stuart galbraith
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Trump says he gave Iran 24h or they face unimaginable attacks.
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The Bristol-Birmingham-Manchester rail arch being just an hourly 4 carriage service is ridiculous. 3 of Britain's core cities contributing billions to the national GDP all on a 3 hour train ride. It should be atleast half hourly trains with 8-12 carriages.
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@edwarddglewis1 @SOEhistory He wasnt. That book above was his mempirs.
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May 1945: German spycatcher Hugo Bleicher, together with two of his French Abwehr agents, is arrested in Amsterdam by the Dutch NBS. He had been responsible for the arrest of scores of SOE agents.
#HugoBleicher #Abwehr #WW2 1/2
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@ronmanagernottm I had electronic mastermind, which was surprisingly good, if simple.
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I spent most of the 70s being looked down on by this pair.
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@MykhailoXPIH @ClarkeMicah Exactly. Now imagine the British mediterranean fleet needs more ships because we dumped the French, its clear why we couldnt let the French or Belgians go under the wheel in Ww1, anymore than we could in Ww2. We were involved as soon as kaiser built dreadnoughts.
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@ClarkeMicah @stuartG666 This is what Peter means by the German navy being “badly mauled” by the British Navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916:
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.@stuartg666. The German fleet was rightly afraid of the far larger Royal Navy and generally stayed in port, except at Jutland, when it was so badly mauled it went back to port. If we hadn't bankrupted ourselves in land war, we could have strengthend the RN to make this even more so.
stuart galbraith@stuartG666
@DavidTBTaylor @ClarkeMicah Absolutely, and it doesnt seem to occur to many here they would have been well placed to do the same to us with the German fleet parked in Zebrugge. Everyone is talking about this morally, refusing to understand the need for security. The whole entente for us was naval security
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I want to express my love for our Nordic and Baltic allies for supporting us without blackmail, stupid demands, political theater and bitching lecturers about how we name shit while we fight to defend ourselves and Europe.
The only people I actually genuinely respect 🙂
Clash Report@clashreport
BREAKING: Sweden is donating 16 JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter jets to Ukraine, with Zelensky in Stockholm for the announcement at Uppsala airbase.
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@Moonlighhy Just as long as he doesnt keep doing it at 20....
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@MuseumCommodore Somebody needs to do an 8 bit computer game of this series..
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You can't get more 1980's than this. The Miami Vice TV series intro running on a 1980's Commodore 64 with 16 colours and the SID chip for the music.
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@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives And then nobody becomes doctors at all, because you can get away paying them shitty wages. Brilliant.
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If @Conservatives were in power, these strikes simply wouldn’t be happening.
That’s because we'll add doctors to the list of professions banned from striking. Just like police officers and members of the Armed Forces.
Our health should never be held ransom by unions.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Resident doctors in England will strike from June 15 to June 19 over pay
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Cars are still better than trains. Which is why we stopped using trains and chose to use cars. Trains have the fundamental flaw of taking you from one place you don't want to be to another place you don't want to be.
Peter Hitchens@ClarkeMicah
.@Kaya85kaya. You make the usual mistake of leaving out the environmental costs of the car, and ignoring the nevironmental advantages of the train. Plus the absurd economics of borrowing money to import machines which spend 95% of their lives doing nothing.
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@ClarkeMicah And if we sat out, HSFwould have sat the other side of the channel ready to intervene. Moreover, if we split with the entente, we would not be able to concentrate the fleet on the north sea, because the french wouldnt cover the med, making the HSF numerically closer to Home Fleet
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Why did the PM accept and encourage bad advice from Lord Mandelson but ignores lots of good advice from Tony Blair? A PM gets plenty of free advice from many people, but has to work out which advice will help the government and country.
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@DavidTBTaylor @ClarkeMicah Absolutely, and it doesnt seem to occur to many here they would have been well placed to do the same to us with the German fleet parked in Zebrugge.
Everyone is talking about this morally, refusing to understand the need for security. The whole entente for us was naval security
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@stuartG666 @ClarkeMicah The economic blockade was the largest factor in their giving up.
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2/2.@stuartg666 Before 1916 there was of course an alternative to ordering your own countrymen to walk slowly into heavy machine-gun fire, through mud and barbed wire, while carrying heavy packs. Here it is: 'Do not do such a stupid thing'.
stuart galbraith@stuartG666
@ClarkeMicah @20committee Till 1916, there wasnt an alternative. Even when they had the tank, it didnt really deliver worthwhile results till 1917, and arguably didnt become a real warwinner till 1918.
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@GeorgeBail58202 @apieck @ClarkeMicah Again, considering they marched in ignoring all treaties, why should we think that?
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@stuartG666 @apieck @ClarkeMicah This supposes that the Germans had intended to directly annex Belgium in the event of their victory. I don’t think there’s evidence for this. Obviously I’m not justifying Germany violating Belgian sovereignty, but it had happened before with Denmark and there was no war.
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.@stuartg666. 1/2 There was a very good alternative in 1914. Don't join a stupid war between Germany and Russia in which we had no stake.
stuart galbraith@stuartG666
@ClarkeMicah @20committee Till 1916, there wasnt an alternative. Even when they had the tank, it didnt really deliver worthwhile results till 1917, and arguably didnt become a real warwinner till 1918.
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@GeorgeBail58202 @apieck @ClarkeMicah But Denmark if occupied, didnt give the Germans it didnt already have, a North sea coast. The navy was fairly trivial compared to ours then also.
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@apieck @ClarkeMicah @stuartG666 The 1852 London Protocol also committed us to coming to Denmark’s assistance during Second Schleswig War,but, realising declaring war on Prussia was beyond stupid, refrained ourselves. A pity we didn’t do the same in 1914 and the ‘Great War’ may have indeed been over by Christmas
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@LavendelVicky @jason_margate @ClarkeMicah And yet they invaded Belgium, and how could we possibly know that they would stop there?
However you look at it, Belgium was strategic centre of gravity for the British. If the Germans occupied it, it meant intolerable pressure could be brought to bear.
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@stuartG666 @jason_margate @ClarkeMicah There hasn't even existed a German invasion plan. Literally no significant German military or politician wanted a war with Britain.
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@mentorthedragon Much easier for the Germans to be a potential threat not doing anything, than the RN having to be on hand 24/7 for years to stop them doing it. This was clear as late as 1940, when invasion preparation largely a bluff, but didnt stop the RN preparing to stop it.
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@ClarkeMicah But again, that only partly mitigates the Invastion problem. British army had something like 6 divisions. If we lose the channel the full weight of the German army can be brought over. And even if you built lots of forts, it doesnt help the danger to merchantile trade.
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.@stuartg666 Build strong defences instead (as the Germans tended to do) . Defended fortified positions are incredibly hard to overcome. The war was won by the blockade.
stuart galbraith@stuartG666
@ClarkeMicah The problem is that not attacking would allow the Germans to build up a force that could not be defended against. Look to March 1918 when they attacked with the forces removed from the Eastern front, and damn nearly won. Imagine if they did that a couple of years earlier.
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This is freaking me out. I have always pronounced the suffix -shire as 'sheer'. Hamp-sheer. Dar-bee-sheer. Lan-ka-sheer. But this thread is full of people - English people - telling Americans (who, as well all know, say dar-bee-shy-ar) that -shire is pronounced 'shuh'. WTH.
Tony Coffey@The__Goomba
One random thing I think Americans do to piss us off is butcher the pronunciation of “Shire” in our place names while only ever saying it correctly in their state of New Hampshire. A low stakes conspiracy.
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