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However rough, and in places savage, was the Hamas attack in October, the Israelis have now killed tens of thousands in what amounts to a quasi-genocidal retaliation. The wounded, many badly wounded (amputations, mutilations etc), must be approaching a hundred thousand in number. Half have been under-18, and a quarter, more or less, small children and babies.
The Jews, not only in Israel, but in the UK, USA, France etc have tried to justify such terrible retaliation as “self-defence” but, certainly after the first few days, that really does not wash.
There is also the point that, if some of the Palestinian Arabs sometimes behave monstrously, it is mainly because they have been made monstrous, over 70-80 years, by the Israelis.
War has, of course, a human cost. Sometimes there is no alternative to war, but often there is.
One sometimes wonders what drives System political drones such as Angela Rayner. Political tribalism, aka Labour right or wrong? Personal (inc. financial) selfishness, or acquisitiveness? Egoism and/or egotism?
Hard for me to understand, because I have always been described by others (not always favourably, though) as an idealist. I suppose that I could have joined, in youth, one of the two main System parties, which might have led eventually to a Parliamentary seat and —who knows?— to a ministerial portfolio, perhaps even to the Cabinet.
I am, however, not a careerist. In the end, ideology, belief, truth matters to me; policy matters to me; results matter to me; beyond that, the well-being of people and animals matters to me.
“The Minister of Defense of Germany announced the delivery of the following weapons to Ukraine in 2024:
– air defense system IRIS-T SLM; –
Memory card “Gepard”;
– additional artillery systems with more than 230,000 ammunition;
– more than 80 Leopard 1 A5 tanks;
– additional BMP;
– additional engineering machines and bridge-layers;
– 450 armored vehicles;
– demining systems;
– drones;
– radar systems and intelligence systems.
This year, Germany also plans to train 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers.“
What incredible impudence! The German Government is going to gift the Kiev regime 80 more tanks, and 450 other armoured vehicles. This is almost direct involvement in the war.
Russia has not, as yet, deployed more than a small fraction of its mighty military-destructive power. The West must back-pedal on the present headlong rush to regional and even world war.
I can only hope that the prevailing winds across the UK continue to blow from west to east…
The inhabitants of Gaza are now worse off than were the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s. History can certainly take some surprising turns.
Gaza was, after all, the location for the fight between David and Goliath.
One of the most interesting pieces of news I have read recently is that 14% of Israelis with dual nationality have fled the country in the past 3 months. Israel is doomed.
Use his correct name— David Cameron-Levita…
What we, those of us interested in the future of the European peoples, must do is to prepare as best we can for what might well be the situation after the next great war. Preservation of a core of European humanity, and the foundation of a society to provide a basis for a superculture, indeed for successive supercultures of the far future. We shall be there too, via reincarnation.
14 words.
“So to Thule, mystic eagles sped, adepts within, the abyss squared…“
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Ian Robert Millard 
In reply to your rhetorical question about what drives the political system´s drones (and not only in the UK) I would say is a combination of everything you mention and much more. They are a disgusting cocktail made of the worst possible ingredients.
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What do you think of Germany´s support for Zelensky? The amount of military equipment promised is not very great but. nevertheless, is rather important. The disgusting German lackeys of the US are prolonging the agony of the Ukrainian people, who have been bled by Zelensky.
What impact can have 80 old tanks on a war decided by drones and missiles? I think that Scholz is following orders from Biden who already said that the US is not going to send any more weapons to Ukraine.
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Claudius:
Naturally, as you will know from your military knowledge, every war, every battle even, has its own characteristics. The Battle of Kursk involved 6,000 tanks altogether, so comparing 80 tanks to that may shrink the importance of a mere 80. On the other hand, famous Rommel only had, at peak, about 250 tanks in North Africa, together with a similar or lesser number of all but useless old Italian models. Towards the end of that campaign, the Germans only had 90 tanks deployed.
Obviously, 80 tanks will have an impact, assuming ammunition, fuel and trained crews and commanders, but in a space as vast as the Russia-Ukraine borderlands, those tanks cannot have a determinative effect.
Russia is said to have 3,000-4,000 deployable or potentially-deployable tanks. Russia can, therefore, lose 100 tanks per month (said to be the current rate of attrition), and still not run out of tanks for 3 years, plus however many can be manufactured in that time. About 250 per year and increasing. So in 3 years about 750-900. That pushes Russia’s timetable to as long as 4 years.
By way of comparison, the UK has only about 200 main battle tanks now, of which maybe 150, if that, are immediately deployable. In WW2, in North Africa, Montgomery had 1,250-1,500 at his disposal.
As you say, this weapons transfer to the Kiev regime must give them hope, and so does prolong the war. The fact is that the Kiev regime cannot “win”; Ukraine’s borders will never again be as they were before 2014. The best that Kiev can hope for is that the lines are drawn more or less where they now are, and fixed there by agreement. If that cannot be agreed, Russia will, if it so decides, be able to take the whole of the eastern part of Ukraine (east of the Dnieper) sooner or later.
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