The #RoyalNavy has 6 Type-45 destroyers, ½ of the originally-planned 12. Design+build cost £6.5 billion at 2009 prices. Running costs more billions.
As the #USA & #Israel started a war on #Iran, the UK had only one ship available, the #Type45 #HMSDragon, sent to Cyprus.
Only 6 weeks later, it broke: https://archive.is/u5qjt
Billions blown on a fake #blueWater navy, as the #UK cosplays a #GreatPower. The #BritishEmpire ended >50 years ago.
Grow up Brits! Sell the ships, stop the waste.
Of possible interest for some.
> 6 Books That Tell The Version Of History You Were Never Taught https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/books/6-books-that-tell-the-version-of-history-you-were-never-taught-article-154018036
#books #reading #history #imperialism #colonialism #BritishEmpire #AmericanEmpire #Bookstodon
History often feels settled until you encounter voices left out of the record. These books revisit familiar events with sharper detail and overlooked perspectives, revealing how power shapes what is remembered. They offer a deeper, more complex understanding of the past that challenges what many of us were taught.
Thoughtful. The insistence of western powers on an eastern Mediterranean colony ruled by Likkud and the right appears to reflect early 20th C imperial fantasies and disrespect for human rights of the people living there, even including Immigrants lured from difficult and discouraging western countries. It’s time to revive the priorities of human rights protections in world diplomacy.
#Lebanon #Shia #Israel #Palestine #USA #BritishEmpire
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/israel-latest-genocide-shia-lebanon?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios
Anglo-Egyptian cavalryman and mount (camel), 1900-1920
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1952887/anglo-egyptian-cavalryman-and-mount-camel-1900-1920
Relations with Britain have improved again since Brexit, but battles over Irish history remain visible in Stormont’s endless feuding, says Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent
"The Continental Congress expects your abdication by morning."
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Opinion | The Guardian US
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