That Churchill bust

9 Replies to “That Churchill bust”

1. The UK has sold an Iranian Jet to some gay troops? Is this what I’m reading?

2. An airline is buying the jet. If they don’t use this one they will just use others.

3. Is there any country, terrorist, politician, individual or girl scout troop who actually care what the pResident of the white house thinks or does? We have no foreign policy that our dwindling allies can support. We have no line in the sand that hasn’t been pissed on. Our military is still strong, but there is no leadership at the top. And now the gift that keeps on giving. No pipeline so his best friend buffet can keep rolling in the railroad cash.
   So, now an airplane? Screw the airplane. Drive on. Don’t mean nothin’.

4. dont forget now, one can take the morass that is the ME back to 1953 when the CIA arranged the overthrow of the nationalistic and DEMOCRATICALLY elected leader of Iran, and put their bumboy shah palavi (he the batshyt loonie of a spankin new calendar putting the nation somewhere in the 3000s) in power.
   clinking champagne glasses all around; lots and lots of sales for the military industrial complex, secure oil source, etc.
   until 1979.
   google it.
   meddle meddle meddle there eh ol’ USA. kinda like the old adage a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

5. The first operational MiG-15s would instead be powered by Rolls-Royce Nene engines—marvelously innovated and cluelessly supplied by the British.
   Keen to thaw Anglo-Soviet relations, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee invited Soviet scientists and engineers to the Rolls-Royce jet facility to learn how the superior British engines were made. Attlee further offered to license production to the USSR—after exacting a solemn promise that the engines would be utilized only for non-military purposes. The offer stunned the Americans, who protested loudly. And the Soviets? Russian aviation historian and Ukrainian native Ilya Grinberg says, “Stalin himself couldn’t believe it. He said, ‘Who in their right mind would sell anything like this to us?’ ” Grinberg, a professor of technology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, points out that the presence in the delegation of Artem Mikoyan himself—the “Mi” in MiG—should have been a tip-off to what in fact ensued: The Rolls-Royce samples shipped to the USSR in 1946 were promptly installed into MiG-15 prototypes and successfully flight-tested. By the time the fighter was ready for mass production, the Soviets had reverse-engineered the Nene; their copy was designated the Klimov RD-45. When the British objected to the violation of their licensing agreement, says Grinberg, “the Russians just told them ‘Look, we incorporated a few changes. Now it qualifies as our own original design.’ ”
   http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-jet-that-shocked-the-west-180947758/#ZgIcDbrXe4vyOEHH.99

6. “DEMOCRATICALLY elected leader of Iran, and put their bumboy shah palavi in power.”
   You might want to check your facts. The prime minister that was democratically elected was while Pahlavi was Shah. When the army deposed him it was still under the Shah. He was deposed because he ruined the country by seizing the oil companies cutting Iran off from the markets. A little help from MI6 and the CIA didn’t hurt.

7. We Americans enabled the EU (Obama agreement) market with Iran, what should surprise anyone that they trade with the “New” Iran Nuclear power player. Iran is the only game in the ME
   The EU has went all in…China & Russia are the losers and we Americans are expected to cover EU failure…
   Let the dogs out! Screw the EU.. they are insolvent turds!

8. Yes, they already have some and will use them as best they can for whatever flight tasks are most important to them. The significance of this sale is the Iranians don’t think they have to stick to the agreement and neither do other countries that are party to the agreement. The agreement is fake. The western countries gave up trying to stop the Iran’s nuclear weapons development because President Obama won’t commit the U.S. to really stopping it, but they haven’t given up trying to fool their own electorates for as long as they can.

9. “On top of that, Moscow’s involvement in the conflict has effectively given Tehran the superpower stamp of approval to do whatever it pleases.”
   Strange though it may seem, the Russians are using Iran as a proxy precisely because Moscow has decided they are that disposable.