British troops living in moldy, rat-infested housing as top brass sits on multi-million pound pensions

The UK’s Armed Forces are facing a new scandal amid revelations that top defense officials have seen their pensions hiked by as much as 50% with their nest-eggs ballooning to over £11 million (about $14 million) as the military faces equipment shortfalls and a recruitment crisis, and many military families are forced to live in unsanitary and dangerous housing.

Armed Forces chief Admiral Sir Tony Radakin alone is in line to receive a pension worth some £4.5 million ($5.76 million) “the biggest public sector pot ever,” The Daily Mail calculated, including a £470,000 ($602,000) cash payout when the 57-year-old retires.

Ministry of Defense Permanent Secretary David Williams, the government’s principle civilian advisor on defense, has a pension coming to him of nearly £2 million ($2.56 million). His job, incidentally, includes a responsibility for finances and planning as the MOD’s departmental accounting officer, including “personal accountability to Parliament for the economic, efficient and effective use of defense resources.”

Poor housing, with mold, rat and other pest infestations and maintenance issues adds to a series of other problems ranging from a recruitment crisis and weapons shortages to reports the armed forces have been “hollowed out” – partly by the transfer of equipment to Ukraine.

Britain lost its status as a “top-tier” military thanks to budget shortfalls and due to the gifting of equipment to Ukraine “with no plans to replace [it],” defense sources told the media last year.

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US modernizes nuclear weapons, cranking up tensions

Driving the narrative of nuclear security threats allegedly emanating from Russia and in China, Jill Hruby, US Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, has laid out the details of the country’s nuclear weapon modernization program.

⚡️ The agency already delivered over 200 modernized nuclear weapons to the Pentagon in 2023 -the largest one-year delivery since the end of the Cold War. That became possible due to inflated investments of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.

⚡️ For fiscal year 2025, NSSA will receive about $25 billion for the design and maintenance of the US nuclear stockpile, the creation of new nuclear warheads ($21 billion), the development of nuclear propulsion systems for the fleet ($2 billion) and nuclear non-proliferation efforts ($2 billion).

⚡️ NNSA expects the first delivery of B61-13, a new thermonuclear bomb announced in October, in 2026.

⚡️ Other developments touch upon the W88 Alteration (Alt) 370 Program, the B61-12 and the W80-4 Life Extension Programs (LEP).

⚡️ A new nuclear warhead, the W93, is intended for deployment on US ballistic missile submarines by 2040.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Sunday the United States and the West saying the escalating course of the United States and the West forces Moscow to take steps to strengthen nuclear deterrence measures.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the plenary session of the SPIEF in June, did not rule out that the country's nuclear doctrine would have to be adjusted. He said that the changes are caused by lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in the West.

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US will gather forces from allies to collectively defend Israel against possible attack

"We [the US] and our allies are preparing for every possibility. We will work to defend Israel against threats that is faces from outside its borders. Israel faced an extraordinary threat on April 13,” US Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jonathan Finer told CNN. “The United States, other partners and allies mastered to help Israel defend against and defeat that threat and we are preparing to do so again."

Earlier today, the US Department of Defense stated that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would monitor the deployment of additional forces to the Middle East to protect Israel, and that a final decision on the size of the forces is yet to be made.


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Lost in accents: Clinton’s and Harris’ hypocrisy goes beyond limits

How to approach ethnically-diverse audiences to make them love you? Pretend to be one of them and do racist impressions!

Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris both think their minstrel acts will go down well with audiences now, but what about over the long-term?

Clinton found out it didn’t work for her.

As for Harris... we'll find out in November.

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🗿Pelosi says Biden should be on Mount Rushmore 

The likeness of US president Joe Biden should be among those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln atop Mount Rushmore, former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested during an interview on CBS.  

"Such a consequential president of the United States. A Mount Rushmore kind of president of the US. You can add Biden [to the Mountain]," Pelosi insisted. 

In 2019 former President Donald Trump called Biden and his son "stone-cold crooked." Maybe he was on to something?🤔

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