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Day eleven cont: 🌊 🐬⚓️

“we’re watching the world being burned down by powerful men – we just didn’t know they would be such #losers”.

There are millions of us across this country right now who do not want #Australia to go down the #USA route. Who want to detach ourselves from Donald Trump 🎃 and to look after us in this country” — #AdamBandt

#AusPol / #Greens / #economics / #Defence / #RAN / #Dolphin / #Submarine / f #AUKUS / #straya / #merica <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/apr/09/australia-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-labor-coalition-greens-adam-bandt-debate-gas-prices-cost-of-living-economy-tariffsntwnfb?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-67f5e5098f08165382e331f2#block-67f5e5098f08165382e331f2>


Trump is going to sink his defence industry as well as the country

The United States can block Germany from using its fleet of F-35 combat jets at any time. The Pentagon is said to have insisted on reserving the right to stop sorties under “exceptional and urgent circumstances, when it is required by the US national interest”. It has also refused to allow German officials to inspect the computer code that controls the aircraft.

http://archive.today/2025.03.20-185126/https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/us-fighter-jets-f35-switch-off-hvl8df2tg (archive)
#Trump #DontBuyAmarican #Defence
Photo an F35 fighter


hegseth just killed, among other things, "$9 million to create 'equitable' artificial intelligence."

"'I need lethal machine learning models, not equitable machine learning models,' Hegseth said."

You f-ing noob, lethality without clarity on what you're killing is worse than useless, you tool.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5206516-pentagon-cancels-wasteful-spending/

#USpol #hegseth #defense #defence #AutonomousWeapons #ai


Another Brexit dividend... The EU will exclude UK arms manufacturers from its €150bn rearmament fund unless the UK signs a security & defence pact with the EU.... negotiations on which have stalled due to the continuing tensions between the EU & UK on fishing & youth mobility.

So, looks like for now the only increase in defence spending that will be spent in the UK is out own...

But, hey those Europeans, eh? Glad to see the back of them.... /s

#Brexit #defence #security #politics


And the English media complain about Ferries! At least we need the ferries, those aircraft carriers, especially given the US behaviour are a waste of ocean.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/tanks-warships-uk-defence-billions-waste

#UkPolitics #UkMedia #Spending #Defence #Scotland


“How is Starmer's Labour so far to the economic right of Germany's incoming right-wing Chancellor?”

by Another Angry Voice on Substack

@UKLabour

“It’s quite extraordinary that the Labour Party in the UK is operating far to the economic right of Germany’s incoming right-wing government, led by probably the most right-wing figure ever to lead the CDU”

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/how-is-starmers-labour-so-far-to?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Reeves #FarRight #Economy #Germant #Merz #Infrastructure #investment #Defence #Poor


If, as I keep saying, we're on the road to Military Keynsianism, then one of the likely immediate 'winners' will be BAE Systems, the UK defence manufacturer & largest non-US defence from in the world... and already you can see that ramping up of business taking place.

#Defence #BAESystems #Militray Keynsianism

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/19/bae-systems-reports-record-orders-as-european-defence-spending-rises


Just because it seems relevant; here's a graphic from Visual Capitalist of world-wide defence budgets... you might be interested or you might not....

I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions about what this might all mean.

#defence
Chart: The World's 15 Largest defence budgets in 2024
US - $968bn
China - $235bn
Russia - $146bn
Germany - $86bn
UK - $86bn
India - $74bn
Suadi Arabia - $72bn
France - $64bn
Japan - $53bn
South Korea - $44bn
Australia - $36bn
Italy - $35bn
Israel - $34bn
Ukraine - $28bn
Poland - $26bn


“UK Taxpayers’ Cash Is Funding an Arms Firm Whose Biggest Shareholder Is Now Bankrolling Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”

by Anna Orwin Algeo and Iain Overton in Byline Times @BylineTimes @UKLabour

“The UK Government’s big increase in defence spending will likely hugely benefit [Far Right] Reform UK’s biggest donor”

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/28/uk-taxpayers-cash-is-funding-an-arms-firm-whose-biggest-shareholder-is-now-bankrolling-nigel-farages-reform-uk/?mc_cid=7a319253b4&mc_eid=a2ef54182e

#Press #UK #Labour #Defence #Spending #Qinetiq #Farage #Reform #Donor #Harborne #MOD #AOAV #CAAT


#DeclassifiedUK | The mainstream media are beating the drums of war

"Using the Nexis database to search for coverage of increased defence spending (interestingly, there are significantly more stories on “defence spending” than on “military spending”), we found a 2700% rise in stories across the UK media from 17 February 2020 to 17 February 2025:"

https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-mainstream-media-are-beating-the-drums-of-war/

#Defence #DefenceBudget #UK #Starmer #Media


Russia Eyes Libya To Replace Syria As Africa Launchpad https://www.byteseu.com/641355/ #defence #Diplomacy #Libya #Russia #SYND #Syria
EU 'Strongly Condemns' Attack At Turkey Defence Firm


Elbit Systems awarded $60 million contract to supply CUAS to NATO European country https://www.byteseu.com/628878/ #CounterUAS #defence #ElbitSystems #Europe #Israel #NATO #ReDrone
Elbit Systems awarded $60 million contract to supply CUAS to NATO European country