Perhaps related to the electricity outages in Spain Portugal and UK (Heathrow) too ?

Yeah, that worked so well last time he tried it, sure, give it another go, why not ?

Good. It’s a start

My youngest flatly refuses to use, or acknowledge the existence of the " half past, 10 to"etc system. I’ll get “yeah but what’s that not in stupid time” ? if I don’t say 715 or whatever. Annoying teenagers lol.

Can’t or don’t ?

It’s hard to compete against the mega buck providers, however if there is suddenly political willingness to buy locally then there are vendors that can build the capability. They’ll only do so if it is likely to be profitable though. Chicken / egg conundrum that the EU and national govts can help solve

Yes. The Budapest memo and the US strategic backflip has proved non nuclear powers are deeply at risk.

Multiple

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surface-to-air_missiles

German Iris-T Norways NASAM French Aster 30

Perfectly understandable. I would expect the next treaty European states will be withdrawing from will be nuclear non proliferation ones. It’s the only threat Putin actually fears.

Pretty sure previous commenter’s nested negatives meant “russia DOES dopropaganda in non western states as well as major western nations”

Been reading their stuff for about a year. Seems OK. No overt biases jumping out, although I’ve not fact checked every article

Lol. Putin has shown repeatedly how much he respects treaties and laws.

5-7 years iirc according to the article I read. After that failure rates start going up, not sure how long the curve from 0-100% is though.

Bottom line the UK (and the rest of the EU) need to start getting missile factories stood up. Not just for trident but for all the other arms we get off the US.

Evidence is already clear and has been “approved” (for lack of a better word). Orban has already had funding frozen and fines imposed for various breaches

It requires unanimity of the other members, Hungary was protected by PiS in Poland (who are also corrupt authoritarians) until they were voted out, there was then a short window of a couple of months where the EU squibbed their chance, then Slovakia replaced their chad Prez with Fico who is also a corrupt authoritarian and the opportunity was lost.

What they can do is get all the preparatory stuff done and wait to see if Slovakia replace Fico, or (very unlikely but not impossible) the challenger to Orban manages to win. If neither happens then giving Fico a bigger bribe than Putin does is the last resort.

The UK outsourced maintenance of the delivery mechanism (the missile body) to the US.

The warhead is built & maintained by the UK.

The missiles have a life span so eventually they will stop working without US help.

It is if looked at in isolation.

Consider the context though. The EU is under direct political attack from a fascist enemy through both propaganda and direct threats.

Causing thousands to be laid off in a time of global turmoil is NOT going to help prevent the likes of AfD and FN taking power. It would in fact garner them votes. Couple that with the US deliberately starting an economic war and this is sub optimal but necessary if the EU is to survive the fascist rise.