The posted said the majority, so just over 5 million.How many immigrants were on there?
Not being argumentative just trying to get an idea of numbers.
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[News] Are we at war?
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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this.
I think you may have over-excited @carlzeissIt feels like we might be?
US says strikes on Iran-linked militias just ‘the beginning’ of its response
National security adviser refuses to rule out targeting Iran after 85 sites were attacked in Iraq and Syriawww.theguardian.com
The global war against Islam, has not, I repeat NOT yet begun. No antifada (gedditt??). No rounding them all up.
A few Yemeni peasants who managed to get the tribe to send them to South Bank Poly to get a lower second in computer science may, however, find themselves and their Russian/Iranian-supplied heat-seeking drones, er, blown up.
The end
Life now looks like an episode of Spooks. What a prescient series
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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But will it end with the nuclear option?
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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No, I don’t believe so at least not between official states. That’s why we still need conventional weapons. That’s what will do most of the fighting. Of course, NW is possible. It’s a frightening world with and has been since the damn things were invented. Anyway, on a happier note, found a Gulls Eye from early 90s in a box in garage earlier. And a write up of the Hereford game by their Captain. Paused for a trip down memory lane before carrying on clearing out stuff. Cheers Harty!
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The problem is we have the Brits and the yanks who see war as a way to make profit creating a world where true nutters like Putin can wage wars of ideology.
It’s a mess
It’s a mess
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
1968. The Royal Marines took a year off.
Fitzcarraldo
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- Nov 12, 2010
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I would imagine if you lived in Yemen and you were being bombed it would feel like you were at war.
Lenny Rider
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A chilling set of stats, I’m sure replicated by the Yanks as well, and exactly what Tricky Dicky alluded to.
I, like many others on here, learnt in our teens about the powers that be at Versailles stating the 14-18 conflict was the ‘War to end all wars’* only for them to do it all again 21 years later
*Clearly no one told the Germans
Worrying times……
Saladpack Seagull
Just Shut Up and Paddle
Working at a British military hospital from 1978 to 1985 it was obvious that we were involved in many covert operations due to the small but steady trickle of casualties arriving for treatment and sometimes medical discharge. Often the official reason for injury was " Road Traffic Accident" and I still remember the moment that my boss said " Hang on, this is the third RTA from that exact bit of road. I've been there and it's just a straight desert road with virtually nothing on it....." Then the penny dropped and we were both convinced that we were engaged in a conflict which never surfaced to public knowledge. Discussing this with others later, it was felt that such operations, apart from the political benefits they brought to foreign policy, were useful for giving junior officers experience in commanding in combat.
Worried Man Blues
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We'll never know!
Lenny Rider
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Unfortunately we wouldn’t be in the first wave apparently, but the fall out from the attack on Portsmouth will probably finish us all off in the days after.
Worried Man Blues
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It would be pointless hitting Portsmouth!Unfortunately we wouldn’t be in the first wave apparently, but the fall out from the attack on Portsmouth will probably finish us all off in the days after.
Lenny Rider
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Has the Naval Base moved?
Bit harsh on RAF Mildenhall Visitors Centre! What happened there, Putin had a dodgy scone and his souvenir fridge magnet didn't stick properlyNot so for us poor plebs on the Norfolk/Suffolk border - surrounded by USAF and RAF bases - we are used to an almost constant stream of jets in the sky - from training exercises and especially during the first months of the Ukraine war.
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Now we will have the pleasure of hosting US nuclear weapons for the first time in 15 years ( to counter the threat of Russian escalation) on one of the bases ( RAF Lakenheath) a few miles away too - lovely jubbly - take out all the US and RAF bases on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in a first strike - job half done. Next stop Salisbury.
Thunder Bolt
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There's very little there now. We only have a couple of working ships left.
Lenny Rider
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Have you ever been to the Hunstanton Spice Museum?Not so for us poor plebs on the Norfolk/Suffolk border - surrounded by USAF and RAF bases - we are used to an almost constant stream of jets in the sky - from training exercises and especially during the first months of the Ukraine war.
View attachment 174992
Now we will have the pleasure of hosting US nuclear weapons for the first time in 15 years ( to counter the threat of Russian escalation) on one of the bases ( RAF Lakenheath) a few miles away too - lovely jubbly - take out all the US and RAF bases on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in a first strike - job half done. Next stop Salisbury.