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Military analyst, economist, historian, enemy of dictators everywhere. Advisor to governments. ‘Devils Advocate Services’. 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 AVAILABLE ON: TheMilitaryAnalyst.com Originated on Telegram: https://t.me/militarystrategyanalysis

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 2d

The situation in Russia is changing and I believe the war is now lost. They must now be convinced they've been defeated, and bring it to an end.

SOMETHING IS CHANGING AND RUSSIA IS LOSING

The situation in Russia is changing and I believe the war is now lost. They must now be convinced they've been defeated, and bring it to an end.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 13h

Long day ahead for father’s funeral so I’ll be back tomorrow.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 13h

They really don’t fit the Hegseth Purity Standards do they!

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Sounded like a mildly watered down Trump speech with a hint of Goebbels and touch of Farage’s Fascism.

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

The EU is sympathetic but its hands are tied - and it only takes a majority vote to impose tariffs, not unanimity.
Yet another cost added to the price of this stupid Brexit argument.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

product into a world where Trumps tariff wars have compromised everything.
We need quality steel for the ship building and arms manufacturing industries but they don’t need anything like the amount that’s being produced. It makes the whole steel industry unviable and dooms it to destruction.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

50% tariff, rendering it beyond uncompetitive. Just when we need quality UK steel and so does Europe, what remains of our steel industry is basically about to be crushed by tariffs.
Having fought off a Chinese attempt to undermine and shut the plants, it now faces oblivion because it can’t sell its

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

steel of which there is a huge glut, largely caused by chronic Chinese over production designed to flatten the market and give it predominance for good, is now being dumped in the EU. To protect their steel industries all non-EU steel - and that includes the UK thanks to Nigel, is being put under a

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

STEEL MAKING IN UK FACES DISASTER AND ITS TRUMPS FAULT

78% of British Steel is exported to the EU and already gets a 25% tariff - one of the benefits of Nigel Farage’s Brexit, as before there were no tariffs.
Trump has placed such massive tariffs on steel imports into the US that cheaper Asian

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

doesn’t fit with McLarens aims and I suspect the promises they’ve made to Lando over the years.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it matters. This is F-1 all over - how many slighted drivers have their been in championship races like this over the years? Big egos big prizes.
Why are we surprised that Lando gets the favouritism? It’s been obvious from day one.
Piastri is a victim of his own success and it just

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts exactly!

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

strings attached to the whims of Washington, I’d rather go without.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

be burdened with them, never knowing if you should or should not have used one because of the whims of Trump is no way to fight a war.
Build the Flamingo with its massive warhead and speed and cut down those refineries and power plants, drone factories and weapons depots.
If the Tomahawk comes with

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

too slow and modern anti-missile systems in simulated attacks make it largely ineffective. But against land targets with little in the way of defences they’re still a huge threat. And they’re very accurate. If the Ukrainians don’t have free rein to use them as they see fit then I would rather not

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

a large batch of missiles, tactical launchers and control systems which it’s been implied could be supplied to Ukraine under the PURL program, where the NATO allies buy things for Ukraine from the US.
Tomahawks are useful weapons. Personally I doubt the efficacy of the naval attack version, it’s

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

‘I’m thinking about it, but I sort of want to know what they’re going to do with them, use them for first’, has opened up the possibility they will be supplied when that was largely ruled out just a week ago. So
He hasn’t said yes or no.
Meanwhile it seems the Netherlands government has requested

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

THE TOMAHAWK CONUNDRUM

If any suggestion has got Putin vexed to the point of making extreme comments this is it.
His position is that if the US sells Tomahawks to Ukraine then ‘it will destroy relations with Russia’.
Nit that they’re especially strong right now.
Trump’s statement when asked, that

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is just another Putin stooge, and the conservatives are blindly following him down a bark alley

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Is that Delusius Maximus, Emperor of Lies again?

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Very witty

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

That’s very good.

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

Takes up to 20 years to manifest so needs to be something more short term!

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

ITS PUTINS 73rd BIRTHDAY
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE HIM?

imaginative and witty comments preferred …..

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

clearly as truth.
Discernment and the ability to parse these fake stories requires education and questioning - and there’s not a lot of that going on in the US or European education systems. It will require multi-year revisions to education policy to get anywhere in helping the public understand.

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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 1d

want us to see. And sadly there are too many useful idiots who will multiply the lies and the deceit because they have nothing else to do. Even when fact checked and publicly denounced as a fake or lie, even that can be seen by some as the reverse - an effort to discredit what they see even more

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