Comments by "the truth hurts" (@thetruthhurts7675) on "BFBS Forces News"
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We, as in the UK, have the 25th largest population in the world, and the third most powerful (on paper) armed forces in the world. For example the RN has greater tonnage than Spain, France, Germany, and Italy combined. The RAF is only smaller than the Russian airforce in Europe, while the Army is effectively the most powerful in Europe given the show that Russia has shown their paper tiger power to be. So despite a commitment by this government to spend 3%of GDP by 2025, what more exactly is there to do, other than modernise, and improve? We are the largest spending nation on defence in Europe, last year Britiain actually spent £71.4billion on all aspects of defence, honestly what do you want from the UK here? Not counting research (which is actually a seperate budget), Service and civilian costs (another separate budget), and Boris's 2 now £20.9Billion uplift for the armed forces we spend on defence (actual costs of training, running, and servicing equipment, and sailors Royal marines, soldiers and airmen, and women) £45.9 Billion a year. Only China with $193.3Billion, and the USa with $738Billion spend more than the UK. Raising the total defence budget to 3% of GDP will mean that in 2025 we will be spending quite a bit over £100Billion a year on defence. keeping us as the third biggest defence spender in the world!!
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The NHS is totally paid for by National Insurance, with something to spare. We raise 11.5% of GDP by NI, the NHS costs just 9.9% of GDP. Boris increased NHS spending, and started 40 new hospitals, this wil lead to the NHS costing just10% of GDP, leaving 1.5% of GDP for which pensions payments are the main use. Being able to defend the country, and the people therein is infinitely MORE IMPORTANT than breeding highly educated well looked after slaves!! Defence should always be paramount, but only in times of tension, and war should it be the main focus, Churchill was the person who said this after laying out his ideas that finally became the NHS in 1908.
In my humbleopinion defence spending in the UK should never be less than 3.5%, (peace or tension timethis is totally affordable and ensures the future of many valuable tech and heavy industryu jobs in this country. The Roman General Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus famously said of such things in his book "Epitoma Rei Militaris," Which roughlytranslates to this : "if you want peace, prepare for war." This is something Britian has never been very good at except in the case of WW1.
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@emmy9345 The Issue with that is the UK is one of only three countries able to globaly mount offnesives. The other two being the USA, and France (only for short periods, or limited numbers in France's case). The problem is What Europe doesn't need is a country with Global commitments and it's own more powerful agenda, which as we proved with the EU debacle, didn't always match those of the UK. The UK is only one of three countries (the same three countries as I mentioned earlier) who have true global reach, and global soft power. Being the main ally of an emerging Japan doesn't sit well with America, and the EU, that is where Britian is headed, and the Uk already has more influence in Japan than the USA has ever had. What Britiain doesn't need is paying for countries that refuse to meet their EU commitments, and being told by at best a small minded set of unelected bureaucrats what we can or cannot do on our own. this has become very apparent since Brexit, Brussles thinks it controls what Britian can, or should do when in reality it has had it's wings clipped mightily by little Britain. I say this as a person with a foot in both Germany, and England, being of German/English parents. Britian does lead where Europe follows, that has become very obvious in the last three years.
The edited bit.. Also Britian is already a part of a Europe wide set of forces, it is known as NATO, another smaller EU army is not the way to go!
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@danielhutchinson6604 Erm which Vietnam conflict do you mean? The Chinese invasion that was simply a rout of a Chinese army? The French debacle, The US debacle? Or the British one in which Vietnam was calmed the vietnamese beaten, and de weaponed in 18 months? Do go on these have all been since WW2 by the way China sent 100 tanks, 500,000 men a complete air division, and barely made their first objective, and were battered to a standstill, then shoved back to the border by just 80,000 old men, and young boys, the vietnamese border guards whilst Vietnam sent it's army to depose China's ally Pol Pot. Shame you actually know so little about REAL history isn't it?
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@Mark-Haddow I rather think heritage would disagree with you totally. Youir Nationality is where you are born, not where your forbears were born. For this you have to thank a Black Labour politician who denies the existence of heritage. Simply by the fact that he and his family for the last 250 years could not survive in the country his antecedents originated. He publically stated heritage beyond one generation is nothing, and to prove it he stated that for a wager anyone from Africa could take on his challenge and go live there unsupprted in the region their family originate. Strangely his challenge has never been taken up. He was, and is descended from namibian bush people also known as Saan. These people exist simply by being able to read the ground from the top. they can tell you by looking if dry sand contains water holes. Victoria was born here, thus is/was English. I was born in England, though my hair colour gives away the fact that my forbears came here with William the conqueror, and were in fact Norwegian/Swedish, and my family name includes "son of" a minor Norwegian Lord. I am English, by heritage, and birth, my mother was german thus I could claim German citizenship, as can my two sons, who can through their mother claim Perian, and Yemeni citizenship. However they will tell you they are English not German, Iranian, or Yemeni. My ex wife's father who was yemeni but serving in the British army had her registered at birth in the British Embassy as British English. Now I don't care what you think of heritage but the present royal Family has lived in this country for well over 100 years, they even anglicised their name to become Windsor. Thus thet also will tell you they are English!!
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@chrisburke624 Russia doesn't have the capability to land, and sustain a force in the UK. The one thing this has proven, is that what I have been saying about Russia not having the capabilities everyone has been stating for the past ten years is true. They may have a few nukes, a few tactical ones as well, but honestly their present budget for defence doesn't allow for the maintenance of everything they have let alone their forces, Thus they have large army, airforce, and navy personel numbers , but not the numbers of useable equipment everyone thinks they have. The action they did with HMS Duncan in the black sea where they were actually shooting at Duncan as she sailed south of Crimea, and the videos showed they could only use soviet era equipment, and that Duncan probably could have sunk everything that was tailing her with very little expenditure of their ammunition.
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@aleccap5946 You are just trolling here, you obviously have no idea as you have just admitted. There is no whisper of a third carrier at all and as for Traps and cats the QE class proves they are outdated. The Ford Class carrier Gerald R Ford has been around for a year longer than the QE, and what exactly has it done in those 6 years? Nothing at all. They have just finished the basic workups, and finally installed the weapons lifts (which as of yet haven't been tested under sea trials for several weeks in a row, and at full stretch), the carrier has yet to complete the carrier integration tests that the QE and the POW did three years ago which is why both the QE, and POW can command a carrier strike group. The Aircraft numbers are simply because no one yet has the full compliment of aircraft they ordered from McDonnell Douglas. Cameron didn't want traps and cats unless they work which until now EMALS on the Ford class has not. They have ripped the decks apart to put ever more powerful Magnetic runs, and the best they can get is 3 consecutive launches in total, before the system catastrophically breaks down. All Military stuff takes time to integrate, but EMALS is just a joke system. So in the 6 years the Ford has been afloat she has spent a grand total of 5 years 10 months in docks or dry docks. Cameron,. and the Tory government were dead right to dodge that particular bullet, or you could troll even more here. The Chinook was bought by the Labour Governmemt with no recommended additions, like anti collision radar causoing the death of twenty top Northern Ireland security people from both the Army and RUC on the second of June 1994. The best thing Labour have ever done is either resign, or loose the election for the Tory party to sort out their mess.
Oh you asked what 1960's conficts that affected us, well you nothing as a person my bet is you were still a twinkle in your mother and father's eyes. This is the full list opf British conflicts in the 1960's :
Brunei Revolt 1962–1966
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation 1962-1966
Dhofar Rebellion 1962–1975
Aden Emergency 1963–1967
The Troubles 1968–1998.
Most of those you won't even have heard of I suspect.
Now be a good person and shut up about things you obviously know nothing about!!
Or please tell me exactly why the UN agreed to the 38th parallel at the end of the Korean war. I want to know exactly not "that was the UN agreement."
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@dm32904 LOL However Even Georgian goat herders as you call them beat your backsides. Russia has a long, long, history of failure. Heck your army couldn't even beat Finland in WW2 which of course emboldened Hitler to attack Russia!! Though what you say about NATO in afghanistan is NOT correct. To invade Afghanistan NATO would have broken up. ISAF was a UN mandate, and included Sweden (not NATO), New Zealand (not NATO), Azerbaijan, (I don't think Russia, or President Putin, would like you to say they belong to NAO), The UAE (definitely Not NATO), Singapore (Not NATO), Jordan, (Not NATO), Ireland (Not NATO), and rather strangely another Russian controlled country Georgia. Putin invaded here first, they are definitely Not NATO, and I now think you are bound for the Gulag to even state they may be part of NATO!! Putin did in fact vote for the action in the UN, well he orderred his Un delegate to do so.
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@war8036 Erm No this is based upon something as a Russian you will not know. The NATO agreement is based solely on the 1947 alliance between Britain and France which has at it's heart the idea of mutual defence, and none aggression. Any country joining NATO effectively signes this defence compact. So there is nothing Western, or Ukrainian in my synopsis of what NATO can, or cannot do. Unlike the most aggerssive country in the world, Russia that is presently dying, and finally will be bought to it's knees by something called the Dutch disease. Do look it up, Russia's whole economy is based upon oil, thus is prey to what is known as Dutch disease. Stopping oil flowing from Russia WILL collapse the Russian economy because there is no other industry to replace it in Fascist Russia!!
The edited bit : You see my knowledge is based upon things like Geopolitics, history, and the fact that I actually did time in the British Forces. So actually know things about what might, or might not happen today.
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@nodramalama9531 This is her official titles. Do please notice Scotland is not included in her titles :
"Elizabeth II, in full Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, officially Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, (born April 21, 1926, London, England—died September 8, 2022, Balmoral"
Those are her titles. There is no difference in that title for Scotland
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@shannonhenson609 YES we can teach you lts about war. Since WW2 only ONE country has won in Vietnam, and subdued the population. France, the USA, and even China all notably singularly failed in Vietnam where it only took 18 months for the UK to carry out the new UN's mandate. Plus that tiny debacle in the late 18th century was a side note to an actual world war. Britain was fighting the next three world powers (France, Spain, and the Dutch republic) at the same time We ended France as a sea power, we ended both the Dutch republic and Spain as an Empire builder and lost in a then, small backwater country, now called the USA. In fact whilst YOU Australia, and New Zealand were getting your asses handed to you in Vietnam we had to fight alone agianst a Chinese paid for insurgency in a much larger country called Malaya, we won you lost. Sorry bud you were lucky with timing in 1776, is all.
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You are seriously Joking here. Servicemen and women aren't "Badly paid" at all. They admittedly don't get the X factor payments other NATO troops do, but they make more on allowances when in action, thus it factors up their individual pay significantly. For example when I was in the RN my take home pay was higher than a technical teacher (Maths and science), and if we worked it out correctly my pay could double while at sea, depending upon where we landed first, and exactly how long we were at sea between dockings. There are plenty of ways of enhancing the pay scale you get so that you end up with almost double your takehome pay if you just get some qualifications.
As for the Borrowers, this is because the USA has a stupid budget for defence, and they don't care what they give to British forces (or French forces) who are in action with them. If you can get kit from an ally that is better than ours in certain conditions (Italain Mediteranean kits were better than British ones when I was in service, so I used to buy them, or aquire them if allowed by superior commanders), then surely even someone like you can see the benefits to the exchanges.
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@freethinker284 Ukraine hasn't used forced conscription. Putin is. Yes I understand everything I say on here is correct, because rather strangely here in the west if a news agency uses a satelite picture, you can access those yourself. We do not live in fascist states here isn the west, unlike you in Russia, the nearest to no freedom is actually the USA. Plus we can still get RT if we try hard, but your TV is so controlled that it is a farce. Also I can get Chinese state news, south China sea news, and nonme of those reckons you are doing well in Ukraine at all.
"On top of that Russia has a lot of locals fighting on it's side." This is the biggest joke statement I have seen here. There are even Russians who live in Ukraine fighting against Russia. Only those forced to fight for the most aggressive country in the world are doing so, and when they get the slightest chance they are killing their leaders, and joining Ukraine. Syria you forgot to mention has sent troops as well, around 3,000, however 10,000 Syrian Volunteers are fighting for Ukraine, even people from Georgia, and Azerbaijan are fighting against Russia in Ukraine. I personally know an Azerbaijany doctor who has left the Uk to join friends fighting for Ukraine's freedom. You see this I know is correct because of my rather racially mixed up family, and freinds. Just watching any news is not very clever so I have fostered good relationships with people I have met thrughout my life (rather strangely Russian as well) and I think in this instance the information I can access is rather better and more correct than yours. So how will Russia rtesupply those troops in Kherson now that the ukarinians have the south of the city (the bit that is where the bridges are)? You see normally troops try to take piecemeal the places they are attacking however like the German army in WW2 Ukraine has learned that the best way to deal with Russian troops, and armed forces, is not to do what Russia would do!!
So for once yes I believe the old news on this channel totally
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@aniksamiurrahman6365 LOL. I am NOT a blind western Idiot, as you claim. I have quoted to you what China is saying. You still quote from where exactly? No where to be brutal here!! Look I honestly don't care whether they are ferries, fairies, or pontoons. You have to keep moving them from place to place, or they will be destroyed As the Russian army found out at Stalingrad. They won there because the General in the field started moving ferries from one landing place to another, because 90% of ALL Russian ferries crossing the river were destroyed as they crossed by indirect long range German fire. Honestly this is not advanced Nuclear physics, or quantum mechanics we are discussing here. It is very simply a matter of simple but partially effective military strategy. You have two pontoon, or Ferry bridges, leave them there long enough and they will be hit by your enemy, and thus consequently to you useless. Stop with the lunacy that Russia can just do as it (or you thinks it can) wants, it cannot. To put your stupidity to the point here If a pontoon bridge is inside the effective artillery range of your enemy for over 4 hours then expect direct hits every 20 minutes, if you are slightly clever and you move it to somewhere nearby every three hours then you have a chance that it will remain intact. Something as I said Russia learned the hard way at Stalingrad. no one has yet come up with a fool proof way of stopping enemy artillery hitting static targets repeatedly. Your knowledge of simple military tactics is about as much as the Russian tactics at the start of this was stupid. You keep repeating the same things I have told YOU CHINA says the resuply is inermittent, not Western media. To be brutal here I am the kind of person who buys two extremes of the daily news reads both then looks at various channels to find out the truth. Russia is NOT telling anything like the truth about Ukraine. Let us just start with the fact that a fascist state (Russia) tried to claim that Ukraine was right wing. Well if Ukraine was right wing then even the Communist party must have been a centreist party justifying it's existence by proclaining the rights of the individual (which everyone knows is NOT the case). Putin and his regime are almost as far right as the Nazi party were, and he the world's ultimate Russian right wing oligarch.
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@aniksamiurrahman6365 Yes since last May. Where is the great Russian army now in Kherson? Cut off on means of getting food, water, or ammunition. Kherson which Russia mnade so much news about is about to become Ukrainian again.
Ahh Russia has invaded more countries since WW2 than the USA. Thank that famous Russian site Wikipedia for this information :
1945 Soviet–Japanese War (Part of World War II) Soviet Union
Mongolia Japan
Manchukuo Victory
Karafuto Prefecture is annexed by the Soviet Union and incorporated into Sakhalin Oblast.
Kuril Islands annexed to the Soviet Union
Liberation of Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and northern Korea, and collapse of Japanese puppet states there.
Partition of the Korean Peninsula.
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia are returned to China.
1946–1954 First Indochina War North Vietnam Việt Minh
Laos Pathet Lao
Cambodia Khmer Issarak
Supported by:
Soviet Union France France
• French Indochina Vietnam (1949–1954)
Cambodia Cambodia (1953–1954)
Laos (1953–1954)
Victory
Vietnam is partitioned between North (controlled by Việt Minh) and South (controlled by the State of Vietnam).
Geneva Conference
Departure of the French from Indochina.
State of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia gain official independence.
1950–1953 Korean War North Korea
China
Soviet Union United Nations
South Korea
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France
Philippines
Colombia
Ethiopia
Greece
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
Thailand
Turkey Ceasefire
Establishment of the Korean DMZ
Minor territorial changes
1955–1975 Vietnam War North Vietnam
Viet Cong and PRG
Pathet Lao
GRUNK (1970–1975)
Khmer Rouge
China
Soviet Union
North Korea South Vietnam
United States
South Korea
Australia
New Zealand
Laos
Cambodia (1967–1970)
Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
Thailand
Philippines Victory
Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina
North Vietnamese victory over South Vietnam
Dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam
Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam
1953 East German Uprising Soviet Union
East Germany East Germany East German demonstrators Victory
Uprising suppressed
1956 Hungarian Revolution Soviet Union
Hungary ÁVH Revolutionaries Victory
Crushing of the revolution
1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia Soviet Union
Bulgaria
East Germany
Hungary
Poland Czechoslovakia Victory
Moscow Protocol
Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991
1969 Zhenbao Island Incident Soviet Union China Indecisive(status quo ante bellum)[7]
Tactical Soviet victory[8]
Strategic Soviet victory: Ceasefire Agreement Signed.[7]
1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement[7]
1969–1970 War of Attrition Egypt
Soviet Union Israel Inconclusive
Both sides claimed victory
Continuation of Israeli occupation of Sinai until 1982, when Israeli provisional control over the Sinai Peninsula ended in 1982 following the implementation of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty, which saw Israel return the region to Egypt in exchange for the latter's recognition of Israel as a legitimate sovereign state.
1974–1991 Eritrean War of Independence Ethiopia Ethiopia
Cuba (until 1989)
Soviet Union (until 1990)
South Yemen ELF
EPLF Withdrawal (limited involvement)
Independence of Eritrea after the fall of the communist government in Ethiopia
1975–1991 Angolan Civil War MPLA
Cuba
Brazil
Soviet Union
граница SWAPO
граница MK South Africa
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC Stalemate (limited involvement)
Three Powers Accord
Withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angola
Independence of Namibia
1977–1978 Ethio-Somali War Ethiopia
Cuba
South Yemen
Soviet Union Somalia Somalia
WSLF Victory
Somalia broke all ties with the Second World except for China and Romania
1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War Soviet Union
Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghan Mujahideen The operation of the Red Army in Afghanistan failed to change the situation in the country
Geneva Accords of 1988
Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan
Continuation of the Afghan Civil War
Russian Federation (1991–present)
Date Conflict Location Russia (and its allies) Opponent(s) Result
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia
Russia Georgia (country) Zviadists Victory
Zviadist revolt crushed
1991–1993 War in Abkhazia Abkhazia Russia
Abkhazia Georgia Victory
Abkhazia gained de facto independence
1992 Transnistria War
PMR trucks on the bridge between Tiraspol and Bendery
Transnistria Transnistria
Russia
* 14th Guards Army (elements)[9][10][11][12]
* Don Cossacks[13]
* Kuban Cossacks
Ukrainian volunteers
* UNA-UNSO.[14][15] Moldova
Romanian volunteers and military advisers
[9][16][17] Victory
Transnistria gained de facto independence
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict North Ossetia-Alania Russia
North Ossetia-Alania[18] Ingush militia Victory
Expulsion of ethnic Ingush from Prigorodny by Ossetian militia
1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War
Spetsnaz troops dismount an APC during the war
Tajikistan Tajikistan/ Tajikistan
Russia/ Russia
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan/ Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan/ Kyrgyzstan
Turkmenistan/ Turkmenistan
United Nations UNMOT
Austria
Bangladesh
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ghana
Hungary
Indonesia
Jordan
Nepal
Nigeria
Poland
Switzerland
Ukraine
Uruguay
Supported by:
Belarus/ Belarus[19] (weapons supplies)
China
India
United Tajik Opposition
Islamic Renaissance Party
Democratic Party
Party of People's Unity
Rastokhez Popular Movement
Lali Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan[20]
Jamiat-e Islami (until 1996)
Afghanistan Afghanistan (until 1996)
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (until 1996)
Afghanistan Taliban factions[a]
Supported by:
al-Qaeda[22]
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Victory
United Nations-sponsored armistice
1993 Russian spillover into Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Russia
Azerbaijan
Huseynov's Forces
Withdrawal
Reassurance of National Security
Huseynov's Forces are kicked out
Russia establishes peace for now in Azerbaijan
Strengthens ties with Azerbaijan
1994–1996 First Chechen War
A Chechen militiaman takes cover behind a burned-out Russian BMP-2 armoured vehicle
Chechnya Russia
Chechnya Chechen Opposition
граница Ichkeria
Mujahideen Defeat[23]
Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya
Khasav-Yurt Accord
De facto independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, but de jure it remained a part of the Russian Federation
1999 War of Dagestan
Russian federal Spetsnaz forces in Dagestan
Dagestan Russia
Dagestan
IIPB Victory
Start of the Second Chechen War
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
A farewell ceremony for the 331st Airborne Regiment of the 98th Airborne Division withdrawn from Chechnya
Chechnya Russia
Chechnya
граница Ichkeria
Caucasian Front
Mujahideen Victory
Russia regained control over Chechnya
2008 Russo-Georgian War
Tank-like vehicle with soldiers aboard
Russian BMP-2 from the 58th Army in South Ossetia
Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia Russia
South Ossetia
Abkhazia Georgia Victory
Occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
2009–2017 Insurgency in the North Caucasus
FSB Spetsnaz members during an anti-terrorist operation in Makhachkala, Dagestan
North Caucasus Russia
Chechnya
Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
North Ossetia-Alania
Caucasus Emirate ISIL (from 2015) Victory
Defeat of Islamists
2014–present Russo-Ukrainian War
Russian unidentified special forces take control of a Ukrainian military garrison in Crimea
Donetsk People's Republic militiamen checking with civilians in a cellar during the Battle of Ilovaisk (2014)
DPR elite Republican Guard troops during the 2018 Victory Day parade in Donetsk
Ukraine (incl. Crimea) Russia
Donetsk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic
Ukraine Ongoing
2014 Russian annexation of Crimea
Russo-Ukrainian War
Minsk Protocol, an un-implemented ceasefire agreement
2021–22 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2015–present Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Two Tupolev Tu-22M3s bombing ISIL command posts and weapon warehouses in the Deir ez-Zor area, 2017
Sukhoi Su-30 pilot talking to a Russian Air Force technician in the Khmeimim Air Base
Syria
Russia
Syria
Iran
границаHezbollah ISIL
Ahrar al-Sham
Tahrir al-Sham Syrian Opposition Ongoing
Preservation of the Syrian government headed by Bashar al-Assad.[24]
Syrian Armed Forces recapture more than 30,000 square kilometres of area, including Latakia, Aleppo and Palmyra, break the three-year-long siege of Deir ez-Zor and take control of that city[25][26]
2018–present Central African Republic Civil War
Delivery of Russian BRDM-2 armored vehicles to Central African Republic, October 2020
Central African Republic Russia
Central African Republic
Rwanda Central African Republic Coalition of Patriots for Change
Horrendous isn't it? Just like the rest of Russia's aggressive history of invading near neighbours!! Sorry but in this the truth really does hurt doesn't it?
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@bobmorane2082 What does the UK give? or the EU, orAustralia Canada, or Poland, or Sweden, or Norway, or Finland? Luckily for you South Africa hasn't yet sent it's long range guns that can stike from 76 KM away twice the distance of any Russian artillery. You forget that Russia has allowed NATO to proxy fight against it. Most of the new Ukrainian NATO weapons out distance all of the Russian artillery so you can have as much artillery as you like shooting back at Ukrainian artillery, but it cannot reach them. So piece by piece the Russian positions and artillery are picked off at leisure, and range. russia has basically run out of it's strategic reserves of ammunition, or we would see more than 70k a day shot into Ukraine. Plus 70k along a front like stretching for the entire Donbass is actually very small amounts in any one area. In Ukraine Russia is slowly but increasingly, and more importantly more speedily losing ground, lives, troops, and the war.
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@ChayMiddleton I know you were that is why I replied sarcastically.
So to give you the official RN definition : Not just two floors (decks), but TWO DECKS permanently above the waterline. This is how the RN officially assigns ths name ship, or boat. Henvce submarines are boats because they don't have two decks permanently above the waterline, whilst patrol boats have just one deck above the waterline, and fisherires protection vessels have two decks above the waterline. Honestly it is a very simple idea, and the US navy use the same nomenclature. OK? Simple stuff really.
As for the RN, it is always getting the wrong end of every deal, the RAF are NOT hoarding the F35's the first RN squadron 809 formed this year, and they are NOT RAF. All F35B's will eventually end up in the Royal navy, though it may take some time. We currently have 3 squadrons though the third is not fully equiped. Patrol boats cannot take more than 30 mm canon because of the weight. Honestly this is all very simple stuff here. So storm shadow is F35 cleared and we have enough ammunition for both carriers at full strength at sea for a year. The RAF knows they cannot keep the F35's theRAF are in the military sense the "Licensing" people for fixed wing aircraft, whilst the RN is for rotary aircraft. This is why the F35's have to be cleared through the RAF. The rAF squadrons are commanded by RAF personnel, but havve RN pilots in the main. Those wishing to remain in the RAF will stay there, but all of the others are Royal navy.
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@johnbobson1557 What? A carrier that has a flood during sea trials (which is what sea trials is all about) and a carrier that has a steering/propulsion problem? Whilst the Ford itself took 6 years to get the Launchers to do more than 20 launches without breaking down, so in that time the deck was ripped apart 5 times when they installed larger and more powerful EMALS systems, then just last year the US Navy admited the Ford had just one of it's weapons lifts fitted, that didn't work because it was the wrong lift gear. The USS Ford is a year older than the QE, and only tyhis year became ready for sea! I think you are being a tad too harsh on big Lizzy, and the POW, They are after all THE most technically advanced aircraft carriers in the world, cost less than a third to build and less than a tenth of the cost of the Ford, or Nimitz class to run, can outlaunch, and outland/recover ANY US carrier in any given 24 hour period. You honestly don't really have a clue do you? You think once something so large and technical is built that is it for the entire future of the ship. I am just glad you are not, and never have been, in any western forces!!
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@GonzoTehGreat There is one massive problem here. You are arguing with as we say the converted about retention in the armed forces. Only the UK, France, and the USA are constantly involved in the so called war on terror. So these countries do have a certain commitment to their armed forces that none seem to maintain after leaving the forces.
The indigenous population of Afghanistan are NOT sympathetic to the Taliban, they were and still are too afraid of them to take up arms against them. The Wrong country lead the coalition in Afghanistan. NO plan, no overall ideas as to how to counter hypocrisy, corruption, and terror, no idea how to handle the future. Basically the USA never had a plan for getting power food, water, and aid to people without the simple necessities of life. As for the way to pay for developing the country the USA flatly refused a British Idea that would have funded the redevelopment of Afghanistan through sheer shortsightedness absolute lunacy. They allowed the Taliban to take over the Poppy fields possibly THE most short sighted thing as a leader and a country has ever done, Britain actully suggested that ALL Afghan Opium be bought by the west's health care systems and used by them, NO came the reply from the USA lead by big Pharma, and now most of the Opium trade in the world is controlled by the Taliban, Helmand province alone controls 39% of the global Opium trade.
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@GonzoTehGreat So I left the Rn for pretty much the same reasons, though in my case I had been reporting my boss as a bully for the last two years. I ended throwing him over the side of our ship in the Arabian gulf. He was court martialled for assualt, and then they threw everything sbout the bullying at him as well. His promotion papers were ripped up in Gibraltar. That is enough of my personal life.
No one gets shouted at for 6 months in basic training! If you are then you are a liability, and constantly getting things wrong. Military food is very good if you are not in the Royal Navy, obviously it is not always burgers and chips.I joined the RN in the 1970's and we were not shouted at at all during the basic training.
Richard from Hull in the RAF sounds like he was not cut out for the military in the first place. I lived in accommodation of various kinds, from when I was at Prestwick airport with the RN, in nissan huts (which were actually rotting away), to hotels in Weymouth, because there was not enough accommadation on the navy base at Portland, and everything in between, I even shared a house that had staff for a time in Scotland. Whilst in Prestwick we didn't pay accommodation chrges because of the state of the places, and they were building new accommodation which was then state of the art in Prestwick.
Those technicins who join the forces go on to run things in civvy street, so why exactly wouldn't you join in the first place? Once again as an officer, and technician (Artificer) in the Royal navy in the 1970's there were never enough people to go around even then. Most squadrons were light on personnel, though apart from the troubles in Ireland when I was in there was nothing really going on that we got involved in other than a small local war in the Falklands. Money is the retention issue, my own brother in law signed on for 32 years to get the large pension, however when his previous boss came knocking offering him £50,000 a year to train the Saudie Airforce he left toot sweet. pretty damned fast I can tell you. he was on around £13,000 a year as a technician at the time!! I don't think that the pay gap has actually widened per se since that time, just maintained the same relative pay gaps.
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@GonzoTehGreat Retention is a problem, the main thing is the forces on the whole train people to a higher level than in civvy street, so they get enticed away. The Royal marines for example have a whole raft of high paying jobs that they can get into in "civilian" companies who pay a whole lot more than the Forces do for say protecting shipping from pirates. I live in an area that has a few forces mainly the RM, and army now, deployments for civilian companies are ALWAYS longer than for the forces. contracts are always a minimum of 6 months to a year. Pay is the one thing that is the problem for the forces. Why do you try to say that Afghanistan was unnecessary? It was and still is the hot bed of the Taliban who enacted the biggest terrorist atrocity on the USA. You don't think the US has the right to hit back? Iraq I do agree with, I still think he was induced to attack Kuwait, in order to remove him from power. That is only what I think though, and I have no real evidence for what I think happened over several years.
As to your last point : "Increasingly, for similar reasons, both current and ex service personnel have also discouraged their own relatives from joining.
Perhaps the Ukraine War will encourage more to enlist now that peace in Europe is no longer guaranteed. We shall see..." is the most rediculuos statement I have ever read after all the rest about "unnecessary invasions/interventions in the Middle East." Just how do you get from your possibly valid point which I have just quoted to the war in Ukraine being a possible recruitment thing? Wow that is some convoluted logic there!!
So as an ex forces person myself neither of my sons is in the military, my eldest has a company (British of course, though he has US companies on his portfolio) that will help build the Abrams replecement tank, and other military equipment. The youngest is just being head hunted by a company involved in tech for the military, he did try to join the RAF (after leaving university) but after several attempts via the private company, all of which they somehow "lost" his medical paperwork, or even his application papaerwork and after three years of trying to join he gave up, now he works for Microsoft and runs the part that did Avatar 1 and 2 here near where I live, but the company trying to get him now have given him all kinds of inducements to work in the town he lives in, and from home if he wants to, and NOT where they are based normally, he starts for them in 2 weeks time. He is (until this Friday) a Junior CEO of Microsoft, but will only be a board member of this company, See even civilian companies have difficulties retaining staff!!
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@GonzoTehGreat tens of Billions on which aircrfat carriers exactly? The QE, and POW cost £3.5 Billion. The Carrier for the US costs tens of billions. I think you have something in your eye. Carriers are the best projection of power you can have. Next (and I haven't read beyond ths stupid thing about the carrieers yet) you will be saying we don't need Nuclear weapons as well!!
OK do you know exactly how we got these carriers? NO is the answer you need here. You ahve to go back to an EU idea to have three QE sized carriers we were to get two France one. We did france as always reneged on their part of the deal. These are European weapons dedicated to the UK but defended by European ships as well as Uk ones. The Dutch for example now permanenetly have a frigate in Plymouth, or with the QE as part of the escort. Com,e on this is simple defence stuff not going top Mars stuff!!
The QE was designed for the F35B NOT super hornets which are so out of date the harriers we sold are replacing them!! Boy this was old news two years ago!
This next part is so laughable I had to quote you personally here "Consequently, these RN aircraft carriers are vulnerable to attack by peer adversaries (specifically China), but lack the range to retaliate and cannot operate without the support of the USMC, which obviously restricts their power projection." The idea is that we get enough F35's for two ships, the USMC help while we obtain those aircraft. Once again this is NOT rocket science we are here building a capability from the ground up, unlike in the past where we had carrier aircraft, and these could operate until the new ones come into being.
The British Army is suffering from a recruitment and retention crisis. Look I served in the Royal navy back in the 1970's to 1990's. There were never then the numbers of personell that were required to fill vacancies in any service let alone the army, recruitment criies are part of the job for any country that is NOT the USA (because college is what the US armed forces is to most people that join). It is the same today. Skills are actually required of the British armed forces whilst the US armed forces is like a college Join up, get a qualification (because the US education system is that bad) and serve then get a decent job in civvy street. That IS US service life. not UK service life. Also the recruitment crisis is simply because the private company (this is the only part I agree with you on here Government mismanagement, Ben Wallace the present defence minister admits to this as well) is not up to the job, they loose hundreds if not thousands of parts of the paperwork for joining every year, my own son didn't join the RAF because he was told by this company to reapply twice in one year after they admitted they had "lost" his previous paperwork the year before.
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@markcummings6856 Well as last year we spent 3.3% of GDP on the defence budget expenditures, and Defence core spending is set to rise by £11Billion alone this next year that makes the UK the largest spender in Europe on defence, strangely more than Russia. Only India, China, and the USA spend more on defencve than the UK. This year the total spend is £71.2 Billion whilst as this chart shows we spent £68 Billion last year or 3.3%of GDP. Not everything is covered by the "defence" budget, which does stand at £49 Billion alone (In Europe only Russia spends more than that on defence). We spend a further £10 billion on research, then civilian cotractors to Uk defence is another £7.5 Billion, whilst Equipment procurement yet another budget is roughly £20 Billion. The Uk is a small country and even France if given a jump start by the USA could take half of it inside a week. After that they and Russia would spin to a stop, northern rugged territory (NOT FIT FOR Tanks ETC) would see to that. The soft south is so called for exactly that reason. Youalso assume a Russian navy mostly made up of Junk from the 1980/90's would stand any chance against the relatively small Royal Navy. Like every one else ever here you swallowed Russia's propaganda piecemeal. NATO's biggest worry is that that junk navy could actually cross the barents sea, and invade Alaska. Invading both the UK, or Alaska means that the largest force in the world is honour bound to get involved (NATO). Your point totally misses the idea of NATO and the mutual defence pacts at it's core. Plus do you NOT think the UK would Know something was going on from messages sent from Sweden, Norway, the baltic states, Eastern Europe, Finland, and even from the mediteranean. it is not like Russia could actually surprise the Uk as in this direction every where it goes are NATO aligned countries. Your point forgets several very large political, and huge military logistic problems. Do try harder your point is very easitly taken apart.
Plus if our defence is in a deplorable position, then the Us forces are laughable. Numbers yes but in effect? Useless as they were when I was in the Royal Navy.
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@brandondaway1 Ok so whilst both Radar will pick up an image of the Harrier, the F35 has a reflected image smaller than a bird. When both are stationary they are very difficult to find in all of the clatter in a fighting front line. Doppler radar uses the doppler effect to spot something moving very fast (a fighter jet) the harrier is known to have ambushed Russian made aircraft with doppler radar, and pulsed doppler radar. Here is description of just how the Harrier or even a storm, can disapear from a pulsed doppler radar :
"To understand this, consider a situation where the measurement causes the phase of the pulse to shift by 400 degrees. Mathematically, this is identical to a shift of 40 degrees, because it has gone through an entire cycle (a full 360 degrees). Speeds causing shifts such as this are called the "blind speed." It is a function of the pulse repetition frequency of the signal, so by altering this signal, meteorologists can prevent this to some degree.
Edited by Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D."
So your claim has been proven false by the science world!!!!!
The edited bit...... You see there is also a problem with any form of doppler radar, it HAS to be optimised to see either staionary, or moving objects, it cannot do both at the same time. Thus as I said a Harrier, and the F35 will when stationary NOT be seen by a doppler radar optimised to movement. Thye can be switched to staionary objects, then they won.t see the rest of the western airforces that cannot stand still. Russia has this as a very real known problem, and thus far NONE of the Russian systems are known to attempt to solve this major Doppler radar problem. Jst like your country sherriff in the USA using doppler radar to spot speeding traffic, the radar will not "see" any staionary vehicles by the roadside ever.
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@moistman6930 The EE lightening was the very first aircraft capable of supercruise. So what is your point here? Super cruise just means it can cruise at speeds higher than Mach 1 or supersonically. The EE lightening was the very first aircraft in the world to do this!!
Agility IS way more important than the ability to not be seen on a radar, there are only two aircraft in the world that can not be seen by modern fighter radar, the F35, and the Harrier Jump jet. Modern radar are doppler based, so both the Harrier, and the F35 can stop in mid air, ths disappearing from Doppler radar. Alll fighting is done subsonically, in fact only 1% of dog fights since WW2 have been above the speed of sound, and none of those were missile fights either!!. The Typhoon, and in fact all modern fighter aircraft have sophistcated proceedures to avoid being splashed by BVR, which in fact accounts for less than 0.001% of all combat since WW2. Processors can react faster than missile systems can alter course, or have you not noticed that the ultimate idea for flight is people less fighter aircraft?
Why turn as slowly as a Spitfire in a fight? The Typhoon is the only aircraft that can accelerate through +9Gee turns, amd then go straight through -5Gee. That would fold a Spitfire up in mid flight, and spit out the dead pilot!!
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@hamletksquid2702 es you are spreading misinformation. NASAMS HI mars are all recent US weapons sytems, as is TITAN a drone disrupting system. The US as is the Uk are sending some, but not all of their latest but older stock weapons systems to Ukraine Stop getting all offended when someone points out the truth. As I said the truth is out there for everyone to find, and you werte being disparaging to Ukraine. I have NOT deleted my comment at all here it is on this thread as I posted it this morning, thus more disinformation, and lies from you :
"the truth hurts
the truth hurts
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@Hamlet K Squid They have US modern systems, this is for the swarms of drones, it isn't cost effective to shoot drones down with NASAMS or Starstreak from the UK. So they will use Vietnam era weapons simply because the drones all fly slowly. You are spreading false and malicious fake news here."
I stand by what I said here, you are lying for no good reason. Or for political reasons to try to aid Russia. Then for some reason you are disparaging Ukraine with this stupid comment :
"Hamlet K Squid
Hamlet K Squid
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@Sunny Mitra - They don't want OUR modern systems in Ukraine."
You should be ashamed of your self for that statement, people in Ukraine are dying defending your, and my liberty, and all you can do is act like some teenage girl who has been told the truth for once. Go back to where you come and take a really big look at yourself, you were offended by what exactly? The Truth? Well that is why I use this moniker on here, if you don't like being told the truth then don't post such idiotic stuff in the first place.
Finally by telling you that you don't get the moral high ground if you are offended, or hurt wasn't me claiming the moral high ground just putting you firmly in your place. Now please DO NOT reply again unless you are going to confirm you were maliciously spreading misinformation!!
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@ilikelampshades6 Lt in which Navy? Also unless you are some kind of specialist a pay rise for medical staff is not what happens on joining the NHS from the RN. As a Leiutenant in the RN you would receive between £42,850 and £50.957. Let us assume you were a step 5 lieutenant, the pay for this is £48255. To get a pay increase of 20K you need to be band 8b in the NHS which gives £68,525. This includes such jobs as : Strategic management (which as an ex lieutenat you aren't qualified for). head of education and learning (you could have been a schooly, and thus might just get this job, and schoolies do very little in the RN at best), you couldn't be a Clinical Physiology service manager, not qualified to the right level as an ex Lieutenant, a head orthoptist. This you just might be, though I very seriously doubt it. Band 7 is more likely, though still improbable, which means you did a very short time and were only a step 1 Lieutenant.
The edited bit : Plus if your workload in the NHS I doubt is less than the RN, because my wife retired recently as head of pschological services for Devon, and her work load was immense, so much so that she used to switch her phone of at weekends so no one could call her.
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@danielkrcmar5395 Ok I will name two who were defeated, but ultimately ended with their prize. The first individual who even had to fight just to stay alive after his father was killed by the Tartars was one Genghis Khan. He lost a few of his early battles, but had bright idividual generals who turned the tide in his early years. Then when Genghis went on his domination of. Asia he was the individual with the ideas. He fought a constant war on 3 fronts, was never in a position where any of his armys were greater in number than his enemy, and with his unique individual style which was able to totally adapt to not only numbers of enemy, but also to how they fought.
Then the next individual on whom British France was based Richrd the Lionheart. He was also individual in his outlook on battles. He started early fighting his father, the English king, he even with his elder Brother burned Le Mans because his father was holding out there. He won most of his battles on campaign including swinging the tide in the middle east for the Christians, He beat the Muslims in the middle east from which he learnt much of the things he did when fighting the French. He built the most imposing Chateau in France called Gaillard based on what he learned about seiges in the midlle east. In fact it was Richard's idea to ally with the mongols in the first instance to beat the Muslims of the middle east, and make Christian areas much safer!! Those are just two individual leaders. Whereas Richard's Brother John (who relied on his organisation called the Army) LOST France, and after Kublai Khan the empire split into the Hordes, and was never the same again. You see organisations are slow to react, slow to change, where as individuals in a war always make the major difference. See Sun Tsu on the effectiveness of individuals in war. or Von Clausewitz.
Sun Tzu :
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” This is about the individual NOT the collective organisation.
Von Clausewitz :
"He argues that war is “subjective,”[IV] “an act of policy,”[V] and “a pulsation of violence.”[VI] Put another way, the nature of war is chaotic, inherently political, and violent. Clausewitz then states that despite war’s “colorful resemblance to a game of chance, all the vicissitudes of its passion, courage, imagination, and enthusiasm it includes are merely its special characteristics.”[VII] In other words, all changes in warfare are those smaller pieces that evolve and interact to make up the character of war." This is also a necessart thought on individuals.
What both are in fact stating is that only the brilliant individual leader can apparently "see through the fog of war," and react as is Necesary, and win through!
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Individualss win wars, groups are predictable! the main difference in the war of independence was that despite the American leadership a couple of their military leaders were very capable, whilst the Uk hoped to hold onto the American colonies whilst they beat France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic at the same time (next 3 biggest powers in the world then). Patton or Bradley? Patton was such an individual, whereas Bradley was a coward, who ran from the front at the Battle of bulge, Monty, (mainly) and Patton had to shore up his mistakes, and predictable moves. For which Monty, and Patton recieve very little praise!!
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@Dingdangdoo Yes 6,000 very different diverse people who are extremely freindly, and after a few beers they will even introduce you to their views on life, and their very friendly hands, and handiwork. Not the ones to get on the wrong side of as friends though, as the USMC, and other Marines of NATO, constantly find out to their chagrin!!
The edited bit. Last year they were so freindly to their USMC counter parts, that they finished an exercise within an hour of starting, specifically so that the USMC could go get cleaned up. and go home whilst they (the Royal Marines) played around with the exercise grounds, and their equipment, for them!!
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@jonathanpork-sausage617 Well from the units using foreign people there seem to be very few casualties, the sniper known as the ghost is still operating in Ukraine, as well as several ex British/Canadian/US snipers There is one video on here of a British guy with a Ukrainian unit and he says the other "Foreign" troops left to join other units or were killed, however he has been there since it started. I would say from the videos shown on here Ukraine is doing roughly 3 or 4 to 1 in their favour, because of the western weapons they now have. Let us not forget that Ukraine only has limited people compared to Russia, so they are frugal with attacks, and only commit when successfully operating. Each operation they do seems to be advance consolidate, make defences, attack repeat, repeat, though their tactics are very good, this is possibly becuase of just who has been training them after they get their basic training done. Those guys are a very famous British unit, and were training them from around November last year.
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This is Possibly the most stupid statement on YouTube this month. I am half German, my mother's family came here, to England, before WW2. I am English, born on the island of Great Britain in Shropshire. I am extremly proud to proclaim this as my nationality. My father was English they have been here traceably since 1066 (probably WAY longer than your forbears to be honest). My wife is also a mix. Her father was Born in Bourton on the water in the cotswolds to a second generation Yemeni Family, he became and was a warrant officer in the British Army. His wife was of Iranian (they say Persian) Extraction, and they met in London, NOT at a mosque at all, her parents (English/Persian) lived in Golders Green, her mother (my wife's Grandmother) was the poshest person I have ever heard speak English, including the Royal Family.... So my wife is Yemeni Persian. She was born in Yemen during the Aden crisis because that was where my father in law was at the time, as where her two older sisters, she was registered as British at Birth through the British Embassy. try telling her she isn't English enough, and she will show you the sharp end of her tounge pretty damned fast. My boys are thus a quarter German, a quarter English, a Quarter Yemeni, and a quarter Persian. My eldest son is an atheist as I am, and has a global business he set up himself, with several global patents His wife is English. Do please tell him he isn't English enough and see exactly what you get!! My youngest son (who is a Christian) who is English by registration IS English, as he will tell you, though he has married an Italian woman, they both live here in the Uk because he is a Junior CEO of a small American company you may very well have heard of called Microsoft. Now his wife is also a mix, her mother is Philipino, and her father Korean. Though try telling my youngest daughter in law she is NOT English, and she will tell you to go take a long walk off a very short pier. Both of my boys were born In Dorset, and either of them would laugh at your stupid post to be honest here, they are both over 6 feet ten inches tall, so do please tell them they aren't English enough for your personal form of racism!!
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