Michael Ilsbroux

@cpscott16 “May you live in interesting times.” The whole world might become a bit too interesting after November.

@michael_ils *1980s

Is there anything Trump could do to lose Republicans' support. Anything? He literally mocks Veterans & says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO countries. I was a Republican for 22 yrs. 22 years! And this is what yall want for president? What the fuck is wrong w/ the GOP?

@cpscott16 Or at least pulled the main body to a more extreme stance.

@cpscott16 The fringe got mainstream.

@CapHornier_ @GerardAraud And now we’re hearing that we need to reach the 2% of GDP 🙂. Thank you for taking time to engage.

@michael_ils @GerardAraud Yep but still. Belgium was supposed to build more. And the french were surprised to see nothing when they came into Belgium.

Belgian neutrality didn’t make sense : because of the Maginot line, any German offensive was doomed to pass through Belgium. Its only result was to open to the enemy the Northern French border.

@CapHornier_ @GerardAraud Clearly. The statement being refuted was that no fortifications were made. On the operational execution of territorial defense and policy choices of all nations many observations can be made in hindsight.

@michael_ils @GerardAraud From then, belgium broke all the military staff links with France. The Dyle manœuvre was stupid. The Maginot line until the Channel would have been more useful

@CapHornier_ @GerardAraud Anecdotal. They held for long enough for France and the British to organize themselves.

@michael_ils @GerardAraud Highways between some fortresses. Doesn t sound like a systèm.

@CapHornier_ @GerardAraud Belgium did have a fortification system but German paratroopers dropped on top of them.

@GerardAraud More over, they didn t create the promised defenslve line. Which doomed the Dyle manoeuver before it started

@AJamesMcCarthy Thank you.

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@SIS_2A @Prefet2A @IsulaCorsica Merci pour votre dévouement !

#MSGU Un incendie est en cours dans la vallée de la gravona, route de Carbuccia. D’importants moyens terrestres et aériens engagés. Évitez le secteur et facilitez l’intervention des secours. @Prefet2A @IsulaCorsica

@GerardAraud At least the EU is able to set common standards and business environment. In the meantime exporters on the continent are still waiting for the UKCA (CE replacement) to come out.

Why do you care? You have left, you are conquering the world, you are Global Britain. Let us manage our affairs as we want. A hint : a common market means common rules. And if you want to export to our market, you’ll adopt our rules.

@TizzyEnt Totally unacceptable how this highly trained TSA agent is being treated, by that guy.

Hey TSA, What are you going to do about this?

@WarintheFuture What an excellent idea. I’ll give it a re-read now that I’m older.

15/ Every time I read this book, I am a little older and have acquired new and different experiences. This means I am reading the book through slightly different eyes. I learn something, and ponder things anew, with each reading of Old Man’s War. End.

I have just begun my annual re-read of John @Scalzi’s superb novel of future war, “Old Man’s War”. It is one of the few books that I re-read frequently (another is Clausewitz’s “On War”). I thought I would explain why in a thread that started short, but grew as I wrote. 1/15 🧵

@MichaelShurkin To be effective these days, if it’s really about fighting tyranny people should be free to buy Abrahams, F35, Stingers, Javelins, etc.

Good grief. No, it is not what they had in mind. And yes, they are radically different. Kinda hard to massacre school kids with a 1791 musket, unless I guess you use it as a club. But then you've got to catch them.

@jakethornton The flirty dozen

Make a movie title less intense. I'll go first. Mission: Possible.

@jakethornton Familiar

@jakethornton The Blair stitch project

@jakethornton Hullraiser

@jakethornton Nothing ado about much