Robin Hood wrote:Paphitis:I actually started off in the Navy and went through Officer school for the Super Seasprite at HMAS Creswell but then was transferred off HMAS Success onto HMAS Kanimbla with another 7 guys and taken to RAAF Williamstown and then to RAAF Point Cook when the Seasprite program got shit-canned with a Royal Parliamentary Commission to boot. It was 2 weeks from pass-out parade. Had to do it all over again. It wasn't fun, and if you were an arse, you paid a very heavy price. One thing I will never forget is when the gates opened at HMAS Creswell and our buses lined up adjacent the parade grounds. Fuck that was an experience in total humiliation, bastardry and bullying. Everyone was shitting themselves as they were sifting through personal belongings in everyone's suitcases, throwing around underwear (even women's g-strings and stuff) and everything. And the screaming and yelling was deafening. That was just the beginning. It was constant fucking with us both mentally and physically too. Some people were even physically assaulted in those days,
And they make a point of getting everyone into trouble at least once. They bloody crushed everyone's spirit, but what they wanted is for the strong to support the weak like a team. That was their bottom line and that's how they bought everyone closer together. But even that had its drawbacks. Whilst they wanted everyone to stick together and support each other, the bloody smart arses would then punish the whole team rather than just one person. There was never a win win with them.
It is called brain washing ..... it is how the military work. Remove all vestiges of having an individual opinion ..... then replace it with what they need you to believe/understand.
This explains a lot .......... with you I think they machine washed your brain at 90C, put the machine on ‘FAST’ spin and then tumble dried it. The result was ...... it shrunk! So what they uploaded was enough to fill your brain but they had to leave out common sense, humility and pragmatism!
You don’t need to see a shrink now, I’ve diagnosed the problem to the point that I don’t think there is any treatment that will be of benefit to you ..... your condition is too serious! We could try a frontal lobotomy ..... by my eyes aren’t good enough for micro-surgery!
Look, believe what you want. Believe the Kuznetsov can wipe the floor with a USS Nimitz Class no problem if that is what you want.
We don't need to be measuring our dicks against a pretender. It's too embarrassing for us and we don't have ego or penus size issues.
Bottom line, even with your superior Navy (cough), we are in controll and Pootin is a long way from dictating anything to the Coalition.
Pootin's mistake is that he miscalculated. We gave him an inch and he pushed for a mile. He played a game of bluff poker and got caught with his pants down.
The Coalition however never under estimated Pootin's military capability or his resolve like he did with us. That's where it all went pear shaped. To be a super power, you also need to have the level headed leaders and in that arena, your boy is lacking fortunately for the Coalition.
But you see, we are many countries. We are many heads and many experts in the NATO and Pentagon machine. We don't have one person making decisions but an entire throng of world leaders and military minds from many countries. We thought this out and the pieces are falling into place.