Recent content by Irwell

Obviously the nuclear testing isn't really done anymore but our nuclear tests have generally been successful since our first nuclear detonation. The failures have been Trident missiles from the shared pool where the US give us missiles at "random" from the pool which we'd then attach our warhead...

Not only did we build our own, but the US refused to let us have the technology we helped them develop, leaving us to develop the warheads on our own too. When we had then developed it on our own they offered to start providing a delivery mechanism for our new deterrent. Guess what position...

I should probably have made it more clear that when I refer to the US in that post I refer to the federal Government rather than the nation as a whole, in much the same way as I would mean Russia when talking about the conflict in Ukraine. It's hard to separate the two completely in a democratic...

The US backs NATO purely out of self-interest. As much as I detest the actions of Russia and laugh at their propaganda around Nazis in Ukraine, biological weapon mosquitos and the like, some of the points about US hegemony are right on the nose and this fact has been clearly evident for a long...

If the reports of the US telling Ukraine not only to stop attacking Russian infrastructure but that they now won't supply long range ATACMS because of the attacks are true then the US have proved they aren't a reliable partner. Hopefully our government will wake up to the fact that the "special"...

Palestine is at war against enemies that would see them cease to exist. The Israel regime has already killed 30,000 Palestinians since 7th October to the cheers of its supporters wherever they are. It should give itself up to save the people it's supposed to represent and protect but it won't...

That's the kind of action I wish you saw more of in Russia. I know the stakes are higher in Russia given how they treat protesters but public action is the only way to stop these extremist regimes. Hopefully they get what they want and more moderate people come into power.

It isn't any different to EU membership in reality and if this was brought in then a country has a choice to make, which bloc membership do I want to put at risk. If the gibbon gets back in then it maybe becomes an easier decision for them, given his statements about NATO. I don't see the EU...

Why do you think the NATO membership articles will take precedence over the EU ones?

They were never exactly purveyors of stylish football though were they. I think back to '99 and they weren't favourites to win, playing swashbuckling football. They played kick and rush football, sprinting down the wing and crossing into the box in the hopes someone would get on the end of it...

People aren't mentioning what Hamas has caused because that has already been discussed, what they did was bad but they haven't really done anything new. The reason the Israel regime keep getting brought up is because they keep doing new things every week, they keep generating new headlines about...

You realise most people here are posting in support of the Palestinians and not Hamas, right? Yes, of course you do, you're just being disingenuous because your constant shilling for the Israel regime and the IDF doesn't work here. The thing is, and this is why you're struggling, most people...

You say it is but I'm not convinced. The man doesn't have unlimited resources so he would have to back off. The only time he's ever going to go nuclear is if boots end up on the ground marching for Moscow and even then I'm not convinced it will happen. Beat them down, knock out their ships and...

At least a humiliated Russia would think twice, as a nation they understand only shows of force. It's an easy line to tread for me.

I would say they are both. The second you start targeting civilians you are a terrorist, regardless of your cause.