The Masters is fun to watch, but it’s nothing like wartime golf in WW2⛳️

'As he left his landing craft he was hit by a machine gun bullet but managed to reach the beach defences where he collapsed. His Sgt ran to help him, but Wellesley-Colley was already dying, and his last words were ‘Sorry Sgt, tell the chaps I won't make it.’

He was 25 years old

Moscow is outspending Ukraine and its allies.

Foreign Secretary David Cameron was in Washington this week to make it clear: Ukraine can win, but we must increase our support to defeat Putin’s war machine.

Losing this war will cost much, much more than backing Ukraine.

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Crystal clear from Starmer, while donning mantle of WSC, Attlee, and Bevin:

'My commitment to Nato and the UK's nuclear deterrent - maintained on behalf of Nato allies - is unshakeable. Absolute. Total'

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1) Cato the Younger took his own life, rather than submit to Julius Caesar, on this day in 46 BC. Seneca writes:

'Cato drove the sword into his sacred breast, but the wound was not well aimed or mortal. I am inclined to think there was good reason for this...

WTAF 🙄

On 12 April 2014, a group of armed Russian citizens seized key building in #Sloviansk , #Donetsk region, east #Ukraine . It led to occupation of the city by #DPR militias for 84 days.

This is how #Russia began the war in #Donbas 10 years ago.

Today is National Submarine Day. During WWII, 263 U.S. Navy submarines deployed on war patrols. This image of 52 submarines in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at Mare Island in 1946 represents the same number of subs that went on eternal patrol after being lost in the war.

It’s not unreasonable to suggest that the US saved Ukraine in 2022.

And has allowed it to lose in 2024

I’m utterly dumbfounded by their actions. And it won’t be forgotten across Europe. Ever.

'All across Russian-occupied Ukraine, soldiers are shutting down places of worship that don't fit the world Vladimir Putin wants to build,' Simon Ostrovsky reports.

Watch part of Simon's report, done with support from @PulitzerCenter.

Stubb rightly challenging the ‘NATO is next’ narrative

.War Studies My piece on #Lavrov 's trip to Beijing -How have #China and #Russia beefed up their relationship after #Ukraine war wobble? Expert Q&A theconversation.com/how-have-china… via The Conversation

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[para. 55] 'Refineries are certainly traditional military objectives but tradition is not enough and due regard must be paid to environmental damage if they are attacked'

In other words, collateral damage is an issue, but not the target itself.

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🧵 summarising the words of the excellent SACEUR 👇

In WWII the Allies bombed Nazi Germany's oil depots as a high priority military target. That's the tweet.

You can take a man out of DfID, but you can’t take DfID out of the man. Pure declinism.

Some more carrier footage, HMS Hermes returns from the Falklands war 21st July 1982 ⚓ this we give you a warm fuzzy feeling!

“Above all, the Biden administration has to tell the American people that this war threatens us because it threatens European peace…” archive.ph/2024.04.10-112…

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Just now in a HASC hearing, Assistant Secretary of Defense Wallander says that Russian oil & gas infrastructure is a civilian target. 🤡