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2017-12-20 Europe

Das boot ist kaputt: German navy has zero working subs

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 In the era of Pax Europa, who needs them?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-12-20 01:47|| 2017-12-20 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, somewhere Winston is probably smiling

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-12-20 04:52|| 2017-12-20 04:52|| Front Page Top

The more I read Churchill, the more I like him. The photo appears to be Churchill the journalist on a Tawleed in SA.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-20 05:50|| 2017-12-20 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Churchill was a proper Capitalist.

http://www.landvaluetax.org/current-affairs-comment/winston-churchill-said-it-all-better-then-we-can.html

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-12-20 06:07|| 2017-12-20 06:07|| Front Page Top

#5 In Churchill's 1899 book ‘The River War', about Britain's 19th Century war in Sudan, he included a passage condemning Islam that says: “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith."

He commented at length regarding the fiendish Mohammadan in 'River Wars' but this short sentence captures the gist. My Emphasis added.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-20 06:12|| 2017-12-20 06:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Because Muslims don't swim...

Paraphrasing "The Red Green Show." Canada lost half its navy. One of its two canoes sank.

Sorry, a typical Minnesota Iron Range joke.

Posted by Woodrow 2017-12-20 07:43|| 2017-12-20 07:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
(I guess they sold all the working ones to the Israelis...)

Posted by ed in texas 2017-12-20 10:52|| 2017-12-20 10:52|| Front Page Top

#8 No, it's just the Israelis are better at maintenance and upgrades.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-12-20 11:51|| 2017-12-20 11:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Correction: they HALF work, the sinking part. Its the UNsinking part that is kaput.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2017-12-20 13:59|| 2017-12-20 13:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Back in 2014 they only had 8 of 109 fighter aircraft operational - I sense a trend

Posted by Graviter Flesh6929 2017-12-20 21:29|| 2017-12-20 21:29|| Front Page Top

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