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    Maybe but I'm inclined to disagree. Though typical Islamic cultures are not good fits with our Western cultures, they're not all one cohesive organised mob of extremists/jihadis. For instance I doubt that Sunni Arabs give a f**k about Shia Iranians. Do you think the Kurds feel the pains of Turkey or Baathist Iraq? They're too easy to play off against each other for them to be all 'Islamic brotherhood'. I think the only reason that belief exists in the West is because in our countries all the brown people are mobbed together. I don't believe that is representative of the wider world. Th
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    Someone would need to give him a heads up that the mujahedeen aren't on our side this time round.... bit awkward like.
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    How about this. Given the disastrous history of regime change, since at least the Iran coup of '53, is limited operations with the aim of 'containment' the most viable strategy? It's certainly the direction the British government is taking with military reforms. Light, highly trained, highly equipped, highly informed, forces with short reaction times and global reach. No intention of holding ground or forcing change, just go in at a moments notice and leather them then f**k off, as and when necessary until the regime naturally collapses through internal pressure, rather than external.
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    Imagine, next week the RNLI towing in a lifesize inflatable C-17 off Dover ram-packed with immigrants. This place will explode!
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    I’m sceptical as to whether a blow up C17 is even possible. A C17 is a very large aircraft. Material wise it’d have to be light as hell for air pressure alone to maintain any kind of shape, heavy as hell to not move. It’d be far easier to use a real aircraft, it’s not like they’re short of them. I expect you’d need a chinook or Herc size transport aircraft to just transport this hypothetical blow up.
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    Deception over force size has been absolutely standard during the Second World War and even Cold War. 22SAS were originally named L detachment SAS to make the Nazis think there were numerous commando units operating in the area. Likewise false airfields were built all over the place to confuse enemy intelligence and bombers. I don’t see the sense or practicality in faking that scene with blow ups when the US had ample real transport aircraft to fake it with real kit. Not that I’m inclined to believe any of it is faked.
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    Gents the likely reason the video is edited is because there’s nothing to see when it takes off. The fella who fell would’ve been up in the landing gear out of sight. It’s not uncommon. The other fellas sat on the side probably, quite sensibly got off when they realised they couldn’t stop it and so there’s literally f**k all to see. There’s not going to be a video of Afghans peeling off the side of a c17 with the hammer down, as funny as that would be. The sound of those engines powering up would scare the death out of anyone near to them, they’re not that daft.
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    Well I'm reliably informed that I'm equipped to overthrow the government now so ISIS were cutting about in Hilux's and they got leathered!
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    Only if that's what you want it to be. The general mainstream media outlets just don't report with any depth or detail on defence so you have to find specialists.
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    The consensus of specialist military commentary to date has been that this administration has carried on the former administrations policy and stance towards china. And I'm not talking BBC/CNN, I'm talking specialist defence media sources that 99.9% of the public don't even know exist, much less pay attention to. The first real defining act in this policy area for the Biden administration was to send two CSGs east as is typical of peacetime gunboat diplomacy. And as you say, they have followed through with broadly the same Afghan strategy as what the Trump administration had.
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    Evans Halshaw!
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    No, vulgar! limited (income, lol)
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    I've just bought one today I'll check the back for my complementary turban and Kalashnikov!
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    Given that many people are asking "what was the point of the last 20 years" if it's now all back to normal, in the future if faced with another 911/Afghanistan what do you think we should do? What are the 'right' circumstances and what are the right ways to use military force?
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    If I’m not mistaken, they were denied a northern base by turkey but Kuwait allowed them a southern base, which for anyone who had a map will see is on the border, no thousands of miles away in the other side of a hostile state. And they launched a massive naval and amphibious assault from the sea in the gulf, also obviously right on Iraq’s border (maritime). There strategic bombers can probably fly mission from the homeland with tankers to refuel, never mind from closer bases in Europe etc. Their whole military is based around power projection and the logistics chain is absolutely essential to
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    Look at a map…..
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    Iraq was something like the fourth largest military on the planet at the time I believe. They were expected to put up much more resistance than they did. They were a respectable force and they crumbled relatively easily. It doesn’t make any sense to go to the hassle of taking afghan to take Iraq. It might have been handy for Iran but that wasn’t the claim.
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    The point non interventionists miss with all this is unfortunately there has to be a top dog. There has to be someone on the throne in geopolitical terms. And god forbid the day soon when that seat is contested. If the yanks weren’t trying to assert control of geostrategic regions then another would and will step in. It ain’t right or fair but it could be a damn sight less so.
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    That’s the second time you’ve said Afghan was taken as a forward base for invading Iraq. Mate, have you looked at a map? Why base in Afghan which is the other side of Iran from Iraq when they already have bases on Iraq’s border, about 11 carrier strike groups that can sit in the eastern med and Persian gulf (much closer) and bases in Europe to fly air lift and strategic bombers from? It’s just nonsense.
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    Look at the history of military action between Vietnam and the Iraq war and I think there was a lot of success. I'm not talking moral justifications and I'm certainly not meaning to sound like a fan/supporter, simply objectively looking at how successful the use of force was in achieving policy. Then come 2001/2003 and that all gets turned on it's head with successive policy failures, either due to action or even lack of action, but equally some smaller scale successes. I wonder what opinions there are on the factors that affect success and failure....
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    I don’t think Afghanistan was just about the taliban. It was also about al-qaeda. And they’ve been leathering them anywhere they can find them. Which is arguably what should’ve been the limit of policy there and everywhere. Hindsight…. Go on, someone tell us all about opium trade and oil pipelines….
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    I'm not getting into this thread because it's full of the usual. I just wanted to say that I think this belief is dangerous, and not for the reason you might think mate. It's not an uncommon view that the earth/nature will eventually 'set us straight' through some sort of doomsday event brought about by our greed and ignorance. It's shared by environmentalists as a genuine sort of spiritual belief as much as activists who think the only way to motivate joe bloggs into sustainability is through the threat of doom. The danger is that imo it doesn't motivate so much as act as a crutch, it en
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    The pup at 6 months
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    I agree. Politically I oppose certain levels of coercion and certainly mandatory vaccination of citizens.
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    I honestly don’t care mate. I’m not getting into it with them. SC asked a fair question and presented his understanding and I’ve offered mine if it helps. I could quite happily have let half a million people die on ventilators if I’m perfectly honest. Most folk wouldn’t though and vaccination is realistically the best strategy to avoid that so I’m on board.
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