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I'm not fghting any war. You have confused the Aseannow forum with Arrse. I have no interest in Medicare, neither should you, because you are not an American. So I suspect you have just plagiarised that text, or yanked it from Chat GPT without checking. Whatever the source, it's drivel. You are merely repeating the same old points that come from the Russia side. You are a useful idiot, as Lenin once called you. Copy/pasting without question alleged Chinese statistics without having a think about it. I can almost spot where you inserted the stolen text and stuck in your own. You screwed up the word spacing. But Putin is fighting a mid 21st Century war with mid 20th Century kit (the T90 is an upgraded T72, the T89 is an improved T62, using old hulls) and a mid-19th Century mindset (his reputed model is Nicholas the First). The Trot part of you thinks the Soviet Union Russia's strategy is genius, because Western policy is flawed. You can't help it because that's how you were conditioned all your adult life, from when you were suckered into attending USSR Friendly shows in London in the 70s/89s.

Flamingo has a pink tip

https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/intel-and-trump-administration-reach-historic-agreement Nationalisation is back in fashion.

And you say you are not an apologist for Russia.

To return to the original topic, VJ Day and the King's speech. The King doesn't write his speeches. These are crafted and approved by the government of the day. By all accounts, in parts of the Commonwealth, parts of his speech went down like a lead balloon. Whatever the troops were fighting for in Europe, in Asia-Pacific, they were not fighting for "freedom". The British troops were defending British rule, not bringing freedom. Nothing was promised to those liberated territories. In India. the INA (the India army that was formed from POWs by the Japanese) is remembered rather differently from the UK. That doesn't mean approval of the Japanese, but rather the Japanese offered an opprtunity for India, Malaya, Indonesia and Indo-China to break away from their colonial masters. It no surprise that at the end of the war, the various resistance groups were well armed and highly motivated to take over. The Dutch were shocked that the Indonesian Nationalists had an air force. Vietnam had Ho Chi Minh, and in Malaya, the heart of the Communists were the Chinese My Grandfather was captured at Singapore. His war was a bit unlucky. He was a Regular, due to the Great Depression, a Sapper. Evacuated from France at Cherbourg. Reformed, reequipped at Halifax, shipped with the 18th Division bound for North Africa. At Capetown, diverted to Bombay, then Singapore. 2 weeks after he arriv ed, Singapore capitulated. Most Britons and Australians will know about the Burma-Siam Railway (my Grandfather thought the film was an utter travesty, yet most people fondly remember it now). Most Americans will know about Bataan, and maybe a bit about Japan. When Singapore surrendered, the British/Australians outnumbered the Japanese 3 to 1. Some of my Grandfather's recollections are perfect examples of the fog of war. He didn't think much of the Australian troops, calling them cowards, and getting drunk in the final hours. He accused them of running from the enemy and throwing down their weapons and kit. What he didn't realise was that Australia's most experienced troops fought a rearguard action down the Malayan Penninsular, and at the end, it was every man for himself, as they had to swim over to Singapore. What he saw was these men, having lost their uniforms and rifles emerging from essentially swamplands. As for the drunken Australian troops, these were troops barely out of basic who had just arrived. In Australia, they had to drill with sticks as there were insufficient rifles. They were very badly led. The Japanese had seized the water supply and were using air burst bombs in Singapore. The city was hell on earth, with bodies, many decapitated, lying in the streets. The whole defence had been crippled thanks to a New Zealander, in the Indian Army, seconded to the RAF. He had been passed over for promotion, and subsequently passed to the Japanese the location and details of every airbase in Malaya. He was caught, and in the final hours, under went a Drum Head Court Martial on Singapore Docks, and then despatched. Perceval had no choice but to ask for terms. According to my grandad, those first echelon of Japanese troops were relatively decent. These were crack troops. At first, the POWs were left to themselves in Changi; Army trucks and tents were moved into the area, and they existed on British rations, until the spuds ran out. Half the troops were split for Sima. My Grandad left in October 42 on the Dainichi Maru, bound for Formosa (Taiwan). Upon arrival in Taipai, he was met by American POWs. These were some of the survivors of Bataan. Like the British, captured in tropical dress. The Americans had built the POW camps on Formosa, and were now being shipped to Manchuria and Japan. In Taiwan, the British (with a handful of Australians and Dutch POWs) were split into two groups. One group were sent to the Kinkaseki Copper Mines; this deserves to be as well known as the Burma Siam trainline. It was appalling. My Grandad was "lucky" he was in the other group. They were then tasked to build the Japanese a "Victory Lake", then work the fields. He ended up a bus garage. In the final months, the surviving POWs were moved inland, and made to build a new camp from scratch. My grandad didn't know it, but they were building a death camp; when the Allies landed on Taiwan, the POWs were to be killed efficiently and without bullets. When the war ended, he was taken off the island in September 1945. He was too weak for the trip to Canada, and was taken to Manila for recuperation. He finally reached home by December 1945. The FEPOWs were ordered not to talk of their experiences, "in case you upset someone". That, and because the war was well over, was the reason that the FE POWs, besides Thailand, were talked about less.

That's all very well if you applied some even-handed critique to Russia recruiting strategy (round up the convicts, bribe others to go to war), but you won't despite clearly possessing the faulties to go down that route. And its outrageous for you to post a photo of the then Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister meeting Her Majesty, and suggesting she forgave and forgot about his mob murdering her beloved Uncle. It was a 4 second handshake. The Queen was the Sovereign meeting one of her ministers. She would have greeted David Trimble in the same way. As Head of State, over the years, she would have had to meet, and greet, some utter monsters, if her Government had felt it was in the Nation's interests to do so. McGuinness brought up her Uncle's murder, and never said it was a mistake. The Queen likely never knew that it was him that directed Mountbatten's death. By posting that photo, it suggests that you think that one day Zelensky will have a jokey tete a tete with Putin, forgiving and forgetting the kidnapping of 20,000 children, the mass rape and murder of civilians, the brutal torture and killing of surrendered soldiers. Nuremburg and the Tokyo trials helped heal the world. The trial of Adolf Eichmann helped heal the world. The trials of Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic helped heal Yugoslavia. Communist revisionism is a common trait: Contradicting yourself. You seek out stories, and reproduce them, to support your belief that Ukraine should not be helped, should not be defended, by casting doubts on the motives of its government, the motivation of its troops. Its because your tankie instincts that the West must be always wrong, therefore the East must be always right, leading you to ignore the egregious acts by Moscow, and to mock those who think Russia should suffer a defeat, and in fact the whole rotten ediface that is the Russian Federation should be swept away. You believe in the Comiterm, and thus if there is a Russian Federation, there is always a chance it can return, Some grist to challenge your notion that Russia has no recruitment issues;

More Whitewashing (redwashing) your Communist bias.

There is something strange going on. This is clearly a social media campaign gone viral; some of the same people ziptyping screwed up flags to overhead bridges, or painting pedestrian crossings/mini roundabouts were probably wearing out their kitchenware clapping for the NHS every wednesday (a strange period when I could set my watch to it). The Spectator has run a story behind one of the "organisers" who was also interviewed by GB News. https://www.gbnews.com/news/york-news-flag-wars-st-george-national-pride OK, some predictable phrasing https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/meet-the-man-putting-hundreds-of-england-flags-up-around-york/ Wait, an 18 year old in a warzone? So he's 23 going on 24 years old. Ok, hellhole South Yorkshire mining village. It wasn't Thatcher who closed the mines down, but the head of the Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, the Scot who everyone thought was American. Arthur Scargill also had a hand in the inevitable conclusion. Moulton is but a kid, so what does he know, and he probably believed every BS line of people resolving issues "down t'pit". Complete guff. I smell BS. An 18 year old somehow does PMC work in Libya and Ukraine. Finds time ti live in Korea and Japan. His LinkedIn: 2019-2022: "Self Employed Business Consultant", London. I don't know any 17 year old Business Consultants. 2022-2024: Founds a "global commodities consultancy" in the UAE. 2022-2024: Director of BD ("need a Merc?") at "a leading provider of security services in Libya, Ukraine and....." in the UAE 2024 to date: Founds a Defence Intelligence company Cyprus. Hybrid 2024 to date: Founds a "Thinktank dedicated to analysing the impacts of resources and relations and providing solutions to decision makers" I smell an obvious rat here. I look at the profile on Companies House of his 20 year old business partner and I think "War Dogs" More: Further digging gets even stranger; when he was doing the flogging Mercenary serves bit, he had hooked up with a grizzled former Royal Marine Commando, and a founder who also runs a Play-2-Win gaming company. I lived in Northern Ireland, for many years, in South Belfast and then Carrickfergus. A lot of flags seen there. In the Prod areas, most homes would have a little flag holder

Putin the Master Strategist https://eurasianet.org/kazakh-gdp-per-capita-projected-to-outpace-russias-once-dominant-economy-amid-wartime-woes Things are bad when the Gopniks can't afford hooch. https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/112546/

Thinking of Steamboat, seems one of your go-sources is a moron Likely banned for being a Commie W⚓. Great, now you admit to being a supporter of Corbyn, who backed the IRA. The IRA tried to kill my dad; stuck a device under the family Maxi when he was back on leave from Germany. A Trot and a supporter of Terrorism, but you deny supporting Putin. Meanwhile, where else have the Ukrainians hurt you. I suspect why you are sympathetic to Russia and not sympathetic to Ukraine, is that you believe the Putin is still a Communist, the same Communist who was only interested in fraternal relations with the East German proletariat when he served the KGB in the German Democratic Republic. And because you are/were a Communist, yearning for 99 Luftballoons, unilateral disarmament, world peace, then surely Putin the Communist must be like you, and all of this is some collosal mistake, or you really believe in so-called "Banderists" and other ghosts of the past Inside Russia predicted this months ago, about the Putin turning in on itself

And technically Putin broke Russian law in February 2022 (Article 353 of the Russian Criminal Code criminalizes planning, preparing, or initiating an aggressive war and waging an aggressive war. Planning or preparing an aggressive war is punishable by 7 to 15 years in prison, while waging one carries a sentence of 10 to 20 years). Hence SMO.

Literally the Russian on that forum who tried to post pictures of some random bloke in Spain, pretending it was him.

The lady doth protest too much. You admit it, you are a Trotskyist. I said earlier there was a certain sort in the 80s who made a habit of listening to Radio Moscow, to form their world view. That person instinctually took a "West Bad East Good" line. You're that person. Corbyn and Galloway are other examples. We're all Anti-war, don't try that crap with me. I know a Red when I see one.

Happy to help your posting count MonteCardThree. Your post was so illiterate, I'm not sure what the f your point was. You're a communist, got it.

FFS. Its a movie. What, are you afraid watching a movie might influence, as per the Predicitive Programming Cult you are a member of? You afraid it might cause you to crack open that can of Dr Pepper, snort a line, go rape someone? Get an Effing life. Must be a (not) laugh a minute in your household when the Simpsons are on.

Reduced background checks I guess helps recruitment targets https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/proud-boys-militia-groups-trump-ice/683766/ https://rfkhumanrights.org/our-voices/slate-a-former-ice-official-is-worried-the-agency-is-about-to-go-on-a-spree-of-hiring-proud-boys/ Fast cars help as well https://eu.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2025/08/20/white-house-ford-mustang-gt-recruit-ice-agents/85742596007/ Beats the Ladas on offer in Russia, but I see where the idea came from. In truth, its likely a ball and cup trick. Most of these agents have just been redeployed from elsewhere, maybe from an office someplace. Which means somewhere, a job isn't getting done. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/ In extremis, white kiddie fiddlers are getting away scot free, because its necessary to enforce immigration proceedings against a traffic violator, because that's been determined to be the greater threat to American wellbeing, that a pedophile. Or a drug dealer. Or someone robbing pension pots.

Saw it all the time living in 'Bama; good ol' boys using the median as a roundabout in the bent up rusted trucks held together by twine and spit. Happens all the time in the US. Of course a foreign driver caused death by incompetance, and should pay the price. But how come the utter silence about the killer driver Anne Sacoolas, who killed a motorcyclist after she drove down a major road on the wrong side, then fled the scence and the country, and was protected by her government, and basically got away with murder

Lazy plagiarism. I'm pretty sure you are not going to direct anyone to do anything from your basement lair.

Yes, its a movie, not a documentary. I request you to make clear that I did not suggest that "Civil War" was a documentary. Not written by Tom Clancy, but by Alex Garland. It is an allegory. That's a word you might have to look that up. Garland has written some cracking novels (The Beach), some cracking screenplays (28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd, 28 Years Later) as well as directed some very interesting films (Ex Machina, Warfare, As for the charge that the idea that secession from the US is "pure fiction"; if you can point me to the constitutional lines that allow any State to leave the Union, no questions asked, please do, and I'll cede to your point. You called that position "pure fiction". In addition, please refute the statement that "most secessations fail" through providing historical analysis and anecdote. You called that position "pure fiction". Please refute with argument that my suggestion that the American Revolutionary War was a war of secession from the British Crown was a fact. You called that supposition "pure fiction". You called it "pure fiction" that Scotland cannot hold an independance referendum without the approval of Westminster. Please explain how that is "pure fiction". Please explain how the Civil War has had zero impact on the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and other seccessionist states in the 21st Century, I suggested it has had some impact. You believe that postion not only to be incorrect, but "pure fiction". explain how, and when you acqured the powers of telepathy. If you don't bother to respond in any form of a cogent manner, I will make my own conclusions a bout your character. I will conclude that you frequently post inanely, often of a racist or secrarian nature. And possibly you are a follower of Communism/Stalinism, but suppressing those feelings.

Maybe he's helping top up his pension. Macgregor needs the clicks.

Spell Arrse correctly. Predictably, you have spent your time trying to prove how terrible Ukraine is, and zero time showing far higher Russian resistance to conscription, because basically you are a Tankie. Go ask Arrse what that means. I post on there. You are an ignorant man. You make a statement Cherry picked to belittle the Ukrainian military, because you think it shows the Ukrainian military in a bad light. Your mates in green will verify this; in WW2, the British army varied between about 900,000 and 3 million men, but of those, only about 20% at any one time were on the front line. In June 1944, the British Army in the U K was about 1.5 million men. A further half million were in the Middle East, Africa, Asia. In June 1944, 156,000 British troops hit the beaches in Normandy. So what's your explanation why only 10% were sent over? Its also why the entire Russian army isn't in Ukraine. Russia is a bigger county, with a bigger population. But it also has more borders to defend. It borders several NATO members. It borders Japan. It borders China, who recently has been making claims to parts of far eastern Russia, recently occupying some Russian islands. The answer is to do with troop rotation, training, logistics. In Iraq, 60% of the Americans deployed were not even in uniform, let alone frontline roles. You provide a plagiarised paragraph in support of the Russians, pointing out how they are willingly volunteering; you nicked the statement from a paywalled Economist article. The statement is unsourced "30,000 per month", versus "27,000 per month" for Ukraine. In both cases, the numbers are before losses. Of course, like all wars, the aggressor (Russia) is suffering higher losses that the defender (Ukraine), thats why typically, when planning an offensive you need a 4:1 to 3:1 advantage. Why are you so intent on discrediting the Ukrainian military, and so obviously championing the Russian military? It is because you are a pro-Russian propagandist, wrapped in the sheen of Chat-GPT. You fail to mention why early in the war Russia felt the need to scour prisons for pressganged convicts. You fail to mention why Russia had to deploy North Korean troops, not Russian troop, to Kursk (its to do with the terms of the Russian military service). You fail to comment on the large numbers of clearly unwilling African and Indian fighters captured by the Ukrainians (totally different from the small numbers of foreign volunteers in the Ukrainian forces). What you deliberately fail to mention, because I know you have read exactly th same OSINT source that I have is that in many cases, Ukrainian troops desert one unit to join a preferred unit. You also deliberately fail to mention the Ukrainian programme to reintegrate men who have gone home, with some success. Ukrainian and Russian desertion rates are roughly in line with American desertion rates related to Vietnam, and similar to what the Soviet Army, even when it was winning, during WW2 (5-10%). You are promoting a pro-Russian ideology which is broadly to over emphasize Ukrainian difficulties, ignore Russian problems and exaggerate Russian successes. Kremlin playbook. You cherry pick sources that support your bias, which is broadly anti-Ukrainian, painted in a cloak of respectability. Since when has "conscription" anywhere been anything but "forced". Conscription is by definition, compulsory. I had a Great Uncle who deserted in WW2. he was a Bevin Boy, didn't fancy being down a mine, so went home. Eventually he was caught by the Red Caps and ended up in Court, where he played the system long enough to eventually agree to join the army after VE day. War was over by the time he finished Basic. Earlier, another Great Uncle was dragged out, crying, by the Provosts, after he went AWOL. He went back to the front. Yes, Ukraine has to conscript men. Britain had to as well. Conscription had to come in WW1 because not enough were volunteering. Russian law forbids conscripts with less than 4 months training from being in combat, and forbids service outside of Russia. But the conscripts are often tricked or threatened into signing contracts, which releases them for deployment outside of Russia. But you deliberately fail to mention this, because you are so intent on discrediting the Ukrainian serviceman. https://www.sibreal.org/a/obmanom-zataschili-na-voynu-kak-srochnikov-otpravlyayut-za-lentochku-/33397552.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-conscripts-youth-dying-ukraine-putin/33351828.html https://www.severreal.org/a/my-v-uzhase-voevat-ne-hotim-srochnikam-platyat-po-falshivym-kontraktam/33164620.html https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/russia-s-forced-conscription-in-occupied-ukraine

WTF, Learn to use the quotes properly.

Did you ever guess in your lifetime that Gaddafi would find his life being ended through a bayonet in the anus? He looked for many years to be very secure, until he wasn't. Putin depends on doubles for a reason; not because of his foreign enemies taking potshots at him, but because of internal ones. He has taken a leaf out of Gaddafi's book by creating competing parallel militias, the idea being that this reduces the chances of a revolt by the Army. Didn't work for Gaddafi. Didn't work for Bashir Assad, or Saddam Hussein.