Born Hunter
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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.
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Ending to Yellowstone was f***ing shite. But it had run its course. 1923 is decent but Landman is the true successor for me.
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Signed off a couple of weeks ago apparently. Just Bragg, not Benning (Moore) yet. Fort Bragg - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Decent speech. Can’t imagine it was very well received
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nah just read about it on a source I trust
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Another huge one that no one wants to take seriously is that if even a shitty cruise missile was launched at our nation in a surprise attack we pretty much have no defence. Homeland missile defence isn’t a thing in the UK. If it was an advanced cruise/hypersonic missile or even a mass missile attack they would rain down on us. If there was warning then a very limited number of specialist warships and land based air defence systems could be deployed to defend high value targets. That’s it. Ballistic missiles… no chance.
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It hadn’t been officially named. The name Agincourt was a working name that was expected to be the official name as with the first six of class.
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Pretty much. From a political perspective. Those days are gone.
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I just typed out loads but thought I’d focus a bit. I think the biggest issue is how we seem to think we can take big capability holidays, like a war will come with ten years notice. Not sure what the status is now but certainly at the start of Ukraine the royal navies ability to actually sink a peer warships was limited to hoping one of probably two globally deployed subs was in theatre. The fleet air wing had/has no anti ship weapons and the surface ships had obsolete ones. Even the Typhoons defending our homeland have basically no ability to sink an enemy ship in our waters. We’re doi
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who? Monarchs, ships, governments or public? LOL
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I wouldn’t have thought the king had much to do with it. It’ll be driven by the Labour government. And there’s way bigger defence issues that the public should be talking about.
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Here’s an informed article on the whole event Royal Navy submarine authorised to surface close to Russian spy ship operating close to the UK | Navy Lookout WWW.NAVYLOOKOUT.COM
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f**k sorry, I mistook Tyne for a batch 2. Batch 1 are primary fish police. Batch 2 are maritime security. Fair fucks sorry about that. But I stand by the fact we didn’t just send Tyne. It was quite a show of naval force.
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Fisheries protection is not their main job at all. We wouldn’t have built a corvette sized ship for that. Their main role is maritime security and to fly the flag in low threat global theatres. They’re ocean going corvettes that carry out a lot of the taskings that the frigates used to and will be replaced by general purpose frigates. Fisheries protection and disaster relief are amongst their roles as well.
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The most lethal conventional asset in the British military was deployed and authorised to apply pressure. Soni found it a bit difficult to not challenge the narrative that all we sent was the fish police. Heres a proper warfighting frigate in close proximity as recently as yesterday.
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Yes really. An offshore patrol vessel is tasked with far more than fisheries protection. They’re deployed globally. Calling it a fisheries protection vessel is blatantly being facetious. Monitoring adversary ships is a primary tasking for an OPV. It keeps the war fighting surface combatants free for more appropriate tasking.
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HMS Tyne isn’t a fisheries protection vessel, it’s an offshore patrol ship. Fisheries protection doesn’t require a 30 mm autocanon. Also, the Russian ship was monitored by more than just Tyne. Cattistock, Tyne, Protious, a Poseidon and finally an Astute which was given unusual permission to surface to announce her presence.
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Not sure what starmers comment has been but surfacing an A-boat up close and personal is the right message.
