Born Hunter

Yeah it would and makes sense normally. But all this time we’ve been told that all the neocons do is rape other countries of their resources and in this war that it’s the encroachment of NATO/EU/‘the west’ that provoked the Russian invasion. This deal is the full realisation of that! I don’t know what the solution here is but what’s being touted is hypocrisy. But even accepting that as now necessary for peace, I think the way this administration is behaving has reduced US power projection to aircraft carriers and tariffs. The day before the Zelenskyy pantomime Trump announced how he would

Yes please, that sounds delightful.

There aren’t any guarantees now. The US word in foreign policy is close to meaningless now. The only ‘guarantee’ would be giving them something to lose. They need skin in the game and with their growing isolationism would they really roll armour across Europe for mining rights? Also, surely that kind of deal would be a huge escalation from Putins point of view. That’s not a buffer zone or Russian hegemony.

I don’t think anyone involved came out of that looking good. Zelenskyy could’ve embarrassed the pair of them if he’d had the guile to, and they were like children. The war needs to be concluded and that will be a compromised outcome but Trump isn’t doing anything impressive at this stage. He’s actually got an opportunity to show he’s a better strategist than the democrats but I think this will be seen as his Afghanistan withdrawal moment and if this sets the tone it will go down in the history books as an even bigger US foreign policy shitfest.

Ending to Yellowstone was f***ing shite. But it had run its course. 1923 is decent but Landman is the true successor for me.

Signed off a couple of weeks ago apparently. Just Bragg, not Benning (Moore) yet. Fort Bragg - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

It’s always an Irishman that comes out with the “the English are hated all over the world” Today alone I’ve had separate calls with Aussies, swedes, Flemish and Canadians. Everyone gets on well, in fact I generally think it’s a defining trait of the English. Were still one of the highest rank soft power nations in the world because our ‘brand’ is desired not hated.

IMO it’s near impossible to break the two party system, so no, reform will not take power. The pendulum will swing back and reform will be absorbed or destroyed. The fundamental movement though will not. As much as it will pain many to hear this (on all sides), Donald Trump seems to have demonstrated the only way to disrupt the system… from within. And even then it probably will not result in truly radical change.

I don’t think Trump would allow a prick like starmer to take any glory anyway. What we could contribute compared to the US would make it easy as f**k for trump to sideline him. Ending the war will be controlled by Trump and it’s a huge PR opportunity for him. He’ll own it. If the UK has ambitions to get involved in such serious shit then politicians should make sure the armed forces have the capability to double down if it goes wonky.

European states need to become more independent for defence. The Ukraine situation has flared up the topic but I think NATO is the 20th centuries alliance. In the 21st century china is the adversary and so countries like SK, Japan and Australia are likely to be the key military allies for the US. Europe must start to look after its own back yard. However that whole speech wasn’t about defence, it was about liberal democracy, the single foundational value that maintained the alliance. And that is very much under threat.

Decent speech. Can’t imagine it was very well received

Exactly. The concept that someone who’s fleeing is no longer a threat is insane. The moment you cross the threshold you should be considered a threat until you’re out of shot or surrendered. Its not even like these fellas were an edge case. They were career criminals from a family of criminals. Its as mental as catching a fox at your birds and not shooting because matey is running away.

The idea of a meaningful UK castle doctrine seems like fantasy these days. And yet arguably needed more than ever. Most right minded people would read the facts of that case and wonder what he did wrong.

A guy I follow on IG has loads of decoying videos. He’s now decoying them in for his staghound. Seth Simpson / decoydogging. In fact I’m sure he’s decoyed wolves with them too. For the rifle of course.

Nah just read about it on a source I trust