Comments by "the truth hurts" (@thetruthhurts7675) on "BFBS Forces News" channel.

  1. Really How exactly? There are presently less wars then 100 years ago. This is a list of real wars from 1923 : 1923 Barcelona Revolt: Spain 1923 Bulgarian Communist Uprising 1923 Communist Suppression: Japan 1923-9 Second Italo-Sanusi War 1923-31 Memel Insurrection in Lithuania 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr Valley 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Germany 1923 We don't currently have that many wars in the world today, there are more islamist terrorists though. Meaning Islam IS becoming more radicalised!!
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  2.  @californiadreamin8423  Are you for real here? Or are you as I suspect just a troll? I told you where the steel is coming from, I also explained there is a thing called trade which works both ways. Now get off that high horse you occupy before your none humility is exposed for real. False patriotism!! HAHAHA. The Joker in the pack has revealed himself, well done California, you sent yet another message that is just drivel!
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  3.  @californiadreamin8423  Well you did call my government lunatic. We trade, we have done for as long as I know trade has existed. British Warships were built of Norwegian, and Swedish wood until they "Discovered" the Americas. The price of an Oak tree then plummeted simply because there was way more woodland in North America. We cannot do everything that would be impossible. The Chips for the computers are never "made in England," Wine comes from all over the world, the USA buys Britsh armour for it's tanks, because we make the best armoured materials in the world. NASA now uses the F1 teams wind tunnels because they are the most advanced in the world, most US/Chinese/Russian/French civilian satellites are "made in England." We I am afraid buy French, Belgian, German steel whan necessary. It is a simple fact of life. There I did discuss this reasonably, as I can.
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  4.  @californiadreamin8423  "A lunatic Government" That is a tad strong the Labour party are the lunatics, whereas the Tories have done nopthing but aid our allies. Ypou should be gratefull we have the government we have now, or Ukraine wouldn't have had the SAS training their troops before and as this all started. Lunatic government get away with you. I bet you even think Bevan was the reason the NHS started to be honest, and that is LUNATIC if you do!! However for the last 40 years the steel for hulls of ships, and submarines have been made from French steel. We make better aircraft engines, and ejector seats, so most aircraft enginnes are british, as are all western military ejector seats. Sometimes it is better to use allies, and friends to make some stuff, then we can supply at a higher cost other things.
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  5.  @californiadreamin8423  Remember the V&A debacle? They bought "Portland" stone from France because it was cheaper, it was slightly pink, so they had to refront the exterior in Portland stone from Portland here in Dorset. That is the same for the ship's steel, where ever it is cheapest, and best quality they buy it from. As long as it is an ally there is no problem.
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  6. 35% of the steel used on the Type 26 is British steel. All hull steel for submarines is French, even the US buys French hull steel it is the best there is!
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  7. 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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  8.  @Batman-dm7wy  Really? As of August this year anyone picked up in a Royal Navy patrol vessel in the Channel is sent back to either france with their details to get their Legal things there, or to their country of orrigin within a week. This is a policy Suella Braverman started this year.
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  9. It simply means there have been more sent to Akrotiri. they aren't as fast as the lightening used to be, thus aren't extra fast, as in what you think they mean.
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  10.  @felixsesodia2959  Fast jets is the correct term Extra fast jets here means more have been sent out to Akrotiri.
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  11.  @HG69405  Look let's not argue over a measly £3 billion. When the financial year ends every department really spends more than the original allocation.
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  12.  @fod1855  So you are correct in the military you don't tend to get large pay rises, and by and large that historically was the case. however because they do, they are well paid, but not compenasated for putting their lives on the line every time they are in uniform. However you can Thank Margarette Thatcher and her first act as Prime minister to give the Armed forces a huge pay rise, which at the time bought us back to the same level as people in civvy street doing similar jobs, but without the life risks the forces have. His whole comment apart from the last very small sentence was all about the size of the forces, and cost. However you took the pay sentence and ran with it! I personally think as an ex forces person that Forces pay increases should always exceed the cost of living rises/inflation, just because I know what they do for this country. There is a reason why private security firms pay ex forces people lots, and lots of money to do basically mostly what they did in the forces. It is the fact they do what they do without question as long as it is legal.
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  13.  @fod1855  We are not talking about pay rises, but the amount spent on defence. The military currently and deservedly gets above inflation pay rises. Thye do more than you for the UK, and it's image, so should be entitiled to a much better lifestyle
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  14. LOL No British warship travels the world with complete stores of Ammunition on board. Why do you think RFA's are always in tow? Wow Not even in WW1, or WW2 did ships carry everything they could in terms of weapons on board. Such short sightedness in this post.
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  15. These are NOT pathfinders in the British forces, the Pathfiners are an entirely different unit, and totally airmobile! they mentioned the pathfiners in this, and said these people will work alongside them!!
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  16. Well this is all about a certain thing called "Attack us this is what you face," propaganda in other words. You see what the forces want you to see, and the real stuff is rolled out in emergencies. Simple stuff really!!
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  17.  @rupakadhikary153  I understand that English is not your first language. However you are comparing your pathfiners to these troops, whin the British army ARE NOT pathfinders. THIS IS MY POINT HERE. These troops are NOT pathfinders, our pathfinders are a different brigade, these guys, and girls will work alongside our pathfinders, but these people are NOT the British army's pathfinders. I do NOT know how to make myself more clear. I am not commenting on your Indian army pathfinders, I am saying that is not this regiment, by comparison in the British army these are secondary troops!!
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  18.  @rupakadhikary153  Theses guys are NOT pathfinders though, they are a deep reconaisance unit. The pathfinders in the British army are a different group, and are explicitly mentioned as such in this video.
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  19. Meanwhile the real technology will be working while the "Enemy expend useless rounds knocking out the old Tech!!
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  20.  @jamiewalker8772  Several generations ahead of this, not years ahead. Which in technology terms means a hell of a lot.
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  21.  @lachlanchester8142  Do you not know any maths? 20 retire 18 are trained thus by a very simple expedient numbers are reduced!! Honestly this is really simple stuff here!!
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  22. Putin shows the world he is a terrorist. Trade with the world's largest terrorist power Iran proves this.
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  23. You CAN sign on for 25 years right from day one. The main problem is that forces people in the Uk, and USA get more pay working for "security" firms, not contract length.
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  24.  @F14DSUPERTOMCAT  Really? you signed a gas deal Yesterday? You do know gas prices are falling? h no you didn't or you would have waited to shake Biden's hand, By the way that is what you have done if from Europe, Not Stalin's understudy as you think. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
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  25. Why? Are you insinuating they might side with their worst enemy Russia? If so then do go look at what Turkey has faced against Russia in the last 250 years.
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  26.  @wudruffwildcard252  The Boxer which has tracks is a German version of the vehicle.
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  27.  @emmy9345  Says someone who very obviously couldn't be bothered to read my post. You very obviously don't have one for your family at all by the depth, and content of your posts on here.
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  28.  @emmy9345  Actually we share more wirth jap[an than with any country in Europe other than France, and Germany (as those two are just begining to learn) NATO grew from a British French mutual defence alliance from after WW2 for example.
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  29.  @hamfanf1471  SAYS the troll from under the bridge.
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  30. NO it is the ploy to lead NATO, it has nothing to do with a European force.
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  31.  @justlee596  Same question again Why spend stupid mopney on contractors when thiss is what the RM, and USMC are basically for in the first place. Get rid of private contractors in the field, and replace them with troops the bonus is you get 24 hour cover, and guess what? No private security companies DOES actually mean a larger armed forces. The armed forces are there not to make a profit, comapre US health don't care with the NHS. That is simply the very best exmple I can give you. Or why the USA has socialised fire services just like the rest of the world, Private companioes are taking larger and larger slices from the military budget, as well as from other budgets, linked to the armed forces. Finally I do have a very good friend who is now in a private company working civilian ships off the gulf of Aden and in the arabian sea. He gets paid around 3 times what he recieved in the RM. For this he is expected to do far less, and spends most of his time on the decks sun bathing.
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  32.  @HistoryForYouOfficial  Tel this to Labour, after all the present state of the NHS is because they decided to make so many small sections which they can parcel off to private companies.
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  33.  @Orbital_Inclination  I know they aren't learning to fly F16's we didn't want them at the time. I also know that they have done the basic course designed initially by the RAF to fly any type of aircraft including helicopters. So thank you for your post, because i didn't add the bit about teaching flying skills, and NATO doctrine. Well said.
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  34. He has actually just decreased defence spending, and then said "we must revise the integrated review." You applaud the idiot for that? Boris had commited to 2.5% these buffoons are cutting spending on defence, and you applaud him for considering a rise. It should be 3% of GDP as a given minimum!
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  35.  @unreal4010  As it is on the defensive, and considering the staggering Rusky loses they have to out wait Russia for at most 5 years, then Russia will NOT be able to keep this up. Most teens are already leaving Russia for this reason alone, and there are still small queues at places to leave the country for men over 21 to 35. Russia is doomed thankfully.
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  36.  @HairLessBush  Most EU countries barely functioning? Where do you get that? Russia is doomed by this war commisar politburo Comrade.
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  37.  @HairLessBush  Yes at unsustainable losses for Russia. Ukraine only has to wait you out, and you are gone from the world stage. Russia cannot afford 150,000 losses a year, and that is less than Russia lost last year, and the year before. Mother Russia is the Only European country to have had a falling population before the Ukraine war started and with desertions, and people leaving Russia because they DO NOT want to fight in Putin's ares Russia is doomed, China WILL take over most Russian territory in the next40 years.
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  38.  @wallingnaga6563  No actually what are you smoking? You are saying on here that Ukraine has lost half of the two entire Oblasts it took back from Russia, when in fact Russia is pilfering small parts of the Donbass. That is the ONLY region Russia has made any (and Very insignificant) gains. Ukraine still holds the southern shore of the Dneiper river in the Kherson region, and the town of Krinky is under Ukraine control. So Russia have gained a very small area for hundreds of thousands of lives. For Russia, the only European country who's population was shrinking before the Ukraiane war, that rate of attritional loss is totally unsustainable.
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  39.  @SnakeP1tPoetry  What are you claming that Ukraine loses two whole regions a day? Really Russia has been trying to take Donbass for over two years now. By comparison do you realise just how long operation Barbarosa took to take Kiev? 6 weeks is the answer to that Russia is a shambles of corruption, lunacy, and old age war tactics.
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  40.  @user-op8fg3ny3j  Because Russia IS THE most aggresive country in the world. That in itself should give pause to anyone who ponders the question you ask. Poland is NOT the place to stop Russia, it is Ukraine!
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  41.  @stiannunn5113  Yes you can laugh everything points to a dropping population in Russia. In 1992 the Russian population actually enterred a decline, with more deaths than births per year, and life expectancy in Russia becoming one of the lowest in Europe. Thus depopulation is a real thing especially now.
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  42.  @unreal4010  Only in the small gains where Ukraine cannot dfend against mass suicide attacks are Russia gaining ground. however Russia lost control of the southern part of the Dneiper river this year to Ukraine, and just 120 troops still have total control over the river, Most areas are stable, and Russia cannot sustain another two years of the attritional warfare they are presently utilising. The population of Russia is THE only European one to have been shrinking before this war started, and loses now are becoming catastrophic for Russia, as NONE of the other regions gives anything like the required numbers of troops to Putin the puppet dictator.
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  43. @PatagoniaAries Really? They smashed Russian tanks in Afghanistan, and Iraq. Russian tech is rubbish, much like the Russian paper tiger military. How you people have the gall to comment on these chats makes me laugh, all the way to the bank!
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  44.  @rammingspeed5217  Really? Do give the latin word for Lizard, NO second thoughts I WILL tell you and blow your stupid conspiracy comment away Lizard in Latin is Lacerta!!! NOT too sure, but neither the latin for king, or queen contains pany part of the word LACERTA. Monster in Latin is Monstrum. So once again your conspiracy theory ideas are blown away by simple logic!!
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  45.  @tomk3732  Also a very quick look on Chinese sites tells me you are lying about Zaporizhia. Russia has made no adavances there, as there are UN inspectors in the Nuclear facility. LOL. you aren't very good at this are you?
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  46.  @tomk3732  neither of us will remember this conversation next week. However you will be very wrong in a week. Ukraine hasn't crossed the river, they don't need to to gain total control of Crimea. Kherson controls the canal where the water flows to Crimea, and the power supply to Crimea. The problem with shutting of fthe water is you kill everyone there, the majority of whome a re knowns aCrimean atrtars. they are Ethnis Turks, and they don't want your vermin Russian orcs army there either!!
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  47.  @tomk3732  Really where exactly? Ukraine now controls the south of Kherson, it is advancing slowly but surely in the northern areas around Kherson. It also has started an advance in the west. Russia is losing this debacle
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  48.  @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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  49.  SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION  Really just how is this? Russia has proved itself to be puny here!! SLAVA UKRAINE
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  50.  @Dudush90  SO Boris invaded Ukraine did he? I was under the impression it was Russians in Ukraine killing innocent civilians. Putin is the person fools and idiots like you mean.
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