Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. For decades Britain has been taking from the defence budget to pay for social spending without raising taxes.
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  2. Ukraine has every reason to get the West in direct conflict with Russia.
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  3. They are not just US supplied missiles the Ukrainians are pointing and firing they navigate in flight by using an American terrain recognition system, and the target's are likely selected from US intel and surveillance info. All the Ukrainians do is punch in some coordinates the US give them and press launch. Moreover the US approves the destruction of each target a missile is fired at. There attacks are really US attacks using Ukraine as a cats paw. If they go beyond Kursk as Ukraine is trying to get authorisation for, the Kremlin will have to do something.
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  4. ​ @c0der1020  This is very explicit and public, Putin can't pretend to the Russian masses who watched his speech on TV that he didn't say if the ATACMS strikes continue inside Russia then American bases in Europe will be hit in retaliation, or he meant something different. The ball is in Biden's court, his team didn't expect anything like this but the Pentagon did, which is why they opposed it.
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  5. Brendan Simms's book on Trump detailed his hatred of Iran in comments going back to the Embassy hostage humiliation.
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  6. That the guy only lasted a total of two months from being conscripted indicated that the chance of dying is now much greater than it was. It is just like Lloyd George in WW1, out of fear that more troops will be used in wasteful counter offensives, the Government does not trust the army with extra soldiers. But they also want victories.
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  7. Eisenhower "Be slow to say what you will do, and never say what you won't".
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  8. Is Orla trying to get herself killed?
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  9. Too dangerous. They'll draw fire.
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  10.  @milesnixon9554  Putin said that each of these strikes are done with the assistance of the US (terrain recognition system) and no target that the US objects to is hit, Whether of not that is true or amounts to America participating in the he said it as the rationale for saying Russia has the right to hit military bases of America in Europe in retaliation and expounded that theory as fact in an adress to the nation, which was very explicit and public, Putin can't pretend to the Russian masses who watched his speech on TV that he didn't say if the ATACMS strikes continue inside Russia then American bases in Europe will be hit in retaliation, or he meant something different. The ball is in Biden's court, his team didn't expect anything like this but the Pentagon did, which is why they opposed using ATACMS inside Russia.
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  11. Oh? if you are right then America will not back down. If the US do back down over the ATACMS strikes into Russia, America will massively increase arms to Ukraine because the US cannot be made to look silly. So worse is better for Ukraine. If actual direct hostilities between Russia and the West occur that is good news for Ukraine. Zelensky wants it.
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  12.  @talkingonthespectrum ATACMS have multiple systems for navigation, some can be jammed. Ditto Storm Shadow. The Americans have the cartography images that the unjamable terrain following relies on. A different set pf pictures has to be loaded for each target location And of course the target selected is often located because of US surveillance and intel. So the weapons Putin is saying Americans (and Brits to an extent) are supplying are not able to be used independent of continuing access to select the US library of terrain images, and the targeting is also quite a bit American. Yes the Ukrainians fire the things and know where their going but they need important help each time.
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  13.  @talkingonthespectrum  Well you seem to know about what Ukraine might be able to do, but nothing you are saying contradicts the point that Putin made about these 2 strikes having been done with essential US assistance, and that follow are going to be seen by the Kremlin as further direct involvement on the strikes into Russia by the US, not just supply of the missiles . Putin has said this in a TV address to the nation, adding any further ATACMS strikes into Russia will ne met with retaliation in kin, on US bases in Europe. Him walking such an explicit statement back is barely possible; I think it is more likely he will do what he says.
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  14.  @talkingonthespectrum  That is what Biden seems to have thought, but I very much doubt that that Biden expected Putin to go on Russia' TV virtually saying' if we get more of these ATACMS hitting a target in our country we will hit a US base'.. And by the way the US evacuated their embassy so the intel Washington is receiving alarms them.
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  15. Globalist who lost the Brexit debate. All technocrat Carney knows how to do is pump up the housing market.
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  16. @Spots Corner The Russians won't ask them to. So how does Ukraine end the war?
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  17. @Spots Corner Putin might like that. Biden would not.
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  18. Ukraine does not want the peace talks to suceed.
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