Originally Posted by aot871
Are you so surprised that someone who took the decision to murder 323 crew on board the General Belgrano when it was sailing away from a conflict zone might suggest she was prepared to bomb Dundalk because she believed Irish terrorists might be hiding there (though she could produce absolutely no evidence of that being the case)?
Sinking enemy vessels is part of war Scottish regardless of when or where that vessel happens to be. The briefest of research on this will yield considerable information about it. Not that you will alter your opinion. And is this really the direction you want this discussion to go? It's a separate subject.
scotty what a despicable comment...the sooner the English set you adrift the better...guess they have to get rid of the EU first seeing they are even bigger parasites that you lot.
Don't you mean past experience shows the US enters about 2 years later & only after the US is directly attacked ?Based on past performance that would mean the US would then take 2 or 3 years to enter any war.
Anyway, whilst the US kindly prop up NATO at present (much appreciated), the major Western European countries need to make sure they can fend off prospective aggressors without external support. Just in case the external support backs out. We are a very long way from having sufficient military strength to do that at present.
Not hiding - living, just every day as normal.
North Korea are aiming for Nuclear weapons so they can have a boosted presence on the world stage.
The Kim dictatorship is not crazy, even tho it is oppressive, authoritarian and dangerous.
They're elites, wanting to stay in power. They don't want to be nuked to hell anymore than any other power hungry elite does. Their tough talk is for domestic consumption.
Trump is... unpredictable. It could be his tough talk is for domestic consumption as well; after all he's hardly having a honeymoon right now. But it could be the negotiating tactics of a man used to business deals where all that is lost is money.
All we mortals can do is hope both sides steer very clear of nuclear weapons.
What's all this about the US taking 2 or 3 years to enter a war, or waiting to be attacked first? Maybe that was true back in WWII, but sure as hell isn't now.
The US policy as of late is to obliterate and invade sovereign nations that haven't yet attached the US. You know, just because the leader of that nation said nasty things to them, or similar. Better safe than sorry, so new US policy seems to be obliterate the country pre-emptively just in case they may try to attack in the future.
Now combine that with a selfish, mentally unstable, neurotic, deranged, pathogical lira, racist, deranged lunatic with a fragile ego and daddy issues who suffers from early stage dementia, and has such a short attention span NATO leaders have to be instructed to keep their speeches to 2 - 4 minutes, and the outcome doesn't look all that great.
Whenever Margaret Thatcher is mentioned, I can't stop myself from smiling about Jo Brand's comment that "Lady Thatcher sounds like a device for removing pubic hair".
neddy3 (August 10th, 2017)
Don't hold back Matt, we don't want to be confused about your position on this
The utterances of Trump and the current object of the North Korean personality cult I put in the same category as the gogo boy who says "I do everything" but in reality does nothing
I don't know, I guess time will tell. The orange oompa-loompa with a dead racoon on his head who currently resides in the White House )well, mainly his golf resorts) seems quite retarted, tempermental, narrow minded, and unpredictable.
Plus he still has the ability to unilaterally wage war without Congress' approval. There was some legislation on the table recently to strip that power from the president, which has granted to Bush in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, but it fell through, so the President still retains that power.
Fun stuff....
arsenal (August 11th, 2017)
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