impotent old man threatens NKorea if they make threats~unlike the 1,000's in the past

Micawber said:
So they have no indigenous program, only what they can steal and reverse engineer?
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Iran has done a good job with affordable, reliable engines and airframes. Iran’s experience shows that modest investment can, in the right circumstances, have a high payoff. Iran has used drones extensively in Syria and Iraq, supplying the Iraqi and Syrian governments with recon data and identifying targets for manned airstrikes. Altogether, Iran probably has more operational experience with drones than any country other than Israel or the United States.

Iran has also had success in exporting its drones to proxies, such as Hezbollah, where they mostly play the same ISR role. Hezbollah has experimented with suicidal drones (not quite the same thing as cruise missiles, but not that far off), and Israel can probably anticipate a more complex aerial environment in the next Lebanon conflict.
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The story of Iran’s drone development isn’t the underdog tale of scrappy Iranian engineers scrambling to catch up with the United States, as the Guards so often claim. Instead, it’s the story of Iran’s military prudently developing UAVs that are just good enough—and progressively improving successful designs.
https://warisboring.com/like-it-or-not-iran-is-a-drone-power/
 
Covfefe said:
I read Paris and Frankfurt are both stepping up to fill the banking center for the EU, lots of banks are preparing to move, sounds like they will be fine without London. Japanese banks have already made move.
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It really isn't all doom and gloom. London will remain a financial powerhouse, it just won't have quite as much clout as before.

I think there was/is an opportunity to make this work for us but it has been handled in the most inept fashion, so far, by a thoroughly incompetent government (not that the opposition would be in any better position). However, if you express any scepticism about the negotiation process then you are immediately accused of "ignoring the will of the British people" by enthusiastic Brexiteers (excuse me while i vomit after typing that word).
 
Corazón said:
It is subject to negotiation, but we will be leaving both the Customs Union and the Single Market. There will be zero tariffs, or as near as damn it, access to the EU and we will probably have to pay something into their slush fund. I can very easily see the UK forming a new trading block with countries like Norway, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. Poland, Hungary and Austria might also leave the EU as well and join up.
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Or equally, it could all go tits up.

What is there to give me any confidence that these fuckwits, with their record of ineptitude, can manage to negotiate "a good deal"?
 
charver said:
It really isn't all doom and gloom. London will remain a financial powerhouse, it just won't have quite as much clout as before.

I think there was/is an opportunity to make this work for us but it has been handled in the most inept fashion, so far, by a thoroughly incompetent government (not that the opposition would be in any better position). However, if you express any scepticism about the negotiation process then you are immediately accused of "ignoring the will of the British people" by enthusiastic Brexiteers (excuse me while i vomit after typing that word).
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Tom just makes it sound like the EU can't function without London, I'm sure they will do fine.
 
Covfefe said:
I read Paris and Frankfurt are both stepping up to fill the banking center for the EU, lots of banks are preparing to move, sounds like they will be fine without London. Japanese banks have already made move.
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It's not going to happen, so put your crystal ball away. London is the financial and banking powerhouse for Europe and much of the world. Oh the bankers will whine and moan but there are not stupid.
 
So, is everyone having a good time? The world is talking about countries using nukes seriously for the 1st time since the '80's, and we're watching 2 nutty leaders trying to one up each other on chest-beating, warmongering rhetoric.

Pretty cool stuff.
 
charver said:
It really isn't all doom and gloom. London will remain a financial powerhouse, it just won't have quite as much clout as before.

I think there was/is an opportunity to make this work for us but it has been handled in the most inept fashion, so far, by a thoroughly incompetent government (not that the opposition would be in any better position). However, if you express any scepticism about the negotiation process then you are immediately accused of "ignoring the will of the British people" by enthusiastic Brexiteers (excuse me while i vomit after typing that word).
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Yes Remoaners has the same effect on me!!
 
Thing1 said:
So, is everyone having a good time? The world is talking about countries using nukes seriously for the 1st time since the '80's, and we're watching 2 nutty leaders trying to one up each other on chest-beating, warmongering rhetoric.

Pretty cool stuff.
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Grind's happy, but will be disappointed if nuclear war doesn't break out.
 
Covfefe said:
Tom just makes it sound like the EU can't function without London, I'm sure they will do fine.
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We'll both get over it.

If there's any degree of common sense the transition will be relatively smooth.

However, these are politicians we are dealing with. If the EU decides to be awkward we're all going to be a lot poorer.
 
Covfefe said:
Tom just makes it sound like the EU can't function without London, I'm sure they will do fine.
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Even the Guardian, one of the leading Remoaners, knows that the EU is screwed without the City. You just display your ignorance of the workings of the world financial community.

The European commission’s Brexit negotiators must strike a “workable” deal with Theresa May’s government to protect the City of London or the economies of the remaining member states will be damaged, a leaked EU report warns.

The document – which has been seen by the Guardian – describes it as critical for the economic health of the remaining member states that the current financial eco-system is not hit in the coming Brexit negotiations.

The paper, drawn up by officials working for the European parliament’s powerful committee on economic and monetary affairs (Econ), warns that UK-based financial services account for 40% of Europe’s assets under management and 60% of its capital markets business. “And UK-based banks provide more than £1.1tn of loans to the other EU member states,” the Econ secretariat’s paper notes.

Is the City of London going to hell in a Brexit handcart?

“If financial services companies choose to leave the UK as a result of Brexit, the consequences should be carefully evaluated.

“A badly designed final deal would damage both the UK and the other 27 EU member states.

“The exclusion of the main European financial centre from the internal market could have consequences in terms of jobs and growth in the EU. It is in the interest of EU 27 and the UK to have an open discussion on this point.”
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....-leaked-report-european-parliament-article-50
 
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Corazón said:
Quite simply because it is in everyone's self interest, no other motivation is necessary.
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You'd think it was in Europe's self-interest to listen to their own citizens but they haven't really done a lot of that over the past 50 years.
 
charver said:
You'd think it was in Europe's self-interest to listen to their own citizens but they haven't really done a lot of that over the past 50 years.
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Well they are bloody well listening now, the Eurocrats are shitting themselves that their lovely cossetted world is about to go tits up.
 
Corazón said:
Well they are bloody well listening now, the Eurocrats are shitting themselves that their lovely cossetted world is about to go tits up.
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The new plan seems to be "more Europe", personally, i think their hearing aid is broken.
 
charver said:
The new plan seems to be "more Europe", personally, i think their hearing aid is broken.
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Poland has just told them to go forth and multiply in no uncertain terms, although sadly I tend to agree with the EU on the logging going on in the Bialowieza Forest being destructive. They also have told them along with Hungary that they won't take any refugees and they want more sovereignty. I can't see it ending well.

http://www.newschannel6now.com/stor...oland-not-to-defy-court-ban-on-forest-logging
 
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Micawber said:
Duck and cover was psychological palliative care. It was not a real strategy to limit injury and death. I lived 15 miles from the pentagon for 18 years of my live. We had those air raid drills.
To the point, the fact that the government was less transparent then and lied more doesn't mean the existential threat today is less real. More Sailor fail
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This from a grown adult who never served, still relies on his parents for support and has a track record of exactly zero when it comes to any kind of prediction, any kind of rational thinking or well, anything.
PackD, I can understand your self loathing PackD. By the Jesus, you make Evince look like Einstein.
 
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