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pErvinalia wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:30 pm

Who's Lozzer?

Who are you guy

Brian Peacock wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:11 am

Yay!

Welcome back! There's still a few of the old guard around, but we've all changed our usernames!

Ah yes, the internet, the elephant that never forgets.

I hope that hasn’t been on your hard drive this whole time!

After a ten year hiatus, the prodigal son has returned like your man Palpatine. I have had to delete my avatar as superimposing one’s face on Hitler’s doesn’t float these days. Just to condense the last years of my life as it’ll be TLDR; went to uni, had a wild time, did lots of drugs, went mental, ...

Mysturji wrote:

Lozzer wrote:Why?

Have you read it?

Bits.

Why?

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/nationalservice.html The internets happens to be awash with conspiracy theory nonsense due this bill. It's the first I've heard of it, but it was submitted by a private member and not the cabinet. Because it hasn't been acknowledged by the media, lunatics ...

Coito ergo sum wrote:North Korea rattles its sabers -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ck-US.html

A wan and a two,
And a Ching Chong potato

This situation is never going to result in war, though, unless an 'accident' were to occur at any time where emotions are truly running high. North Korea's frustrations are real, but their aggression is contrived. It's all talk. They know they could never win any war, but the threat is that they cou...

Coito ergo sum wrote:Yes. Puerto Rico has arguably the most powerful military in the world, which it shares with Guam, the US Virgin Islands and the Northern Marianas Islands.

Buffer state? Tradition of conflict? Past conflict? Economic competition? Subterfuge?

Yeah, and we're afraid Puerto Rico will invade us. You're out of your depth here, Lozz. Puerto Rico hasn't the backing of a unipolar power. No, with respect, you're out of your depth. Sure they do. They have the backing of the same unipolar power that backs S.Korea. :tea: *Facepalm* Is there a buff...

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Yeah, and we're afraid Puerto Rico will invade us.

You're out of your depth here, Lozz.

Puerto Rico hasn't the backing of a unipolar power. No, with respect, you're out of your depth.

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:No, I don't. Not to the scale you imply in your first post. They don't need to, South Korea is not aggressive toward China, and China knows it.

That doesn't mean anything. All it takes is a perceived imbalance, and things can escalate. This doesn't mean 'war', just militarisation.

I don't expect anyone to be versed in the school of realism here. What I suggested wasn't a fact, but speculation. I believed this to be a hypothetical thread, because we aren't North Korea, or its ruling dynasty, and as such we can't articulate the reasons for their behaviour. Yep, I'm ignorant of...

I don't expect anyone to be versed in the school of realism here.

What I suggested wasn't a fact, but speculation. I believed this to be a hypothetical thread, because we aren't North Korea, or its ruling dynasty, and as such we can't articulate the reasons for their behaviour.