Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
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Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
An interesting article...defense budget spending is up...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eur ... ar-AAdgUQR
Patrick
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eur ... ar-AAdgUQR
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
No Politics! this story is a trap you put here then, wings7. Expect no politics! [:-]
RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
ORIGINAL: Zap
No Politics! this story is a trap you put here then, wings7. Expect no politics! [:-]
You can talk about current events without being political! [:)]
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
Glad to see its finally happening. Curious to see if an EU army will take shape...and with what equipment.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
I find it interesting that Russia was mentioned a lot in the article but their military spending was not mentioned. And yet the article was about how much Europe spend on their military. Somehow I am pretty sure that Russia has the largest military budget in Europe. So that makes me wonder if the reporter is aware that Russia is part of Europe.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
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No Politics! this story is a trap you put here then, wings7. Expect no politics! [:-]
You can talk about current events without being political! [:)]
Yea, my response was no politics.[;)] A response of any substance will touch on politics with this story.
RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
DP, apologies
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
ORIGINAL: wings7
An interesting article...defense budget spending is up...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eur ... ar-AAdgUQR
Patrick
Wings7, why would you post in a wargame site something such as this which REQUIRES an investigation of the political aspects to have an informed discussion.
Your warning about avoiding politics is fine, but perhaps posting at another site would have been wiser. The mods having to expend ANY time on
this thread just takes away from more important tasks (IMO) such as getting games out the door.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
Current situation, as detailed in the article, could inspire new what-if wargames and scenarios about Second Cold War and it going hot.
Are forum moderators responsible for that as well?ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish
The mods having to expend ANY time on
this thread just takes away from more important tasks (IMO) such as getting games out the door.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
ORIGINAL: wings7
ORIGINAL: Zap
No Politics! this story is a trap you put here then, wings7. Expect no politics! [:-]
You can talk about current events without being political! [:)]
Being that it's a political decision to increase spending, don't see how politics can be separated.
Where is the money coming from?
More taxes? Political decision.
Decrease spending in other areas? Ditto
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
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ORIGINAL: wings7
An interesting article...defense budget spending is up...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eur ... ar-AAdgUQR
Patrick
Wings7, why would you post in a wargame site something such as this which REQUIRES an investigation of the political aspects to have an informed discussion.
Your warning about avoiding politics is fine, but perhaps posting at another site would have been wiser. The mods having to expend ANY time on
this thread just takes away from more important tasks (IMO) such as getting games out the door.
Flipper, your points are well taken, the topic is food for thought including war game creation.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
ORIGINAL: wings7
An interesting article...defense budget spending is up...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eur ... ar-AAdgUQR
Patrick
Interesting article, though a little hard to discuss without bringing politics into the forum.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
Maybe we can pull our troop's out of Germany and use the saving's to bring down our debt!
RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
This in addition to Japan increasing defense spending.
Japan record defense spending as tensions grow with China
This is getting weird, folks.
Japan record defense spending as tensions grow with China
This is getting weird, folks.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
barkhorn45: That, and other ways too...without getting political.
As for wargame creation...it really could be WWIII: Besides Europe: Iran/Israel, China/Taiwan+, ISIS, Kurds, America withdrawing once again from a leader of the free world role...instead you have Merkel and Netanyahu. And then the game changer: US elections.
As for wargame creation...it really could be WWIII: Besides Europe: Iran/Israel, China/Taiwan+, ISIS, Kurds, America withdrawing once again from a leader of the free world role...instead you have Merkel and Netanyahu. And then the game changer: US elections.
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
Nice carrier Japan built...er..."destroyer". China recently mentioned it doesn't like it that India might become dominant in the Indian Ocean. Japan recently protested to Australia when they decided to consider buying German subs rather than Japanese subs. China is making diplomatic efforts (financial and military) with island nations throughout the Pacific. Taiwan feels it no longer can rely on the US protecting it (doing things like sending a carrier battle group into the straits, and selling them weapons)...and it goes on...
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RE: Europe Puts Its Finger on the Trigger (No Politics!)
Deterrent is deterrent, we might of had more war games on the market today if it were not for deterrent, then again if deterrent or lack of, was there in history, we would have had less or more war games today. With 6 billion people on this planet, somebody is going to pull the trigger somebody somewhere sooner or later..
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