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Investing in powerful weapons has kept Europe safe from Soviet invasion and keeps Putin's Russia at bay. A positive (unintended) side-effect of the Cold War arms race was the economic deterioration of the USSR and its bloc, and this played a part in the collapse of Soviet communist system and the liberation of Russian and eastern European citizens from Soviet autocracy.

The arms produced by the west has also enabled us to bolster the west's allies in various regions of the world to enable them to maintain their safety and freedom from aggressive and particularly totalitarian neighbouring regimes.

Rubbish.

There are many countries with not many powerful weapons at all.

Simply that there are offensive power hungry and countries with colonial ambitions who wish to pursue their old ways to stay on top instead of working hard like everyone else.
 
Accuracy absolutely matters because as things stand Covid19 figures are being inflated as a means to justify continuance of bad policy. There isn't a Govt in the world prepared to change their standpoint based on real world facts. Instead they are far more inclined (guided by the wrong experts) to double down and continue along the same path.

I very much doubt that they are consulting wider real expert opinion.

Consider this.

Throughout time, every pandemic was brought under control by isolating the sick and vulnerable whilst the healthy majority went about their normal day to day business, catching and recovering from the virus which over time allowed herd immunity to be built.

So why are we all now following the wrong policy?

The herd immunity route was the initial Government preference wasn't it? It was then thought that to have pursued that policy was likely to have swamped the NHS and sacrificed the vulnerable (think care homes). Much too brutal for a responsible government. Whether that would have been the outcome is now questionable given that Sweden seem to be coming through pretty well, but it was enough that it might have been.
 
The herd immunity route was the initial Government preference wasn't it? It was then thought that to have pursued that policy was likely to have swamped the NHS and sacrificed the vulnerable (think care homes). Much too brutal for a responsible government. Whether that would have been the outcome is now questionable given that Sweden seem to be coming through pretty well, but it was enough that it might have been.
My understanding is that it was the modelling undertaken by Prof. Neil Ferguson at Imperial College and his headline figure of 500,000 deaths that caused the Government's u-turn. In time, I suspect that model will come to haunt BoJo and the Tories in much the same way that weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq war haunted the Blair administration.
 
........Simply that there are offensive power hungry and countries with colonial ambitions who wish to pursue their old ways to stay on top instead of working hard like everyone else.


This part is true, there are indeed plenty of dangerous regimes in the world. But surely that's an argument for the potential victims of those countries to actually have adequate defences.

Of course, the countries that immediately come to mind as the most power-hungry and colonially ambitious would be Russia and China.
 
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Some are predicting a huge famine world wide as stocks run out.
I see our fishing fleet is not working. Not much virus out to sea chaps.
 
Some are predicting a huge famine world wide as stocks run out.
I see our fishing fleet is not working. Not much virus out to sea chaps.


Most of the British catch goes to France and Belgium, maybe 80% - their fresh fish markets are closed.
Much of the rest goes to UK restaurants and pubs etc. - they're mostly closed.

The British don't buy fish even when they have money because they think it should be cheaper than meat.

UK fishing boats are at work but there was never much market for what they catch, even less now.
 
Most of the British catch goes to France and Belgium, maybe 80% - their fresh fish markets are closed.
Much of the rest goes to UK restaurants and pubs etc. - they're mostly closed.

The British don't buy fish even when they have money because they think it should be cheaper than meat.

UK fishing boats are at work but there was never much market for what they catch, even less now.

Can't wait for the local chippy to re-open
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Does anyone have any data / stats for the percentage of those that have died with the virus who are known to have comorbidity? In other words, what percentage of the 27,000+ people in the U.K. had underlying health conditions?
This guy has the answers you are looking for, he makes long videos (by Gen Z standards) but has a lot of facts and figures and explains his findings in an easily understandable format. I've been following him for a while.

 
This part is true, there are indeed plenty of dangerous regimes in the world. But surely that's an argument for the potential victims of those countries to actually have adequate defences.

Of course, the countries that immediately come to mind as the most power-hungry and colonially ambitious would be Russia and China.

No way... Maybe we read alternative histories.

I see Russia and China as the balancing influence to the extremes of the US and EU states.
 
Most of the British catch goes to France and Belgium, maybe 80% - their fresh fish markets are closed.
Much of the rest goes to UK restaurants and pubs etc. - they're mostly closed.

The British don't buy fish even when they have money because they think it should be cheaper than meat.

UK fishing boats are at work but there was never much market for what they catch, even less now.

Fish n chips is a British staple. If feeling adventurous, add mushy peas!

 
Banks using cryptocurrency for Covid relief?

In the initial draft of the US bill, a fed issued digital dollar and public wallet was included but removed before it was submitted.
The BOE are openly talking about a CBDC inc webinar.
Positive money pushing for a CBDC founder Ben Dyson now works at BOE
Why you might be concerned by the George Gammon

Should keep you busy for a few (y)
 
Politics is brim full of lies and expert lyers. The gullible public hasn't a chance. Stick and carrot all the way.
The elites still combine it with ultimate force to control the rabble. Trying to be nice to the rabble has cost many their thrones. The Shah in Persia, the Romanovs in Russia etc.
 
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