tree-fancier123

In the second Boer War 1899 - 1902 we lost a reported 27,000 military, the Korean War 1950 - 1953 cost the lives of approximately 1100 service men and women. My point is the recent conflicts have not been on that scale 30 years fighting in NI est 763 dead Iraq 179 Afganistan 457 Gulf War 47 Falkands 255 Our soldiers are still just as brave as in the Boer War, but their chances of survival seem better today. In cold terms of sheer numbers I think a combined UK and EU force could defeat Russia in a conventional war, but when it comes to Taiwan it would take more than any conceivable coalition to defeat China. Biden said he would defend Taiwan, whereas Trump will not. This time maybe Trump is right - hundreds of thousands of US soldiers could be sent tp their deaths defending Taiwan and it still would fall. China and Russia are like bullies in the school playground and when the teachers try to break it up the teachers end up stabbed to death.

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Xi and Putin don't have to worry about silly things like elections removing them from office. Trump is a truly great leader, we may never see his like again - so why prevent him from serving a historic third term?

If Trump really wants to be respected by Xi and Putin he will respond to protests like in Tiananmen Square

their work, I am quite surprised by this mistake, your posts are normally coherent. Must be meths and milk on a Saturday night. The pear tree was too leggy anyway, should never have been left for so long, needed some form of staged decapitation

plus or minus 3kg

So at the start Putin said 'anyone who dares to interfere....' Surely one day there will come a time when someone calls the bluff of a nuclear superpower. In the post apocalyptic dust scape any peoples left outside of the blast zones will group together in various factions

the question isn't the weight of the GRCS, it's what is the reading on the load cell. Like dispensing fuel at the filling station, you have to take it on faith, unless you want to calibrate with a measuring jug each time

I'd say that is almost right -except the mimic bit, as the natural decline of a tree usually involves big heavy limbs that die, then get blown off in a gale, so retrenchment is a managed decline, with a view to improving safety around and under the tree

well - your crystal ball is working just fine

going to Mars with taxpayers money, not a waste, but I would of prioritise medical research over space exploration, some types of cancer always kill

When Musk's robot arm comes online it will make a sticky mess inside the server cases

Greta and Trump have something in common and they both only have one t

thrown to the wolves how the Times put it, remember Trump knows nothing about fighting, having his family money meant an expensive doctor could get him signed off from Vietnam with a 'bone spur', this genuine reason to avoid conscription must have got better with age, as it's not stopped him doing many miles on the golf course.

not exactly the same, but was talking with greygit on here a while ago about using vehicle mounted winches and anchoring the vehicle to a tree to stop it being pulled forward, he said you have to be very careful not to twist the chassis, and to take the rope/ wire under the wheels to the winch

so if the £20 billion proposed is £3000 per UK resident and several times that £20 billion have already been spent on Ukraine and they are still retreating in the east, then we have no hope of fighting a war, only of putting down a civil war. If they gave me the purse strings I would say enough already and tell Russia China, India and US that we are very afraid of being defeated by a bigger concern in the future, so we are putting the country up for auction - if you can't beat them join them. If we fell out with any of the above countries, or even Germany, there is no way we are winning alone. Regarding hypersonic nuclear funding - I'd rather learn to speak american, hindi, mandarin or russian than push a nuclear posturing to its logical conclusion

I briefly joined facebook years ago, just so I could get an Iveco Daily from Marketplace, I recommend the 3.0 35C Ivecos. Apparently there is a Treebay group on Facebook with chippers etc also. Ebay has them too, but you need to have an aptitude for second hand machinery sales, or you will end up with something that needs thousands spending on it. I saw something on here the other day Bart chipper doctor and on his website he offers to go and look at used chippers for £250 plus mileage before you buy, if you see a machine for say£8k -£10k, spending £300 to get an engineers report may be worth it google Arblease if looking at the monthly payments on a new chipper., not cheap rates at all

Dresden could have been another Hiroshima, but for a few months. If the film Oppenheimer is close to the facts they more or dropped the two bombs immediately after the first succesfull test, those bombs could have saved millions of lives, by killing a few hundred thousand Germans, if only we could have had the nukes ready by 1942. President Trump knows China are getting near nuclear parity and so my guess is Trump may not make the 'mistake' (Chinese term for supporting Taiwan) Will they take Taiwan during Trumps presidency?

Dannatt

If your asking me that because you genuinely don't know - both sides lay claim to Temple Mount, those critters have been scrapping and shitting out there for thousands of years

that hasn't stopped Israel killing those enemies not in uniform in gaza - the breeding machines in plain clothes - enemy number one, storing up trouble for the future. Anyway lets accept that your point of view is more valid than mine, now I can go and get thrashed again by the bots on Chess.com

I hadn't seen that no. But what I'm asking you is to imagine how you'd feel if you were a Hamas fighter - so you think the US and Israel are trying to steal your homeland, but you know you can't possibly overcome their far superior military. It's like the people living in the Amazon rainforest, they probably get their wives by wacking them on the back of the head with a club and dragging them off in the bushes for a bit of intimate pleasure, but that heinous act doesn't make it right for armed Brazilians to go in there and clear the land they have been living on for thousands of years, just because the newcomers to the forest have superior weapons.

why does it have to be either? If it's total war anything is fair game

that is your opinion - you are not alone in thinking this! Before the cease fire there was a story of a Palestinian woman who went into labour and needed a caesarian section - they had to cut her open and stitch her up without anaesthetic, because the Israeli terrorists had stopped aid entering the enclave.

I know my views arise from incomplete understanding, but when the whites first colonised SA they took huge swathes of land away from the blacks, in a similar fashion the Israelis are pushing Arabs out of the West Bank and trying to make Gaza uninhabitable too. No doubt the blacks who tried to prevent the Afrikaners taking their land were called terrorists too. Imagine how it was for the blacks back then - with newly arrived whites pushing them out of their ancestral homelands. They were unable to dominate the armed whites, just as the Palestinians cant fight the might of US supplied bombs