by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth, commissioned in 2017 and the country’s main aircraft carrier, will not participate in NATO’s Steadfast Defender-2024 exercise due to a technical problem, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy announced on February 4. This humiliating development comes as London continues to make ambitious and unhinged claims, such as the sending of NATO expeditionary forces to Ukraine and to impose a no-fly zone over the embattled country. “Routine pre-sailing checks yesterday identified an issue with a coupling on @HMSQNLZ (HMS Queen Elizabeth’s) starboard propeller shaft. As such, the ship will […]
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