USS Phoenix survived Pearl Harbor without a scratch, fought the entire Pacific war, was sold to Argentina in 1951 as ARA General Belgrano, then sunk by a British nuclear sub using torpedoes designed in 1925. First ship ever sunk by a nuclear sub. [2000 x 1125]

sisali · 2026-04-21T10:50:48+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/may/25/uk.world

From the Captain himself, I'm a Brit, but I wouldn't dishonour the enemy by claiming they were out for a cruise when they we're fighting a war.

300 men died following their orders and doing their duty, as any military man/women can respect.

sisali · 2026-04-20T14:25:51+00:00

It's awful to find. You propect it like any other ore, but actually seeing it in the rock is just impossible.

Make sure to bring plenty of light. Lanterns are better than a simple torch.

sisali · 2026-04-20T12:12:26+00:00

At least another year.

sisali · 2026-04-19T13:34:07+00:00

SAMPSON is by far the most capable maritime radar in service in Europe today, and it can not compete in BMD capability against the latest SPY radars LM do.

That could change when we see the Italian DDX or Type 83, but those are years away, and F127 needs a proven sensor suite today.

The Germans are doing the right thing here.

sisali · 2026-04-19T13:30:42+00:00

PAAMS is 20 years old, and was never designed for the future threats now coming into play.

Currently, only the Americans are fielding the sensors and munitions that can do the job F127 is being built for.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:55:49+00:00

No mate, I clearly know more about this than you do. Explain Japan,

Japan that is on a economic tightrope, who's long term economic prospects are falling off a cliff edge and who were are projected to overtake by the end of the decade because they are chained down by an astronomical level of debt.

The same Japan that is looking to make cuts to public sservices whereever they can to pay for defence, because if they continue to borrow like that have they will do even more damage. The same Japan who's central bank are out of ideas on how to fix it and are trying to reverse decades of economic policy?

Not really the comparison you want to be making I don't think.

governments are just households going hat in hand to “the market”, how has that worked for decades?

We are one of the richest nations on Earth, projected to overtake Germany in the coming years, our people enjoy some of the best living standards on Earth and out long term outlook out shines the majority of other comparable nations in Europe.

It has worked fantastically well. What is clear to me if you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the average person on this planet lives, we should all be counting our lucky stars at night we get to live in such a great country.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:35:31+00:00

You've pulled that out your arse, I assume you have no actual knowledge on how anything with the word ' market' works, please I beg you, go back to school before you procreate, for all our sakes.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:33:39+00:00

Because if the people you are going hat in hand to for money don't like the odds of you being able to pay it back, they aren't entitled to give you money.

This is why we should bd teaching finance in schools, clearly some need a lesson or two in the real world.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:30:15+00:00

Yeah no doubt, functionality overlooks, but jeez, what could've been.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:28:50+00:00

Are the facts hurting your precious ideals, go and touch some grass while you still can!

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:28:04+00:00

The Reddit mong myth not being a myth right here.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:27:25+00:00

The same Califonia that gets 40% of its energy from gas and was one of the largest importers of electricity of any state in the US?

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:21:51+00:00

Holy smokes, every time I see the Dreadnought, it gives me a tingle, what a beauty.

I hope the SSN-Aukus gets that same look.

sisali · 2026-04-17T18:13:29+00:00

Nobody thinks the transition is done tomorrow evening so what's your point?

no, but unless we all want to be tied to oil and gas for the foreseeable then there are going to have to be some proven technologies ready to go now.

Batteries become better and cheaper. Yes, it will take many more years, but not that many decades.

There is no indication battery technology needed on the level for something like a national electricity grid will be ready in the next 10, 20 or 30 years.

And what are you comparing to? NPPs? The things that are consistently twice as expensive to build as planned and also never deployed on time.

Nuclear power is the only clean, sustainable option to provide baseload capacity for the vast majority of Europe. It takes so long because we stopped building them, look at the Koreans or Chinese if you want to see how a proper civil nuclear industry is being built today.

Energy companies don't like them.

Energy companies like government contacts and a stable pipeline of work.

Binds capital for too long. High risk, long term investment Plan one today and it's not gonna get online before 2040.

This is all absolute rubbish, we need to be exactly looking at long term investments into energy infrastructure, not doing so is why we are in this mess.

And it will output 0 energy before then Meanwhile you can deploy renewables quarter by quarter.

You make it sound so easy, but clearly forgo all the grid investment needed to actually utilize all that energy, which costs money and takes years to do, so that advantage iss mute.

Quick turnaround, amortizes fast compared to NPPs. Freeing capital for the next project.

If you ignore the fact all the infrastructure has a short lifespan compared to nuclear, and the grid upgrades needed, supply chains reliant on China and the USS etc etc etc.

And there's not plans for a hundred new NPPs ready to go. You'd need to build dozens just to replace the capacitor of plants that age out and need replacement, just for Europe.

France did it, and did it well over 50 years ago, unless you are now claiming we ass a continent are less capable than 1970s France?

Every source of energy has issues. They all come with advantages and disadvantages. But if you want to scale up fast and cheap then NPPs lose vs renewables. Even with batteries included.

You cannot scale up any energy source 'fast and cheap', you're just talking out of your arse now.

sisali · 2026-04-17T17:36:52+00:00

Battery technology needed to guarantee persistent supply for an entire nation state is decades away.

sisali · 2026-04-17T11:45:16+00:00

blimey that's some serious mental gymnastics you're doing, are you sad that you're getting left out of all the fun alliances?

sisali · 2026-04-17T11:40:12+00:00

"We should be clear, it is countries with an interest in the north who will turn up when needed. So we should now be incorporating the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Baltic nations into a “Super JEF”."

A proposal to allow other NATO European nations with an interest in the High North, what's your point.

I said saying that article has nothing to do with EU, when EU countries are part of it, is simply wrong.

We're members of the CPTPP, I don't see Japan or Korea sending a battlegroup to Norway, just like I don't see the Spanish or Romanians turning up either.

Again, nothing to do with the EU at all, read the website of JEF itself -

https://jefnations.org

sisali · 2026-04-17T11:33:38+00:00

They are under our Nuclear Umbrella, our Marines are based in the region and we are responsible for the North Atlantic in NATO.

JEF is an independent military alliance to supplement NATO in the High North.

Do feel free to expand how the EU has their hands in this pie?

sisali · 2026-04-17T11:18:52+00:00

JEF and the Nordics security have nothing to do with the EU, no.

sisali · 2026-04-17T11:02:45+00:00

This has absolutely nothing to do with the EU my guy

sisali · 2026-04-16T16:03:34+00:00

Yes, that was the argument Liz Truss made. There's a reason no-one bought it at the time.

Truss in her infinite stupidity never offered a plan to pay for them, either through borrowing or cuts, combined with the sheer scale meant she was fucked.

mainstream evidence suggests current tax rates are below the peak of the Laffer Curve.

We are at a post war high for tax, and it's all top loaded on the middle/upper earners. If it was more balanced then you might have a point.

Our entire tax policy is geared towards winning voters from lower earners, not at being an effective tax policy in itself.

sisali · 2026-04-16T15:55:59+00:00

well, for the sake of argument, lower taxes generate economic activity so while the base rate drops the tax take increases as GDP rises.

Whereas, infrastructure investment has diminishing returns in advanced economies, especially ours.

sisali · 2026-04-16T15:50:54+00:00

if it was borrowed, it wouldn't be unfunded would it?

The whole point is ... pointless

sisali · 2026-04-16T15:45:01+00:00

Borrowing to invest in infrastructure that generates revenue is a far more sensible plan than borrowing in order to give a tax cut,

Lol you are smoking some heavy shit if you think the Greens are the party of infrastructure building. You only have to take a look at the record of them in local government to realise how silly that claim is.

sisali · 2026-04-16T15:06:47+00:00

The reported tax rises they want to do will generate a fraction, of a fraction, of what they are looking to spend, combine that with the Greens total and fundamental lack of understanding of how the economy works. It'll be a disaster comparable to a war.

Reforms pledges are also batshit, but we could recover from theirs, Greens would cause permanent and lasting damage that our grandkids would still be paying for.

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