Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian

It actually wouldn't surprise me 🤣🤣🤣

Thatcher didn't give the order, it was a group decision from the war cabinet.

The SAS never were going to bomb Aerospatiale. And there was no intercepted convoy for Peru.

Falklands War season is always a busy time of year for me... Sadly my main audience is on Twitter, and I only wish I could devote more time to it over here too.

Most people actually feel sorry for American tourists. We sympathise.

Already written about in the book "Tied With Wires" ☺️

Yep, Cacho and Pinky, conning the nation. I wrote all about it in the book "Last Letters from Stanley".

Excellent piece, thank you.

My wife calls it "The F-word" because I talk about it slightly too much 🤣

Correct. They were largely cut out of the deal.

It simply wasn't. I've heard some bizarre conspiracy theories, but this is up there with Invincible getting sunk 19 times in the same month.

No, it's a complete load of crap. This is tin foil hat stuff.

And that's how the China tariffs work, folks...

It's actually covered in a lot of detail in my book "Tied With Wires" 😊

July 1987 Moscow: Trump is 41 years old, he flies to Moscow at the invitation of the USSR Ambassador to the USA, Dubinin. Returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and without bargaining buys "The Plaza Hotel" for $407.5 million - a record price for a hotel...

Sending a quarter million homeless women and kids into a war zone where Trump just disabled the air defence system.

Some days in Twitter, I outdo myself 🤣🤣🤣

Donald Trump admits that he's surprised to discover that Lesotho is a country...

... "I only deported him last week!"

Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat

Uncovering the lies of Trump:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I mean, Ireland has no natural enemies and the UK would immediately act if anyone tried anything. I occasionally wonder why Ireland has a military in some respects. But I totally agree with your point. I'm friends with the man who wrote Siege at Jadotville.

Well three years ago today, Russia started its "Three day special military operation" 🙄

100%

And yet he's demanding $500 billion in resources from Ukraine, claiming he wants his money back... He's also a thief.

donald trump is wearing a suit and red tie while talking into a microphone ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and red tie while talking into a microphone

Trump announced for the first time the actual figures of US aid to Ukraine: America provided $67 billion in military aid & $31.5 billion in direct budget support. The total amount of US aid to Ukraine is $98.5 billion, and not $350 billion, as Trump previously stated.

He's a liar...

Ireland to Replace 100 Aging Armored Vehicles Ireland plans to procure about 100 armored vehicles to replace its aging fleets of Piranha and RG-32 military vehicles.

Send them to Ukraine... They'd appreciate them.

thedefensepost.com/2025/02/19/i...

I personally straddle both, and actually I see benefit in standing up over on Twitter and not making it a fascist echo chamber. It is very hate filled now though, but decent people are turning it around and fighting back.

No, Garryowen, obviously 😎👍

An HS293 couldn't have cut it in half. A Fritz X could and so, I believe, did. Either way, it wasn't a torpedo.

With Europe beginning to step up to Russia, is it time to set Harry Flashman on them again yet? 🤔

Odd for a ship named after a God with two faces that she was blown in half.