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2 hours ago, oaksoft said:

I'm going out on a limb here but I'm beginning to think that you might not be the history expert you seem to have convinced yourself that you are.

...or you could just ignore his obvious flamebait so he moves on and finds another target for his narcissistic and sociopathic behaviour. Much the same comment is applicable to Sergeant Wilson's patter. Best not to give them the attention they crave.

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3 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

...or you could just ignore his obvious flamebait so he moves on and finds another target for his narcissistic and sociopathic behaviour. Much the same comment is applicable to Sergeant Wilson's patter. Best not to give them the attention they crave.

However, Sarge’s is generally entertaining and mostly lighthearted…VT is like Sauron on the rag.

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3 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

...or you could just ignore his obvious flamebait so he moves on and finds another target for his narcissistic and sociopathic behaviour. Much the same comment is applicable to Sergeant Wilson's patter. Best not to give them the attention they crave.

Sarge has actually calmed down, I haven't really seen any of his close to the bone Auschwitz type jokes and the like in a good while which makes me suspect one of the mods had a word.

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10 hours ago, Wee Bully said:

You can be an expert in absolutely everything without any experience you know. 

Looks like we're now following the 'University of Life' syllabus. The entire concept of abstract knowledge being denied by a teacher of all professions! 

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7 hours ago, oaksoft said:

It happens a lot. The British at Singapore in WW2 for a start.

Define 'a lot' please, in the context of military conflicts - modern ones will do just fine. 

You've identified a single high-profile case. For your assertion to be true though, we also need to consider the base rate of situations in which the numerically superior side did not surrender as well. Indeed the very reason why the Singapore surrender remains infamous in British military history is the fact that they did so - it was highly unusual (and therefore considered shameful) and so gets remembered. If Britain's forces had just surrendered all over the shop then they wouldn't have been able to loot a quarter of the world in the first place. 

The idea that there's a magic code of war that combatants know to follow when they're surrendering - but only to an inferior force - is not supported by historical evidence or (more importantly in this case) common sense and basic logic as well. No amount of meathead posturing on Twitter changes that reality.

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Can't believe people are actually having a go at the louche sergeant for pin p***king the pomposity of some of our armchair generals on here, and occasionally mocking his own fictional military background. If you want hardcore from him, search out his revolutionary bereavement therapy techniques for the recently widowed. :whistle

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Meanwhile back on topic a gas pipeline went boom on the outskirts of St Petersburg and the Russians are skeptical on it being an accident.

Wonder if somebody with a -chuk or -enko type surname has paid the area a visit recently with some high explosives. Way too far to be a drone or missile launched from Ukrainian territory.

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29 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Can't believe people are actually having a go at the louche sergeant for pin p***king the pomposity...

It goes well beyond that on occasion into behaviour that is quite clearly socipathic and at times highly distasteful like the way he was hassling the Clyde fan who was visiting Lviv recently for no other reason that being a complete p***k.

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This guy is normally on the ball but who is likely to run out first? The Russians on missiles when their industries are under sanctions or the Ukrainians with more and more anti-missile systems being supplied by NATO? My money is on the former. Is the reason that the Russians have to send more and more missiles to overload Ukrainian defences not that those defences have been strengthening over time?

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2 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:

It goes well beyond that on occasion into behaviour that is quite clearly socipathic and at times highly distateful like the way he was hassling the Clyde fan who was visiting Lviv recently for no other reason that being a complete p***k.

In the interests of control, would you be so kind to list your social boundaries for the benefit of us all?

With that knowledge, we'll all be able to comply with your norms and it'll save you from further anti sock diatribes 

 

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