Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "British troops warned it's 'illegal' to go AWOL and fight in Ukraine war" video.

Let's Go Brandon sounds pretty good to me then, I hope more sign up not less
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If we get nuked so does Moscow, along with 200 other major cities across Russia, and while I'm sure Putin has a second home a lot of people there won't
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@noyneksyam8533 it also was hardly a "complete ass-kicking" was it, yes you won in the end but the American Revolutionary War was a long drawn-out affair where you guys lost plenty of battles yourselves too, as was the later War Of 1812 that ended in a draw (and it WAS a draw, forward slash a loss as far as your invasion of Canada was concerned 🙂 before you start singing Johnny Horton, the war had actually already ended the year before in 1814 where you guys had signed a peace treaty, the Battle Of New Orleans in 1815 was an outlier and a result of information not exactly travelling so fast back then)
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@Tee12343 we'll see about that won't we
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@noyneksyam8533 and what "major wars" would those have been that you're referring to exactly? 'Coz to my recollection we were pretty firmly on the winner's side of the Seven Years War, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, WW1, WW2, the Korean War, Afghanistan and both Gulf Wars, and I'd call them all pretty "major" conflicts
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@noyneksyam8533 American Revolutionary War, sure, that's one, that's hardly "every major war" we've participated in though is it, and as for the World Wars, getting help from America to win a war isn't really the same thing as outright "losing" said war is it (especially since they wouldn't have been able to win said wars without our help either), and given to my recollection we were fighting Fascists and Imperialists how exactly would we have ended up as "Communists" even if we HAD lost
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@cheleigh1 yes, colonisation was bad, go cry me a river, EVERY major country capable of doing it was colonising everything they could back then, America and Russia included, Britain was simply the most successful coloniser. During that same timeframe though, the British Empire did also fight several wars against other major powers of the same technology level too, and still came out on top there as well
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@Slots-Room pretty sure 90% of the time the bulk of our forces were still from here as was the leadership giving the orders, sure we had foriegn allies or native auxiliaries and of course the mighty Ghurkas along for the ride too who also played important roles, but it wasn't exactly them doing the bulk of the actual Empire-building or we wouldn't still get such criticism over the legacy of the said British Empire would we, don't think it was Indian Sepoys fighting the Zulu at Rorke's Drift
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@Slots-Room you mean the Royal Ghurka Rifles that are officially part of the British Army and have been acting as some of our best shock-troops for over 200 years (since the Anglo-Nepalese War where we eventually defeated them but not without one hell of a fight, after which we were so impressed by them that we struck a deal to recruit them, not just as hired guns but as an official regiment of the actual British Army, serving the same Queen & Country as loyally as any "Redcoat"; and which recruitment has become the single most desired career path IN Nepal, Ghurkas aren't just Nepal's defenders but basically their primary export at this point; and something we get tens of thousands of eager applicants every year for, who push themselves to the absolute limit trying to qualify). THOSE Ghurkas the ones you mean? 🙂
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@Slots-Room no, they are British Army troops, officially soldiers of Her Majesty's Armed Forces Of The United Kingdom with full British citizenship, Nepal has it's own army which is a completely seperate thing (and which, along with the Indian Army is where most of the Ghurkas that couldn't quite cut it for British Army selection end up). The ones fighting on Britain's behalf count as British first and Nepalese second
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