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Best thing about being so beta & British
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2019-05-21 at 5:58 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson And in modern times the Falklands conflict was an example of that British ingenuity…sailing 10,000 miles with a fucked up "armada" of old ships, half of which were converted for the job. And then trouncing the Argies who lived next door and could fly it's jets day and night from the mainland.
The ingenuity of the ENGLISH invented Harrier jump jet proved itself to be the superior dogfighting jet too and without it the result might have been quite a bit different.
BTW…the US turned us down when we asked them for help…even though we always help them….so we did it on our own and won anyway.
A fine example of how the British Empire spirit still exists.
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2019-05-21 at 6:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc this is why big countries don't win all the wars they should. because they think its all about the numbers and being the biggest. winning wars is about ingenuity, that's why britain ruled the world and routinely takes on countries far bigger than ourselves. like when we went to china and kicked its ass twice in the mid 19th century. have you any idea what it took transporting an army to the opposite side of the globe to defeat an opponent more than ten times your size in the 1840s?
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Define big when it comes to countries. Do you mean land? Do you mean economy? Do you mean population? What do you mean by big? -
2019-05-21 at 6:03 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:05 PM UTCSupposedly, the best opium poppies in the world come from Afghanistan.
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2019-05-21 at 6:13 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-05-21 at 6:14 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:14 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:15 PM UTCnarc is a little slow...
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2019-05-21 at 6:16 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:20 PM UTC
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2019-05-21 at 6:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Yes, WW2 was the cause of global shifts in power, (edit: not ww1)…and rise of the beta another result of that. However…again ups and downs…on the biorhythmic chart Britain is in the down swing…but from there they only way is up…baby…for you and me now…
the rot begun in ww1, accelerated by ww2.
anyway, the sun has set, there will again never be another rise since the very thing that makes britain what it is is no longer exist.
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2019-05-21 at 6:23 PM UTC
Originally posted by Narc this is why big countries don't win all the wars they should. because they think its all about the numbers and being the biggest. winning wars is about ingenuity, that's why britain ruled the world and routinely takes on countries far bigger than ourselves. like when we went to china and kicked its ass twice in the mid 19th century. have you any idea what it took transporting an army to the opposite side of the globe to defeat an opponent more than ten times your size in the 1840s?
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they didnt do it alone, but together with 7 other countries.
also, against a technologocally inferior country.
