So, we're completely screwed....

[GypsyQueeen]

And what the hell are we gonna do???!!!

We're not even ready for snow!!! 😬😱😱🤣🤣

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There is a lovely French cafe near me that makes bread and butter pudding from the previous days pain au chocolat.

Have you ever worked in an all female environment? Too many women together can be awful in a different way, men are definitely needed to lighten the topics and reduce the spite a bit 😂

Give me the address!

😆😆😆 sounds about right!

You do realize there is a full scale war in Europe at the moment?

I didn't make it clear I was joking? I made a flippant comment about snow accompanied by several laughing emojis.
🤣🤣🤣 See.

And I have absolutely no interest in what your problem is. I imagine you have many 🤔🤔

And you deserve to be patronised. Don't address me again.

Stop being so obnoxious ! I'll address whomever j please.

As many times as I please

😅😅 The Queeen has put you in your place.

In real life you would bow down and call me Ma'am. And you would love it.

I will curtsey to you Ma"am. I recognise your valid concerns about snow and possible warfare. I'm a wizard with snow clearing but know little about armed conflict. However, no-one has beaten me to a parking space yet 💪

This feels like a historic week to me, in a quiet way.

Anniversary today of WW2 breaking out.

Putin, Xi and Modi holding hands and chortling with one another at the SCO summit.

Trump missing and seemingly incapacitated.

Meeting of the Coalition of the Willing this Thursday

The European Commission President’s plane having its GPS system jammed while flying over Bulgaria.

Trump’s mad, capricious tariff-setting and lies about solving the India-Pakistan conflict pushing India towards China and Russia.

Isn’t everything beginning to boil over? I feel sad about it all.

Posting too late… didn’t realise this thread was mostly flippant!

I do think we’re on the brink of some really bad shit though. As someone said, all the tech being trialled in New Jersey… the Israelis trying out new weaponry on the Palestinians, and sharing their learning outcomes with European / US militaries… etc

Have to go buy every single pack of toilet paper now 😂

I'm not a fan of that tone either but they are right our search and rescue teams, medics, engineers and armed forces are sought out and respected the world over for good reason.

😂

Well, I’m buggered if I’m going to war. Not with my knees. However, if war does break out on the domestic front, I will stuff myself with eggs and cauliflower cheese and deliver a series of farts so deadly it will melt the face off any attackers.

We’ve actually won quite a few wars in our time. We’re pretty decent at them. Our forces even train the U.S. forces… plus if we’re attacked usually we’ve got half the planet as allies to help us.

We’re shit at a lot of things. War, traditionally, is not one of them. We also have nukes.

Reread what she said. She said it’s unlikely kids will NEVER see war. So they will see war.

Halfway through the article it does concede that ‘Russia is unlikely to attack NATO countries’ so it’s as if they are ‘preparing’ for a mistake.

Seriously, though - taking Ukraine wasn’t the walk in the park that Putin imagined.

Of course the UK won’t be ready, but we’ll be on the phone to the USA asap when it all hits the fan.

???

WTF?

what have you been drinking?

You do realise experiencing war doesn't mean reading about it and going OH DEAR ME over your Saturday croissant?

You just have to watch flight radar or live near me to know we have military jets and military exercises going on daily.

Well, I don’t know whether relative to the number of women leaders it’s a lot or not but there have been a few. Of the top of my head there’s Boudica, Catherine the Great, Elisabeth the first, Indirah Ghandi, Thatcher and, I’m sure, at least one in China though I don’t recall the name. I think though, bar Elisabeth and maybe the Chinese one, they all went to war to defend existing territory not to expand it. Perhaps that’s the big difference!

It is scaremongering, Russia is in no position to take on another war, it’s barely coping with the one it already has. It’s lost a large proportion of its armoured forces, its economy is down the pan and relying on sales of oil that it can’t keep up with because the Ukrainians have mounted a sustained attack on its refineries.

Europe outnumbers it in armour, man power, air power and naval power and that’s assuming that the Americans won’t stand by their commitments under article 5 of the NATO agreement.

The real danger comes when the Ukrainian war is over. Europe has to man up and establish something like a European combined army. The problem we have now is that we rely on American logistical power to such an extent that we will struggle to mount an effective defence without them.