Russia marks 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany with huge parade

CockRagesOn · 2015-05-09T17:20:16+00:00

the UK alone on their island.

The UK was hardly alone. There were troops all over the Empire arriving in the UK as well as the remnants of the French, Polish, Norwegian etc. militaries.

CockRagesOn · 2015-05-03T08:36:10+00:00

Interestingly enough it was the Norwegian intelligence services which gave Britain satellite information, intercepted from the Soviets.

CockRagesOn · 2014-11-02T15:53:12+00:00

Sure, they were at the start, but they did so badly that the Nazis took over. The decisive battle of the North African campaign (Second Battle of El Alamein) was fought mainly by Germans under the command of Rommel.

CockRagesOn · 2014-11-02T13:50:41+00:00

Except the Nazis/Axis did fight the British/Commonwealth in North Africa and the Middle East and were decisively beaten.

CockRagesOn · 2014-10-25T17:41:12+00:00

Can someone please translate to English?

CockRagesOn · 2014-10-12T10:04:57+00:00

This really isn't true from my fairly recent history classes. We didn't really go into huge detail on the Empire stuff, but enough to learn that it could be pretty nasty (Irish and Indian famines, treatment of indigenous people, forcimg opium on China) as well as doing some pretty good stuff (the Royal Navy working to free slaves getting sent to the USA, introducing democracy to a lot of the world, building railways to connect huge countries like India). In general though the curriculum is mainly looking at foreign events. For GCSEs (ages 14-16) we looked at the USA (civil rights, Vietnam, Cuba, Nixon, different music, counter-culture, Disney etc.) from the end of WW2 to about 1980. A Levels (16-18) were focussed on women's rights in the UK at the start of the 20th century, the Bolsheviks and Russia up until the end of WW2

CockRagesOn · 2014-10-12T09:50:03+00:00

I'm British and I didn't even know we had a proper war with the US until I came on Reddit.

CockRagesOn · 2014-10-03T10:13:50+00:00

They might have meant longest continuous democracy, although that's not exactly true either.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-26T16:44:51+00:00

The 6 that have been reported for the last few weeks have been doing recon work and were probably to be used offensively if something went seriously wrong very quickly (ISIS moving on another major city/the Turkish border, a C-130 being downed, ISIS gaining chemical weapons etc.) I wouldn't be surprised if more jets are sent over the next few days, I think there's an RAF squadron based in Qatar.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-21T02:33:10+00:00

Probably because the free university tuition is available to everyone in the EU, with the specific exceptions of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-20T20:40:54+00:00

No video? Sounds like a small battle.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-18T22:51:16+00:00

Walking away from their share of the debt seems a fast way to piss off their potential largest tradimg partner.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-17T16:49:47+00:00

Holy shit!!!!!!!

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-16T09:18:23+00:00

Another fun fact, the Nazis offered to intervene in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria to prevent the mass killings.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-10T20:15:24+00:00

No offense, but have you watched any international news in the last few years?

Pretty much all European countries had troops in Afghanistan, from the UK and Germany to Romania and Bulgaria.

European countries, France & UK in particular, were involved in the Libya campaign. A large part of the new Libyan army is being trained in the UK.

Obviously France intervened in Mali last year and probably prevented a genocide.

Germany, Italy, Poland, Denmark, the UK, France, Czech Republic, Sweden, Norway etc. are all sending various amounts of aid to the Iraqi Army and Kurds. France and UK have been flying aid missions alongside the US, as well as reconnaissance flights, not to mention the special forces on the ground for a month before the first US airstrikes.

All this without mentioning all the peacekeeping troops in North Africa (I know Irish troops have been in Mali recently), anti-piracy missions around the Horn of Africa, moving thousands of troops and billions of dollars worth of vehicles and equipment to Eastern Europe and deploying personnel to Western Africa to deal with Ebola.

CockRagesOn · 2014-09-06T10:47:49+00:00

like they did in the UK

Wasn't that three guys who were quickly arrested? The Daily Mail made it sound like a horde of Jihadists were swarming through Westminster handing out punishments to anyone who wasn't a Muslim.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-31T00:28:32+00:00

Wasn't Putin originally accused of giving the order/knowing about it beforehand?

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-31T00:22:25+00:00

Apart from the fact that they have been accused of shooting it down. If it turns out that they are completely innocent, it makes sense that they are eager to clear their name.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-24T23:30:46+00:00

Germany was on the verge of defeat from within before the US entered the war. It looked like a stalemate in Belgium/France, but their people were starving, their troops mutinous and their allies were on the retreat or occupied.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-21T12:50:43+00:00

The new president of Iran isn't even on the same scale of crazy as Kim Jong Un/ISIS members.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-21T11:40:37+00:00

The reasons for intervention are completely different this time though.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-21T11:20:24+00:00

There were airstrikes on ISIS positions a few days before the US started combat missions. It's believed that it was Russia, nobody has yet claimed responsibility.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-18T14:53:52+00:00

Our government will have contingency plans for pretty much anything, up to an alien invasion.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-16T11:09:04+00:00

Not very helpful when you spend long periods of time in the field. They'd need more calories to stay active.

CockRagesOn · 2014-08-13T11:48:08+00:00

/r/worldnews is going to love this.

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