Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "OP CABRIT: Defence Secretary Visits British Troops Deployed To Estonia | Forces TV" video.

  1. NATO
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  2. That's the reason for the deployment, it's automatic entanglement rather than having to make a decision to fight.
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  3.  @leary4  Your calling China explicitly expansionist yet you can't see why Russia, a country that has actually expanded by annexing territory, has sanctions?
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  4.  @eternaldawn2673  your evidence is a larger country beating a smaller one and in the absence of air cover.
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  5.  @leary4  so our government isn't an apologist for Putin, that seems to be bit you don't understand.
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  6. @TheGoat Ben Wallace confirmed we we aren't getting rid of all tanks but not if numbers would be reduced.
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  7. Obviously this isn't the best we can do, its a small deployment to show our commitment as part of NATO.
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  8.  @bulletproofguy5112  We are an island. Tanks aren't high on our priorities. It quite reasonable some smaller countries have more. Poland definitely should have a lot more having a land border with Russia.
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  9.  @bulletproofguy5112  When we had the BAOR it made sense to have a good number of tanks. We don't have a significant force there anymore. The fact we are a global power counts against tanks. We need kit we can move quickly across the world. Thats airpower (from land or sea) and light troops. Some tanks, sure, just not loads.
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  10.  @bulletproofguy5112  Not at the moment. We need modest plans that are certain to get done, and in a timely fashion.
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