ShadowEightSeven

Pen pushing recovering sun dodger, with a healthy interest in most things. Retweets ≠ endorsement

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Tax in the UK is the highest it’s been since 1945. That’s well understood – but another trend has been largely missed: the number of taxes in the UK is at its highest since the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

The operational strength of the Royal Navy in 1952 - lower than some may remember, including only 2 fleet carriers and 3 modern frigates (brackets are for 1953 estimates). PSL thread to follow on this fascinating subject!

[Saffron Sniper @Saffron_Sniper1]

25 Pictures with Deep Meaning — Thread 🧵

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[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is a brilliant explanation by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Kaja Kallas on why it is senseless to “negotiate” with russia.

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[Enjoy Wild Moments @EnjoyWildMoment]

20 Pictures with Deep meaning:

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[Grey @jgreyfriend]

In 1910, the 6 most powerful men in America vanished.

They boarded a private train using fake names & disappeared to a remote island.

What they created in total secrecy now controls $30.5 trillion in U.S. money.

Here's what happened in that secret meeting held on Jekyll Island:

[Raghu @IndiaTales7]

7. When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin in 1931, Einstein said, ‟What I admire most about your art is its universality. You don’t say a word, and yet the world understands you.”

“It is true.” Replied Chaplin, ‟But your fame is even greater. The world admires you, when no one understands you.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Rutte: Russia now produces in 3 months what NATO makes in a year—1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles, 200 Iskanders.

In 5 years, it could strike NATO directly. Hypersonics make European distances minutes apart

There’s no East or West anymore. Only NATO. 1/

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ A Russian military doctor has spoken frankly in an interview about the atrocious state of Russian military medicine and the lack of medical training given to soldiers. Most of the wounded die, he says, and doctors themselves are treated as 'slaves' by the Russian military. ⬇️

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

National security is central to our Plan for Change.
We will:

• Deliver the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.

• Invest in better housing for military families.

• Create more skilled jobs in new weapons factories.

This is just the start.

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

Word reaches me that the Royal Navy has abolished the long standing ban on male sailors growing moustaches.

Less than a week after the Royal Marines have taken over as 1st Sea Lord, and the absorbing of the RN into the Corps is clearly well underway! :-)

[ShadowEightSeven @Shadow8Seven]

@combat_boot None.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇸🇺🇦✈️ U.S. State Department approves $310 million F-16 training and support package for Ukraine.

[Sir Humphrey @pinstripedline]

I've just finished reading this - It is one of the best books that I have ever read on Cold War submarine ops. It highlights the close NL/UK cooperation, and confirms that Dutch submariners are just as mad, smelly and lethally professional as their RN couisons!

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Let's continue the threads about Finland's preparation for the threat of war and crisis situations.

Next part is the Finnish nationwide civil defence system 🧵

[krakek @krakek1]

On this day in 1991 operations “Begemot-2” was carried out.

The purpose of this operation was to test a full (16 missile) ripple fire salvo out of a Delta-IV class SSBN.

It worked out, demonstrating the wargasm capability.

Source:
(https://t.co/seTl1kdFgX)

[Zoltium @ZoltiumHQ]

15 Pictures with Deep Meaning:

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[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

Great Britain wielded her geopolitical & naval might into bullying much of the world to abolish slavery - at a time when this evil was the global norm.

A thread on how under the White Ensign, slavery was globally challenged for the first time. 🧵🇬🇧

(Sources cited at the end.)

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is a brilliant explanation by Estonian PM Kaja Kallas on why it is senseless to “negotiate” with russia.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

China is turning their dessert green to combat deforestation