Born Hunter
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I honestly don't think it would matter. Non-membership doesn't exclude them from having relations with someone other than Russia. I've said it before, even now, especially now, agreeing to not accede Ukraine to NATO won't be enough for Russia. They want Ukraine totally removed from having any sort of relationship with the West. I'm not intending to conclusively say were good and they're bad. I'm just really arguing against the opposite of that, that it's all our fault. It's just the reality of power structures and geopolitics. It's alright for Russia to have their proxies at our bord
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To give you some clarity on that, UK forces alone have been training them since 2015 iirc. Operation Orbital. In addition, contracts for sales of our kit and tech support for their own has been an increasing thing since then. If you recall the incident last year during the inaugural queen elizabeth carrier strike group deployment, while in the med a destroyer from the group detached and entered the Black Sea with diplomats for a meeting with the Ukrainians at a port in the Black Sea. The Russians claimed to have chased the destroyer off with warning shots. That meeting was to agree arms s
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Whereas everyone would live in peace and harmony if we weren’t involved I expect? Not like regionally and globally there aren’t queues of other countries and non state actors that would fill the void if we stepped back to their benefit and our loss huh?
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Do you honestly think the west are the only ones contending for ground where they can or that they/we are the only ones at fault of breaking the peace? Like Russia give a f**k about these bio labs. They’ve just cottoned on to it because it’s a narrative that’s gained a modicum of traction in the west. Just so we’re clear, the soviets managed to come to all sorts of treaty agreements with the west to maintain peace but apparently the really important one for them never made it to a treaty, just a promise? What’s the point in treaties exactly if promises carry such weight? It’s nonsens
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Wait for it… ”sumo doesn’t count”
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If Putin authorises direct action against ‘our side’ then that will justify our side using defensive measures to protect their current non combat ops to support Ukraine. They won’t just jib because Russia raised their game. And that’ll end with every single such instance of Russian aggression in a loss of men and assets. They’d get wrecked at every meeting and it’d give nato the excuse to properly start degrading the Russian war machine. That escalation would come with new ‘rules’ and the Russian homeland would be firmly off limits. Frankly in such a circumstance how hard the Russians wer
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It is. Big improvement over rapier imo. And a commercial success with export sales for the navalised version and possibly the land version iirc. MBDA knock out the best air defence missiles in the world imo.
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I read something today about the US government saying part of it’s strategy in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian military to such a degree that it is incapable of invading another neighbour.
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I don’t really care about sympathy. Like I said, it’s never just about being a force of good. NATO or it’s members might’ve been able to prevent the invasion. Imo It’s an over simplification to say this is only about NATO. I also don’t believe that continual power competition I talked about can be a won by just conceding every time someone threatens to kill innocent people. Lets not fall into the trap of thinking these buffer states are all independent states. Many of them are simply proxies of Russia. How is that any different really to NATO membership? The only difference is as a p
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I think people simplify things too much. It’s not down to a lack of information. It’s simply laziness or frustration. I’m sure Putin is alarmed by NATO expansion.
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I feel like people over simplify what motivates these sort of foreign policy actions but sure it’s never just about being a force of good, as is how it’s sold. I’m just so far past that I don’t even consider it. But equally it’s not as simple as state sanctioned piracy. Theres a global power structure that is always being contested at every level and in every area. It’s much more complicated than “we are the force of good” or “we can steal their oil”.
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I haven’t said we’re peacemakers. You have a habit of thinking if I comment on what is happening then I am making a moral judgement and taking a side. You implied there was no point in proxy wars and that ‘we’ should actually be at war if ‘we’ are going to engage in a proxy war. I find that incredibly naive. And in doing so I’ve not backed any side as it could apply to both.
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I’m not getting dragged into your nonsense. There are more options and states in life than simply peace or war. It’s unfortunate if that pisses you off.
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I haven’t commented on any of those points. You said if we are willing to engage in a proxy war then we should just go all out and actually go to war ourselves. It’s a nonsense statement.
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‘We’ don’t want a war. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand? And everyone plays this game, not just ‘us and the yanks’.
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One of our boats has just been loaded up with Tomahawks in full view of the world…
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He’s not human!
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That’s what puts me off the extremist types. They don’t recognise simple human traits as anything other than poor discipline. Imo it’s wrong and damaging. There’s a few different more enlightened strategies of dealing with exactly what you refer to. A common one which is more for physical recovery but is equally for mental recovery is incorporating ‘deload weeks’. But one I liked the sound of in theory was from a instagram account I really rate called buildingtheelite. Is a special operations training page which is very scientifically driven in their thinking. They encourage 6 week progra
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I can only take so much of these super extreme achiever influencer types. I recognise their excellence but they tend to be a bit too much for me. Edgley seems less so. But you’re bang on, a ‘growth mentality’ is so fundamental and transferrable. There’s factors in life which you cannot control and factors you can, people with a growth mentality focus on the ones they can and consequently make a difference to their situation. Victims focus on the ones they can’t. Training should be as much about self discovery as tangible aesthetic/performance achievements. There’s huge value in that
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Curious why you say that? I’m not up to speed with all this but a bit of balance in Europe seems a good thing.
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I mean I’m not likely to turn down anyone on nationality tbh But yeah, the whole Mediterranean vibe or just the immaculately presented metropolitan Italian sorts do it for me. Dark hair tan skin immaculately turned out. To be fair there’s a lot of that in London too.
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Stupid language! ??
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I actually got half into a tv drama series about him. Can’t remember now if I finished it or not but it was alright.
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Nope not got to that lesson yet
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My first lesson Raggazo and Raggaza f****d me up for a while until I linked the o with the o in boy. Reggaza then being girl by default.
