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Eg the former Yugoslavia. All (most?) of the states are thriving after independence. Note that Slobodan Milošević was ousted under Tony Blair's watch. Also South Korea is doing OK. Further back in time: many of the defeated countries after WW2 thrived such as Japan and Germany. |
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Germany (and Europe) had the Marshall Plan, and Japan had the US backed Yoshida doctrine - in both cases, the plans had been formulated before the War was over. |
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Imagine that on April 30th 1945, the allied forces had decided that ‘OK, Hitler is dead, we can go now’’, and simply left and left Germany to it. How do you think that would have worked out? There were ‘boots on the ground’, as per the modern parlance, and that is something that the US tends to want to avoid for obvious reasons. |
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Jem has a point. See Afghanistan for details.
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just watching the Hegseth briefing on sky news, now there's an idiot with way too much excess testosterone and no doubt a very small penis, oorah simplify
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I see the 'dont panic buy fuel' messages are going out. Which of course will make people panic buy fuel, as they panic about others panic buying...
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Give it another 5 years you'll all be queuing for electricity.
In the meantime, why don't we capture some of those naughty ships carrying crude oil to where they shouldn't ;) |
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tl:dr Dear Americans, Better get the hell out of building we set on fire, oh, and we aren’t going to help you get out. Screw you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. D J Trump. |
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I'm no Trump fan except when he's crapping on Starmer! At today's press conference (with Merz of Germany), he said that the UK "had ruined relationships", that "it's not Churchill we are dealing with", "we are not happy with the UK".
He was particularly critical that the UK would not allow him to use Diego Garcia because of doubts as to legality of what the USA is doing. Btw, he crapped even harder on Spain, instructing his Trade Secretary to stop all trade with Spain. Back to Starmer - because our sovereign territory (Akrotiri Base) was directly attacked by Iran when we had not been involved in the initial attack on Iran, we now have the right under International Law to defend ourselves including by offensive means to take out the enemy's capabilities. The man is a cretin. He has trashed the special relationship, he nevertheless is now putting UK military assets into play. Jeez. |
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I think you may find that Trump’s definition of "the Special Relationship", and in fact, any relationship, is "Do what I want, when I want (even if I keep changing my mind), say "thank you" lots, and praise me to high heaven, even when I’ve treated you very badly".
An abusive relationship is not a Special Relationship… |
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There’s always a tweet (or two…) https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...5&d=1772575078 https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...6&d=1772575078 |
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Look how well that war turned out for the USA. |
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Blair gave into Bush, because of the "Special Relationship" - not the example we should follow…
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Dont care for Starmer as a rule, but agree with him here, we should not be getting involved in this conflict other than whats needed to defend ourselves from any retalitory attacks. This war is the USA & Israels, not ours.
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Won't matter if we join in or not, there will still be nutters determined to cause even more harm and havoc here, so the best thing to do is concentrate on defending our country, not attacking another.
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Bit late for that, mate. The enemy is already here.
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Trumps a curious one. He tells countries to pay up on defence then takes over from the rich Arabs. Huh are they paying up in other ways :confused: |
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Quite amusing to see Trump perplexed when other countries don't follow his America First line but put their own countries first.
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It's all about the exchange rate, which currently stands at around 17 drones for 2 Patriot missiles . .
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from what i've seen on TV the easiest way to stop a shahed drone is to put a block of flats in front of it
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Pete Hegseth (US Secretary of Fox News) has stood up and claimed an American submarine just became the first since world war 2 to torpedo a warship. I can’t help wondering how ‘facts’ like this get circulated - surely if someone imagined it might be true, they would have to go and check to make sure first? Otherwise by what basis would you imagine it was true? Annoyingly, this little candidate for Most Stupid Thing the Trump Admin Has Said Today (and let’s face it, it’s a crowded field) just gave handwringing Bowen the chance to remind everyone watching the 10 o’clock news how ‘controversial’ the BBC has always thought the sinking of the Belgrano was.
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Perhaps its the first American submarine to torpedo a warship since WW2 ?
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Is he some kind of B class celebrity or something?
Can't he get on 'The Chase' or 'Tipping Point' and show how thick he is? |
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“I’m in some terrorist detention centre for some terrorist check,” Tate said. He continued: “Welcome to the Middle East. I guess tensions are high for some reason. I’m like, ‘Do you know who I am?’.”
What a muppet. He can’t even remember his own name. https://www.indy100.com/viral/andrew...n-centre-dubai |
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I'd rather believe Sephiroth than Trump and his Whitehouse minions, at least he doesn't compromise himself by changing his ideas and principles just to look 'more gooder' than he is.
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And, to remind for the record: Israel has to protect itself. Hamas needs to be offed. Hezbollah, ditto. Iran - Regime to be offed and its people freed. |
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If the USA people really were intelligent, they should have expected it and taken measures.
Hands up all of us that thought Russia would just sit quietly and do nothing. :D |
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US intelligence fed to Ukraine saw Russian frontline forces being spotted and blown up in a great effort to push Russia back.
I thought Iran had no shame toying with a superior power but Russia is a joke with this move. |
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With a bit of luck, Iran is nearly out of missiles and drones.
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The Arab world left Iran to build stockpile of Arsenal.
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I've proclaimed my disdain of 'experts' a few times on here, but there's a not so subtle difference between the plethora of 'common & garden' experts, and those who also show some common sense and foresight.
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You do want the Iranian regime offed, Carth? And their missiles trashed? Yes? Please? |
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The real professionals in the US military really have to be cringing and face-palming now. |
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Quite surprised this never gained any traction, apparently in the negotiations that were abruptly cut short by America attacking, Oman foreign minister & negotiator is claiming Iran agreed to everything, no nuclear material stockpiling, IAEA monitoring, US spot checks, no weapons grade enriched uranium the lot, seems war war was preferable to jaw jaw though |
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Weapon Manufacturing isn't a great earner in times of peace . . although slinging all your old stock at someone begging for it *cough Ukraine *cough* does then give you scope to produce better stuff I guess.
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UK has missed a trick. If we had invested in munitions manufacturing (big time), we could have supplied the US and delivered to RAF Fairford.
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In which case a munitions factory would be a prudent investment.
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Then we should anchor off the coast of any nation that displeases us and demand the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS
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I see el gov has placed an aircraft carrier on 5 days’ readiness, with absolutely definitely no inkling at all that this would be misunderstood (and misreported) by the media as ZOMG WE’RE SENDING AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO IRAN and conveniently kill off the questions from the press and public who were *finally* starting to realise what successive governments have been doing to the Royal Navy since the 1990s.
FWIW HMS Prince of Wales was already on 14 days’ notice and was already being prepared for deployment because of a forthcoming NATO exercise. And there’s scant chance of us having any reason to send a floating airbase to the eastern Mediterranean anyway, what with us owning a massive land-based one on an island out that way called Cyprus. It’s also functionally impossible for us to deploy an aircraft carrier outside of a NATO exercise or operation with the RN in its current state thanks to the RN having insufficient ships to escort it. So no, HMS PoW is not going anywhere near a combat zone unless Starmer can persuade allies its in their interests to go along with it. |
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Iran war latest: Iran has chosen new supreme leader after killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in US-Israel strike
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Could end up being a long running game show* "I'm the Ayatollah get me out of here"
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