WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv’s ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow’s invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials.
NO DETERENT
What do average Brits THINK about the Flyover and Red Carpet President Trump gave ‘Killer Putin’? Because I am authoring three James Bond novels – and then some – do I get to wonders about this? How about…..What would Bond – do?
I read in the news yesterday that Target is being boycotted – and is losing millions of dollars! The U.S. and Briton will spend close to a TRILLION DOLLARS on their Armed Forces – that failed to make a dent in Putin’s resolve to CONQUER UKRAINE! What if a NATO Nation rolled out ten ICBM missiles and pointed them at Moscow, and a General and his President, step forward and say this;
“Get the fuck our of Ukraine, or, we will NUKE YOUR ASS!”
Instead, we are hearing American Golf Fans shouting
“U.S.A! U.S.A.!” in order to spoil the shots of foreign golf players!
Note how the Loyal Fan Dudes look alike. Are they Donald Trump Fans? How about Iraqi War Vets?The President of the United States plays allot of golf
Above is a pic of the war plane Ian Easton was flhying when he was shot down and taken prisoner. I am still impressed that Rena Easton married a War Hero. I was not impressed when she gave a shout out to
U.S.A. COWBOYS….who may boycott Jeff Bezos’ James Bond movie if they don’t see allot of FIST PUMPING and HE-HAWING. Redneck Neo-Confederates should not feel like losers just because the South lost the war. How much did that war cost the United States of America? Why should the American Taxpayers pay for U.S.A. missiles – that will not be sued to DEFEND our NATO ALLIES?
Jon Rosamond has retired. I pick up the gauntlet. Why should NATO NATIONS spend billions on the Military that have failed to impress Putin – who the GRUNTHEADS with flags have to ADMIRE?
WHY?
Did Putin give a WARNING to his Peace Buddy, that when you take a TRILLION DOLLARS from the poor, you best send troops into The Poor Cities to put down a revolt? Funny how our Golf Playboy sent armed troops into major cities – right after Joy Boy Donald gave a MUDERER a flyover!
HEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAW!
I’m going to go watch the last round of a golf tournament, and endure SHITHEADS WITH BIG MOUTHS – who Putin – MOCKS!
John Presco
NO DETERENT
Target is reeling as sales have stalled and its stock price has plunged. The company faced backlash after a rollback of its DEI initiatives prompted a boycott that slowed store traffic nationwide, one of the factors that pushed CEO Brian Cornell to step down. Now, Target is scrambling to reset its image. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Pastor Jamal Bryant, who spearheaded the Target boycott.
In October this year, the U.S. Navy awarded Electric Boat $84 million to start CMC missile tube manufacturing: 12 for the Successor lead ship, four for the Ohio replacement program and one for the Strategic Weapons System-Ashore test facility at Cape Canaveral.
Meanwhile Rolls-Royce is developing the RN’s third-generation pressurized water reactor (PWR3) with technological support from the United States, under the terms of a 1958 intergovernmental agreement to share atomic energy technology for defense purposes. The PWR3 design has benefitted in particular from lessons learned with the S9G reactor that powers the Virginia-class hunter-killers.
Compared with the Vanguards’ PWR2 system, the PWR3 has a simpler circulation design and should be easier to operate. According to Rolls-Royce, it promises a “huge improvement in terms of safety, integrity and availability, while at the same time reducing the through-life costs.”
Meanwhile, the U.K. is also participating in the U.S.-led Trident missile life-extension program, which will keep the D5 ballistic vehicle—capable of delivering up to 12 independently targetable warheads—in service into the 2040s.
Jon Rosamond
Jon Rosamond is a London-based freelance defense journalist specializing in the naval and maritime security arenas, having previously edited Jane’s Navy International and served as defense correspondent on The News in Portsmouth, England, home of the Royal Navy.
Gen Sir Patrick, who retired from the military last year, cautioned that the Army is currently too small to survive more than the first few months of such a war.
And he added that he did not know how many more “signals” ministers needed to realise it must strengthen the nation’s defences.
However, the public are increasingly sceptical that a peace deal will come to pass – only 35% now think it is likely that the US and Russia will agree a deal between themselves in the next few months for an end to the war (regardless of whether Ukraine accepts). This figure is significantly reduced from the 55% who thought such an outcome was probable in February of this year, shortly ahead of US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia.
Admiral Sir Ian Easton, KCB, DSC (27 November 1917 – 14 June 1989) was a Royal Navy officer who held various command positions in the 1970s.
Naval career
Easton joined the Royal Navy in 1931 and qualified as a pilot at the start of the Second World War, during which he saw active service on aircraft carriers.[3] On 4 January 1941, flying a Fairey Fulmar of 803 Naval Air Squadron from HMS Formidable during a raid on Dakar, he force landed with his aircrewman Naval Airman James Burkey and was taken prisoner and held by the Vichy French at a camp near Timbuktu, until released in November 1942.[4]
Easton was appointed Assistant Director of the Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1960. He was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy as captain of HMAS Watson in 1962.[3] He went on to be Naval Assistant to the Naval Member of the Templer Committee on Rationalisation of Air Power in 1965, Director of Naval Tactical and Weapons Policy Division at the Admiralty in 1966 and Captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Triumph in 1968.[3] After that he was made Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy) in 1969, Flag Officer for the Admiralty Interview Board in 1971 and Head of British Defence Staff and Senior Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. in 1973.[3] He last posting was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1976: he commissioned armourial bearings for the college which were presented during a visit by the Queen in November 1977.[5] He retired in March 1978.[6]
The UK is projected to spend approximately £57 billion on defence in 2024/25 and £60 billion in 2025/26. The UK currently meets the NATO guideline of spending 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence, with plans to increase this to 2.5% by 2027 and a further ambition to reach 3% by 2034, or within the next decade.
The United States’ military spending is substantial and has seen increases in recent years, with projections and actual figures often exceeding $800 billion annually. For Fiscal Year 2023, the U.S. spent approximately $820 billion on national defense, which accounted for about 13% of the federal budget. This spending covers various aspects, including personnel, equipment, research and development, and the operation of military efforts.
The last James Bond movie, No Time to Die, made $774.2 million worldwide at the box office, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2021. The film, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, was released in 2021 after several delays and earned this total despite pandemic-related restrictions.
The Doomed Ghost Fleet
Posted on April 3, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have seen signs in heaven and upon the sea. We are doomed. The Ghost Fleet sailed at midnight. This is from a post I made in 2018.
“I believe Admiral Ian Easton, and Sea Lord, Caspar John, have been sending Lara and I messages.
“Raise the Royal Ghost Fleet!”
Just before Victoria Bond awoke from her naval dream, she heard a woman’s voice come to her like the wind from over the horizon.
“Save Albion from her enemies, Britannia!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2018
What about Capt Crozier’s letter?
He had warned the Pentagon that the outbreak aboard his ship was “accelerating” because crew members were living in confined spaces.
“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,” stated the four-page letter, dated 30 March.
Capt Crozier had called for “decisive action”, saying uninfected sailors had to be removed from the ship and isolated.
The letter was later published by the San Francisco Chronicle.
What has the reaction been?
In a statement, Democratic leaders of the House Armed Services Committee said: “While Captain Crozier clearly went outside the chain of command, his dismissal at this critical moment… is a destabilising move that will likely put our service members at greater risk and jeopardise our fleet’s readiness.”
“Throwing the commanding officer overboard without a thorough
investigation is not going to solve the growing crisis aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.”
WASHINGTON — The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt has requested permission to remove most of the aircraft carrier’s crew from the ship and isolate roughly 4,000 sailors to help curtail a coronavirus outbreak aboard the vessel.
Capt. Brett Crozier wrote in an unaddressed letter Monday to Navy leadership that the ship’s environment is “most conducive to spread of the disease” with open shared sleeping areas, shared restrooms and workspaces, and confined passageways to move through on the ship. He wrote the Roosevelt’s crew is unable to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or Navy procedures to protect the health of sailors through individual isolation on the ship for 14 or more days.
“Due to a warship’s inherent limitations of space, we are not doing this. The spread of the disease is ongoing and accelerating,” Crozier wrote.
Albion (Ancient Greek: Ἀλβιών) is the oldest known name of the island of Great Britain. Today, it is still sometimes used poetically to refer to the island. The name for Scotland in the Celtic languages is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain (genitive Alban) in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland.
New Albion and Albionoria (“Albion of the North”) were briefly suggested as names of Canada during the period of the Canadian Confederation.[1][2] Arthur Phillip, first leader of the colonisation of Australia, originally named Sydney Cove “New Albion”, but later the colony acquired the name “Sydney“.[3][4][5]
It was during the reign of Elizabeth I that “Britannia” came to be viewed as a personification of Britain. In his 1576 General and rare memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, John Dee used a frontispiece figure of Britannia kneeling by the shore beseeching Elizabeth I, to protect her empire by strengthening her navy.[10]
With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, James VI, King of Scots, to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the dominion of Wales), Ireland and Scotland. On 20 October 1604, James VI and I proclaimed himself as “King of Great Brittaine, France and Ireland”, a title that continued to be used by many of his successors.[11] When James came to the English throne, some elaborate pageants were staged. One pageant performed on the streets of London in 1605 was described in Anthony Munday‘s Triumphs of Reunited Britannia:
Britannia has been used in several different senses. The name is a Latinisation of the native Brittonic word for the island, Pretanī, which also produced the Greek form Prettanike or Brettaniai, which originally, in the fourth to the first centuries BC, designated a collection of islands with individual names, including Albion or Britain.
The Creative Royal Fleet Sets Sail
Posted on April 16, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
Here are the vessels that Sir Caspar John served upon. He was born into a artistic family. I would like see the College of Defence Studies founded by the Artist, Sir Winston Churchill, expanded to include Creative People in Britain and the U.S. As a rule artists, writers, and musicians do not take slaves, gas people, and loot other people’s art. Hitler did all three. He was a bad artist who cost the world many lives, and a trillion dollars to put him down. We took back the art he stole and put it in sacred public places. I support Theresa May’s strike against Assad, who gassed his own people.
Below are the warships that Sir Ian Easton served on.
Jon Presco
China’s interpretation of the law of the sea within what it claims to be its own waters has long clashed with that of maritime powers and the majority of members of the international community. The United States regularly asserts maritime rights and freedoms under its “freedom of navigation” program, much to Beijing’s chagrin.
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