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The UK Doesn't Have Two Pence to Rub Together and That's Okay With Labour
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/15/the-uk-doe…wo-pence-to-rub-together-and-thats-okay-with-labour-n3816995
–  I've spent a fair amount of space cataloging the demise of the once proud and mighty British Navy, the pathetic state of the … British economy, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer's mewling efforts to return his country to the control and oversight of the unelected … Miliband has been mandating and imposing the fever-dream net-zero goals of decades past on the green-energy-decimated reality of the British
Germany's Defense Ramp Up Just Can't Seem to Get Out of Its Own Way
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/24/germanys-d…se-ramp-up-just-cant-seem-to-get-out-of-its-own-way-n3816306
– Of course, it won't be able to do what they need, but, hello - it's been six years....The German navy operates 10 frigates, though … “The delays in getting this sorted and actually building some frigates mean that the German navy is going to have some capability gaps … over the next few years, which is not a good time for that to happen,” said Emma Salisbury of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre.The…
Channel Chumps: Putin's Pirates Point Potshots at Pleasure Boating Pensioners
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/17/channel-ch…rates-point-potshots-at-pleasure-boating-pensioners-n3816051
Navy to intercept these tankers. … As British defense analyst Michael Clark said, its presence is in order to 'frighten off the British and rightfully so.' … The British-flagged yacht then immediately changed course and continued moving away from the Russian warship."…
It Sounds as If There's a Turnaround in Military Food Service in the Works
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/19/it-sounds…a-turnaround-in-military-food-service-in-the-works-n3816131
– Chef Irvine spent ten years as a cook in the British Navy, most of it aboard the royal yacht HMS Britannia, and has never lost his…
The British Version of 'Down Periscope' Is a Real Joke
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/06/09/the-british-version-of-down-periscope-is-a-real-joke-n3815778
– he'd saddled Lt Commander Dodge with, the Stingray triumphs in the end.Oh, it's a gut-busting, underdog, feel-good movie.If only British … The British Navy is a joke now - a sick, sick joke. … One that becomes desperately unfunny the second someone actually really needs the British Navy to have a boat in the water.Not a happy…
Keir Starmer Should Have Looked in the Harbor Before Signing Those Ukraine Loan Papers
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/05/keir-starm…the-harbor-before-signing-those-ukraine-loan-papers-n3814618
– “That is not a navy for a maritime nation, that’s a joke.”Times Radio’s @afneil condemns the state of the modern British navy. pic.twitter.com … Navy cannot even keep one ship at sea. pic.twitter.com/kScUeaEXKL— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) April 8, 2026The Royal Navy now … (Mark Felton's 12-minute documentary is here)The British Royal Navy now has more Admirals than Warships.The Navy that struggled to…
The Long Knives Are Out for Starmer and the Fool Is Still Sharpening Them Himself
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/04/the-long-k…armer-and-the-fool-is-still-sharpening-them-himself-n3814569
– The British Prime Minister has been told by the Empress of Europe, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that he doesn't get … To force us back into the EU orbit, Starmer is preparing to hand Brussels £1 billion of British taxpayer money every single year.— … David Shaw (@David90shaw) May 4, 2026Keir Starmer, who is notorious for deals where he winds up paying to give British sovereignty…
Happy St George's Day From the British Prime Minister Who Can't Bring Himself to Say 'England'
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/23/happy-st-g…rime-minister-who-cant-bring-himself-to-say-england-n3814223
– Peter 'Prince of Darkness' Mandelson/Starmer melodramatic scandal playing out live on the BBC and in the screaming headlines of the British … England’s own national day, the Prime Minister is openly condemning ordinary patriots.This man truly… pic.twitter.com/Rb4FS1JcbP— British … Their navy was so feared that Barbary pirates turned home at the sight of it.In 1190, Richard the Lionheart signed a treaty.…
'You and What Navy?' French Presidential Poof de Crème Plans to Cut Trump Out of Hormuz Patrols
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/17/you-and-wh…f-de-creme-plans-to-cut-trump-out-of-hormuz-patrols-n3814020
– JoshYoung) April 17, 2026Captain Stubing and The Love Boat would not be denied, nor were they willing to wait on the French and British … the country that's done all of the work, while ridding the world of the Iranian nuclear threat, and actually sending the mullahs' navy … Iran is over.The two leaders are piecing together a coalition of mostly European countries in a similar alliance to the French and British-led…
Starmer's Deserted Islands - Britain Despises Him, Chagos Blows Up and Now Argentina Wants the Falklands
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/08/starmers-d…agos-blows-up-and-now-argentina-wants-the-falklands-n3813699
– This is almost too comical to be true - like a Monty Python skit or one of the wickedly clever old pieces from the grand days of British … -British airbase at Ascension Island. … These, however, were most probably British missiles; the U.S.…
Albanese Defines What It Means to Be a Waussie
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/17/albanese-defines-what-it-means-to-be-a-waussie-n3812966
– thumbs-up to acquire its own Virginia-class nuclear submarines....After working through the details and in close concert with the BritishNavy, officials have said.This was a very big deal with a very old and close ally.From Operation Potshot (our son was stationed at … …Biden outlined steps in the “Optimal Pathway,” beginning with Phase 1, which involves American and British submarines visiting ports…
British and Spanish Are Giving Waffles a Bad Name
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/05/british-and-spanish-are-giving-waffles-a-bad-name-n3812552
– nerves pretty severely, as those are British bases hosted on foreign soil, and the British have done nothing to protect them.Hadn't … The country’s high commissioner to the UK Kyriacos Kouros said a forceful defence of his island – home to two British bases – was the … Incredible.— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 4, 2026There's now a simple truth to British national security in its present state.…
EU Tales: Ignoring Their Surly Spanish Neighbors, Portugal Offers the Azores If US Needs Them
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/03/eu-tales-i…ighbors-portugal-offers-the-azores-if-us-needs-them-n3812479
– They have this down to a science.The British weren't much better, from doing an MC Hammer 'Can't Touch This!' …  rushed assets to protect the British base.Greece is defending Cyprus, while @Keir_Starmer sits at home with his thumb up his … the eastern Mediterranean after RAF Akrotiri was struck by a drone which pierced its air defences on Sunday night.The Royal Navy
Like a Rock: Starmer Sold Out Gibraltar, Too
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/27/like-a-rock-starmer-sold-out-gibralter-too-n3812375
– the European Union in as many ways as possible.His squinty little eyes behind those coke-bottle lenses had, sadly, fixed on the British … travelers simply wanting to visit a British colony as they traditionally had and who, frankly, have no love for the Spanish in any … Formerly visa-free British travelers to a British territory would now be treated as foreigners in the dreaded EU Schengen Zone for…
Meloni Is No Chicken of the Sea - Italian Navy to Stop Migrant Boats
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/02/12/meloni-is…icken-of-the-sea-italian-navy-to-stop-migrant-boats-n3811837
– I've watched at least 4 videos now from Dominic Cummings who states, quite clearly, that we cannot use the Navy to stop the boats without … rubber rafts set out from France, and the only thing that ever stops them is the occasional bad weather flare-ups in the Channel or British
Two* Fellows Went All Stabby on a British Train Yesterday UPDATE
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/11/02/two-fellows-went-all-stabby-on-a-british-train-yesterday-n3808483
– He had been what the British call a 'binman' - our garbage man or city sanitation worker who handled everything from trash to your … panicked passengers fleeing down the empty station platform for their lives, while the attacker - now identified as a 32-year-old British … driver who quickly diverted the train to Huntingdon to save lives last night identified as Andrew Johnson.He served in the Royal Navy
That AWS Outage Was a Big Pain in the Neck
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/10/21/that-aws-outage-was-a-big-pain-in-the-neck-n3808063
– The disruption was on Navy Federal's end, courtesy of AWS. … Although, as Katie Hopkins points out, since the British seem to be intent on tying your 'carbon footprint' - established by the amount…
When You Poll Pot Studies, Who's Blowing Smoke?
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/12/13/when-you-poll-pot-studies-whos-blowing-smoke-n3797858
– to land onboard the USS Nimitz and, horrifyingly, killed 14 sailors.The autopsies of the dead were a rude wake-up call.The Navy … said.The Navy reported to the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, which is conducting a hearing to determine … There's an interesting snippet from a British NHS doctor who runs a cannabis psychosis clinic (!)…
What Lord Nelson, Sir Francis Drake, Cromwell, and a Telegraph UK Reporter Have in Common
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/26/what-lord…cromwell-and-a-telegraph-uk-reporter-have-in-common-n3800221
– bit of a break, and then, just when I think I'm going to get one - BOOM.They do something so appallingly awful, something so anti-British … for the disgusting quislings they are.Ebola* had already been on a tear yesterday, sending me the latest extortion note from the British … using modern standards.Horatio Nelson towers over the pantheon of British heroes, and even his nemesis Napoleon kept a bust of the…
I'm Gonna Harp on European Defense Posturing a Little More
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/13/im-gonna-harp-on-european-defense-postruring-a-little-more-n3800739
– Sir Keir Starmer, immediately rushed into the breach. offering billions in aid for the Ukrainian effort, including an offer of BritishNavy, at the beginning of the year, had so few sailors that it had to decommission two ships just to put enough bodies on new … boats.The Royal Navy has so few sailors that it has to decommission two warships to staff its new class of frigates, The Telegraph…
Starmer's October Surprise Chagos Give Away - Stumped by Trump's Triumph - Exploding on Him
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/01/10/starmers-o…ive-away-stumped-by-trumps-triumph-exploding-on-him-n3798668
– Mauritius in a historic move.This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy … mainland (India), Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago.Originally discovered by the French in 1790, the British … , would represent a low point in the history of British foreign policy.But, man, it seems this Mauritian prime minister has Starmer's…
The Invasion of England Continues Unabated
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/21/the-invasion-of-england-continues-unabated-n3801982
– At the moment, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's attention is focused on wrestling with his courage in an effort to burp up … I've long argued that we need to put the Royal Navy in the English Channel.' … Well, the British Navy, such as it is, is busy with Houthis.Keir Starmer and Labour seem to have lots of other priorities at the moment…
Department of Doom and Dumber: DoD tripping all over themselves lately BREAKING: WH calls up reserve troops for Europe
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/07/13/department…m-and-dumber-dod-tripping-all-over-themselves-lately-n564408
– The Defense Department’s plan to cut 12,801 medical positions from the DoD, Army, Navy and Air Force was built on inadequate assessments … administration rule aimed at reducing carbon emissions would give approval authority over large U.S. defense contracts to a little-known British
No Time Like the Present for the UK to Give Away *gulp* Diego Garcia...UPDATE
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/10/03/no-time-li…e-present-for-the-uk-to-give-away-gulp-diego-garcia-n3795360
– When illegal immigrants riot in England, it's the British with flags who are berated for their unwelcoming behavior and locked away.His … Mauritius in a historic move.This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy
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