Defence

2025-09-17

Lots to catch up here - drones into Poland, military exercises in Europe, Hungary signalling that Ukraine's bombardment of its fuel supply pipeline is a step too far.

"... this has to be a controlled demolition of Ukraine"

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And this video from Danny Haiphong to catch up on the Middle East.

2025-09-17

Why Scott Ritter should have any view on Charlie Kirk is beyond me - but what do I know?

I doubt I'll be featuring much about Charlie Kirk henceforth because I don't see the relevance, nor the importance.

But Scott Ritter is always good value and tells it how he sees it, so here we go...

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2025-09-15

Nigel Farage is "preparing for power" (where have we heard that before?!).

And he has a man to lead that process - Danny Kruger, newly joined from the failing Conservative and Unionist Party.

The video featured today covers this announcement. It was an interesting announcement, although it did little more than set out a few ambiguous hints and tips that may or may not produce fruit in due course.

We on this site don't do party politics, but this is an appropriate occasion for us to draw out a few pertinent points of relevance to the UK political scene.

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2025-09-15

This one is pretty hard to ignore.

With global instability seemingly growing by the hour, now is not the time to play fast and loose with our armed forces capabilities.

Still, we are where we are, and we must ask if our armed forces really are as good as they should be? Are their Drone Defence Documents up to snuff? When did they last update their Weather Warfare Workbook? Or their Misinformation Methods Manual?

So there is always room for improvement...

But is this really the most appropriate idea we can come up with?

Does SERCO really know best? How many wars has it fought recently?

Or maybe, just maybe, it's really the MOD staff selection and training

2025-09-13

In keeping with our policy of including some more off-the-wall ideas that break the monopoly of doom and gloom, here is another offering featuring a tale so off-planet that most of us would reject it out of hand as a factual account.

But in principle it's maybe not so so hard to accept some of the synchronicities involved.

So suspend your disbelief for 15 minutes, and indulge yourself in a flight of fancy that might just contain more than a few seeds of truth...

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2025-09-12

Alex Krainer reads the runes...

It's hard to argue with his analysis.

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2025-09-12

Back in 2020 when our government started talking up "the vaccines" for a "common cold" corona virus, I felt both instinctively and logically that the whole idea of a vaccine was founded in neither reality nor care for our health.

The disturbing question that thus automatically presented itself was this:

If the needle wasn't going to deliver a vacciine, then what was it going to deliver?

Now, courtesy of a few dogged lawyers who through repeated lawsuits forced Pfizer to publish all the information it had about its vaccines, and several thousands of dogged unpaid volunteers who set aside the time to read analyse and summarise the vast content of those voluminous papers, the results are in, and presented in the European Parliament.

At this point I feel bound to suggest that these results are disturbing in the extreme. You will need to be in command of your emotions before you listen

2025-09-10

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"This is not going to stop at Qatar... "

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2025-09-10

In a long but concerning article, Aussie Michael Rainsborough (the surname betrays his English origin) discusses the state of modern Britain and contrasts it with his view of modern Australia.

Without asserting that civil war is inevitable, he elucidates his concerns: 

"... an establishment seemingly bent on self-destruction, clinging to an incontinent immigration system and an almost devotional attachment to international and human rights laws that disadvantage its own citizens"

"The Brexit psychodrama exposed the extent of the rot. The political class, determined to thwart the referendum result, behaved with a deranged mixture of denial and contempt for the electorate"

(I have the Matt cartoon set from that time still hanging on my wall!)

Since our pseudo-Brexit, it has been abundantly clear that our political and journalistic classes owe their

2025-09-10

Ivor Cummins interviews geopolitical expert Alex Krainer.

This is 99 minutes of excellent root-cause analysis. They cover a broad sweep of history, drawing the parallels with today (post the second World War) to expose the roots of today's conflicts.

"... and (3) you[the oligarchs] have to stay out of politics... " 

Ouch.

Very informative - even China gets an serious discussion: "their approach is very very different..." 

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2025-09-09

So who is really in charge in the US of A?

Is the US President a fake like all the others around the globe?

Should we be thinking bigger than ever before about the extent of the fakery that has infested global politics (not to mention academia, NGOs, charitable foundations, and global governance under the United Nations - WEF "partnership")?

I don't know, but it's the logical inference to be drawn if Brian Berletic is correct in his analysis of who is really in control in the (western parts of) the Ukraine...

"This demonstrates continuity of agenda. It does not matter who Americans vote for, who is in the White House, who controls Congress; this is a singular agenda that continues no matter what..."

"The special interests driving this are unelected, monolithic, there... is no-one else in the US capable of challenging or displacing them ...

2025-09-06

You know the picture by now...

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2025-09-06

The latest anti-drone technology as developed for the US armed forces looks impressive, but what are its limitations and can it be outsmarted?

On the face of it, if the technology can be deployed in the necessary numbers and in all the right places, then it looks like a game-changer that would create a swift rethink of the currently well-oiled modes of battle in Ukraine and elsewhere. 

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2025-09-06

After the big parade featuring Xi Jin Ping as Chinese Leader, the political coast is clear for Xi to step down officially and for the new team to emerge. President Xi held several offices, but these will be split out to avoid concentrating all powers under one man.

So we (may) have: Party Secretary: Hu Chunhua, Premier: Wang Yang, PLA Chief: General Zhang Youxia,  if confirmed...

But will the CCP itself survive, and for how long?

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2025-09-05

This discussion brings out a number of points that deserve consideration.

It also points up the effective impossibility that any matters geopolitical will ever be addressed by a General Election - neither the public nor the system are ready to argue the complexities of our place in the world at election hustings (even if such could be addressed in the absurdly inadequate speaking times allowed!).

Patrick Henningsen and Chay Bowes provide some useful illumination.

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2025-09-04

Our tell-it-like-it-is source updates us on the latest position re: the Ukraine.

If it wasn't so serious it would be ample material for a new series (or two) of EU-based "Oui Ministre".

But it is serious, so forget the "sausage wars" - "Grande Saucisse Européenne" has a different meaning entirely...

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2025-09-03

Well, the fighting hasn't stopped, quite the reverse...

Danny Haiphong talks with Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, and Andrei Martyanov.

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2025-09-03

A good question.

With both Iran and now Yemen demonstrating that their missiles can hit Israel at will, and the IDF increasingly unable to recruit the soldiers necessary to make the progress required by the leadership, not to mention the Trump administration's unwillingness to back what increasingly looks like a losing situation, what options remain?

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2025-09-03

The main guests - President Putin, President Kim of North Korea, and President Modi of India.

Most eminent absentee - Donald Trump.

Entertained by President Xi.

Madame Lei guides us through the complexities of the day.

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2025-09-03

Single Currency, one size fits all - did we learn nothing from Greece? And from Cyprus before?

But the EU was not built in order to learn from its mistakes, it was built to double-down on its errors.

Until it can't, for instance on immigration and the constant imperative to attack Russia via the Ukraine, on which issues the cracks are beginning to become a bit tricky to conceal.

Now in response to such intransigence, the populations are doubling down on their preferences for "far right" insurgent political parties (ie: almost any other party that isn't an "establishment" party), and the noble leaders of yesterday and today are doubling down on their errors like there's no tomorrow - and they may be right that tomorrow they may be out on their proverbial ear.

Not of course if they can install the WEF's