For those who have been paying attention, for the past several days the U.K. political discussion has centered around major political embarrassment for Prime Minister Keir Starmer following the very public resignation of most of the British defense cabinet members, including the Minister of Defense.
The cited reason for the chaos is Starmer’s unwillingness to support or fund the U.K military, leaving their resources in a critical state of depletion. Starmer has delivered grand prose to NATO about leading military operations in Ukraine, the Arctic Circle and the Strait of Hormuz. However, in reality they have few working ships, only one working carrier, no training equipment and they have to shout “BANG” during military exercises because they don’t have the money for blank ammunition in their weapons. The state of the U.K. military is now a well-known embarrassment.
Following the resignation of almost all the British military leadership, Starmer was facing serious political ridicule. Then, last night, in what can only be honestly described as a transparent political optic, Starmer staged the seizing of a “Russian shadow fleet” oil tanker, which he bragged about on the X platform – complete with cinematography to showcase the boldness of the operation.
You really have to see the video Prime Minister Starmer organized [shared below] to promote his display of strength against the horrible Russians. [It is presumed the designation of “shadow fleet” comes from the lack of London insurance on the vessel itself.]
Viewers will note the ¹cinematography of the video release, the lighting and the staged nature of the camera recording within the imagery. Notice how the ‘marines’ sent the cameraman down the steps first, to capture the lead special operator as he descended the stairs. 😂 Notice also the lighting and use of night vision goggles to enhance the dramatic visual. 🙄 Then there’s the dramatically pre-opened doors, and the mysterious way the camera man is inside the room before the special forces arrive 🤣. The only thing missing is the background music “ride of the Valkyries” as the Royal Marines carry out the mission.
Honestly folks, I’ve been laughing all night… This is too much:
Despite Putin’s best efforts to evade sanctions, we will not let him get away with it. pic.twitter.com/IIW3Cv2ENQ
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 14, 2026
¹It is not lost on me how the British previously used fake inflatable tanks to fool the Germans in World War II. Wash-Rinse-Repeat for domestic consumption. lol
How this idiot is allowed to stay in office is lost on me.
He refuses to step down as he should have by now. He’s a dictator basically.
Dick Tater in reality!
Just like his piano playing buddy in Ukraine (Far West Russia)….NATO is a stale joke!
Besides all his other problems, he seems to be suffering from a certain kind of envy.
I can’t imagine the SAS are all that happy to follow this….wanker
Keep in mind, we had an even bigger idiot in office for four years!
And the two of them probably exchanged valentine cards.
I’m sure the one didn’t know when Valentine’s Day was, until he was told!
Why is it that the WEF installed “leaders” are always such idiots? At least you can spot them easily, it would be harder if they were actually clever. Spanberger was a sneaky one, though. Run to the middle and campaign as a “moderate” and then go hard left as soon as you get your greasy fingers on the levers of power. It can happen anywhere, I guess.
That was not really Lunch Bucket Joe’s schtick, he pretended to be moderate when he emerged at poorly attended campaign events and then was asleep by 10:00 am as president. Maybe PINO is an accurate analogy?
Exactly….that applies for all WEF installed “leaders.”
Spamburger spent her career in a certain 3 letter agency. If that wasn’t enough for folks to run the other way then shame on them.
The Brits are too busy fighting off immigrant beheaders in the streets. Who has time to vote?
Sad but true.
Any of “the Brits…too busy fighting off immigrant beheaders in the streets” already know they aren’t voting their way out of this. Maybe they’re actually ahead of the rest who think they can vote their way out of this.
YooKay rulers despise the average bloke YooKay citizen, and as a result there is a problem with Royal Navy enlistment.
Check out the 12 minute documentary on recruiting ads.
Just depressing, the most recent ads are total cringe.
“How this idiot is allowed to stay in office is lost on me.”
That he was able to ascend to that office in the first place explains the foundation that keeps him there.
The morons who would replace him are even more mathematically challenged and incompetent.
Staged video.
Russia is the staged (fabricated) enemy.
Let the show begin.
I will order more popcorn for this one…the Euro-weenies will get themselves into a spot they will regret.
Reminds me of the Schumer cookout photo with cheese slices on raw hamburger.
Also the grill was not lit
Nothing beats a good Schumerburger on a summer evening.
Unfortunately not many live to tell about it.
Probably got Putins permission to fake the stunt.
Taped on a soundstage?
Someone speed it up and put the Bennie Hill theme behind it.
Probably hired actors. Royal Marines still have self-respect!
“Staged video.
Russia is the staged (fabricated) enemy.”
Maybe they’re remaking one of Ian Flemming’s James Bond novels………
These morons will be speaking Chinese or Russian soon, they have lost all sense of self respect. What a joke.
Arabic actually…
Betsy, you are probably exactly correct.
“Arabic
actually… unfortunately.Nope… whatever the muslim language is called is what they will be speaking…..
Durka Durka
Team America: World Police. 🤣 🤣 🤣
From one of the strongest military forces in the world to a paper tiger in just under 80 years. Sad.
Now, President Trump needs to pull all of our military forces out of England.
Now where is all of our guns
They were still pretty good up until the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Not world-class by that point, but still pretty good. Then they took their “peace dividend” and proceeded to spend it on social programs like none other in western Europe, and they had some competition for that particular prize. And why not? They had the U.S. to provide their security, so no need to spend on their own. Just draw down, draw down, draw down, and spend all of the dividend and more on other things. Real geniuses, or to use their term, wankers.
Walkers indeed and proud of it‐what a disgrace¡
My parents lived in the UK for seven years starting in 1971. I remember my father telling me that once a year the British Labor Party made a pilgrimage in mass to Moscow to learn how to sabotage their country the following year. I am going to say that no, the UK stopped being a good partner 15 years after WWII.
I was not commenting on how good a partner their government may have been once upon a time, but rather about the relative abilities of their military up until around the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union. All downhill since then.
A good friend married and divorced a brit. Moved over there for 5 years. 2 kids. Hated it. Said everyone was on relief, the homes were squalid.
You bet! That’s the price you pay: if you elect anyone from the labor party, you’re finished. You’re on your own!
That would be in excess of 10,000 personnel.
If only they could have gotten the cast of Monty Python to act out this farce…
Benny Hill would better suit me😅
Play that raid video at 2x speed with Yakety Sax in the background.
This ought to do. Skit from his show, the quality is so – so. He was a private in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers during WW2.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1321525845047316
Black Adder, the WWI season was epic.
Blackadder Goes Forth.
The best! 👍🏻
They would have declined 😂
Having some experience on surface ships undergoing training boarding operations I can’t emphasize enough just how fake this is. NVG i brightly lit compartments is but one of the theatrics.
Good Grief…. How far the Brit’s have fallen from when I first encountered them in Pearl Harbor back in the early 80s. Spent considerable time with the HMS Sheffield (yes, that Sheffield). A lot has changed.
They were always good for a card game when in the Port of Charleston—Gold crew of the “Key” could often be found there when not under the sea.
Why are we still protecting them?
The real question is, who exactly are we protecting them from?
I know we are not protecting them from Russia because Russia wants nothing to do with Europe and especially the UK. No resources, no economy, completely intimidated population overrun with Islam.
“Russia wants nothing to do with Europe and especially the UK.”
The dental bills alone would bankrupt any conquering nation.
Agree with you TSV – may even have been taped on a soundstage.
When they finally break through to what was (apparently) their objective – they sort of stand there, looking at rumpled bedding. Maybe it’s just a room check. With guns.
I always thought that obama was simply playing the role of POTUS. He was never POTUS.
This guy and Carney are doing the same thing to their nations.
While the Brits were playing Hide and Seek, the crew was busy at work, doing their job. No time for this nonsense!
I wonder if Scott Pelley was the camera man? After all he is so brave. Scott must have cleared the rooms first so the soldiers could safely enter.
Scott Pelley looked down at the floor and noticed a puddle of water forming.
Yeah – the yellow kind.
I’d say Russia should just nuke London at this point, but that would make Pakistan angry.
i shouldn’t have, but i laughed at the rueful irony of that…🥴
ONE SQUARE OF MILE OF -CITY OF LONDON(BANKSTERS NEST) WILL DO….
Well, I guess whoever’s cabin that was should’ve made their bed. How embarassing.
I feel bad for the British people; they must rise up but they clearly don’t know what that is.
Note to shipping vessels: Post sign on door, “No room service please. We are busy.”
Send the cameraman in ahead of the soldiers
That’s a splendid idea
Yes…Ride of the Valkyries.
Really too good to not post below the ” Lights!!! Camera!! ACTION!!
Pitiful.
Whenever I hear “Ride of the Valkyries,” that old Maxell cassette tape ad always comes to mind 👍🏻
👍🏻 😂
Reminds me of Robert Duvall in VC village on the river front attack from Apocalypse Now, one of my all time favorite movies and scenes from it.
And remember… Charlie don’t surf!
IT’S SO OBVIOUS. THIS MUST HAVE BEEN HOW STARMER PLANNED FOR THE RAID:
Pause the video at 7 seconds. The soldier passes a sign that clearly says “Exit” in English.
I couldn’t read the other signage since the cameraman quickly panned away.
Do Russian ships normally have English “Exit” signage….I doubt it.
Oh, Eagle…well spotted! 😎
Eagle Eyes! 🙂
At 00:05 you can see the word LEVEL on the sign above the orange and white sign.
Exit is Latin.
World War Reddit?
This 13 minute documentary spells out facts and figures on how YooKay rulers have neglected the Royal Navy. Sad!
Pathetic. Resign, you fool!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this man is feckless and impotent. The only thing that he excels at is treating UK citizens like excrement.
EDIT:
Is it even a Russian ship that was filmed? Since the vid is for domestic consumption, it’s not even necessary that they seize a Russian ship, eh?
He seems determined to continue F’ing around with “The Bear,” until he finds out!
I’m surprised that they didn’t have a portrait of Putin hanging in the stairwell to make it clear that they were invading a Russian ship.
!ND they expect our soldiers to protect them
I’ll bet it strained UK Navy resources to project power all the way into the English Channel 😎
It was probably in a U.K. dry dock and the Filipino crew had already gone home for the day.
Starmer should be dangling from London Bridge.
Yes indeed¡
End his Prime Minister debacle, strip him of his security detail, and let him survive on his own in Londonistan.
These clowns are teetering on the cliff
Let’s
Give em a push
Would have been funny if the crew of the tanker beat the crap out of the brits and threw them overboard.
Where are all the Russians?
My money says a Russian merchant marine crew is tougher, stronger, fitter and manlier than any UK bloke in uniform today. They’d have easily tossed those rainbow warriors over their laps and given them a hard spanking. Though half the UK team would’ve asked for ball gags and enjoyed it.
“My money says a Russian
merchant marine crewhousewife is tougher, stronger, fitter and manlier than any UK bloke in uniform today.”Boo! That’ll scare those nasty Russians. They used to say in W W ll that if you gave a sore backed chirper a pencil and a desk you had a warrior. At lwast they were better than the frogs who just grabbed their mistresses and headed for the coast.
I’ve never been on an ocean going cargo ship, but that looked much more like a house to me. Complete with dry wall and wood framed doors. Someone with experience on these kinds of ships please weigh in so I can know if I’m off base.
This could’ve been a search filmed inside an apartment building, looking for citizens who posted something online. It’s not clear that this took place on a vessel at sea.
The brits do have a good bit more experience in that arena.
Spot on!!!
hint? the people going down the steps: It sounded like wood steps (not steel)
Hmm…It may have been filmed at a museum. That would explain why they didn’t encounter anyone on board.
The camera angles, guns and lighting suggested to me they were going to find Elian Gonzalez.
They should’ve brought Geraldo Rivera along to narrate live.
NEWS UPDATE!!!!
Whitehall is now claiming that the erroneously-reported video capture of a alleged shadow tanker was, in fact, a Special Needs Bus Ferry en-route to Montreal.
No Canadians were injured during the routine changeover in Bus Crew and Attendants, though several bedpans were knocked over and a large diplomatic mess ensued. 🙂
And these are our allies¡
With friends like these who needs enemies……….
This feckless, embarrassing, unpopular clown is the Tiffany Henyard of PMs.
And he just said that muslims are the face of the new UK/Britain….We here in the USA had better wake up fast!
I can’t be the only one who read that “BANG” in their head with a British accent
The sound of Royal Marines yelling, “Bang! Bang!” at any resistant Ruskies is echoing in my ears!
“a transparent political optic”
The memory of Michael Dukakis’ head wearing a military helmet and sticking out of a tank immediately came to mind.
I’ve seen Call of Duty video games that look more realistic than this.
“No Smoking”, not “Не курить”?
Not buying it.
We have front row seats to the internet version of the fall of the Roman Empire. What took Rome centuries, Britannia is achieving in mere decades. Say what you want, but you cannot dispute their “Overachiever” Gold Star status in this department.
WINNING! Starmer is Obama’s brother from another white mother, with more education but many fewer oratorical skills! 🙂
And Charles COULD have been a passably good king if he had stayed with environmental stewardship instead of going Deep State Green. His other eccentric peccadilloes endeared him to that closeted segment of societal sickos and stood him in good stead with serial cheaters.
His will forever be remembered as The Man Who Would Be King and Camilla’s Aspirational Tampon. Bless his heart! 🙂
Keir “Spielberg” Starmer
“a transparent political optic”
This immediately came to mind –
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-photo-op-that-tanked
YES! But Dukakis was never thought to wear women’s undergarments during public occasions! 🙂
his red tie gave it all away, such a clash of poor tailoring.
Lord have mercy.
If they were taking over a ship, wouldn’t they be going up to the wheel house rather than down to the galley?
Maybe they were hungry? Perhaps the UK budget cuts extend to the chow.
Have you ever sampled British food? I’d be headed for the Russian kitchen too!
Great research with video explanation, Sundance.
I like what Barbra Boyd calls “Sweet Revenge”: https://www.prometheanaction.com/the-saturday-wrap-up-et-tu-mike-who-was-mi6s-inside-man-against-donald-trump-june-13-2026/
The kid who has been beating the studios’ summer “blockbusters” with his Youtube-level skills movie, “Backrooms” has more cinematography talent than Starmer.
“…and they have to shout “BANG” during military exercises because they don’t have the money for blank ammunition in their weapons.”
Why do I think Sundance is not making this part up?
That video “operation” is deeeeeeeeeply flawed.
Anyone can see the problems……except for liberals.
Once the Royal Marines were formidable. Have they been forced to go woke now?
Europe has parasitically relied on the US to provide for military needs while they squandered decades and untold amounts of money on liberal projects.
This will come at a cost to them.
Did that cameraman get trained on how to clear a room before the Royal Marines did their video opportunity?
How comically fake.
Well now. Looks good to me but the last time I saw a ship boarding was on Star Trek and Scotty beamed them in.
Scotty is not beaming anymore. I saw a pic of the DEI hire running the Transporter and result was the person transported wound up being half embedded in a large rock!
Sorry, no link to that meme.
You just can’t get good beamers anymore.
Special Operator Kweir Stammer himself ran point on this operation, seizing the SS Pootie-Poot directly.
Arrogance, ignorance and narcissism-when combined in one individual who happens to be in a position of authority-is beyond dangerous.
Starmer is a dangerous fool and I pray that God would remove him from power.
Members of the 3H club….Hopeless, Helpless, an hapless…..
Why we even talk to them is beyond me. Useless and dying, why waste our time?
“They have to shout BANG” 😂😂😂😂
My gosh Sundance, that’s a really good one 😂😂😂
This has got to be a recruiting video. There is no way real SF Guys would have anything to do with this!
If they currently yell “bang” due to lack of blank ammo, my biggest fear is when the begin to yell “boom”.. /s
“they”
You are exactly correct.
Looked like M-4’s, I thought they used some stupid looking bullpup design
You are correct. The SA80 has been the standard issue rifle for the UK military since the mid 1980s.
Where’s the crew of the “vessel”? LOL!
My thoughts exactly.
What a disgrace.
Nancy Pelosi and daughter probably gave this sad excuse of a leader tips on how to manage the production.
BANG! From a 2019 training video. Those would be wooden guns in 2026. Or maybe renewable enviro-friendly hemp guns.
hint? the people going down the steps: The tone sounded like wood steps (not steel, associated with ships).
imho
FAKE WAR
All that is missing is Rowan Atkinson shouting, “Comrades! Surrender now, or we will confiscate your vodka and your porn magazines and throw it all overboard!”