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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
That's what the Europhiles continue to spout. The reality is rather different. The EU has become a divisive, bureaucratic interfering autocratic and undemocratic organization and we'd be well shot of it.
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Nato is toothless because its member states army's are no more than a token gesture these days. when i was a member of the Armored corp we had 1200 tanks, now we have 50 if the
proposed latest cuts hold firm and half of those are in
Alberta Canada
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The proposed cuts mean that the country which invented the tank has signalled it is to surrender almost a century’s experience of fighting armoured warfare.
The move also means that the Ministry of Defence will once again throw away billions of pounds in equipment after flushing away £3.6 billion on the new Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft along with millions on axing aircraft carriers and Harrier jets.
Under the plans the 400 strong fleet of Challenger 2 main battle tanks, that played a key role throughout the Iraq campaign, could be reduced to as little as 50 tanks, enough to equip just one regiment.
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