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    Jolly
    wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 17:18 last edited by
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    Should they?

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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    • J Jolly
      10 Jan 2023, 17:18

      Should they?

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

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      Doctor Phibes
      wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 18:11 last edited by
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      @Jolly said in Challenger:

      Should they?

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

      I don't see why not. If they're British just don't try starting them on a cold, damp morning.

      I was only joking

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      • D Doctor Phibes
        10 Jan 2023, 18:11

        @Jolly said in Challenger:

        Should they?

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

        I don't see why not. If they're British just don't try starting them on a cold, damp morning.

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        Aqua Letifer
        wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 18:17 last edited by
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        @Doctor-Phibes said in Challenger:

        @Jolly said in Challenger:

        Should they?

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

        I don't see why not. If they're British just don't try starting them on a cold, damp morning.

        You'd think that, being British, that would be the very first engineering problem to solve.

        Please love yourself.

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        • A Aqua Letifer
          10 Jan 2023, 18:17

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Challenger:

          @Jolly said in Challenger:

          Should they?

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

          I don't see why not. If they're British just don't try starting them on a cold, damp morning.

          You'd think that, being British, that would be the very first engineering problem to solve.

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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 18:34 last edited by
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          @Aqua-Letifer said in Challenger:

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Challenger:

          @Jolly said in Challenger:

          Should they?

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

          I don't see why not. If they're British just don't try starting them on a cold, damp morning.

          You'd think that, being British, that would be the very first engineering problem to solve.

          Famed Australian commentator Clive James once said that the British labour under the delusion that they live in a tropical climate, and they design everything, from suitcases to houses to cars accordingly.

          I was only joking

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          • J Jolly
            10 Jan 2023, 17:18

            Should they?

            https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/09/uk-considers-supplying-handful-of-challenger-2-tanks-to-ukraine-war-russia

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            Renauda
            wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 18:58 last edited by
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            @Jolly

            Should they? Yes, of course.

            Elbows up!

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              Mik
              wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 19:07 last edited by
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              Sure. We need to give them whatever it takes to prevail.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 19:35 last edited by
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                Tucker's not going to like this at all.

                Which is another good reason to do it.

                I was only joking

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                • D Doctor Phibes
                  10 Jan 2023, 19:35

                  Tucker's not going to like this at all.

                  Which is another good reason to do it.

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                  Renauda
                  wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 19:55 last edited by
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                  @Doctor-Phibes

                  He’ll be outraged as I’m not at all certain that Tucker is aware that the UK is a sovereign country.

                  Elbows up!

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                  • R Renauda
                    10 Jan 2023, 19:55

                    @Doctor-Phibes

                    He’ll be outraged as I’m not at all certain that Tucker is aware that the UK is a sovereign country.

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                    Doctor Phibes
                    wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 19:59 last edited by Doctor Phibes 1 Oct 2023, 19:59
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                    @Renauda said in Challenger:

                    @Doctor-Phibes

                    He’ll be outraged as I’m not at all certain that Tucker is aware that the UK is a sovereign country.

                    Not since the Islamic takeover that Fox was so worried about.

                    I was only joking

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                      Jolly
                      wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 21:42 last edited by
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                      I wonder.

                      One of the "problems" with French, American, German and God knows what else equipment, is parts and service, especially if the equipment is a dozen here or there. None of this stuff is new and it's going to break. And different types of armor take different types of training. At least most of the NATO stuff can use the same ammo, in a pinch.

                      I don't know if this small amount of tanks may not cause more problems than they solve.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                      • J Jolly
                        10 Jan 2023, 21:42

                        I wonder.

                        One of the "problems" with French, American, German and God knows what else equipment, is parts and service, especially if the equipment is a dozen here or there. None of this stuff is new and it's going to break. And different types of armor take different types of training. At least most of the NATO stuff can use the same ammo, in a pinch.

                        I don't know if this small amount of tanks may not cause more problems than they solve.

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                        Renauda
                        wrote on 10 Jan 2023, 22:49 last edited by
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                        @Jolly

                        That’s a valid point. At least they can service older Soviet vintage equipment laying around in former WP arsenals.

                        More importantly it ties into the question as to what are NATO’s, and more specifically Washington’s, objectives in this war as this article from the Guardian points out:

                        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/10/us-victory-ukraine-lives-conflict-war-iraq-afghanistan?CMP=share_btn_link

                        Elbows up!

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