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Oct 21, 2021 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Given historical and current events, will be starting this thread to post on Seapower, the oceans as our global commercial commons and most important strategic domain, and all ships, vessels, boats, etc, floating & submerged, that interest me. "Look always to your moat!" Image

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Feb 28
The situation will be monitored Image
For China: Iran supplies cheaply a significant % of PRC energy. Worries esp for Beijing that the US deeply penetrated the Iranian leadership's decision cycle & raises obvious concerns for PLA/CMC.

For Russia: any spikes in global energy markets help the Kremlin. #Realpolitik Image
"Will China invade Taiwan"?

Asked when Xi is purging his military while the leadership of his allies:
- in Iran were decapitated by the US within hours
- in Venezuela reside in a US federal prison awaiting trial
- in Russia, gleefully await increased commodity prices

Bonkers.
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Dec 22, 2025
As I explained on @SkyNewsAust with @jaynieseal the only appropriate response to the Bondi massacre is a Commonwealth Royal Commission examining all causal aspects, from Anti-Semitism to AFP/intelligence & security failures, given Daesh terrorists had foreign jihadi ties
It is simply ridiculous - and a recipe for torpor and inevitable procedural delays - to attempt to have a State Royal Commission that is seeking to review the activities of Federal departments and agences such as the AFP, Border Force, Home Affairs, and intelligence service
The internal Richardson review can be as above board and arms length as ideally possible - and yet it will still look like Canberra's "usual suspects" marking their own homework after what was a murderous terrorist attack in Bondi
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Sep 28, 2025
Perhaps it is sympathy with Roman Law systems but I have no issue with national ID cards. The problem that first world countries have though is that they cannot speedily deport people who have no entitlement to remain. Eventually, visa issuance will have to be further restricted.
I tire of libertarian arguments about national ID cards - identity fraud is costly & rampant & the State knows a lot about you as it is & if anything combining that data into one repository makes it easier for you to protect your privacy, such as it remains...
One of the reasons though the UK Govt like most Western Govts will not be trusted on national ID cards by a significant % of Britons is successive Govt's inability (even with Schengen optout) to secure borders, reduce immigration & remove people who have no right to be in the UK
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Jun 30, 2025
Good morning all & OTD in 1916, the Battle of the Somme commenced, in which British Empire armies would suffer approximately 20,000 KIA on this first day alone. Prime Minister HH Asquith's own son would be killed & (future PM) Harold Macmillan would be wounded in the campaign Image
At the time of the Somme, my great uncles were in the Honourable Artillery Company and the Royal Garrison Artillery. At least one older uncle had served in the Boer War as well. Hello to all the Gunners here btw, always necessary, if difficult and obsessive by nature, people. Image
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"But still a hope I kept that were we there going over, I, in the line, I should not fail, but take recover, From others’ courage, and not as coward be known" ~ Ivor Gurney, poet, soldier, Gloucestershire Regiment Image
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Jun 14, 2025
Small thread on Iran & its national security structures/history in somewhat plainish English and to correct some errors spreading in this online environment. It is intended to be informative but not exhaustive of the subject matter. Image
As anyone who has dealt with the Iranian state in any capacity esp military knows, it has many layers & (yes) satrapies that often feud & work at cross purposes … the Iranian armed forces (Artesh) operate relatively normally if persistently when ivo Iranian terroritories/seas Image
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However, the Artesh was very much the Shah's armed forces so in 1979 when Islamists took over & there was a real (or perhaps false flag) attempted Artesh coup against Khomeini's regime in early 1980 ... the distrust caused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to form/solidify Image
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Apr 16, 2025
Holy/Maundy Thursday good wishes to all:

"Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that His hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved His own in the world and He loved them to the end" (John 13:1) Image
Good morning to all on this Good Friday:

"But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5) Image
It is interesting the number of people who find Good Friday hard - the betrayal, the disloyalty, the widowed Virgin Mary watches her son’s brutal, public death, with the women of Jerusalem & only John the youngest apostle who goes to the trial & Calvary (too young to know better)
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