XPost: alt.politics.uk, alt.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/26/middle-east-in-turmoil-navy-is-abandoning-it/
Five plumes of white spray shot into the air with all the
force of volcanic eruptions and the red cargo ship sank
helplessly beneath the waves.
This was how explosive charges laid by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
sent a freighter called Magic Seas to the bottom of the Red
Sea, as shown in chilling footage released by the Iranian-
backed group. Three days later, on July 9, the Houthis sank
another passing vessel, Eternity C, with a fusillade of
rocket-propelled grenades.
These were only the latest attacks in a campaign against
commercial shipping that escalated after the onset of the
war in Gaza and has now forced a 60 per cent reduction in
transits through the Red Sea.
The Royal Navy used to keep ships on station to deter exactly
this kind of assault on vital trade routes and the principle
of free navigation.
Yet Britain is about to withdraw its last frigate from the
Middle East, leaving the region without a major Royal Navy
warship for the first time in 45 years and possibly since
the mid-19th century.
. . .
The Royal Navy - like the UK - is BROKE.
Decades of idiot pols, decades of idiots
writing 'socialist' budgets and flooding
the country with hostile aliens, decades
of idiot voters SUPPORTING it all ... the
UK is kinda DONE for all practical purposes.
They get what they voted for - impossible
illusions. As ye sow ......
Even under 100 years ago the UK was still a
FORCE in the world. Now ... everybody's
butt-boy. All pomp, nothing else.
Just let Vlad and Iran have it - get what
it deserves. 200 years or so MAYbe they'll
recognize where they went so wrong, maybe.
Face Mecca and BOW Britishers ... or ELSE.
Heh heh ... just Tax The Rich ... "Free"
Everything ... but now there ain't no Rich
no more. Better screw the pensioners and
lower-classes for extra cash eh ? Sorry,
nothing left THERE either ....
See where the paradigm FAILS ???
Doubt it.
Hmmmm ... many of the old Monty skits revolved
around a seemingly sane/solid idea that had
just some TINY, fatal, flaw the ran off into
insanity. Alas that's REALLY HAPPENED.
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