Iran

[BloodOmen]

Jesus can we not do anything with pride? On the news they are showing one of our Type 45 Destroyers (HMS Dragon) being prepared for action. The aerial shots show a clean nice looking warship with a fucking rusting shipping container on the front deck.

Sadly with funding cuts over the years (the biggest of which was because of the Tories iirc) our ships and equipment in general are just fucked. We really need a proper military budget again because watching France send one of their ships to defend our assets is just embarrassing. I'm not saying we need omega budgets so we can have ships out the wazoo but we should at least be able to maintain a good fleet of ships in case such an occasion arises.

Should also bring back mandatory service, might get some of the feral shits off our streets and instil some actual discipline into them/turn them into decent people.

 

[Raven]

It's going to suck for Putin, when piss-pot nations realise that no, they do not get the backing of Putin.

 

[Gwadien]

Sadly with funding cuts over the years (the biggest of which was because of the Tories iirc) our ships and equipment in general are just fucked. We really need a proper military budget again because watching France send one of their ships to defend our assets is just embarrassing. I'm not saying we need omega budgets so we can have ships out the wazoo but we should at least be able to maintain a good fleet of ships in case such an occasion arises.

Should also bring back mandatory service, might get some of the feral shits off our streets and instil some actual discipline into them/turn them into decent people.

People outside of the age of national service suggesting we have national service makes me uneasy.

 

[Scouse]

watching France send one of their ships to defend our assets

Their only ship.

People outside of the age of national service suggesting we have national service makes me uneasy.

We've had an ex head of the armed forces saying that the UK public needs to get used to the idea of sending their kids off to get killed.

What a fucking stupid animal humans are.

 

[caLLous]

Their only ship.

What? It's their only carrier but their navy is pretty comparable to the UK's and their nuclear-powered carrier is much more advanced than either of the UK's traditional ones. You (probably deliberately because hyperbole) make it sound like that carrier is the extent of the French navy.

 

[Scouse]

You (probably deliberately...

Oh wind your neck in. I meant to say only carrier, but I really don't give a fuck about the relative power of our respective navies.

It's all moronic spend because we're a moronic warring species.

 

[Deebs]

What? It's their only carrier but their navy is pretty comparable to the UK's and their nuclear-powered carrier is much more advanced than either of the UK's traditional ones. You (probably deliberately because hyperbole) make it sound like that carrier is the extent of the French navy.

Yeh but ours can run on waste paper and the bits of coal dotted around the world, plus we can catch fish and use them to power our state of the art warships.

 

[caLLous]

Oh wind your neck in. I meant to say only carrier, but I really don't give a fuck about the relative power of our respective navies.

It's all moronic spend because we're a moronic warring species.

Ok.

And shrug. As long as there are cunts around that need stopping, there'll be a need to stop them*. A utopia where everyone's nice to each other to the point that no-one even needs a military would be grand but... it ain't happening. I don't think you can say the spending in response to the threat is moronic but whatever. It's only the US in the west who wanks themselves into a stupor over how magnificent their military is, everyone else would probably love to allocate finances elsewhere.

* that's more directed at Russia than whatever the fuck Trump thinks he's doing in Iran.

 

[Embattle]

What? It's their only carrier but their navy is pretty comparable to the UK's and their nuclear-powered carrier is much more advanced than either of the UK's traditional ones. You (probably deliberately because hyperbole) make it sound like that carrier is the extent of the French navy.

It really isn't.

 

[caLLous]

It really isn't.

Ok. It is, though.

(I'm unsure which point you're disagreeing with)

 

[Gwadien]

I think he's referring to our broken and non nuclear carriers

 

[DaGaffer]

their nuclear-powered carrier is much more advanced than either of the UK's traditional ones.

It absolutely is not. Other than "being nuclear powered" it is not more advanced in any way. It has less advanced radar, systems, aircraft, air defences, and automation (in fact the QEs are the most automated carriers in the world by a very long way with a third of the crew of the CdG despite carrying the same number of aircraft and being 25% larger). The only advantage the CdG has is that it can carry an AWACS aircraft, but even that's not that big a deal because F-35s can act as mini-AWACs in their own right.

 

[Scouse]

It's only the US in the west who wanks themselves into a stupor over how magnificent their military is

*cough*

 

[SilverHood]

US backed Kurdish forces from Iraq just crossed the border. I guess 3rd (4th??) time lucky for the Kurds, or will they be abandoned by America yet again?

 

[BloodOmen]

If only there was a reason Trump started this war *Scratches chin*

DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed

Justice Department expects to restore missing documents that were taken offline for review

www.independent.co.uk

*cough* nope, can't think of any reason, can't think of one of those 47,635 reasons.


Edit: The Trump allegations btw for those that haven't read them are vile - basically alleges that Trump raped children under the age of 14 and went as far as threatened to have their families killed with Epstein if they talked about it.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Gwadien]

If only there was a reason Trump started this war *Scratches chin*

DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed

Justice Department expects to restore missing documents that were taken offline for review

www.independent.co.uk

*cough* nope, can't think of any reason, can't think of one of those 47,635 reasons.


Edit: The Trump allegations btw for those that haven't read them are vile - basically alleges that Trump raped children under the age of 14 and went as far as threatened to have their families killed with Epstein if they talked about it.

Where are you getting this information from? You always seem to post sensationalist stuff with 'apparently'.