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I view the current kerfuffle in the world as a modern day 7 years war, not a potential world war. As no power is global in nature, like the British Empire was. Without that you would have just had a war in China and a war on the Northern European plain. In the 7 years war you had the...

Here is a stream about the British army on the western front in WW2. With slight talk of the British army in North Africa and Burma. I am wondering if other members agree with the views of the speakers in the stream. As I don't know very much about the British army in WW2. One thing which...

Recently the UVF 'Ulster volunteer force' have hijacked a van and sent a pretend bomb to an event where the Irish foreign minister was speaking. https://news.sky.com/story/irish-foreign-minister-simon-coveney-taken-off-stage-at-peace-event-in-belfast-after-security-alert-12574781 As the British...

With the war in Ukraine breaking out, the risk to civilian life is once again greatest in the major cities, with built up business/governmental/residential areas seeing street battles. Leading mass casualties for both attacker and defender. With the defending setting up defensive positions which...

I have been thinking about the differences between the Russian ruling faction and the American ruling faction. How the Russian ruling class is honest, settled and loving, whereas the American ruling faction is dishonest, inversive, imperialist. And how the two factions want different things from...

Should try this local coffee and doughnut cafe called Bruce and Luke's. Its a bit modern for me and a bit pink. But the tea and coffee is excellent as are the doughnut's. Its a local business, which I hope pushes out the American corporation in the local area and dominates the local market...

If I look at Europe geo-politically I see a number of different aspects. First Europe is made up of 5 peninsular's. The main European peninsular coming from the North European plain out of Russia, the Iberian peninsular, the Italian peninsular, the Scandinavian peninsular and the Balkan...

Given the British lack of AAW escorts for the carrier would it make sense for Britain to build 3-4 AAW type 26 frigates. Along with the 8 ASW type 26. The French have done this with the FREMM class, though the frigates are less capable than the AAW frigates the French build. They are still...

Which countries around the world have the capacity to build their own independent carrier program? The US, UK, France, Russia, India, China all have fleet carriers. So they obviously have the capacity to do it. Apart from that I would say Japan, Mexico and South Korea, they may not have the...

I think if the Russians had the capacity they would have invaded Ukraine by now. I was actually shocked by the fact the Russians have mobilized about a 1/4 of its armed forces and it just about outnumbers 1/2 the Ukraine army. In the old days the Russians could have mobilized ten times this...

I have noticed how countries like Ireland have no power, but a very high GDP per person. Where as Russia/China/India have lower GDP per person and much more power. Then you have other countries like Britain/France we have above average GDP per person and above average power, and Germany/Japan...

The UK Brexit Minister has resigned. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59714241 https://zeihan.com/brexit-the-end-of-the-beginning/

This is the long sordid story of the independent British carrier program, how it failed and how it has left Britain far worse of than it was before. The 'super-carrier program' isn't a new thing for Britain. We had plans for the Malta class during and after WW2, but scrapped it because we...

The Conservative party have lost a safe as houses seat to the Liberal Democrats, capping off one of the worst months in the history of British politics for Boris Johnson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59696672

I think Putin is very good, Xi is very good and I also rate Macron. The worst I would say New Zealand, Germany and Canada.

The Defence Committee publishes its report “We’re going to need a bigger Navy” following the Committee’s inquiry into The Navy: purpose and procurement. The report finds that the next decade is one of significant risk for the Royal Navy's fleet, and one in which the UK and the Navy will face an...

So there is the great man theory of history, the conspiracy theory of history, the Marxist theory of history, the cultural theory of history and the geographic theory of history. My current theory is the ruling class theory of history, which basically is whoever has the superior ruling class...