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  1. Very long video but quite interesting:- We are diving into the heart of Eurasian geopolitics with Curtis L. Fox, author of the groundbreaking book Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition and Conventional Military Conflict. Launching into a deep exploration of Russia's historical military strategies and its contemporary geopolitical maneuvers, Fox offers unparalleled insights into the Kremlin's objectives, its relentless pursuit in Ukraine, and the inner mechanics of its formidable military and intelligence apparatus. With Russia's economic tenacity and military prowess on full display, we dissect the nation's will to press on in the conflict, assess its strategic goals, and the potential ramifications on global stability. Curtis, a former Green Beret who mastered the Russian language and studied Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech before venturing into Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, provides a unique perspective on what Russia hopes to achieve and the lengths it may go to secure victory. This episode not only charts the course of Russia's military evolution from the Napoleonic era to its current engagement in Ukraine but also forecasts the possible outcomes of this conflict. Questions such as the impact of NATO's involvement, the financial sustainability of Russia's war machine, and the conditions for Ukrainian success are explored in depth.
  2. Wasn't there someone called "Buzzin Orn" who followed Watford?
  3. I have a Platinum credit card, does that count?
  4. But, but Saints had 72% possession ..... I give him 4/10 but realise he won't be asked to leave for a long time. Assuming Saints get very lucky and actually do get promoted I shudder to think how that will go.
  5. I am feeling depressed so I reckon 1 - 6 Leeds win.
  6. IF/when (?) Saints lose and the teams below win on Saturday Saints could end up 19th. I have lost confidence in Mr Martin and, but much worse, confidence that SR would replace him with someone who would be an improvement. It's about time SR admitted that they are nowhere near as brilliant as they think they are and realise that if they weren't owners they would themselves have been sacked months ago. They are non league standard...not even good enough for league 2
  7. Not 100% correct as he was mentioned in the very first post.😀 2 Questions, 1. If the owners were not owners but only employees would they still even be employed by the company? 2. Is their confidence in their own ability of choosing a winning manager greatly exceeded by their actual ability of doing so.
  8. Difficult for me to get upset at another heavy defeat, I am sorry to say that it's what I have come to expect.
  9. A question for those defending Bazunu, if a young plumber made many costly mistakes whilst working on the plumbing in your house and which caused lots of extra expense would you have the same attitude towards that plumber as you do with Bazuna?
  10. 7 out of 10 but I would have given a 9 IF Saints had signed a better goalkeeper. I still have some reservations about Bazunu.
  11. The constant moaning from "poor me" Prince Harold about his life after Afghanistan. Below is a post on the unofficial UK Army website from a real Army combat veteran about his time over there. It certainly shows that Harold's moans are pathetic and Harold should be ashamed of himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oh that whinging ginger ****. At no point was in danger during his on the ground tour of Afghan, apart from maybe getting blinded by some flash photography, the posing ****. This sort of desperate grab for sympathy, this throwing down the next tactic to win sympathy really gets me incredibly ******* angry. At no point has this **** faced the dangers a proper soldier faced on the frontlines of Afghan. Not one ******* second of his tour saw him face any equivalent threat, the pampered little prick. What his statement does is belittle every man who gave his life for his mucker, for his section or troop, and really didn't ******* have to, but went and never came back anyway. He belittles every man who's suffered life changing injuries and have been subsequently cast aside by the military who really don't care about you once you're a perma-biff (as I saw with some very good friends who were basically left to rot in the system, minus sight or arms). I had a particularly shitty tour, in that I seemed to be a magnet for harm to those around me. One lad got a round through his jaw to the left of me. We dragged him back and I put down suppressing with the gimpy from the shoulder whilst the section fucked off (we had the OC in with us as well) backwards, before realising I was alone, pissing my pants and sprinting the same way. OC said to me afterwards it was the bravest thing he'd ever seen. I spent the rest of the day with a faint aroma of stale pee on me. Another lad took a ricochet in the chin and was KIA as he covered me whilst I ran past him. I went back out to him on the prone and put down suppressing before I felt something very hot skim across the base of my back, just below where the Osprey stopped. I yelled, shat my pants, leapt ten foot into the air and into the wadi to my left, where I found myself sitting, legs out in front of me, water up to my chest, and I burst into tears for about five seconds, wondering what the **** I was doing, before pulling myself together, lobbing smoke and climbing back out, getting him into cover with our medic who duly bagged himself an MC. Yet another lad landed over my head, having been behind me, but stepped to the right onto an IED and got split in half and sent airborne, and I ran over, grabbed his hand and dragged him into cover where I had the joyous occasion of listening to him cry whilst he died there, with me and same medic trying to figure out what to do with half a body and a field dressing, and where the **** where his legs? Or what about the lads who took the best parts of an HE grenade lobbed over a wall into the lap of one of them, KIA'ing him and ******* up the people around him? Or the lad who kicked open a door on a strike on a compound and took the IED to his face? Or even just the lad who on night patrol at a dry river, didn't see the big ******* cliff to his right and fell, having to be spine boarded out and put on a Pedro? That little ginger prick can get on his private jet, whizz over here, jump in a cab to my place, I'll get the brews on, and once he's finished explaining to me how he's suffered the trauma of war with a full close protection team and staged events, I'll report back on how I've knocked his ******* teeth out through his japs eye. The ******* little cock gobbler. Guy's a **** and an embarrassment. My point being, yes, people are entitled to talk about their experiences of the conflicts they've been involved in, but by god, they'd better be genuine and heartfelt, and not just ******* make believe for public attention.
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