Today's young people are weaklings

You people need to learn some history. The state of health of the British p opulation in the WWI era was appalling. Your food supply was of very low qu ality, and full of adulterants and pathogens. British youth were small, sic kly and underdeveloped. "Almost 40 percent of the volunteers were rejected for medical reasons. Mal nutrition was widespread in society, working class 15?year? olds had a mean height of 160 cm, while the upper class was 171 cm.[10]" And the bar for rejection by the military was pretty low! Do you think swine flu killed so many people because of its virulence? Don' t believe it! It killed so many people because of government mismanagement, military mismanagement, and near criminal ignorance and incompetence of au thority. Not at all dissimilar to the what's happening today with global wa rming, except the death toll will be MUCH greater.

No! Polls packed with MORONS incited to vote for a fellow MORON by Russia. No one really cares to occupy this wasteland, but they do care to see it cease to exist, and that calls for more of a self-destruction strategy.

A tunnel under Canada.

Russia would be perfectly peaceful if simply left alone. The problem lies with Globalists who want to impose their mad and dangerous views on how the country should be run. Globalists have no time and no respect for the concept of sovereignty and want the entire planet to dance to their tune. A great many countries have or have had leaders that have sold their citizens out to these vile bastards. Thanks to - and *only* to - the internet, more and more people are discovering this self-anointed shadow world government for themselves and greater awareness among the citizens of the countries thusly afflicted is the only thing that can save us and roll back the plan.

The Iran-Iraq war wasn't fought much different than WWI. Jets and tanks made appearances, from time-to-time.

The Rwandan war in the 1990s was fought mostly with knives, axes, machetes and baseball bats, about a half-million dead over a couple months

The most popular weapon of modern conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe seems to be the Grad/Katuysha-type rocket projector, between Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, etc. people must have fired millions of these rockets at each other over the past decade or two

Heavy weapon I should say, rifles and small arms will always be popular

Numerical superiority and surprise is what wins individual battles, for the most part.

In the movies the goodies routinely fight off 5 or 10 to 1 of the baddies.

In the real world even 2 to 1 of evenly matched forces is devastating to the side without numerical superiority, in all situations except when the side at a disadvantage is in an extremely solid defensive position.

In the movies 10 guys defending an Old West tavern can fight off 20 attackers. In the real world the 10 guys inside get wiped out with the

The Soviets didn't win because e.g. the T-34 was such a great battle tank by the standards of its time (it wasn't) or the Soviet soldier was that much more tenacious or "tough" than their German counterpart (they weren't.)

They just went into most fights on the Eastern front with at least 2 to

Erm... remind us again of how many countries Russia took over.

NT

You pushed a car at 50 mph - gosh you must be superman. If yoyu want to live without computers, you might want to move to forests of Borneo for example.

That was when they were still Communist, though. Since 1992 they have only sought to defend their own borders against Nato encroachment from the West. Remember it was Nato who broke their promise in this respect, not the Russians.

It has a lot to do about motivation.

If you are defending your own turf compared to a superior attacker in which the attacking solders are more or less forced into the army with political kommissars pointing a pistol at your back forcing them to attack.

Solders which have only two options, being killed ny enemy fire from the front or being shot in the back by kommissars are not well motivated.

In such situations even a 3 to 1 superiority in both troops and losses are possible for years of fighting.

So yes, they have form for taking over lots of other countries & treating them like crap.

The political changes following the wall are, in typical easterner words, just politicians changing their jackets. They still don't even have democracy.

NT

Not sure about that, but I do know Britain doesn't have a democracy any more. That much is obvious, more than 3 years after that Referendum they're still hitched up to the EUSSR.

I've spoken with people from the eastern bloc, and we've all seen Putin rig the polls & shut down political opposition.

It's had a real wobble but looks like we are getting it.

NT

Cursitor Doom does like to keep his arguments simple.

Britain is a representative democracy and has more or less worked out how t o manage the democratic election of representatives. They are less practice d with referendums, and let Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage mislead the more gullible fraction of the population (which clearly includes Cursitor Doom) with a barrage of lies.

The business of actually leaving the EU has to be managed by parliament, an d it has had enough sense to reject a disastrous no-deal Brexit, while not liking the terms of the deal that May was able to negotiate.

In so far a representative democracy has been able to stave off the destruc tive consequences of a badly run referendum, the UK does seem to have a wor king democracy. Boris Johnson may silly enough to undermine that.

Australian TV science guru " Karl Kruszelnicki" once said on air that:

" ... everything in science has a simple,easy to understand explanation - but unfortunately that explanation is always wrong ".

The UK's democracy is seriously flawed by two things:

1. First past the post election of candidates.
2. Non compulsory voting.

Both the above conspire to ensure that wrong outcomes occur regularly.

FYI: Australia has the best voting system in the world, but still is still subject to media pressure to publish only sensational news and bullshit instead of real information.

.... Phil

This surprises you ? People who push the EU do so because they believe it will bring them more money and power. ALL acts of governments are to that end save very few.

What you need to do is elect some real conservatives. You might even get your guns back if you play it right. Hey, even Ghandi was for personal firearm ownership, remember the quote about that from him that Facebook removed ?

but >unfortunately that explanation is always wrong ".

I think Mencken said something similar about problems and solutions.

I am all for that under one condition. There is a "None Of The Above" and i f that wins then the position goes unfilled until the next normal election.

They will never allow that because in some cases half the government would be gone. Of course that is a good thing, but they don't see it that way.

ews >and bullshit instead of real information

Just as bad as the US. I can't teach how to develop good sources because it is not a matter of a few URLs or lines of text. I can say this much, for e xample you can go to APnews and get the news from where "they" get it and s ee it before the local outlets or networks twist it.

Media, they scorn. I know people in the business, your local TV news is abo ut 90% scripted. Their little ad libs are allowed to give the viewer a sens e of something or other. They are under very strict control over what they can say and do so it is really not quite ad lib. So how come they make so m any errors in the closed captioning ? What's more, on televised live sporti ng events which obviously cannot be scripted there is nary an error.

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