The year is 2026 and the combined force of Russia, China and Iran are bearing down on us.
We're doing nothing and are reliant on the USA and Israel to protect us.
Trumps attack on Iran - 2026 edition
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The year is 2026 and the combined force of Russia, China and Iran are bearing down on us.
We're doing nothing and are reliant on the USA and Israel to protect us.
Surprised they didn’t come up with that before
Just another variation on a choke point.
There have been proposals for building a suez-type canal across Oman, but that would still be a choke point, so we'd still be over a barrel.
Just a barrel in another location.
Renewables....
Apparently It would only be around $200 billion or so, which the US has already spent on the war. Then again it would cost money to travel through it, and would be slower, so all in all it's not great economics. Also thats for a Panama canal sized option which won't even allow the large tankers to use it.Just another variation on a choke point.
There have been proposals for building a suez-type canal across Oman, but that would still be a choke point, so we'd still be over a barrel.
Just a barrel in another location.
Renewables....
If you couldn't safely and reliably get through a twelve mile or so wide strait, I doubt the cut would be any better
Do we need the kind of navy that sends (or rather fails to send) aircraft carriers to remote parts of the world? Question also whether we need a nuclear deterrent when neither Pootin or Trumpf are deploying them in their respective ventures.
Wind farms in windy rural locations and rejoin the EU. It’s been years since we had a referendum.Just another variation on a choke point.
There have been proposals for building a suez-type canal across Oman, but that would still be a choke point, so we'd still be over a barrel.
Just a barrel in another location.
Renewables....
We were very lucky in 1982. If the Argentinians had waited 6mths, Maggie and John Nott would have sold off our aircraft carriers and scrapped the amphibious landing ships. No effective task force would then have been available.
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I just did a quick check. This year we're spending as much on equipment for the nuclear deterrent program as we are on all other equipment purchases for the Army, Airforce and Navy together. Or another metric is that the nuclear deterrent costs as much as the entire British Army right now.
We waste money on fancy shiny things at the expense of doing the basics.
We waste money on fancy shiny things at the expense of doing the basics.
The fancy shiny things are intended to make the basics somewhat redundant.
Yeah, who needs aircraft when you've got an aircraft carrier!
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Good job you have no input into our defence. OMG,
Without doing any checking whatsoever, iirc the issue was technical rather than expenditure.
Akin to buying bullets that were the wrong size for the gun.
A better example might be that we have nuclear armed subs, but they're bugger all use trying to open up the straights of Hormuz. Destroyers for protection and Minesweepers would be a lot more useful.