Tim the Tank Nut

bottom right corner of box... this IS season two!!!!!!!!!

the people who came up with hate speech laws planned for that exact outcome. In Australia you mustn't say bad things about Israeli leaders but it is still okay to commit acts of terror against the Jews.

that is good over engineering! Redundancy is a positive in life or death applications. If only accountants were held to such standards.

I think it was General Robert Lee who said that being a Corps Commander was harder than it looks. I assume the same for any high command. For the most part the right people got most of the right jobs most of the time. Even poor officers can do well and good officers can do badly on a given day. If the Germans hadn't moved what they did when they did Market Garden would have been a master stroke. It isn't like the Germans knew it was coming and got ready for it. They got lucky and the British forces weren't able to make their own luck. Patton got bogged down in a sea of mud before the Battle of the Bulge. It happens to any CO if things go a certain way. The differences are that First Army kept attacking in the Huertgen whilst Third Army finally (too late) settled down before having to turn north. Patton's forces relieved their trapped paratroopers and Horrocks' forces didn't relieve theirs. War is like that. I often wonder how men like Fredenhall made it to the top. It does give us something to discuss, though. After sleeping on it I think the lady doing the presentation needs some more seasoning. I suspect a relatively short video makes it hard to get into real analysis. I think I'm better off in books. For her, watch Nick's videos for a better presentation style.

okay, I watched the whole thing. Zita's points are okay but the presentation is terrible. Way too many umms and ahhs. Stop saying "like". I don't think that her issue is so much pro-Montgomery as it is anti Eisenhower and some of her points are legitimate but mostly it seems to be looking at historical events with current day expectations. Communications in those days were not like communications today. I'll think on it and try to put up more tomorrow

that being shot thing is the one that worries me. They haven't stopped trying and aren't going to stop trying.

the reads as a clear, functional assessment of reality. What is the problem with Rubio's statement (if any)?

pretty okay at best is a good rating from you! I'd consider Devers more capable than Bradley but then I'd say Montgomery was better than Bradley. Montgomery's personality and the restrictions he faced as British manpower ran short did have an effect on his Generalship. He wasn't wrong as often as he was unpleasant. Bradley was a far more intolerant commander but had much better PR. Devers got on with the job and didn't keep a press man on the clock 24 hours a day.

not to mess up the deal between two upstanding gentlemen BUT: where are you at on Trump not finishing his term because of a successful assassination attempt? It's been tried twice already. There's no reason to think they won't keep trying.

depends on who you strike... with good intel you could really give them something to think about

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it does look like the current round of protests have missed the window for sudden collapse of the Regime and that is a shame. Having said that, do you know who many colonists broke the USA away from Great Britain? It was a shockingly small percentage of the population. Most were apathetic to the Revolution, some supported the mother country and a small number forced the issue.

even people that aren't inclined towards democracy don't always want to have a crappy life. Iran always has money for Hezbollah. Maybe, just maybe they can spend something on their own people... Well, they are spending money to kill their own. Guess that counts.

you are correct about Iranians not liking the West. This is why they spend their funds on spreading terror and chaos rather than simple stuff like water. I think there is an old Greek saying about Persians but I could be wrong. I feel like the Iranians have made their own bed and for the most part it is up to them to get out of it. I would be willing to see the Ayatollah hit by a Western missile just on principle. I'm just really sick of Iran. They've spent over forty years screaming death to America so if the old man decides to bust them up, I don't have a problem with it.

Sunday, I'm not sure where you are coming from on this. The Iranian regime is all in BAD. Iran has been a destabilizing force on the world stage for a long time. The sooner the Iranian people break the chokehold the better. If they don't, somewhere down the line they are going to get one of those big nasty wars that end up in a lot of books and everyone involved is going to worse off for it. I can't see any reason to be in support of the current Iranian leadership.