Recent content by cunning fergus

Spot on. Personally I think there are only 3 groups at play here. Trans Men, the most straight forward. These are lesbians, they were “strap on” lesbians pre transition and remain so post transition. They can grow beards and have deeper voices but that’s about it, they present no potential...

I will start the bidding with China, and raise you a…………can you name a major military power that doesn’t produce its own steel?

Without getting bogged down on just steel, plans to replace the current steel producing capability are far from secure. https://search.app/vXCb2bnNiMDijAwe7 Notwithstanding this precarious position for the future of steel production the U.K. Government are clearly not joining up industrial...

There’s a lot in that post. It’s fine I understand you are comfortable with the U.K. relying on other countries industry to support its defence strategy. That position for me is sub optimal, as neatly demonstrated by the recent election of Trump. If this country’s defence strategy is tied to...

You have a lower bar on your expectations of government standards to me. I’m not sure there is another issue any more serious to the nation state than war, but each to their own. As it stands we have “muddled through” all the while we were happy to outsource our defence to the US. So the time...

Why should it be either of those options? Responsible governments (whatever flavour) should have strategies baked in to their overall risk management frameworks for most global/local events. If the UK Government strategy is to be a leading global military power with capacity to resist another...

Now that European countries are finally getting round to implementing sensible defence policies, any country that cannot produce its own steel is surely going to be unable to deliver a genuinely credible defence policy of its own, let alone one that includes exports to allies. As demonstrated...

This country’s ability to build heavy armaments independently, let alone a pace, is a pipe dream. https://search.app/PccNdCPVrTHDM97VA The level of industrial decline in this country has been in the post for a while, I’m not sure if this status has been fully understood by people yet. Maybe...

That’s the Crimea occupied in 2014……..before the 2018 World Cup and Winter Olympics. That Crimea?

When you say territories now occupied you mean like Crimea?

I said it before, the best conceivable outcome is an imperfect peace. That’s not great for Ukraine but would suit the taxpayers in Europe and the US. The west buys time to rearm if it can afford to do so, and it’s what its electorates want. Rearming is not cheap and will almost certainly...

Not true, when people make some very bold statements then they are inviting challenge. I have done so without being personal, merely providing a different view, which I think many people in this country share. Many on here think Russia is out on its arse……..and maybe it is on its way to being...

I’m just trying to join up some of your considerations. Europe is not acting in unison, it is evident that the UK and France are considering more options, including putting troops in Ukraine. In contrast Germany, Poland and Italy have ruled that out. It’s you that said Europe could push...

So, “Europe” just need to backfill the kit and technology to the Ukrainians that the US is not going to supply going forward. The Ukrainians won’t need boots of “European” militaries on the ground. You’re confident the European military industrial capacity can do this? Presumably, this...

Without covering the old ground too much. Assuming 1), 2) and 3) are correct. Do you consider “Europe” to be a unified entity in which all countries are acting in unison? If so, under whose leadership would that take place, i.e NATO, EU or something else? Can “Europe” push Russia out of...