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I feel it important to point out that racial bias is not racism. Racism is the belief of racial superiority, period. It's been bastardised these days to mean basically anything. Koinophilia!
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f***ing howling at that mate! PMSL!
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It's not just money though either. The middle east is strategic in foreign policy! Historically it's been where the oil and gas flows from and being able to influence/control that is a massive weapon in war and in peace. I think 'stealing their oil' and 'it's good for the share price' is an over simplification.
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Yeah but I'm not comparing individual cases, I'm comparing the effects of different threats to society. In terms of total death toll, terrorism is quite low, historically and compared to other stuff, like death in police custody, violent crime etc. Yes, 9/11, 7/7 etc are horrific single acts, far outweighing individual acts of more regular violent crime or whatever but viewed more generally the view is different. And even when we do compare the effects of single acts that result in equal death toll, we react far more greatly to terrorism than more regular crimes. Look, I was just agree
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Rightly in my view, it's murder on the streets nothing more. The other view, that terrorists are freedom fighters, is not a view I subscribe to. To mention the elephant in the room, some of what is notionally "anti-terrorism" or "anti-Islam" is simply the underlying aversion to "pakis and nig-nog" as someone put it dressed up as pseudo-concern for their fellow man. This tends to particularly be the case in the example of alt-right types on the internet. But that's the thing, it's seen as worse than murder on the streets, far worse. When we read about some poor f****r gettin
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I take your point but I think we are closer than we've been in a long time. The threat of terrorism, as serious as it is, pales into insignificance compared to the sort of threat of nuclear holocaust our parent's generation lived with. Fair enough, we all have our different outlooks. I agree with you about terrorism. Objectively the effects from Islamic terrorism are nothing too serious when put in perspective. There's more to that story though and imo it feels so affective because of the principle of it, it just naturally outrages us more than an equivalent death toll from any oth
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So let's assume you were Russia or China, at what capacity would you want the US war machine running it at when you play your hand? It gets to the point where if your conventional and proxy forces are all fully tied up, going nuclear is your only remaining option and MAD still applies. A sort of death by a thousand self inflicted cuts. My comment wasn't serious, more just a joke about the enormous scale and capability of the US military. I absolutely do not believe we are getting close to a serious US-Russo conflict. Besides, in the event of such a world war, proxy wars would
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With about 20 fixed wing aircraft carriers, I'd say about 10-15 at a time! LOL
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I don't know about that, I wouldn't want to eat a fighting bull because of the meat taint from it still having it's bollocks let alone the adrenaline. I have noticed that deer shot after being bumped or the ones that need shooting again taste... it's difficult to describe, a little bitter perhaps? I can't tell the difference at all myself and I've eaten a few that probably had a good bit of adrenaline in them.
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The trouble with the whole argument is that it is rendered void by the simple and undeniable fact that if one purports to be a superpower that looks after it's interests one cannot have an non-interventionist foreign policy. Otherwise some proxy of some other budding power will test you and force your hand. I presume you refer to the argument of non-interventionism and not my own statement. I'd say that you don't need to be a super power to not really be able to follow the hard line non-interventionist ideology. It's just that historically when the world has lived under the dom
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Nik, at what point do the nationalist/anti-interventionists draw the line on, well, intervention. Is it only okay to deploy force to counter a direct threat to US territory? In genuine humanitarian cases? To protect a direct threat to an ally? To protect international trade routes? Do they really think that the US should remain absolutely inactive and let the rest of the world get on with it up until the point enemy airborne are dropping on US soil? Surely there is a line somewhere between the Bush agenda of overthrowing every uncooperative foreign state and say deploying force to counter
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He's got a whiff of Truther about him. Or that fella that was mates with Capreolus perhaps. Flash, how do you feel about dogs catching deer and the Iron Lady? Throw me a bone.....
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Admirable sentiment but oil rather complicates things, doesn't it? You can't very well have arrangements like a few years ago when the Americans and Saudis dropped production to raise the price of oil in an effort to starve the Russians out if you haven't installed compliant despots in countries that were developing self-deterministic democracies in their own right before oil was found. So for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat 50 years of democracy wiped out and the stage set for the revolution of 1981 simply because the Iranians wanted a fair p
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Admirable sentiment but oil rather complicates things, doesn't it? You can't very well have arrangements like a few years ago when the Americans and Saudis dropped production to raise the price of oil in an effort to starve the Russians out if you haven't installed compliant despots in countries that were developing self-deterministic democracies in their own right before oil was found. So for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat 50 years of democracy wiped out and the stage set for the revolution of 1981 simply because the Iranians wanted a fair p
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I think that that is exactly what this was about. I'm not going to comment on the chemical weapons attack in Syria but whether those 59 Tomahawks were launched legitimately or otherwise, it was done to make a political statement rather than achieve a military goal. That strike said to any US enemy that this Commander in Chief was not afraid to act boldly in sensitive situations. Never mind Iran, Russia or Syria, to me that was a message addressed to Pyongyang. Syria is the stage for all the players to posture. I think the US administration knows the real threat isn't Islamic extremism
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Bit harsh. She's perfectly serviceable. via Imgflip Meme Generator Paige Wyatt Half page 3, half giraffe?
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For right wing yanks, Tomi Lahren every time.
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If you let someone take that jam sandwich off you by force and do nothing to get it back they might start eyeing up that fridge full of luxury food... Thatchers government were quietly looking into ceding sovereignty of the falklands prior to the 1980 invasion. After Argentinean marines landed in Stanley there was no possibility of that happening. You are quite right.
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They're often considered strategic assets in terms of our ability to operate globally. Gib was massively important in WWII being at the mouth of the Med. The Falklands and south Georgia etc give us a foothold in the south Atlantic and claim to Antarctic territory. Akrotiri in Cyprus is useful for middle eastern ops. Diego Garcia for Asia and renting to the yanks, lol. Ascension was essential in retaking the Falklands. But all that aside, these people are british patriots and I'll stand by them for it.
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I'll not be repeating that to the attractive Spanish lass then!
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LOL, yeah perhaps this wasn't the place. I just mean to say it's quite interesting time to be in Paris working with a selection of nationalities. Brexit is hot on everyone's minds, trump less so, even for the yanks and of course the French elections imminent. I'm on a course for work so it's a semi professional environment so I can't really crack on with "tits on her!" or "f**k the EU". lol Food has been excellent, Accip.
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So I'm having a meal with a group of fellow delegates in Paris. A dozen of us from a variety of nationalities, English, French, Spanish, American etc. We're all having a surprisingly good time and then the elephant in the room crops up, lol, brexit! Needless to say, I'm the only 'brexiteer'. Decided discretion was probably wise, so I keep quiet. A few are having a good moan and keep bringing it back up so I can't help but have a bit of friendly debate still keeping my cards close like. Suddenly all the minor conversations stop and I realise everyone on the table is zoned in to my littl
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Go on then big fella, I'll fate ya!
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Don't do drugs Kids!
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I honestly expected to click on this thread and see an end of night picture with the looser dangling from a 5 bar gate. It just seemed fitting.
