Special Relationship

[Rainman4707]

One poster said that 'surely a speech from churchill is'nt going to change everybodys minds and be like yeah lets go fight them'

My response to that is, you will be suprised how stupid people can be. THE SHIPS ARE COMING FOR US NOW, ITS JUST THAT THE SAME PEOPLE ARE TO BLIND TO SEE IT. SAME WAS THE CASE BEFORE HITLER INVASION.

 

[Rainman4707]

Well we Texans are a proud, stubborn, fiercely independent bunch. We’re more headache that it’s worth, trust me. We are better off being happy cousins I promise.

Texans are kinda like Aussies. It’s the Wild West out here, only rattlesnakes instead of brown snakes, alligators instead of crocs. I appreciate that some Aussie s go to the pub in their planes, and round up cattle by helicopter. Mad respect. Texans are kinda like that.

A swashbuckling handful. Lol.

My dad drank Irish whisky and thought a man was a lil’ bit ch if he didn’t drink neat, lol.

Come on down. We’ll have an accent & hot pepper eating contest. Survive that & you’re on.

If you can’t ride, shoot and dance we will pull your Texan card, lol….

Paging @Duke

Back on topic, let’s just say this: Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier in US history, was a Texan. He fought in WWII in Europe & later acted in Hollywood before settling back in Texas to raise a family.

Cheers y’all

Agree with the drinking neat. I like it neat after a gruelling week at work.

 

[Dr.Suave]

Hell I think Texas ought to annex Mexico

You think Texas could pull it off if they wanted to? Serious question. That would be a Epic thing to witness and live through.

 

[BeExcellent]

You think Texas could pull it off if they wanted to? Serious question. That would be a Epic thing to witness and live through.

The problem would become dealing with the extreme poverty in Mexico. The uneducated poor would put a tremendous drain on social services and healthcare. It would not be sensible to assume that burden. They already drain those services coming across the border.

Strongly agree @Fruitbat about white liberals here. People who can generally not be required to live according to the bad decisions they make due to privilege, and they miss the real problems because they see the general populace as stupid whilst being blinded by their own arrogance or bias or both.

 

[Scaramouche]

Hi Bokanovsky,
Loved your Post about the Russian Reinvasion of Manchuria,their incredible campaign forced Truman to authorise The Nuclear Bombings,which enabled us to get to Tokyo before Stalin...As a Boy I worked for a while with an Old Aussy Soldier who while with the occupation forces had travelled to Manchuria to bring a detail of Japanese Soldiers back to Japan.He said they were wonderful looking Men,tall and heavy boned raised in the Northern Islands....As a Russo-phile you should read about Richard Sorge a German working as a Master Spy at the German embassy in Tokyo....He informed Stalin that Japan was preparing to send its forces South and invade S.E. Asia....Stalin then ordered his elite Batallions facing an anticipated invasion from Japan to return home....It was many of these fine battle hardened Soldiers who had under Zhukhov previously defeated Japan that fought so valiently at Stalingrad which if it had fallen would have enabled the Germans to reach Persia and eventually close off the Suez Canal.

 

[ThisIsSparta]

Just going through my great grandad’s medals and realised how we might bicker between the US and British/Aus/NZ/SA but 83 years agoISH we all knew what’s up.

while my country (England) was being bombed to smitheries US politicians were visiting and we were actively cheering them. We needed you, Yankies.

2 years later you came with your usual kick ass and won it for us, but spare a thought for us, holding out, holding our balls and showing a straight bat to Hitler before the new world came to the rescue of the old.
Salute to the men who gave their lives for our freedom.

long live our special relationship.

Look what parttime winning the war you declared on Germany made of Great Britain.

 

[Fruitbat]

@Fruitbat what do you think about the invasion of Normandy being codenamed OPERATION OVERLORD and being commenced on the 6th hour of the 6th day of the 6th month of the year? (5:30 am on June 6th, or 666 in other words)

It seems like perhaps there is indeed a "special relationship" involved, but between whom?

5 pointed Star on both US and Russian helmets too!

I know what this relates to but it might not be what you think it is

 

[Fruitbat]

Hi Fruitbat,
Me again," Churchill was extremely keen on getting the US involved and there is a persistent rumour that he knew about Pearl Harbour and said nothing."Perhaps yes,but there is another rumour that the US fleet had Radar from Britain,warning them of the Japanese Aircraft and that Rooseveldt had suppressed the News ...As a matter of interest Australia declared War on Japan before the US check it out.

I think it’s unlikely Churchill withheld this as even with a large naval fleet approaching across the pacific, the US were in the war. There was no way they would have not been. A massive naval formation coming to attack them? People really think the US wouldnt have joined the war?

All withholding that info did was potentially cripple his biggest potential ally’s navy which was incredibly stupid.

I can’t see the strategic importance of knowing, but not telling.

 

[Scaramouche]

Hi Fruitbat,
You miss the point...It was Rooseveldt who,as rumour had it,withheld the inbformation.The US forces managed the Radar!

 

[Fruitbat]

What freedom? What rock are you under?
They just sentenced a man to prison for his speech.

who did now?