Why should Britons fight in their military, for the rights of other nationalities that they themselves are prohibited from having?
I’ve visited the UK several times. However, it has joined my list of places that I consider too unsafe to visit again, along with China, Russia, and Turkey. IMO, it’s unsafe to visit the UK for two reasons. The first is criminal acts by immigrants that are really invaders that are ignored by law enforcement. The second is the government prosecuting and jailing (they spell it gaol) people for speaking or writing things the government doesn’t like, most notably about those invaders.
It’s easy to say “so what” to little old me refusing to travel again to the UK and most of the other western European countries. However, I doubt I’m the only American who feels this way. The UK and EU are destroying their economies through insane “green energy” policies. Can they afford to lose their tourism business as well? For every thousand American tourists who cancel plans to visit western Europe, they lose millions of dollars in air fares, landing fees, hotel stays, restaurant visits, shopping, and other touristy activities. Too bad, so sad, but thems the breaks. It sucks to be you.
If I were a young man in the UK, I wouldn’t want to serve in the military of a government that hates me. I have four grandchildren aged 17-21. I don’t want them to risk their lives to protect European countries that hate the US and their own people. If the western European governments aren’t willing or able to protect themselves, then they deserve to fall. I oppose giving their “elites” safe haven here, too. Let them suffer the consequences of their stupidity. Some of the eastern European countries, especially Poland, are stepping up to protect themselves and have resisted EU pressure to let in the invaders. I respect them.
“We are no longer one people, but numerous parallel societies with little to no connection to one another. Presiding over this is an incompetent bureaucracy wedded to universalist ideas and chiefly concerned with its own survival.”
A terrifically concise characterization of Britain in 2025 by David Shipley.
The “right-wing” anti-“refugee” nationalist parties in Europe need to win in a few more countries and the EU needs to be done in via more exits, singly or in bunches. That seems to be happening, albeit slowly.
The New Totalitarianism in Western Europe is entirely a product of the EU transnational socialists and their fellow travelers in the most leftist parties within the individual nation-states. In the UK, for example, those would be the office-holders and leadership of the Labour Party just as it’s the Democrats here. Show them the door and the problem largely goes away.
Russia, thank goodness, seems to be a problem that Europe is also, a bit at a time, coming to see as worthy of increasing levels of direct pushback. I figure the Ukes need about another 18 months to two years until their campaign of incremental air defense destruction and de-industrialization of Russia via air-delivered high explosives has knocked Russia down sufficiently that, like the old lady in the Life Alert ads, it can’t get up again.
Before even that process has a chance to run to completion, though, it is hardly outside the realm of possibility that other nations on the immediate Russian periphery may find cause to join in in ways a bit more overt than the various “foreign legions” already on the ground various places in Ukraine.
Russian stupidity seems to be rising in lockstep with its national arrogance given all the drone, combat aircraft and even border troop incursions into the Baltic states and other NATO members’ territories it has committed of late.
Most recently that includes, for some completely daft reason, Turkey as well. If the Russians get the Turks sufficiently PO’ed, what the Ukes have been doing to Russia will look like the proverbial walk in the park compared to what Ankara can dish out should it so choose.
At the point when Russia is well and truly prostrate – whatever the detailed path to that point may have been – I can see a pre-emptive move by the combined special forces of at least half of NATO – most probably not including the US, unfortunately – to make lightning raids on every Russian ICBM base and tactical nuke storage depot to confiscate the warheads and blow up the missiles.
With that taken care of, I strongly suspect we would shortly see a coalition of the willing consisting of post Soviet nation-states that hied themselves out of the Russian Empire while the getting was initially good in the early ’90s, plus one or more of the new 2nd generation of such states – in the Caucasus and Siberia – that will detach themselves once the Russians lack the wherewithal to keep them in the fold. This motley crew will promptly busy themselves sweeping into and across a prostrate Russia now consisting almost entirely of the elderly and infirm and pillage and slaughter to their hearts’ content.
Once we’ve gotten the paintings out of the Hermitage, we should let them. Absent Russians, there is no more Russia. Absent Russia, the world will be a far better place. Russia has been an ugly place for its entire history. It richly deserves a death to match.
Dick have you considered writing alternate history SF?
The UK has a solution to their manpower issue should they choose to use it. Could solve several problems for them.
Why should Britons fight in their military, for the rights of other nationalities that they themselves are prohibited from having?
I’ve visited the UK several times. However, it has joined my list of places that I consider too unsafe to visit again, along with China, Russia, and Turkey. IMO, it’s unsafe to visit the UK for two reasons. The first is criminal acts by immigrants that are really invaders that are ignored by law enforcement. The second is the government prosecuting and jailing (they spell it gaol) people for speaking or writing things the government doesn’t like, most notably about those invaders.
It’s easy to say “so what” to little old me refusing to travel again to the UK and most of the other western European countries. However, I doubt I’m the only American who feels this way. The UK and EU are destroying their economies through insane “green energy” policies. Can they afford to lose their tourism business as well? For every thousand American tourists who cancel plans to visit western Europe, they lose millions of dollars in air fares, landing fees, hotel stays, restaurant visits, shopping, and other touristy activities. Too bad, so sad, but thems the breaks. It sucks to be you.
If I were a young man in the UK, I wouldn’t want to serve in the military of a government that hates me. I have four grandchildren aged 17-21. I don’t want them to risk their lives to protect European countries that hate the US and their own people. If the western European governments aren’t willing or able to protect themselves, then they deserve to fall. I oppose giving their “elites” safe haven here, too. Let them suffer the consequences of their stupidity. Some of the eastern European countries, especially Poland, are stepping up to protect themselves and have resisted EU pressure to let in the invaders. I respect them.
“We are no longer one people, but numerous parallel societies with little to no connection to one another. Presiding over this is an incompetent bureaucracy wedded to universalist ideas and chiefly concerned with its own survival.”
A terrifically concise characterization of Britain in 2025 by David Shipley.
The “right-wing” anti-“refugee” nationalist parties in Europe need to win in a few more countries and the EU needs to be done in via more exits, singly or in bunches. That seems to be happening, albeit slowly.
The New Totalitarianism in Western Europe is entirely a product of the EU transnational socialists and their fellow travelers in the most leftist parties within the individual nation-states. In the UK, for example, those would be the office-holders and leadership of the Labour Party just as it’s the Democrats here. Show them the door and the problem largely goes away.
Russia, thank goodness, seems to be a problem that Europe is also, a bit at a time, coming to see as worthy of increasing levels of direct pushback. I figure the Ukes need about another 18 months to two years until their campaign of incremental air defense destruction and de-industrialization of Russia via air-delivered high explosives has knocked Russia down sufficiently that, like the old lady in the Life Alert ads, it can’t get up again.
Before even that process has a chance to run to completion, though, it is hardly outside the realm of possibility that other nations on the immediate Russian periphery may find cause to join in in ways a bit more overt than the various “foreign legions” already on the ground various places in Ukraine.
Russian stupidity seems to be rising in lockstep with its national arrogance given all the drone, combat aircraft and even border troop incursions into the Baltic states and other NATO members’ territories it has committed of late.
Most recently that includes, for some completely daft reason, Turkey as well. If the Russians get the Turks sufficiently PO’ed, what the Ukes have been doing to Russia will look like the proverbial walk in the park compared to what Ankara can dish out should it so choose.
At the point when Russia is well and truly prostrate – whatever the detailed path to that point may have been – I can see a pre-emptive move by the combined special forces of at least half of NATO – most probably not including the US, unfortunately – to make lightning raids on every Russian ICBM base and tactical nuke storage depot to confiscate the warheads and blow up the missiles.
With that taken care of, I strongly suspect we would shortly see a coalition of the willing consisting of post Soviet nation-states that hied themselves out of the Russian Empire while the getting was initially good in the early ’90s, plus one or more of the new 2nd generation of such states – in the Caucasus and Siberia – that will detach themselves once the Russians lack the wherewithal to keep them in the fold. This motley crew will promptly busy themselves sweeping into and across a prostrate Russia now consisting almost entirely of the elderly and infirm and pillage and slaughter to their hearts’ content.
Once we’ve gotten the paintings out of the Hermitage, we should let them. Absent Russians, there is no more Russia. Absent Russia, the world will be a far better place. Russia has been an ugly place for its entire history. It richly deserves a death to match.
Dick have you considered writing alternate history SF?
The UK has a solution to their manpower issue should they choose to use it. Could solve several problems for them.