#greatpower — Public Fediverse posts
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The #RoyalNavy has 6 Type-45 destroyers, ½ of the originally-planned 12. Design+build cost £6.5 billion at 2009 prices. Running costs more billions.
As the #USA & #Israel started a war on #Iran, the UK had only one ship available, the #Type45 #HMSDragon, sent to Cyprus.
Only 6 weeks later, it broke: https://archive.is/u5qjt
Billions blown on a fake #blueWater navy, as the #UK cosplays a #GreatPower. The #BritishEmpire ended >50 years ago.
Grow up Brits! Sell the ships, stop the waste.
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Time for #ASEAN to stand up in the #SouthChinaSea
"As #Philippines faces #PRC #transgressions against its mission to resupply soldiers st'ned in 2nd Thomas Shoal, stmts of support & concern hv come fr c'tries incl'g Japan, USA, Aust, S Korea & Sweden. But ASEAN has been conspicuously silent.. PRC #violated ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity & Coop'n in SE Asia .. inaction w significantly harm its credibility in managing #regionalsecurity issues, esp'ly those involving a #greatpower"
https://eastasiaforum.org/2024/04/27/time-for-asean-to-stand-up-in-the-south-china-sea/