Peace in Our Time…
“We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, have had a further meeting today and have agreed to recognize that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.
We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to ensuring the peace of Europe.”
President Donald Trump is no Neville Chamberlain, however, Obama and Biden are. There will always be a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. At the right time, war will lead to peace.
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Bullet Points:
** After every Islamist attack, we’re told, immediately and aggressively, that Islamism has nothing to do with Islam. Not because it’s true, but because admitting even partial responsibility would expose decades of elite denial, policy failure, and narrative enforcement. If your priority was public safety, you’d identify the problem, study it honestly, and adjust policy accordingly. But if your priority was protecting your own past decisions, you’d insist all Muslims are the same, no matter how many people get hurt.
** Mental Retardation – Part 2
** The Labor Department reported Friday morning that the economy lost 90,000 jobs in February and unemployment ticked up from 4.3 to 4.4%. But it’s not as cut-and-dried as it appears. The job loss numbers included a major healthcare workers’ strike, rising retirements among Baby Boomers, Trump’s cuts to federal jobs, and a positive shift in the economy away from immigrant labor. Tech and business services are also losing some jobs to AI. Despite the slowdown in hiring, productivity growth is rising.
** Where would YOU hide?
** The self-contained metallic cartridge and the trapdoor Springfield.
** In the UK. – then and now.
** Would black people like Pres. Trump more if he were black – genuinely black, not a mulatto like Barack? Could he still be married to Melania? Or would he need to hook up with a large, masculine tranny like Big Mike to be acceptable?
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The Cock Up
The Starmer administration’s handling of the Iranian crisis is being whispered about in the corridors of Whitehall as a historic “cock up” of the highest order. Despite receiving a formal request from the Americans on 11 February—a full 17 days before the offensive actually commenced—the British government appears to have spent that critical window in paralyzed indecision.
The U.S. request was not an invitation for Britain to join the initial “decapitation strikes,” but rather a plea for the Royal Navy to help shield vulnerable Gulf allies from the inevitable Iranian retaliation. Instead of stepping up to protect the 240,000 British citizens living in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the Ministry of Defence oversaw a period of baffling inaction that has left regional partners feeling utterly betrayed.
The diplomatic fallout has been described by insiders as nothing short of catastrophic, with Middle Eastern allies expressing “undiluted fury” at the lack of British support. A former minister with deep ties to Amman reports that Jordan is “fking furious,” while leaders in Kuwait and the Emirates are openly questioning whose side Britain is actually on. The Cypriots are reportedly “incandescent” after learning that military assets were actually withdrawn from their vicinity just as the threat level spiked. Only this week did it emerge that HMS Dragon would finally deploy—nearly three weeks after the initial American SOS—a timeline that military experts say is far too little and far too late to restore trust.
Strategic failures have been compounded by what veteran commanders call a total lack of foresight regarding naval positioning. The only available Astute-class submarine was permitted to continue its journey toward Australia, despite having passed through the Gulf just weeks ago when it could have been held as a vital contingency. Security officials now warn that the Trump administration is increasingly contemptuous of the UK’s “free riding”. There is a palpable fear in the MOD that the Americans, tired of London’s dithering, will simply cut Britain out of the loop entirely and strike a direct deal with Mauritius to secure the long-term use of Diego Garcia for future operations.
Inside the government, the situation is being described as “incoherent” and “unconscionable.” By allowing the United States to utilize British bases like RAF Fairford for strikes while simultaneously refusing to participate in the missions themselves, Starmer has managed to achieve the worst of both worlds. Critics say they have invited the risk of being targeted by Tehran without the benefit of having any say in the coalition’s strategic direction. One former defence chief has branded this policy “reprehensible,” arguing that Britain has effectively surrendered its seat at the table in exchange for a front-row seat to its own strategic irrelevance.
The sobering reality in Whitehall is a growing sense that the UK no longer has the capacity to shape events in the Middle East. A former Downing Street adviser noted that the “intensity of Labour’s feelings” on the conflict is now matched only by their lack of influence. Allies have stopped listening because they no longer believe Britain can—or will—deliver on its security promises. As the Trump administration continues its high-tempo campaign to dismantle the IRGC, the United Kingdom finds itself sidelined, watched with suspicion by its friends and emboldened by its enemies, all due to a fortnight of inexcusable hesitation.
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H/T WSF
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Identify the Peshmerga Military Equipment
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1 is EE-9 Cascavel (Portuguese Rattlesnake) Brazilian armoured car
2 is Type 69 (Chinese)
3 is T-54 / T-55 tank
4 is EE-11 Urutu a Brazilian amphibious armored personnel carrier
5 is M1117 armored security vehicle from USA
You’re on it today, RCC!
Quite day at home due to rain and possible floods. No real problems at home yet.
Floods and warnings for an area twice the size of Texas north of home with stock losses into 6 figures and probably will break 7 figures.
Hopefully doesn’t wreck local grain harvest. Lots of sorghum and some wheat around here.
I’m sorry to hear about that, RCC. During Pedo Joe Biden’s Regime in the USA, they would have called for higher taxes to control the weather.
They didn’t?
I’m with Paul on this. Taxes did go up to assist the weather wars.
Not high enough, obviously.
Federal Labour government (left wing) is still pushing carbon tax and other rubbish.
The new scam is the biodiversity tax (different from a Carbon Tax with the same end in mind).
Gotta hand it to them for creative ideas to confiscate our money.
They spend a lot of time thinking about it.
I spent 9 hours at the hospital Friday while my wife had a procedure. I saved the Crow creek book just for that day and read it cover to cover. It’s been a day or 500 since I have done that. Excellent read. Thanks for sharing your talent with us plebes.
X2, started the Cipher yesterday and 1/2 way in to the triple crown masterpiece of telling real history. Has crab caviar been the fair of any v.m. readers?
Crab caviar is surprisingly good.
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Thank you FHubert. I hope that your wife is OK. These things are so worrying. I’m glad that the writing was good enough for you to keep turning pages.
Started Crow Creek Expeditions. Have to discipline myself as I read before bedtime and need to keep my sleep schedule.
A time for every purpose under heaven – I remember playing that song to the kids and afterwards saying it was a very popular song. Then I asked – can you imagine anyone trying that today and getting the same popularity?
UK Cock Up – once again, the Waffling Weenies demonstrate why they can earn that title. Lots of competition though.
Music=culture.
HMS Dragon is the only vessel that the UK has that can sail in any reasonable time. Gone from a naval power to staring at their navels in less than 50 years.
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And, really, considering how much UK has been infiltrated by muslims, can we trust them? Ever again? Maybe after the upcoming Crusade by the real English people (apparently, besides the Union Jack and the Flag of St. George, various Crusader/Militant Order Battle Flags are very popular right now in England, which is very interesting in a ‘death to muslim’ way.)
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As to Mauritania, they’ve actively given the US permission to fly and fight from Diego Garcia, completely sidelining the UK. So the US entering into an agreement with Mauritania looks very much like a real thing, wouldn’t be surprised if it was announced within the next month.
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And it’s really bad, for England and St. George, when the Greek Navy has to cover their butts in the Med.
H.E.B.; navel examinations, saw a meme yesterday on Odie’s blog that went something like, ” today’s U.S. navy is not looking like it’s led any longer by men wearing dresses.”
Yes, the US and Mauritania made a deal, and the UK is off in the corner, metaphorically jerking the beef. They just look like stupid, woke, idiots. They can’t get one warship out of the harbor without canibalizing others that are also port queens (pun intended). They are not reliable allies. It’s time to end the special relationship. They don’t make anything anymore in Great Britain, and they just lost their insurance monopoly. The banking will move soon enough, and they’ll bask in the joy of being a caliphate. They don’t make steel, or textiles, or fabricate things in Old Blighty anymore. They import Muslims who each have 10 children (at state expense). That’s about it.
Greek, French, Spanish and Italian.
**the United Kingdom finds itself sidelined, watched with suspicion by its friends **
The UK today is not what it was, watched with suspicion is a good thing because the place sure looks like it’s become another Muslim conquered state.
It is, Rob.
I figured out our Great Brittan military counterparts were paper tigers during various Southern Watch missions and the second Gulf War. What was alarming was when the royal’s deployed to Afghanistan on how many US and Brit troops were assigned as overlord security.
At most, they have 10K deployable troops. Sustaining them in the field would be the job of the USGOV, so that expeditionary number is actually 0.
UK Dithering…what’d you expect from a nation that has willfully been letting in Middle Eastern locusts and who doesn’t put ice and sweetener in their tea. Better never than late.
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Whatever this offense is costing, it’s worth it to end 50 years of congressional dithering (my new favorite word for the week) to end a terror regime…besides, could be less cost than Obama’s pallets of cash.
Congressional dithering; bring it on Paul, new words and terms to address what’s really going on.
Just this past week:
Dithering 1- Refusing -as if their vapid self-important lives depended on it- to pass The SAVE ACT when 87%…EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT!…of all Americans want this done yesterday. Why would that be?
Dithering 2- Doing nothing to end a terror regime, who for 50+ years have openly stated and acted on the threat of “Death to America!”…yet spackeled-over a nuke potential here and there while constantly posturing how ‘tough guy’ they all are when by all accounts they are weaklings who can be purchased. Why would that be?
Dithering #3: Not supporting Nancy Mace in tossing Omar back to the cesspool country she supports over her Oath of Office. Why would that be?
Epstein-Clintons- Enough said…
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What appears to be dithering from our view is their intentional defiance to protect American enemies who threaten weekly to destroy us. What else could it be…
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The real question we should ask after any “Muslim” attack, crime, or atrocity is, “Yes, he has a traditionally Muslim name, the ancestry, the beard, all that. But does he follow all the dietary restrictions?” Because, as we know, if he ever ate a pork product or drank alcohol then he doesn’t count. Magically. Somehow. Them’s the rules. I didn’t make them up. In fact, I consider them highly dishonest, hypocritical, and self-serving, but them’s the rules.
X2; the rules of a 4th wife ect. The behaviors of the jihad terrorist groups in Northern Africa correlate. The atrocities from Sudan to Nigeria.
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The Ruskies sending explosives in a box of dildos, to me is stepping lower and loosing dignity. Fighting for what one believes in, hand to hand, uniform vs uniform, aerial or naval, and modern conventional war. But terror attacks are to instill fear, and not a means to win a real war. As for a clandestine operations like the pagers in Lebanon I see as a tactical op. not having civilians as the main target.
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Hopefully future humanity will not fall farther into the decadence of bio weapons such as were used on the kurds, Chlorine in Syria ect…
Agreed.
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I didn’t think those were an export item for Russia.
I have read reports that one of the signs that a jihadi is about to go all ‘allah-ka-boom’ is they hit the sauce and eat all the forbidden foods and do forbidden things that they’ve been waiting to do because allah will forgive them their going off the reservation because of their soon-to-be good jihadist works.
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It’s one of the things the watchers of potential jihadists are supposed to watch for. Eating pork, boozing it up, doing the homo-humpty dance in not one of the approved ways (if your partner is ‘asleep’ then it’s not homosexuality or something. no, seriously, they are that messed up in the head.) All signs that the watched are about to go active. Like the night-club shooter in Florida. Or all the 9-11 hijackers. But, of course, nothing is ever done about it until afterwards.
The first rule of gunfighting is to bring a gun. The second rule of gunfighting is to bring all your friends who have guns. Which explains the invitation to the Brits to just stay the hell out of the way during recent festivities. In other words, (a) they aren’t reliable friends anymore and (b) they aren’t armed.
Exactly.
As to Britain here is an example of how lost out in the farthest pasture they are…. Here is their most recent priority. Historic flags of their heritage are being considered hate tools.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15622931/Flying-Union-Jack-flag-branded-tool-hate-Governments-leaked-social-cohesion-strategy.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
They need to create a new Caliphate flag and rip the band-aid off. Consign the Union Jack to history. Change the King to Sultan Charles the Third to bring it in line.
Thinking could be a new consulting job for you…good plan…but knowing them arriving late to the game, having you on board to steer the boat is the only way it could happen in short order.
If only Monte was still around. Snark, Snark.
Once Great Britian. No checks on the “elites” when the people are disarmed.
Excactly, they’re serfs.
Britain is the model for what the left wants for America.
– Kle.
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Twenty odd years ago, I spent most of a year, on and off, working a program with some moving parts in Yorkshire. Every TDY, we stayed at a very nice pub in the countryside. At breakfast one morning, the young lady serving us described going dancing one evening with one of her friends, whose family was apparently Muslim. After the evening out, her friend’s father found out about the outing, and that our server had loaned her some clothing for the evening which was not anything approved by her father. Well, as you may imagine, there was hell to pay and her friend was strictly forbidden from associating with our server or ever going out dancing again. Our serving lady was very saddened by it all. I felt very bad for her.
For me, that was a ground-level perspective of the problems experienced by the British in this whole Multicultural invasion. Prior to that experience, I had often thought fondly of the old line from Browning: “Oh, to be in England, now that April’s there”. Of course the familiar modification is, “now that war is here”. Given the current state of the UK, I don’t know that any poet, even Browning, would feel such homesickness.
One other ‘cockup’ you didn’t mention was the dithering over Diego Garcia, not allowing any ‘offensive’ flights to takeoff or land there, the only use was for ‘defensive’ flights… yeah, right…
Yes, the entire British response across the spectrum was a cock up.
I have not been able to keep up with VM for two months due to health problems but have been reading a book “Live Ready” by Sam Rosenberg (highly recommended by yourself) . I was wondering if you would share what your opinion is of the person on the front porch of Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson. Not who he is but what he is. Also, will she ever be found and if not, why? If you have already addressed this , sorry for wasting your time.
Roy, I’m sorry for your health problems. Get well soon. Sam’s book, Live Ready, is a good one. And Sam is a very solid guy.
A masked, armed individual was captured on surveillance video tampering with cameras at Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home on or around the morning of her February 1st disappearance. The suspect, described as 5’9″ to 5’10” and wearing a ski mask and gloves, carried a black “Ozark Trail” backpack. A holstered handgun (left hand) was present.
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Timeline Controversy: While initially thought to be only from the morning of her disappearance, some, but not all, images may be from a different, earlier date.
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I don’t know what to make of the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, Roy. My best guess is that she’s in a hole in the desert. After all the bungling and media circus, my sense is that she’s too hot to handle. The kidnappers won’t collect on their anticipated payday. Kidnapping occurs in the US but most of it relates directly to other criminal activity – Asian organized crime, Mexican drug cartels, Ukrainian/Russian/Slavic crime groups and they tend to kidnap people involved in their world. I would like to review the evidence for myself but it’s not likely to be offered. My initial reaction was that a family member was involved in it directly or indirectly. Because why her?