12-04-2018, 08:18 AM
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Re: What happens if Putin attacks the Yanks.
Originally Posted by TessA
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Typical! Just before my birthday too!
12-04-2018, 08:35 AM
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Re: What happens if Putin attacks the Yanks.
Originally Posted by JBR
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I'm not sure about that. I have read that big improvements have been made lately.I do think that we, and the Yanks too if they have any sense, should keep well out of the Middle East. It is none of our business anyway, and if we are concerned about ISIS I am confident that Russia is having a much greater effect on them than we or America ever have had.
12-04-2018, 08:44 AM
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Re: What happens if Putin attacks the Yanks.
Originally Posted by Meg
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I am horrified by all the 'talk' of what may or may not happen encouraged by a news greedy media. It is a terrible strategy to inform your enemy of your possible intentions.
12-04-2018, 08:53 AM
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Re: What happens if Putin attacks the Yanks.
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Yes that's true Meg. Churchill would not have got very far if he had announced his intentions. Trump has said a lot of things since he has been president but most of it seems to have been hot air. Hopefully this is too.
12-04-2018, 10:33 AM
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Re: What happens if Putin attacks the Yanks.
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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If it comes to a fight I doubt we will have the choice, JBR. Unfortunately there are still a number of USAF bases here - they would use UK as a giant aircraft carrier. Not to mention the 'listening stations' such as Menwith Hill - if I were the Russians that would be my first target - Greenham Common would be my second. UK crippled.Our own defences have been diminished so much over the years as to be almost useless and what we do have seem to be permanently deployed elsewhere. I would not give much for our chances.
Attacking each others' forces in the Middle East is quite likely, but Russia attacking bases on our land would be a step too far.
Firstly, what would they use?
ICBMs? They are, as far as I'm aware, nuclear armed. That would initiate a nuclear exchange - everyone loses.
Bombers? The RAF, although being reduced in numbers like all of our forces, still has an effective air defence capability. The Russians are fully aware of that as they have been testing them out for years now.
Secondly, why would they do that?
Attacking bases on our homeland would result in us (and hopefully America) reciprocating in kind. Would Putin like his homeland to suffer attacks? I don't think so.
Anyway, as I have said, we should not be poking our noses in. This is none of our business.
The Yanks have more than enough capability to intervene in Syria without us and certainly without the Frogs who, let's be honest, are more than likely to wave their white 'battle ensigns' at the first threat of any trouble.
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