The game is over.
Deployment scheduled of one Gurkha, one Finn winter warfare specialist, & one NHS GP surgery receptionist.
The Gurkha & Finn are the reserves! 
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Is there anyone here who believes that if the Russians pile into Estonia, the US will turn up?
Is there anyone here who believes that if Putin threatens the destruction of Paris, and Warsaw, and London, the US will wade in?
Does anyone here believe that if old Vlad lobs a couple of dozen conventional CM’s at Lossiemouth, and Faslane, and Cheltenham, the Americans with bomb the stuff out of Murmansk and Khodynka Field..?
If not, then why do we have an alliance with them? If not, why are they here?
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No, they’ll be late again after sending a couple pallets of Thompson’s.
But each individual nation has been sending what we have spare and aged to Ukraine, and the Russians haven’t made a lot of progress.
As weak as Europe apparently is, I don’t think Vlad believes he could run a smash and grab on somewhere we care about even more before settling the Ukrainian debacle. And as doubtful as US support may be, the risk is still there while Trump is only playing ego games.
With US bases on European soil, the risk of poking too large a bear even by accident remains.
I notice the US Coastguard is currently flying over UK & Irish skies. Are we taking another tanker again?
The War Game podcast set up an interesting scenario whereby the Russians carried out some missile strikes on Britain and, after sinking a ship or two, our escalation options were limited to a nuclear strike. This was then used as leverage to get the US / NATO allies on side.
By my recollection, they didn’t come on side, we rather got left to swing in the wind…
It’s been a while, but after a disastrous start I thought it finished on a more positive note (with us on fewer casualties than the Russians and allies coming around)?
Edit: but, yes, I think it was the JEF nations rather than the US.
It’s at times like these I’m glad I’m studying an International Relations related course. The group chat is lit this evening!
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“The EPP is in favor of the EU-US trade deal, but given Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, approval is not possible at this stage,” Weber posted on social media. He added that the EU agreement to lower tariffs on “US products must be put on hold.”
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A long read (with some scary incident write ups), basically, ICE behave or else:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758/gov.uscourts.mnd.229758.85.0_1.pdf
My investments come Tuesday morning:
This Greenland stuff is really looking nasty the more I read into it. I think things are going to look bleak on Tuesday, come what will.
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This should be illegal
I’m fairly certain it already is as part of their insider trading laws.
But when has abiding by the law ever stopped Trump?
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Someone shared this with me earlier, if anyone would like to send a message with where they spend their pounds:
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Do we have a hot list of things we should cancel immediately?
E.g.
Netflix
Disney+
Amazon Prime (Inc orders from Amazon)
Yeah, that’s never happening.
Well it did when Jimmy Kimmel got the sack and they about turned pretty sharpish.
That was just Disney+.
Mine is still set to expire…
I did cancel mine over the Gina Carano thing, but then I went crawling back when the next season of Andor or the Mandalorian released.
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The issue is that many services we should be avoiding are free at the point of use and heavily ingrained; Google, Microsoft, social media sites etc.
There’s nothing that comes close to Meta-owned WhatsApp, because I’d be switching to it if it did, but I’ve deleted my Instagram account already and removed the Facebook app from my phone.
The 2 big phone OSs are both American owned (although I was already weighing-up a switch to FairPhone with their native OS).
Most web hosting is American owned.
Why this is an issue is because all the American companies responsible for the data held within will comply with their government’s demands for data if asked. That’s a bigger threat that paying for stuff.
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