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[treemart]

9 minutes ago, Commando said:

I do wonder if this recent action was a condition of sale for the Eurofighter deal with Saudi

Ask vespasian.  He's probably seen a youtube video about it

[geoffrey]

[felixthelogchopper]

22 minutes ago, Commando said:

I do wonder if this recent action was a condition of sale for the Eurofighter deal with Saudi

Like a test drive, you mean?

[Commando]

Like a test drive, you mean?

Ha ha nah I guess that test drive was south of Saudi, not north[emoji6]

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Commando said:

I do wonder if this recent action was a condition of sale for the Eurofighter deal with Saudi

It’s certainly an historic and ground breaking departure from long standing and deeply ingrained UK military doctrine....  the greatest concern will be if we have just witnessed a precedent being set which will forever change military ethos in the UK?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAF working on the weekend......?

 

i can feel the shockwaves from here.....

[Commando]

It’s certainly an historic and ground breaking departure from long standing and deeply ingrained UK military doctrine....  the greatest concern will be if we have just witnessed a precedent being set which will forever change military ethos in the UK?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RAF working on the weekend......?
 
i can feel the shockwaves from here.....

Ha ha, I was in the process of putting together a (semi) intelligent reply until I scrolled down [emoji106]

[Haironyourchest]

3 hours ago, Vespasian said:

Well its not much of attack on Syria is it all said an done, still, the point being to humiliate Putin as best we can without going to far. In that regards its job well done..

 

Nothing Putin can do but smart for a day or two, help him reflect of his own use of chemical weapons on British soil..  

 

the knob head thinks to laugh in our faces, well who's laughing now...   

I hope you're right. Cos if this business is a false flag plot by UK and US and precipitates a nuclear war then we could find ourselves on the wrong side of history. I want to believe that Assad is a monster but I have a bad feeling it's a stitch up by shadowy western power brokers...I predicted ww3 would kick off in 2018 - twenty odd years ago, using pendulum dowsing. Now I've just read that a psychic who predicted the election of Trump also predicted the war would start around April 13th 2017 by way of a false flag operation in Syria. Well he appears to be off by a year, but that's not unusual. My theory is the world powers have been moving g toward war for some time, with Obama preparing the ground for Clinton to do the deed. Trump upset the plan, but now seems to be on board with it, knowingly or not. 

[Mark J]

I'm still rankled that The Prime minister of a minority government had the gall to order missile strikes, without paliamentary approval, when there is no immediate threat to the UK.

At least Blair lied to us about the threat.  Cameron tried to get approval and was voted down.

Seems convenient that the places where suspected chemical attacks took place are obliterated before the OPCW are due to inspect it.

The amount of money spent on this unnecessary operation beggars belief.  Are we chasing scraps from America's plate in the hope of some trade deal?  I think we'd be better off spending money here to fix the things that are evidently broken.

Edited April 14, 2018 by Mark J

[breffni]

6 minutes ago, Mark J said:

I'm still rankled that The Prime minister of a minority government had the gall to order missile strikes, without paliamentary approval, when there is no immediate threat to the UK.

At least Blair lied to us about the threat.  Cameron tried to get approval and was voted down.

Seems convenient that the places where suspected chemical attacks took place are obliterated before the OPCW are due to inspect it.

The amount of money spent on this unnecessary operation beggars belief.  Are we chasing scraps from America's plate in the hope of some trade deal?  I think we'd be better off spending money here to fix the things that are evidently broken.

I think its great as she annoys both the far left who hate the tories and blame them for everything and it annoys the far right who love the russians!

[Mark J]

Just now, breffni said:

I think its great as she annoys both the far left who hate the tories and blame them for everything and it annoys the far right who love the russians!

Just because I dislike the tories, doesn't mean im 'hard' left.  Just makes me a compassionate human being.