Comments by "David Houseman" (@davidhouseman4328) on "Could Britain Be Called Into A Third World War? • ON THE RADAR | Forces TV" video.

  1. Yeah, modern tech and a highly trained force, classic liability.
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  2. Russia has lot more conscripts that the UK but are no threat. China is a powerhouse in the making. Russia just another regional power.
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  3.  @bony7363  I mean, yes, your illustrating my point. That is the region of Russia. Look at a globe. They are strong regional power, but a regional power none the less.
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  4.  @lyndon_daly1889  Nope. For example, where is the furthest perminant base from Russia? Syria. In the region. Russia simply isn't comparable to the US in global reach. And China economic reach also puts it to shame.
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  5.  @blacksmith67  Firstly I don't think your totally wrong but I would add a few points. Firstly the more apt analogy from world wars seems to me like Japan vs China is WW2. It had the current forces but the worse long term resources. Japan were winning that war before it expanded. Secondly US manufacturing on it own maybe lacking but it could use the rest of the world more easily. You would have western Europe feeding it kit like the US did before joining the world wars. And thirdly China is currently struggling with a lot of the most modern weaponry, most obviously jet engines. The USSR might have mass manufactured but it had to start with a quality bit of kit ie T34, for it to work.
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  6. We'd be fighting as part of an alliance, alone we'd be very limited but we can add useful power to a coalition.
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  7. Do you not think stopping the Nazis was worth fighting for?
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  8. No they don't.
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  9.  @paulcox9875  they aren't a threat to our interests. But it's also how you deal will a friend compared to an opponent. You coerce a friend and confront an opponent.
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  10.  @paulcox9875  which would also benefit us?
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  11. It also causes losses beyond comprehension. The British Empire came down because of the cost of two world wars.
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  12. The British Empire never maintained a large army, it relied on it's gadgets. Now we are just the UK we don't need a huge force. We need to be able to deploy and sustain that force at speed.
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  13. Wishful thinking and paranoia? Your contradicting yourself. It's about identify flash points before they happen so you can avoid a WW3.
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  14.  @samuel10125  that isn't a big military, they spend 1% to our 2%.
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  15.  @samuel10125  there military is very heavily subject to the US. They have aegis destroyers and F15s. You seem like you wanted more independence from America?
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  16. What really matters more that preserving our way of life?
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  17. The second cold war is starting, but that's not WW3.
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  18.  @mahabharat4985  both were US led campaigns, they set policy. Unless you are trying to say everything would have been fine with a US invasion but the UK messed it up?
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  19. Yemen is a civil war where both sides have outside backers. An invasion if Oman is a would be a completely different prospect.
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  20.  @WollongongWacko  what part is wrong, I'm pretty confident of each part of what I said?
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  21. Sure, past stolen tech, nothing ground breaking
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  22. You say the US is five times better equipped but China as all the aces?
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  23.  @blacksmith67  Firstly, my point was about all the aces. May be China could have 3 of the aces, but current power has to be at least one? The third Reich started by being cut off from the rest of the world. The first move against China is cutting it off from the rest of the world. I can't see a comparison. The winner in the two world wars was the team that could leverage the world economy, not just there own.
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  24. It's not that they are but the risk they could become the threat. Iran is a theocracy with links to a lot of none state actors. Those are avenues that could lead to them using a nuclear weapon.
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  25. It depends, maybe a Europe dominated by the Prussian army might not have been that bad but stopping one of Nazis was worth the cost.
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  26.  @chigeryelam4061  that doesn't work when it's a fire tempering steel.
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  27.  @chigeryelam4061  no, I'm not. I really want to avoid war. But when it becomes inevitable you commit to it entirely. We lost Czechoslovakia by thinking the fire was on the other side of the river. A stable Nazis superstate would have won the war. Britain built it's empire on divide and conquer, it excelled at taking advantage of the state ravaged by fire. It saw the difference in the world wars.
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