Born Hunter
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Oh and there was another night of air strikes on Monday night. US SEALs missing after a ship boarding too.
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I feel that that sort of statement lumps everything together. We were sourcing stuff from cheap foreign places well before any of the events you talk about took place. We’ve been utilising global trade and capitalism for about 400 years. It’s literally what made Britain histories greatest empire. This is far more nuanced than all that. Of course certain supply chains and industries are of strategic importance. But does that mean we shouldn’t utilise cheap foreign supply or resources for anything ever? We’d have done nothing historically if that was the case. My only point on this top
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I didn’t say most UK companies don’t. Of course you partly pay for a brand but you’re also paying R&D. The point is that cheap one wouldn’t exist if the expensive one didn’t. It’s not just a case of buying Chinese and stamping a flag on it. Manufacturing is the final stage of the process, not the whole process.
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Manufacturing is often outsourced to China but its not a case of rebranding a Chinese design. Industry in the West has transitioned from being a manufacturing base to being a tech and service base. Tech companies design world leading products and then simply leverage superior Chinese manufacturing. It’s not even just a price thing anymore, often the quality is better than Western options. Does that have complex geopolitical and social consequences, probably yeah, but it’s not fair to say that all we do these days is buy foreign and stamp a Union Jack on it.
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The opium wars all over again!
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Nah you’re right. Maybe wouldn’t hurt to sharpen folks up a bit early on, just to let them know where you stand on things broadly and to keep anything dissenting to themselves or maybe this shoot ain’t the one for them. Call it a baptism. Over the years I’ve fallen out with keepers, land owners, guns, beaters, public etc etc. And I’m a f***ing delight. It just goes with the scene imo. A lot of money and passion makes for emotional times. Going through similar political bullshittery now.
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As valid as that might be the sailors marines and airmen who were part of the recent actions would’ve been buzzing. They joined for exactly what has happened over the past few months. The crew of HMS Diamond have dealt with one of the most complex air attacks experienced by anyone since at least the Falklands. You can’t have a military and expect them to be taken seriously or be any good if you will only deploy them when enemy paratroops are descending on British soil.
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I think keeping skinny and busy would solve a lot of modern illnesses.
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That’s all very reasonable. I care about the topic of this post because the British military is still something to be proud of and I feel using it to maintain supply chains is a just one. We’re interested in the things were interested in. That doesn’t necessarily reflect how important we feel they are.
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Do you not think this is comparable, probably much less bold, to when trump with uk and French support carried out strikes against Assad?
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Their only concern is the supply chain. And obviously looking important. The social stability of our island doesn’t factor. In fact I’d say from a uk perspective this was purely about looking good to the yanks. We contributed nothing that they haven’t got legions of.
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It appears the UK contribution were four typhoons. I assume from Cyprus flying through Saudi airspace? Seems more of a statement of support for the yanks.
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Really lean crewed escorts!
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The main outcome of the cabinet meeting should be to build more f***ing escorts.
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So far the British strategy has clearly been defensive, with no real offensive strike capability deployed in the gulf. At best they could use naval gunfire. If a carrier was deployed that would make a statement of a strategic shift towards a more offensive posture. Such an operation seems ideally suited to our current carrier strike capability. Its always possible a sub is about with tomahawks but that’s not a particularly sustainable way of striking. Though again it would be a strong statement of an offensive posture.
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This just popped up in my feed and thought I’d post it on here. The last of David Stirlings original SAS commandos from WW2 has died aged 103. Major Mike Sadler.
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It’s not for everyone. I found it the right length for what they tried to cover in the plot. Seeing many of the fathers of modern physics in a big budget film was good.
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The power of the atom would have been unleashed eventually. The only question at the time was how to ensure we had the power too/first. It was an inevitability. I don’t think many would view him as a maniac. IMO nuclear weapons are the sole reason we haven’t had a third world war and conclusively ended the war with Japan years earlier than it otherwise would have.
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Oppenheimer, one of the best films I’ve ever watched I think.
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From what I’ve read on the push back tactics it’s not a simple solution. Agree with movement on the benefits side. Remove the incentives.
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Just what the spin doctor ordered.
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The treasury would be fans of that. 177s probably retail cheaper than a 30mm canon.
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Maybe it wouldn’t, point is it’d be less costly than bombing a migrant boat.
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Tell that to the UN/BRICS/G6 etc when we’re being leathered for dropping munitions on Calais beach! Im not saying I agree but it’s not hard to see the reasons why by the RN aren’t active in the channel.
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There’s no real easy options. To do anything more than is already being done would turn the world against the UK. I have absolutely no doubt that 99% calling for the RN to bomb the migrants would regret it once we were economically destroyed by sanctions. Maybe there’s a grey area we can exploit like the Rwanda concept. But that’s about as good as we can expect. Bombing Yemen is politically and legally easy in comparison. And of course economically low risk.
