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Jel Shaker posted:last time we were in crimea it was a smashing success wasn’t it, we don’t stop talking about the light brigade today Plus all those kickass Iron Maiden albums.
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Makes you swell with pride that book. X is for...the London Police? loving u wot my?
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we all knew it was true but lol at outright admitting it https://twitter.com/TKispeter/status/1492823491279794178?s=20&t=jxntwiZg_2Lp8AWojcYkSQ
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I just can't get over the gap between the reality of our actual military capabilities (more admirals than battlelships), and the media view that we might go to war against russua over ukraine and win. But then I guess the press has always been completely detached from reality when it comes to the armed forces. I had to read american sources to find out that the americans were very unimpressed with how our boys performed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reading the uk press and you get the impression we were teaching the unsophisticated yanks how to do counter insurgency warfare. Scotland gets half the space of the queens coach, makes sense
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marktheando posted:But then I guess the press has always been completely detached from reality when it comes to the armed forces. When you say "always", how far back were you thinking? 
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marktheando posted:I just can't get over the gap between the reality of our actual military capabilities (more admirals than battlelships), and the media view that we might go to war against russua over ukraine and win. yeah our experience in northern ireland was invaluable to securing basra and um don’t look any further into it than was the newspapers said
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gonadic io posted:When you say "always", how far back were you thinking? I listened to a good episode of behind the bastards about Hiram Maxim, it came up that the reporting of our one sided victories in colonial wars in the late 19th century never mentioned the maxim gun. All the paintings would depict riflemen in honourable combat, rather than a machine gunner mowing down people by the thousand.
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marktheando posted:I just can't get over the gap between the reality of our actual military capabilities (more admirals than battlelships), and the media view that we might go to war against russua over ukraine and win. I thought the consensus was the UK did in fact do much, much better than the US at counterinsurgency, and what upset them when investigating was the realisation that the UK was just going with the old empire periphery tactic of paying local powerbrokers off to maintain the status quo, instead of murdering everyone who didn't kiss the ring twice daily
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Jose posted:we all knew it was true but lol at outright admitting it https://twitter.com/EuanYours/status/1492846778743468037?s=20&t=xMvxel4a8n1nszbHC_fQAw
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Spangly A posted:I thought the consensus was the UK did in fact do much, much better than the US at counterinsurgency, and what upset them when investigating was the realisation that the UK was just going with the old empire periphery tactic of paying local powerbrokers off to maintain the status quo, instead of murdering everyone who didn't kiss the ring twice daily The old empire playbook would involve a lot of murdering.
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Spangly A posted:I thought the consensus was the UK did in fact do much, much better than the US at counterinsurgency, and what upset them when investigating was the realisation that the UK was just going with the old empire periphery tactic of paying local powerbrokers off to maintain the status quo, instead of murdering everyone who didn't kiss the ring twice daily well its not like the americans are exactly setting a high bar over there
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Grape posted:The old empire playbook would involve a lot of murdering.
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British counter-insurgency's subtle cunning imperial era touches, like pouring petrol into a cave to burn a stubborn rebel to death.
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I understand the urge to want to knife Steve Reed but that doesn't mean I should act on the urge.
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lmao at the met picking now when they are most widely publicly hated to do this https://twitter.com/MPFed/status/1493198362199343104?s=20&t=QoBC5gW5q-zXX_HlTOXvEA
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Jose posted:lmao at the met picking now when they are most widely publicly hated to do this i actually laughed out loud when i saw this on the news
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Jose posted:lmao at the met picking now when they are most widely publicly hated to do this They didn't even take his daughter hostage or anything before sending such tweets? They need to learn from the pros.
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Jose posted:Lol I feel like the armed militia attempting to threaten an elected official might have wanted to check if he has a big folder with their names on it first
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Jose posted:Lol Rookie poo poo. If you're gonna go that route you should at least get yourself a raging smack habit.
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Jose posted:Lol is this a prof david nutt type thing or is he a massive hypocritical shitlord
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To strategize on drugs you have to first strategize on drugs
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Lol this is 4 times the amount in total in 2016 https://twitter.com/pauld4dog/status/1493274464062160896?t=lOkDagH6W33789vL_NY0Qg&s=19
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Jose posted:Lol This has got me genuinely curious about what the standard ratio is.
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Jose posted:Lol this is 4 times the amount in total in 2016 Return to tradition
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Jose posted:Lol this is 4 times the amount in total in 2016 My theory is that someone in charge of the environment agency had a friend who wouldn't shut the gently caress up about wild swimming during the pandemic and this is all out of spite.
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quote:The River Thames sludge fairs[1] were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some months, starting at least as early as the late 7th century[2] until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Sludge Age, when the river sludged over most frequently. During that time the British sludge was more severe than it is now, and the river was wider and slower, further impeded by the 19 piers of the medieval Old London Bridge which were removed in 1831. 
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oi dawn't play ein th'poo poo, 're'else
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