The wargame

[JustWhyTho]

Sorry I can’t see a thread on this.

Did anyone else watch it ? It’s so much more intense than I anticipated and it’s on every night for 4 nights. It’s on sky

premise is; Russian ‘spy’ ship runs aground and is rescued by a uk war ship that is doing surveillance on it. Then the warship gets attacked by a Russian submarine.

all the ‘actors’ are people who have previously held the job title so Nicola sturgeon is in it, Michael Gove, etc. it’s fascinating and so intense.

I just can't take it seriously.

I was going to watch this as I know that IRL parts of the armed forces etc., do carry out exercises.

But when I say who would be taking part I thought not.

But then better they are taking part in a tv show, then thinking they might once have had to do this in real life!

I thought it started out ok, usual retired getting to play war monger as usual. They just have a think about wanting to kill don't they or launch something. He reminded me of the nuts in Dr Strangelove.

The Foreign sectary explains why he had the real job for a year. Got the diplomacy skills of a toddler not fed and call book with only 2 numbers in.

Ignores Russian neighbours and European friends, seems to worry what Rob in Carlstone thinks on Twitter and acting off that lol.

Gove, Sturgeon and Morden god help us if that's the top team. Attorney general seems to least to have her head screwed on and not start WW3 just because someone got the Gen a ham sandwich.

All seems to have a default setting it must be the Rusky and not just some crime gang paid by America Alt right to stir up shit.

Would be more realistic to have fringe right wing types promoting the UK as bad guys and gangs on the streets in masks etc and resolving the esculation of that to the point some fringe group uses a dirty bomb on some boats.

The state actor wars are very much last war types.

Ignores the whole co ordinated agreement to stop Russia and how they are losing Ukraine and economy and resources are in the toilet.

If anything did happen the UK would be fine and rest of the world would be on their side sod social media even if US isn't as they know they are dh.

Plus do Military ships not have anti weapons systems. Seems in this universe they base in they drive about a bit and it goes boom. I mean if that's the case the war ships would last 2 mins.

Got as about as much touch with reality as Gove being PM. More like his coke dream lol.

I suspect next episodes will be every increasing flapping. The general getting hangry and launching war as some gave him a salad and Gove getting more and more off his face by episode four his just looks like a Jelly baby thanks to the coke all over his face. It

Wouldn’t someone call Russia before we bomb their sub? Zero diplomacy? USA calls Russia but the U.K. didn’t? Only option is to bomb the shit out of each other?

I also started a thread on this, I didnt see this one

Yes, me and OH are amazed that theres no attempt at diplomacy with the Russians

I thought the foreign secretary was useless. Thank god he did the job for 2 secs when no real issues occurred. Mind you Tories doing what Tories do lots of talk bluster and stupidity. If they were being real. The Foreign sec would be on holiday and not answer the phone.

Gove looked like the unstable coke head making the worst decisions. The General made himself looked like a nutter keep pushing aggression with sod all to back it up.

Making some duff decisions moaning about not having 12, but only 6 would of been about verses the 3 we would have working at one time.

Sticking a Type 45 destroyer at a difficult to get to dock full of nuclear armed subs, yeah keep it stationary so the Russian can bomb it out and like they don't have it's own defenses to ICBM, it's not like it's been invented yesterday.

Call back fleet from offshore missions and like they would leave a boat following Russian fleet with no protections.

It's like every poor decision they could make. No talk to European neighbours till too late. Being at the teet of US and NATO who couldn't give a damn from Early on.

We bomb back Russia knowing what that would do lol. Could of gone to UN and had half the world on our side to call out Russia for blanket bombing us and why was it coming all down from Scotland end of the country when Russia is the other end.

The joke of we wouldn't know where the ICBM would land till it hit target. What happened to early warning not just from our own sites, but further afield.

The only sane one ironically seemed the legal council and Nicola Sturgeon in all of this.

Agree with others ring up the Russians and talk before bombing their sub. We could escort the sub out of the waters, which would of been fair and from research the aircraft and other protection would be in place when we follow these Russian asset incase they decide to act on us, so we can warn we know what they are up to and share with the world.

Felt very Maggie play book rather than sensible sit down and chat and back out from what was just a ship hitting some rocks. Lol.

Pretty sure this stuff happens a lot more than we know and we now know why Mordent and Gove and even Johnson would be kept away from real decisions and egotist like the General would be kept in his lane.

He seemed very Navy focused. No Army or RAF options.

Plus builds up to everything to a what was the decision, oh shock fade to black lol

Never thought I’d agree with Nicola Sturgeon but there we go!!

I thought the foreign secretary was an ex Labour MP

Why do you keep going on about Gove being a coke head, where is this from?

Why on earth was Nicola Sturgeon taking part in a docudrama about the UK response to an attack when she didn't even want to be part of the UK and would have had all the nuclear subs banished from the West Coast ports on independence? Surely at a time like this, she'd be waving her Scottish flag and saying Scotland was safe because it was a nuclear-free zone, like some London boroughs and Sheffield used to do at the tail-end of the Cold War?

It was previously a podcast on Sky which was very good. Ben Wallace, Amber Rudd, Jack Straw, Jim Murphy.

Wouldn't watch anything with Sturgeon on it on principle. Odious, lying, sleekit woman.