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[Johnsond]

How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow

APPLE.NEWS

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In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on...

Time to spend money on things that count. 

[tree-fancier123]

there is a film out 'House of Dynamite' or something - a nuke is spotted in the Pacific coming for Chicago, multiple attempts to shoot it down fail. One actor has the line ' it's like trying to shoot a bullet with a bullet'

 

we don't need to be able to fight more than 20 minutes if there's a real war next time

[Steven P]

We would if it was about territory like in the Ukraine, but if it was about neutralising us then no, a few grenade launchers shot at a nuclear warhead will do next to nothing.

 

And if we are defending alone against an actual invasion, we are pretty fcked anyway, with France and Germany probably already overrun and the US abandoning us. So rearming is all about defending others, which I believe we are doing with giving some things to the Ukraine - our kit, their people.

[tree-fancier123]

we need to consider the unthinkable - build more shelters, get our people in secretly under cover of darkness, then launch a pre-emptive strike. 

[sime42]

24 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

there is a film out 'House of Dynamite' or something - a nuke is spotted in the Pacific coming for Chicago, multiple attempts to shoot it down fail. One actor has the line ' it's like trying to shoot a bullet with a bullet'

 

we don't need to be able to fight more than 20 minutes if there's a real war next time

 

I was going to be a little more optimistic and say that we don't need to fight for more than three days. We'd run out of food after that. 

[openspaceman]

14 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

I was going to be a little more optimistic and say that we don't need to fight for more than three days. We'd run out of food after that. 

Good chance this overpopulated islnd will not find food to import in the next  50 years

 

 

 

[sime42]

4 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Good chance this overpopulated islnd will not find food to import in the next  50 years

 

 

 

 

Exactly. Thanks for that. I knew that briefing was happening sometime, (only because James Rebanks happened to mention it), but I don't recall it being covered in the media anywhere. I believe that this stuff should be front and centre of the national news: the impact that Climate Breakdown is having on food security. Here, and globally. Also, governments should listen and act on this kind of advice. Similarly with the National Food Strategy that Henry Dimbleby wrote a couple of years ago, which now seems to have been largely forgotten about. There's not a lot that's more important than food. Air and water, but they're goosed as well.

 

 

 

 

 

[openspaceman]

19 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

Exactly. Thanks for that. I knew that briefing was happening sometime, (only because James Rebanks happened to mention it), but I don't recall it being covered in the media anywhere. I believe that this stuff should be front and centre of the national news: the impact that Climate Breakdown is having on food security. Here, and globally. Also, governments should listen and act on this kind of advice. Similarly with the National Food Strategy that Henry Dimbleby wrote a couple of years ago, which now seems to have been largely forgotten about. There's not a lot that's more important than food. Air and water, but they're goosed as well.

 

 

 

 

 

The whole series is being published now and I will even watch Chris Packam's effort.

 

Only 82 MPs attended which is a shame but entirely expected.

 

 

There's a syndrome about populations living under threats like volcanoes coping by ignoring the inevitable. We are like that now. The thing is it's now too late to avert these problems and it was because long dead politicians and dictators didn't take precautions, because the poor aspire to have their share of what the rich have had and the rich won't retrench because they are enjoying what they already have and want more. We have pickled the planet in our effluent.

 

We knew we couldn't rely on fossil fuels beyond a few more generations, and then came  the problem from the surge in use of the atmosphere to dump the consequential CO2,  but resisted change for all my 3/4 of a century.

[Mark J]

UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.

 

 

https://unfccc.int/about-us/reports-highlights/quarterly-updates/un-climate-change-quarterly-update-q1-2025-0

[Stubby]

A documentary coming on shortly excamining The piece of siht that was a bishop who regularly beat young boys ( his own son being one of the first victims ) in the name of christianity . 60 lashes with a kane every three weeks . The arch twat of Canterbry resigned when it was found that he knew about it and did nothing . The abuser was shipped off to Zimbarbwey to sorta sweep him under the carpet ( more countless victims ) where he eventually died .