercise. Baptism of fire lol

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@wincolumnCGY Be lucky to get a bag of used pucks. Guy has been injury prone almost all his professional career. Such a shame.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@CofRedCentral @FriedgeHNIC He’s a giant

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@CofRedCentral Yup

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@CofRedCentral You gotta wonder with the amount of right shot d men we have something else is going down!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@albertaradios Only a fucktard would have come out with this bulletin!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@StevenBonkMP You absolute idiot! G7 is far more important than question time.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@TheFungi669 All of the above.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@Righteousdudett It's not a deadline dumbfuck!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@509298 @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @PeteHegseth Just waiting for the next instalment of lies from these clowns!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@MelissaLMRogers Totally different thing dumbfuck! Showing your ignorance.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@kayleighMc6789 Lie!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

https://t.co/AkoLJDX9wm In denial, the orange turd at his best.

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@itsrosesm Yes, the greatest pedo narcissist!

[Nige Grant @red5nige]

@EthanLevins2 Pedo loving bastard.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

People keep asking me what America is actually capable of, now that it has driven away every ally it has. The answer is not hypothetical. It is the Persian Gulf, right now.

Iran is a nation of 90 million people sitting on a mountain range that runs the entire length of its borders. Its military infrastructure is buried inside those mountains. Command centers, missile batteries, fuel depots, weapons production, all of it underground and dispersed across a country roughly the size of Western Europe. Operation Epic Fury struck approximately 6,000 targets.

Iran is still firing.

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since late February. A quarter of the world’s daily oil supply has nowhere to go. The entrance is mined, patrolled and locked. And the most expensive military in human history is sitting outside it, unable to go in.

This is the moment to be honest about what America is missing.

Europe operates roughly 10,000 military aircraft. Not little propeller trainers. More than ten thousand combat-capable jets that would immediately transform the air campaign over the Gulf, free up American assets for the deep-penetration mountain missions that actually matter, and sustain an operational tempo no single nation can manage alone.

Britain fields two aircraft carriers and seven nuclear-armed hunter-killer submarines. France brings a nuclear carrier, fifteen frigates and its own nuclear submarine fleet. Belgium and the Netherlands operate the finest mine countermeasure vessels on earth, built specifically for strait-clearing operations of exactly this kind. Italy contributes two carriers and eight FREMM frigates. Poland has the largest land army in Europe. Norway has completed its conversion to the F-35 and fields fifty-two of them.

The map below shows some capabilities in Europe, but It represents only a fraction of what Europe actually has. It does not include Finland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Greece or Portugal, each of which contributes substantial air power, naval tonnage and ground forces of their own. The full picture is considerably larger than what fits on one page.

And then there is Ukraine. Four years of industrial-scale warfare have produced the most battle-tested drone force in existence. Autonomous strike systems, mass swarm tactics and electronic warfare capabilities developed under live fire at a pace no peacetime military can replicate. An allied force with Ukrainian drone expertise integrated into it would look fundamentally different over the mountains of Iran than what America has there now.

European intelligence services have human networks inside Iran and across the Gulf that no satellite can replace. Germany and France maintained functioning diplomatic back-channels into Tehran until late 2025. That kind of quiet credibility is the difference between a negotiated shipping corridor and a permanent blockade. It cannot be improvised. It cannot be bombed into existence.

None of this is available, because Washington spent years treating its allies as freeloaders, adversaries and negotiating targets, and then went to war expecting the same loyalty it had spent years deliberately destroying.

The alliance built after 1945 was never charity. It was a force multiplier that no defense budget, however grotesque in size, can replace on its own. America is learning that now, at roughly a hundred million dollars per day in operational costs, with the strait still closed and the oil still not moving.

Trump was not acting in America’s interest. He was acting in the interest of a man who has never in his life had to live with the consequences of his own decisions. America is living with them now.

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