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Jessica Woolliscroft's avatar

Ideas! What a feast. Thankyou

Frank Wright's avatar

I’m glad you liked that Jessica! Happy to oblige with the ideas whatwhat.

Jacques de Molay's avatar

I see no reason whatsoever why Britain should go to war with Russia. I see no reason whatsoever why the British people should risk their lives to defend Ukraine. I see no reason whatsoever why the young men of Britain should sign up to fight for a country that apparently hates them.

Trusting in God though, things aren't falling apart, they're falling into place.

Church of the Ignorati's avatar

I wouldn't worry too much. When they made a call for volunteers in 1939 to join the TA 166,000 responded almost overnight.

Despite banging the war drum for over a year now the regular army can't even maintain it's, very low, strength.

You could probably measure the volunteers in terms of a small number of taxis.

Jacques de Molay's avatar

That's what concerns me though. The decision makers must know there is a near zero chance to bolster military numbers to any respectable figure, in Britain or indeed any EU country, and yet they're pushing ahead with the propaganda anyway. It's not even just manpower, as Frank mentioned. Our country is woefully ill prepared in virtually every aspect of war readiness.

It's also clear given the uniform messaging across EU countries...and Britain that they're all getting their orders from the same place. I'm guessing that place has no interest in the lives of British people.

So if they're preparing us for war, yet we'll never be capable of war, what are they laying the groundwork for?

Kelly McCulloch's avatar

“Rebalancing” sounds like adding a bit more soap and some more water to an already overflowing greasy dishpan. Dump it out. Tough love for all. The good migrants and the good natives will all be thrilled. Let the rulers swirl the drain. They offer us nothing.

Church of the Ignorati's avatar

Realism is merely respect of the power dynamic. One match can burn 1000 trees; it is far cheaper to destroy something than to build it. Therefore the ability to destroy is the ability to control.

Realist perspectives have broken down in the last 30 years as Governments get their advice from elsewhere. But the fundamental principle still reigns true regardless of what collective delusions govern many foreign policies.

Sad to report that collective delusions would be overselling the rationality of many. When Clinton switched American foreign policy to better represent feminist thought in 2008 it was a matter for wikileaks only. Though no-one really noticed. When more officially announced in about 2014, no-one noticed, or even knew what it meant if they did.

This isn't particularly surprising as even having studied such at University there was less than a dozen attendees at the lectures, out of well more than a hundred on the course. I was only there as the lass I was shagging was interested.

Russia, Russia, Russia is the devil, the bogeyman, not because it is not feminist. It is because it is post feminist. They did it properly, and saw the results. The babushkas were sent down the coal mines, to the factories and eventually to the front. There was no favours given or allowances made. They were truly equal in being worked to death. True equality, it was discovered, was attained precisely when everyone's value was zero, pre war.

And post war, post twenty seven million casualties, there was a bit of a glut especially if you were fussy about breeding with amputees or paupers. Much of the Red army was busily entertained industrially raping the vanquished Axis powers, further limiting marriageable types. Safe to say there wasn't much scope for making yourself less attractive if you were a Russian lass. Post cold war and the wall coming down you might be greeted at the airport by someone with a catalogue of potential Russian mail order brides, they voted with their feet and fled.

To reconstruct the country such things had to be managed, feminists were often diagnosed as mentally ill. To the everlasting fury of our own blue haired harridans the entire country remained impervious to our most carefully constructed propaganda, as they knew where it lead. Pussy Riot became Pussy Quiet.

The Moslems were merely ignorant. The Africans merely badly educated. We dedicated 0.7% of our GDP to 'educating' them, which is classed as defence spending. The parallels with Christian missionaries are striking, though the Christians were trying to build and improve. The modern state religion exported to destroy, or rather to prevent anything of worth ever being built.

This is all abject nonsense in geopolitical terms, but it is how they see the world and think.

Ukraine was meant to be Clinton's war, to finally prove the superiority of our End of History. It has shown the precise opposite.

So a rebalancing yes, though that has to be root and branch at home too.