Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "The Israeli Galil" video.

  1. I'm from Poland and you made me think. We used to learn how to shoot in school. I think it's time to lobby for restarting this practice.
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  2.  @VT-mw2zb  "land wars have a tendency of screeching to a halt" - Have you seen the map of Poland? If you speed up a bicycle, you can coast through half of it. And not because it's so small, it's just so flat. ;-) "That's when guerrillas become effective." - We do have traditions in underground resistance. You guys probably bested us, but we weren't half bad. I mean it. "High school students are taught basic things like first aid, how to crawl, field strip of an AK, how to throw a grenade, etc ..." - I went through all of that in high school, except stripping an AK. Now it's out of fashion. I think we need to come back to it. Europe will weaken, the only question is how much and how quickly. Then it's time for Russia to lay their claims once again. Damn, it's going to be difficult to do this in current climate of offended pussies everywhere... But without it we may fall again, so not much of a choice, really. At least patriotism is on the rise. Upwards of 250k people marched on 100th anniversary of Independence. We have the will and we still have the time. We'll survive, like we always do. Best to you guys too. Keep your country safe.
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  3. Poor Israelis. They didn't know enough to mud-test their weapons, so they remained under wrong impression that M-16s and FALs jammed, while AKs worked.
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  4.  @Panzer-Geomancer  I don't know how the deal was sealed. The wife of our president is Jewish, from an influential family I think, so maybe this had something to do with it? I just don't know. Though president in Poland does not hold much of real power. Anyway, we are definitely not allied with Israel. Our relations even have been strained recently. They ask for money on behalf of Polish citizens murdered by Germans, who have left their possessions without an heir, which customarily goes to the state everywhere in the world. But they still want money, just because of their religion. We consider that claim outrageous, they think they can pressure us by guilt-tripping if they lie enough about it, so it's not all roses, that for sure. Not an enmity either, though. More or less neutral-to-positive relations.
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