comment by Disband the PGMOL (U1282)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 12 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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That's just some theoretical bullsheet that doesn't make sense to me. Have you ever been to some of these places? Which places you talking about that remain untouched so much so that some fatal disease undiscovered for a few million or so years is hiding? I can't see it myself tbh.
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comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 43 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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I didn't think what he posted was that unreasonable to he honest. I actually thought it would create a decent discussion point on the impact of these things and maybe a knowledge share about the region, new diseases, impact of developed nations on Africa past and now present etc.
Instead people got defensive and attacked stuff that he hadn't really said. Way of the world these days I guess. Everything has to be tribal and topics shut down if you don't like it.
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Urbanisation is one of the spreaders of infectious disease. It stands to reason that more people being exposed to infectious diseases from different areas will see a wider spread.
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Thought experiment of the day:
What would happen if a large scale/world war broke out and conscription was needed to boost UK armed forces?
I think it would be similar to the national service debate that occasionally crops up. Those who won't be called up, due to age, tut tutting in the Mail at younger generations who don't want to take part or conscientiously object
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by Disband the PGMOL (U1282)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 12 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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That's just some theoretical bullsheet that doesn't make sense to me. Have you ever been to some of these places? Which places you talking about that remain untouched so much so that some fatal disease undiscovered for a few million or so years is hiding? I can't see it myself tbh.
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I assume he has been to these remote parts of the DRC and he’s trying to educate us.
If it was an invasion of the UK, I imagine we would be looking at using our nuclear deterrent against the aggressors so it would be an unlikely scenario. They would also have to make land before being in a fight with our military.
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
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If it was an invasion of UK soil our troops wouldn't be capable of leaving the isles and mounting a foreign offensive as part of an allied force at the same time. Such are our diminished numbers.
There was a former high ranking officer warning of this a while back.
I think the last invaders we repelled without the help of allies was the Spanish Armada
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
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If it was an invasion of UK soil our troops wouldn't be capable of leaving the isles and mounting a foreign offensive as part of an allied force at the same time. Such are our diminished numbers.
There was a former high ranking officer warning of this a while back.
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Why would we do that anyway? I think an invasion of the UK is unlikely if there is an offensive elsewhere anyway. Fighting on too many resource heavy fronts is how an aggressor loses a war.
Plus we have a nuclear deterrent which make invasion unlikely.
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
We’d just set Israel on them anyway.
Though it’s been a while since we’ve had a good naval battle with the French.
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 27 minutes ago
I think the last invaders we repelled without the help of allies was the Spanish Armada
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comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
Even without nukes nobody would try and invade America as they’d get laughed at.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted less than a minute ago
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
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We'd have lost the Battle of Britian if Hitler hadn't decided to change tactics from attacking airfields and defenses to the Blitz tactics. The RAF were on their knees before they changed their focus.
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
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I don't think they would do either of those things to be honest. They would fear the retaliation and escalation.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 4 minutes ago
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
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The Polish pilots seconded to the RAF were the difference there
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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But I mean with Ukraine in particular. If it all kicked off with NATO properly being involved - say for example Russia invading Poland then surely the first thing that would happen would be the air force would take to the skies and bomb the hell out of the Russian forces to the point where they retreat. There wouldn’t need to be a mass mobilization of conscripted forces as NATO wouldn’t be trying to invade Russia, more just use force as a way of pushing them back.
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
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I don't think they would do either of those things to be honest. They would fear the retaliation and escalation.
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They haven't already embarked on mass disinformation on social media and fomenting division on contentious subjects on UK citizens? The recent race riots are a prime example of this.
They've deployed chemical weapons on UK soil twice without much consequence. Kicking out a few oligarchs and spying sanctions aside.
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posted on 4/12/24
comment by Disband the PGMOL (U1282)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 12 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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That's just some theoretical bullsheet that doesn't make sense to me. Have you ever been to some of these places? Which places you talking about that remain untouched so much so that some fatal disease undiscovered for a few million or so years is hiding? I can't see it myself tbh.
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posted on 4/12/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 43 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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I didn't think what he posted was that unreasonable to he honest. I actually thought it would create a decent discussion point on the impact of these things and maybe a knowledge share about the region, new diseases, impact of developed nations on Africa past and now present etc.
Instead people got defensive and attacked stuff that he hadn't really said. Way of the world these days I guess. Everything has to be tribal and topics shut down if you don't like it.
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posted on 4/12/24
Urbanisation is one of the spreaders of infectious disease. It stands to reason that more people being exposed to infectious diseases from different areas will see a wider spread.
posted on 4/12/24
*causes
posted on 4/12/24
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 2 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Thought experiment of the day:
What would happen if a large scale/world war broke out and conscription was needed to boost UK armed forces?
I think it would be similar to the national service debate that occasionally crops up. Those who won't be called up, due to age, tut tutting in the Mail at younger generations who don't want to take part or conscientiously object
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by Disband the PGMOL (U1282)
posted 52 minutes ago
comment by Ruben The King Amorim Tim Tagi Dim (U10026)
posted 12 minutes ago
I’m not one to defend Boris, but I don’t think he’s blaming China for their problems. I don’t know enough about the region, but it looks he’s saying mining companies are increasing exposure to the areas where there’s lots of infectious diseases.
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That's just some theoretical bullsheet that doesn't make sense to me. Have you ever been to some of these places? Which places you talking about that remain untouched so much so that some fatal disease undiscovered for a few million or so years is hiding? I can't see it myself tbh.
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I assume he has been to these remote parts of the DRC and he’s trying to educate us.
posted on 4/12/24
If it was an invasion of the UK, I imagine we would be looking at using our nuclear deterrent against the aggressors so it would be an unlikely scenario. They would also have to make land before being in a fight with our military.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
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If it was an invasion of UK soil our troops wouldn't be capable of leaving the isles and mounting a foreign offensive as part of an allied force at the same time. Such are our diminished numbers.
There was a former high ranking officer warning of this a while back.
posted on 4/12/24
I think the last invaders we repelled without the help of allies was the Spanish Armada
posted on 4/12/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Maximus Decimus Meridius (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
BREAKING: The entire British Army would be destroyed in “six months to a year” in a largescale war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK’s reserve forces, a defence minister - @AlistairCarns - has said.
Embarrassing
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Is this a large-scale war that involves us being invaded or our troops going to fight on foreign soil? If it's the latter then I doubt they would be fighting alone and there are too many variables to make that calculation IMO.
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If it was an invasion of UK soil our troops wouldn't be capable of leaving the isles and mounting a foreign offensive as part of an allied force at the same time. Such are our diminished numbers.
There was a former high ranking officer warning of this a while back.
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Why would we do that anyway? I think an invasion of the UK is unlikely if there is an offensive elsewhere anyway. Fighting on too many resource heavy fronts is how an aggressor loses a war.
Plus we have a nuclear deterrent which make invasion unlikely.
posted on 4/12/24
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
posted on 4/12/24
We’d just set Israel on them anyway.
posted on 4/12/24
Though it’s been a while since we’ve had a good naval battle with the French.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 27 minutes ago
I think the last invaders we repelled without the help of allies was the Spanish Armada
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posted on 4/12/24
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
posted on 4/12/24
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
posted on 4/12/24
Even without nukes nobody would try and invade America as they’d get laughed at.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted less than a minute ago
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
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We'd have lost the Battle of Britian if Hitler hadn't decided to change tactics from attacking airfields and defenses to the Blitz tactics. The RAF were on their knees before they changed their focus.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
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I don't think they would do either of those things to be honest. They would fear the retaliation and escalation.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 4 minutes ago
Nah Battle of Britain was all us (and we'd have probably lost it if not for Chamberlain's appeasement)
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The Polish pilots seconded to the RAF were the difference there
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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But I mean with Ukraine in particular. If it all kicked off with NATO properly being involved - say for example Russia invading Poland then surely the first thing that would happen would be the air force would take to the skies and bomb the hell out of the Russian forces to the point where they retreat. There wouldn’t need to be a mass mobilization of conscripted forces as NATO wouldn’t be trying to invade Russia, more just use force as a way of pushing them back.
posted on 4/12/24
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 seconds ago
comment by Robben Amorim (U22716)
posted 18 minutes ago
Surely in modern wars using manpower is obsolete if you have a functioning air force. Which is why I never quite get the weird obsession with people saying ‘they’ll conscript young British men to go fight in Ukraine if Putin fights NATO directly.
If that were to happen NATO would establish air superiority within days and there would be no need for some WW1 style inch by inch trench warfare.
As for defending the UK - as above has said, if you have a nuclear deterrent no one would dare invade. Hence why you have one. And why no one would invade Russia or the US etc
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Manpower is incredibly important in an invasion to be able to take and control land. Man power and trenches are still important in Ukraine.
You can't occupy new territory from the air.
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Do you think, Russia for example, would want to invade?
Their motive would be to decimate by missiles, air & naval attack whilst also embarking on hybrid methods of war they've already deployed on UK soil.
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I don't think they would do either of those things to be honest. They would fear the retaliation and escalation.
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They haven't already embarked on mass disinformation on social media and fomenting division on contentious subjects on UK citizens? The recent race riots are a prime example of this.
They've deployed chemical weapons on UK soil twice without much consequence. Kicking out a few oligarchs and spying sanctions aside.
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