He could get the CIA to stage a coup and replace Green T-Shirt with somebody who'll do what he's told. A scenario not without precedence. (View Post)

How much steel does the UK need for 'strategic reasons'? Most of the extra defence funding, assuming it actually happens, will be wasted to no particular effect. The only modern defence pro… (View Post)

I had a "round in the chamber" for about 15 minutes while boarding the MV Sanctions Buster in SA and for about 90 minutes while we waited for Dutch customs to clear the ship at 2am in Rotte… (View Post)

No, they can't. Despite some feverish herding of opinion on here, unmatched since the gilded dawn of the SMO, nobody has a fucking clue what is happening or what comes next. (View Post)

When we liquidated my grandfather's estate in South Africa in the 90s, me and my father bought diamonds in Cape Town. I smuggled them out of South Africa on a merchant ship from Simonstown to Ro… (View Post)