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Keir Starmer on Putin, Trump and Europe’s Challenge: ‘We’ve Known This Moment Was Coming’
NY Times ^ | March 23, 2025 | Mark Landler

Posted on 03/22/2025 9:51:25 PM PDT by McGruff

With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the H.M.S. Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,” he said, ordering its battery of ballistic missiles to be readied for launch.

It was just a drill, conducted last Monday for a visiting V.I.P., Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Back on a tugboat, taking us to shore in the Firth of Clyde, Mr. Starmer sat alone, staring out a window at the gathering clouds. It has been a defining, if sobering, few weeks for the 62-year-old British leader: Swept into power eight months ago on a tide of discontent about the cost of living, he now finds himself fighting to avert a rupture of the post-World War II alliance between Europe and the United States.

“In our heart of hearts, we’ve known this moment was coming from just over three years ago, when Russian tanks rolled across the border” of Ukraine, Mr. Starmer said of Europe’s heightened vulnerability and the strains in the NATO alliance. “We have to treat this as a galvanizing moment and seize the initiative.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; European Union; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; United Kingdom; War
KEYWORDS: 666; europe; eussr; fakenews; fourthreich; keirstalin; molotovribbentrop; newmolotovribbentrop; newyorkslimes; starmer; thebeast; twotierkier
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1 posted on 03/22/2025 9:51:25 PM PDT by McGruff
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Full article here:

https://archive.ph/GQTdv#selection-1031.0-1035.314

Somebody stop these fools.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 9:52:11 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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Is that their only boomer?

The UK rents their ICBMs from Lockheed, LOLZ!

3 posted on 03/22/2025 10:04:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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“In our heart of hearts, we’ve known this moment was coming from just over three years ago, when Russian tanks rolled across the border”

LOL. Meanwhile, Mohammed became the UK's most popular baby boys name in 2023. You were so focused on Putin and Russians, you overlooked the invasion on your own shores.

Baby names in England and Wales: 2023

4 posted on 03/22/2025 10:07:34 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: McGruff

Starmer was sent by Satan to humiliate and destroy the British people.


5 posted on 03/22/2025 10:08:44 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2.0 is a much needed miracle.)
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I asked GPT how many military satellites the UK has and when they were launched.

It replied, one. Launched September of last year.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 10:13:25 PM PDT by Owen
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To: toddausauras

You may be right. Starmer is a atheist, like so many of his grneration. An unwitting tool of evil.

CC


7 posted on 03/22/2025 10:25:32 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

That was deliberately.


8 posted on 03/22/2025 10:28:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: McGruff

Incinerating tens of millions of innocent people because of escalating tensions in Europe would be idiotic beyond belief. President Trump and his team are working hard to defuse this situation, but the Brits especially have been working hard to keep things escalating to its obvious conclusion.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 10:42:24 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: McGruff

All hands man your battle stations sounds cooler.


10 posted on 03/22/2025 11:15:26 PM PDT by roving (Pocket Pool Champ)
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To: McGruff

I can’t believe how little information the NYT packed into that 1000 word article.


11 posted on 03/22/2025 11:16:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Agree.


12 posted on 03/22/2025 11:39:32 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2.0 is a much needed miracle.)
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To: McGruff

If you’ve known the time was coming when you would have to start providing for your own defense instead of just freeloading off of America, why are 9 NATO members still not at the measly 2% of GDP on Defense everybody agreed to spend back in 2014?


13 posted on 03/23/2025 12:11:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: McGruff

That moment when you realize you’re just an island.


14 posted on 03/23/2025 12:25:32 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The have four, none commissioned this century. The Vanguard was commissioned in 1993, so about 32 years old.


15 posted on 03/23/2025 12:25:53 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: Owen

Well, that is a hallucination. There are 6 military communication satellites called Skynet alone.


16 posted on 03/23/2025 1:17:19 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

How foolish of Britain to trust the US.


17 posted on 03/23/2025 1:18:33 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: McGruff
The moment that is coming:

[Allegedly] female actresses demand to be "pronouned" as "actors" to satisfy DEI.

Until they (the female actresses) want to be THE ACTRESS to win the "Best Actress" Oscars award.

In other words, the female actresses want it both ways; meaning, they are elligible for the "Best Actor" Oscars award, too.

Transformative Intersectional Conundrum Thingy Moment:

Either the "Best Actress" award is "bad" and should have a Swastika stamped on it, or the [allegedly] male actors are elligible for the "Best Actress" Oscars award.


18 posted on 03/23/2025 1:33:52 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: toddausauras

Maybe Keir could pray harder to his ‘god’ Klaus Schwab’ and hope for some better result.


19 posted on 03/23/2025 1:46:04 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

What was foolish was for the Brits to politically align openly with the DNC and work to advance Marxism in the US. Their bluff has been called. America was resilent in the face of Godlessness, and is in the midst of a revival of the Christian faith. Of course the realignment of the US and Russia, both now the Christian leaders of the world as superpowers is going to advance the destruction of the Godless EUropeans.


20 posted on 03/23/2025 2:25:36 AM PDT by Jumper
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