Born Hunter
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They're as common as those little ford things these days! It's put me right off them. I had to buy the custom H&H edition just so I didn't look like a prole!
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Oh go on then, if you're about mid August I'll take you on the grouse with me! But you're driving the f***ing Range while I drink port!
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For me, what would probably define British fieldsports in the eye's of a foreigner would be, Driven pheasant shooting - very different to what is typical in the states. Foxhunting - preferably following fell hounds in the lake district as it's utterly breath-taking scenery and it's hunting at it's purest. Stalking a hill stag in Scotland - it's just iconic. Stalking muntjac and water deer - not something that can be easily found anywhere else in the world. I think the fishing side of things is probably pretty similar to what you guys would already be used to.
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Tbf I believe the new military governments told them to leave. The French interventions in North Africa were quite surprising to the world. They pretty much unilaterally took action and quite successfully too initially.
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Logistics! You can have the worlds most lethal military, if you can’t keep them supplied you’ll be defeated by a much smaller force. Interesting factor though.
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Yes, massive.... LOL
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FYI I'm not saying Russia invaded any of those countries, they've done plenty of that as Charts points out, but not in these instances as far as I know. But they are looking to gain influence and advantage anywhere they see opportunity to though. They use private military contractors to support the side Putin wants to win. Often these contractors are nothing more than serving spetsnaz who take their insignia off and wear a face mask. Similar to Western special forces operations. I'm not even saying that's wrong, lol. But people need to know that Russia are not a benign defensive state. Th
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In full agreement.
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I don't follow you? Their involvements in the countries I listed are much the same as they were in your example of Syria, just less well known. In fact there's speculation that the recent military coups had Russian involvement. My point is, they are playing the same game the West is, but many seem to consider it dismissible when it's Russian in nature.
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That's what is on record, off the record they've had involvement in Sudan, Central African Republic, Libya, Mozambique, and most recently after military coups in Mali and Burkina Faso kicked the French forces out and welcomed Russians in. That's just Africa...
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Since 2014 Ukraine were already 'on side', they were already making moves towards union with the EU and NATO membership. There's nothing really to be gained by the West through instigating false Russian aggression. This military escalation is entirely Putin! The defence industry don't even need it, they've got the rise of China justifying their next sales, which is going to be a huge pay day. I haven't said the West or the US are any better. In fact I'd say the last 20 years of disasters have led to Putin feeling emboldened enough to do shit like this. At least the West use uniformed troo
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"about to happen".... a month in invasion terms is pretty imminent. But it's really neither here nor there because it's one MP and I don't agree with him. My point is you seem to think Putin can do no wrong and it's all the evil Biden/EU spreading lies. What Russia are doing is in no way routine or benign. They're making a play, having already relieved their neighbour of land and in the process of actively relieving them of more. My bet is that full scale invasion of Ukraine is what they want everyone to believe so when they make their actual smaller move the world will think the res
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So if an invasion happens this weekend, they were wrong were they? LOL I disagree with that Tory MP, I don't think an invasion is guaranteed at all, probably not even the most likely outcome. But you're living on another planet if you don't think Putin is playing chess here with many options on the table and this 'training' exercise isn't a strategic move towards those options. He's already annexed Crimea, is in the process of annexing Donesk and just so happens to have amassed unprecedented forces on the eastern border, in their northern ally Belarus and on the south in the Black Sea.
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I expect a bank full of digital currency is of great comfort to a post invasion insurgency faced with divisions of enemy armour in their country. The thousands of anti tank weapons, MANPADs, and secure comms delivered by US/UK won't be of much use I expect....
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40.... a month! f**k. Mine's 70 for the year! I'd be taking all my garden waste to the tip if I had to pay that.
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When you say an additional 40, what does that make the total? Because here it's 70... And yeah, plastic wheelie bins are f***ing unsightly.
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Though socialist is in their name, they weren't strictly socialists, in fact if I'm not mistaken Hitler explicitly hated 'socialists'. Nazism embraced the sort of socialist beliefs of everyone chipping in for the good of all (the state), but they killed people considered weak, lol. Socialists help the weak, sometimes to their detriment. The sort of socialism the Nazi's embraced was absolutely typical of nationalism, which most wouldn't consider socialists. This really just highlights how erroneous a one dimensional (left/right) theory of politics is. This is possibly more helpfu
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Now that's got me interested. Not QRA jets then. Not typical to do this with production jets I dont think, so must have been testing a specific new upgrade.
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QRA Typhoons scrambled apparently. Poseidon launched too. Dunno if it’s connected.
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Interesting read, Carol J. Adams - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Basically she ate a hamburger for tea on the day her pony died, had a breakdown, and figured that men use meat to oppress women and every other demographic of victims... I don't know if any of her 'theories' have actual empirical data to support them, but I suspect they don't. Social sciences are in an absolute shit state these days.
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fruit = sugar = baaaaaad
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This made me laugh.
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I was washing kennels yesterday and manged to shut my pup out on the driveway. Thank Christ I don't live round you lot.... it'd have had a new name, bowl and collar by time I finished disinfecting!
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So close!
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Sell it all! It’s worth a fortune!
