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The police officers were amazingly polite. The individual was belligerant, a liar, played the veteran card, played the kids card, whined about a divorce. He identified himself as DHS, so the assumption is he was ICE, but then he decided to play the race card, asking one of the officers if he was Hatian, an obvious threat. Throw the book at him and bin him. He can go get a job stacking shelves or something. He got an easier ride than a civilian. The kids are lucky they are going back to their mother. Lame. Pissed as a newt, though the whole theatre could have been avoided if they breathalysed him; the arresting officer said he stank of booze.

Side question; Why is an American flying the flag of your former oppressors? Empire Loyalist?

https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-releases/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-spends-200-million-taxpayer-money-pair-gulfstream https://www.gulfstream.com/en/aircraft/gulfstream-g700/ https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/22/secretary-noem-delivers-12-billion-savings-american-people-200-days Note, no American jobs were created with the engines for these planes.

Thanks for confirming where you stand on sky fairies.

I think people like that exist.

There is no God or Allah. You a Sky Fairy worshiper?

All missiles are hypersonic when going downwards. Trident 2 goes Mach 24. Minuteman 3 is Mach 23. The first Dark Eagle batteries have already deployed. But I think you misunderstand the term "hypersonic missile", when attempting a pissing contest. Its not a problem to make a missile go fast, which is what you seem to think its about. The challenge is making it go fast and be manouevrable. No one knows if the Chinese or Russians actually achieved these; they might claim, but its telling that when Russia launched Kinzhals at Western Ukraine, they all missed their targets. Plus Ukraine actually intercepted a few. Fast but no cigar, as they say. Sounds like you are not a "Westerner", or don't identify as one. Which nation do you identify with, for clarity?

Curious language. So some of the victims were not innocent? We can criticise the Israeli government, and its generally incompetant ministers who are acting mostly out of political ambition. Remember, its an unstable coalition mixing some mainstream politicians with essentially fruitloops. For some, the atrocities of October 2022 was a casus belli. The IDF has, frankly, made a pigs ear of things, adopting Assad like levels of mass destruction, without achieving its desired objective (the elimination of Hamas). They know the Israeli government, and by extension, the taxpayer, will be picking up the tab for all of this (not only the cost of munitions and subsequent replacement purchases) but also the postwar costs; if they pick up the tab to reconstruct Gaza, thereis a cost. If they don't, and just let Gazans rot in the ruins, there will be another cost, likely much much higher, of continued conflict, perhaps of an even more horrific nature as sides descend into a bloodbath of depravity. The new IDF, unlike the courageous and admirable IDF of the past, has become risk adverse. The stories of automated M113 APCs being used as mobile bombs signals this. That's also a hint of the enormous new profligacy of the new IDF. The old IDF did amazing stuff with old kit, such as using Shermans to take of T55s, Centurion tanks up against T72s, seriously upgraded Mistrals. The Ukrainians are showing their is plenty of life in the old M113 as a battle bus. The new IDF though have so many spare, they're blowing them up, even abandoning them on an empty battlefield. Much like Al Qaida would never have existed if it was not for American sacks of cash, Hamas wouldn't also have existed, but for payments channeled to it by the Israeli government. The US government has some culpability in the events leading to 911 (obviously not responsible for the event itself, but incompetance helped the terrorists), the same for the Israeli government; they created and funded a monster, and then provided inadequate protection for its citizens. Its forgotten, but it took 2 days for the IDF to arrive and help the attacked settlements and hamlets (apparently the reason was because they were on holiday?). I can't imagine the same happening in the US and the UK, or if it did, the government of the day surviving for long. Subsequent events certainly provided cover for the Israeli government, just as events post-911 provided cover for Bush, who, until 911, was having a rather poor time of running the US. Has the Israeli military not learned from the Yom Kippur War? 3 years on, more countries recognise the state of Palestine than before. So that's one policy failure. Israeli Palestine policy is now entirely controlled by the US; its now the US deciding is a ceasefire is broken or not, not the Israeli government. Notably, they are now just following the US lead, where ever that will take us. There are plenty in Israel calling the peace plan a disaster for Israel, and a betrayal, but no one is taking any notice of them. The Israeli government created Hamas (or at least fed it), but they haven't learned from copying British Divide and Rule policies (they supported Hamas, because it weakened Fatah and others, which ultimately would weaken the Palestinian cause), because they have been caught trying the same with whatevr thugs they are paying off to form "Popular Fronts", and are now being finished off by the roadside, by Hamas gunmen who I thought were supposed to be all dead by now (they certainly appear spiffing in curiously new looking uniforms). Note, I am condemming Israeli government policy. I would never condemm Israel. Influential rabbi David Bar-Hayim isn't too convinced by this peace "agreement" He's been misquoted of course, and except for his term "Islamo NAzis", he is spot on about the intentions of the Israeli government, which was not about saving hostages, but more about saving its own neck (the government depends on a continuing conflict to hold together). The Israeli government has always claimed sovereignty over Gaza. Fine, but if that was the case, as the Rabbi points out, then Israeli soldiers should be prepared to lay down their lives reclaiming and defending that sovereignty. Instead, this stand-offish approach to demolitions indicated that they treat Gaza as enemy territory, to be withdrawn from, and not defended. Whatever we decide to call this war, its important to remember how this "ended" (if it has) and compare that to the 6-day and the Yom Kippur wars, where the Arab forces were not only routed, but comprehensively punished (the occupation of Sinai and the Golan Heights). No such ambition it seems in Gaza, because of machiavellian political calculations, rather than principal.

Look up Sam "Slater the Traitor" Slater. Its an example of industrial espionage that forever changed the fortunes of a country. Without him, 21st Century USA would likely look more like a less jungly Brazil. Interesting story, with different perspectives.

The innocuous sounding 35th Special Objects Maintenance Directorate (General Staff Reserve Command Post) is the unit that can start armageddon. There is redundancy in the shonky Soviet era system, but this is the key element. Putin's orders would roll into them. While Putin says that the Russian nuclear doctrine has changed to pre-emptive strike, the command and control system is built around a first strike by NATO; a series of sensors, which may or may not work now, that detect missile launches. Of course, such missile systems need preparing and fueling up. One of the errors by the Russians in their missile war with Ukraine is that they have been using very expensive missiles intended for nuclear strikes to blow up tower blocks and Aldi supermarkets. An enormous amount of intel is collected each time they launch, not only the physical locations of mobile launchers (and where eventually said launchers are parked up for the night), but the associated radio chatter, possibly even identifying key unit members. Its called showing your hand. Some information abot their current status: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2025.2494386#d1e2162 Of course, aside from the CND fear-inspired "the Russians might attack us", whats the view on the other side of the hill, to paraphrase Liddell-Hart? Are the Russians thinking the same, about the Americans, the French and the British. They have particular memories of the British and French. Britain's and France's importance might have lessened over the years, but they remain militarily significant, and Russian politicians do have a particular obsession with them. One thing about striking London or Paris is that Britain's and France's nuclear force is pretty much all at sea. Both the British and French nuclear doctrines are deliberately vague. In fact the British doctrine changes with each Prime Minister, who has to pen the Letter of Last Resort; instructions to the crew, when the subs lose contact with London (which might be to hit back, at pre-assigned targets, hand yourself over to the command of the Americans, high tail it to Australia, and await further orders, or find a nice desert island to hang out until this all blows over). France's doctrine was based on French interests, but it now extended to European interests. Unlike the British, the French system is fully independant of Washington. the French nuclear arsenal is split between submarines and air launched. Of course the British and French forces are much smaller than the Russian forces, but I suspect the Russian brass is less confident about their missile defence forces after their woeful performance in the last year or so against what should be a second rate opponant.

We could also talk about Russian troops having to buy their kit online, from Avito (a sort of Russian Temu). https://www.jpost.com/international/article-719248 Of course, soldiers in history, have often procured their own kit. Online combat suppliers did rather well during the Iraq and Afghan wars with soldiers wanting to buy gucci chest rigs, custom scopes, really nice boots etc. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2664349.stm https://www.dsei.co.uk/news/polish-soldiers-given-power-buy-kit https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/08/21/women-in-army-sof-resorted-to-buying-their-own-armor-study-finds/ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2008/0306/p03s06-usmi.html https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/03/02/lawmaker-questions-why-some-navy-seals-buy-their-own-gear/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-soliders-latvia-equipment-helmets-1.6864290 https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/army-recruits-angry-about-having-to-buy-their-own-safety-equipment/news-story/feb1716316e3901757034256c9c61083

Said your fictional movie hero. You missed a trick by not quoting Monty Python. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

That even the sky fairy worshipping primitives in Iran have "hypersonic missiles" suggests the 5/10 year "gap (whatever number you make up) would be closed quite quickly with a reprioritising of resources. Free countries have an immense advantage over the authoratarion regimes, and thats individuality, innovation and initiative. The reason Germany was doomed as soon as the US entered WW2 wasn't just because the of the force of arms, but because of American inventiveness. Niall Ferguson analyzes it quite correctly how this stems from the Protestant work ethic. The British Empire, and its kith and kin successor, the American Empire, did not happen by coincidence.

You are quoting an unrealistic Hollywood film that was reviled by FEPOWs, like my Grandfather, who lived through the experience (who thought it bordered on libelous). You might as well be taking life lessons from Harry Potter or the Minions. You should look into the Russian ICBM chain of command to understand the decision making, and the current state of the Soviet-era Kavkaz-7 Armenian made system, and whether its capable of working with the new Russian stance. I am expecting zero from you. I am merely countering your point, and not falling for Kremlin scare tactics/propaganda.

If that happened, Moscow would go boom as well, and St Petersburg etc Why would Russia risk that just because its "forced" to the negotiating table. It might do it if it faced an existential threat, but how is doing a deal with Ukraine an existential threat to the Russian Federation? At worst, it gains a few thousand square kms of toxic wasteland with an impoverished population to prop up. At best, it could do nicely out of it, with sanctions liften, opening the way for foreign investment to flow into the Donbass. As it stands right now, if Russia was to hold its annexed territories, it would be like Turkey's holding of Northern Cyprus; forever consigned to the national treasury propping up a region where not a single Western, and probably Chinese, company will invest. They can't raise loans to pay for reconstruction and create jobs. Of course what Tomahawks might be is an existential threat to the regime, not because a Block 5 Tomahawk is going to kill Putin. He has nothing to fear in that respect. The Americans will have total control on the targetting. The missiles would be used, wisely, to degrade Russia's economic infrastructure. Russia is a kleptocratic state. Putin is incredibly wealthy, but not because he has legitimate and successful business interests. He is a Tsarist thief. The threat to the regime would come from the Oligarch gangsters that own the factories that are gradually being destroyed.d

Since 2024, Israel controls the Philadelphi Corridor; it controls the border crossings on the Gaz side. Outside of the border crossings, the border is fortified, with freefire zones. Anyone approaching the border wire from the Gaza side is shot at. The watch towers are fitted with remotely operated automated firing positions.

Not so much after Black September. The references by other posters to post-War Germand and Japan are red herrings. An entirely different situation. In Japan, the occupying authorities propped up the war mongering head of state, because of Cold War power plays; it would be equivalent to the Israeli PM being besties with today's surviving head of Hamas. Germany was the recipient of extremely generous aid post war. The UK extended food rationing in order to prop up the German economy, and reintegrate into a European economy; for instance, countries like the Netherlands were entirely dependant on German food exports, so the UK diverted of aid to help German farmers. British occupied West Germany had a primarily agricultual economy. I don't see the same generosity being offered to Palestine/Gaza. 80% UXB ordinance could be cleared in 5 years, but only if experienced experts from NATO militaries were deployed, and that is not going to happen. Like Germany, the remaining 20% would take two generations to clear.

Not a chance it has a wet belt. Ecoboost came in 2013-14, 1.0 only on the Fiesta. If it was a 120k miler Ecoboost that's never had the belt, I wouldn't bother. The engine is scrap. Cheaper to let it fail.

All of those cars meet the 2 million baht threshold. All of them are over 30 years old. One of them might not qualify on the grounds it has a MZR-Duratec motor. You're splitting hairs, basically suggesting there shouldn't be a discussion on the policy at all. What's "...." supposed to mean? Sticky keyboard?

Most of those Americans are basically Europeans living on another continent. African Americans like to remember and acknowledge where their forebears come from, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans and many others do the same. Irish, Italian and Polish Americans as well. But there are a few Americans who seem to think its their mission in life to bash kith and kin. Look at all those German Americans who anglicised their names. Peculiar self loathing. Americans who say they have "only" been hating the Jewish people for 200 hundreds are being disengenuous; their people have been hating the Jewish people since time immemorial. This is a narrow subset of the population, who are so dumb, they think history started in 1776, and, it seems, easily influenced by malevolant actors. The Pilgrim Fathers were complex. The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and the Puritans who founded Boston in 1630 saw themselves as authentic successors to the ancient Hebrews. New England was to be their New Jerusalem, a society based on the covenant between God and Abraham. Just as Moses had led the Jews out of Egypt, through the wilderness and into the promised land of Canaan, John Winthrop had led the Puritans out of a corrupt church in England to the wilderness of New England, where a pure church and polity could be re-established. By their own account, biblical Jews inspired the Puritans’ vision and aspirations. But that didn't mean these proto-Americans loved Jewish people. When they set up Hartford and New Haven, one of the first things they did was establish charters. denied Jews the right to build synagogues, worship as an assembled group, purchase land for a cemetery, vote or hold public office. The first mention of a Jewish person in Connecticut was "David the Jew" who was had up in court for illegal peddling. The next Jewish person to get a mention in the historic record was "Jacob the Jew", who was accused of getting it on with Christian women, and fined 20 quid, a huge amount. He negotiated it down, and subsequently fled. It wasn't until 1818 that Jews got the vote in America. So I don't think the American record was anything to be proud of, and given the opportunity, I suspect there were more than a few Americans in 1941 who were more than happy to support and carry out Hitler's policies. But they luckily never got into power. Europeans have done some terrible things in the 20th Century, but it was Americans who came up with the term "Lynch". All as bad as each other.

Qualifies: https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1764365 Qualifies but modified https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1942081 Qualifies, extremely rare MGB https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1895236 Qualifies, got race papers https://www.carandclassic.com/la/C1940005 Qualifies, reshelled MGB GT https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1839400 Just about qualifies, reshelled MGB roadster https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1776276 These more recent modern classic TVRs would all qualify https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1911222 https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1519664 A modern Morgan, which has the Rover T16 (used in Rover 600s, which pop up quite a lot in Thailand) https://www.carandclassic.com/la/C1829243

You stated: "You grooming gang supporters" Maybe you were referring to hairdressing or the dog hacked your account, but that does sound like you said people here support "grooming", which I associate with nonces and rapists. Ego, you called forum members nonces and rapists.

Its the name in the Irish passport he was using when stopped, carrying £13,000 in undeclared currency, in a borrowed high end car. He was born Stephen Yaxley, and adopted Lennon due to his step father. He has also represented himself as Andrew McMaster, Paul Harris and Wayne King. He was first jailed for assualt in 2003, serving 12 month incarceration. He has been in prison a further 5 times since 2005. He narrowly escaped incarceration by ICE, when he attempted to enter the US using fase papers, much like a so-called wetback. The American leader has labeled people who attempt the US illegally as a threat to national security. In 2024, he misrepresented himself to Canadian immigration officials, by claiming he was Irish-born, establishing a pattern of repeat immigration offences. Besides his convictions for financial fraud (£160,000 mortgage fraud, as part of a scam worth £640,000, not small numbers), violence and immigration offences, he is also a convicted drug dealer (2014), and admitted attempting to supply Class A drugs. In 2019, he admitted attempting to procure drugs in Qatar; a offence that attracts capital punishment I think. This also suggests he is a habitual user of drugs, possibly addicted, if he was so willing to risk death in a conservative (salafist) country with notoriously harsh policies concerning drug use. "Tommy Robinson" is not his legal name; he has never legally changed his name, ie its a pseudonym. All of his companies are registered under his legal name. He has been an active supporter of various British and non-British political parties, such as За правду, which was founded calling for the annexation of Ukraine. I am in favour of dual nationals being stripped of British citizenship following criminal convictions. I am not in favour of someone being rendered stateless. If you take on a second citizenship, that should come with not just Rights, but Responsibilities. I don't want drug dealing, thuggish, scamming Irishmen to have British passports. Let them do that in Ireland. Lennon's Irish passport suggests that, at heart, he lacks a certain affinity to the country of his birth. Ok, he's welcome to go and live in Ireland if he loves it so much. The Common Travel Area is an anachronism, brought in when Ireland wasn't a proper country. Time to cut the ties, and for it to be a grown up nation. Most of us conservatives are opposed to drug use. Many, like me, favour mandatory death penalties for drug dealers. I would go further, and call for public execution to be reinstated. I would also look to the public flogging of drug users who commit other offences. I wouldn't necessarily want them killed like some other countries, because drug addicts are basically pathetic deviants to be pitied. But public humliation might help them see the error of their ways. I don't know if Lennon is a terrorist. The police had grounds to think that. Let process be followed. If he wants his £13,000 back, of course he needs to pay a release fee of £5000.

This false accasation of accusing people on the forum of being paedophiles and rapists cannot go unpunished. Reported. Contemptuous.

That's extremely unlikely. 121 Gazans were killed in 2021, in various circumstances. Its quite possible that 2024 might have been a repeat of 2022 (no recorded extrajudicial killings or other deaths), but history would suggest otherwise. The October 2023 attacks were barbarous, heinous, evil, as is any deliberate attack on unarmed civilians, but they didn't happen in a bubble. It would be diengenuous to suggest otherwise. In Yugoslavia, neighbour carried out incredible atrocities against their neighbours, often for specious reasons, but there were always reasons, and the atrocities ratcheted up and up. Given the Serbian role in the worst of these atrocities, do you think the West was right to act as it did in Kosovo, and assume all Serbs were murderous barbarians?