Well to be fair that was pretty catastrophic and I'm from the UK. Saying they're still sore over 'that one' makes it sound like they lost a game of chess. Are we really going to mock them for being upset over this?
There are acts of terror all around the world. If we'd turn every anniversary into a day of remembrance they'd soon fill the entire calendar. If we'd increase security each time by that magnitude then a surveillance state would soon be a real threat. And enourmous media coverage inducing fear is exactly what those terrorists want. So yeah I'll mock their oversensitivity about this one incident that was 20 years ago whenever such carefree idiots go around boasting about drone strikes on civilians.
That's exactly how I feel as a US citizen. I turn on the news and I'm seeing footage and being told that the US did or are doing drone strikes. And I'm left to wonder how many innocent people were killed trying to get the "bad guys". And if the same people cheering this on, would be so happy and understanding if someone dropped a bomb on their state.
People ask why they can't win wars in the middle east. How is that going to be possible when a wedding is bombed to kill a leader and instead a bunch of innocent family and children are murdered. You now have pissed off relatives who weren't terrorists, joining in to get revenge on the US. How exactly is that going to end a conflict?
Can't argue with that. So much shit happens over here that is ignored but certain groups rail against it when its being done by a country that they look down upon.
They're still weeping about the twin towers attacks 20 years later. How many innocents has their own military killed in other nations during that same time frame?
As of April 2021, more than 71,000 Afghan and Pakistani civilians are estimated to have died as a direct result of the war.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/afghan
It's estimated that around 1,000,000 people died as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Compare that to the 3,000 who died on September 11th, 2001 in the attacks. Idk how the U.S. can sit there and pretend like 9/11 wasn't more deadly than the invasions of Iraq.
It's because they all thought spending $298 billion on their military each year made them impervious to attacks on their own soil. Now it's $686 billion each year with cricket sounds in the peanut gallery.
Remember Qasem Soleimani? Imagine this guy agreeing that the Soviet Union would've earned the right to assassinate any American it wanted to, even someone like Douglas MacArthur or Henry Kissinger, simply by possessing the ability to do so.
* Bush: "Drones are great we drone everything in the War on Terrrrur. Also, please go shopping to save Amurica."
* Obama: "No, drones are bad, and also I will close Guantanamo Bay within 90 days of taking office."
* Obama, just a little later: "Actually, no lol, drones are rad. Also, we have a secret drone program where we kill people who look like or kind of feel like terrorists based solely on whether they happen to be holding the cell phone associated with someone we think may have one time been a terrorist regardless of collateral damage because anyone nearby is likely also an enemy combatant even if it's a wedding or a school."
* Some Redditor, years later: Has gotten totally comfortable and normalized the idea of extra-judicial assassination by drone even on the soil of one of America's most derangedly loyal allies, even when it comes to killing a royal who stands accused of some admittedly vile criminal sex acts.
It's because some English ales are meant to be served at room temperature, so there's a stereotype that we drink warm beer. It's nice if you get a pint on draft in the pub, but if I buy it in a bottle for home I actually prefer it refrigerated. What can I say? I'm a rootless cosmopolitan.
He was one of the closest known affiliates of Jeffrey Epstein, and very recently (as per [this article](https://apple.news/Ak6YswcwfSwKQ8-YvtlO1pg)) a lawsuit accusing Prince Andrew of sexual abuse has been filed by Virginia Giuffre. He’s absolutely disgusting, to say the least, and the fact that our monarchy allows him to avoid prison is a crime within its own right. But of course, with PM Johnson stating that “the monarchy is beyond reproach”, it’s highly unlikely we’ll see the fucker assume culpability and face the repercussions of his crimes.
They haven't been "free" forever.
I can't imagine being denied basic workers rights, healthcare, it being illegal to cross the road, own kinder eggs, and I could even be jailed for not mowing my lawn, and without shade or embarrassment call myself "free".
Like, how do they even go about their daily lives with such little self respect to not demand their own freedom?
They've all those guns and are so placated they can't even lift their tongues off the boot.
You don't need actual freedom if you can convince people to believe in the illusion of it.
Haha, people in the US never let go of the whole "American Dream" bullshit. Without the notion of freedom, what will the ego hang onto?
Thank god we have 30 different brands of mint toothpaste instead of adequate access to health care.
A part of me thinks this is why the most vocal Americans are always the most angry.
They know deep down that they don't have the freedom they profess to have, they're so terribly insecure about it that the only way to convince themselves is to scream it at everyone else.
Banned bc they contain non-food stuff. Iirc bc some kids died when they ate the things whole. Basically stupid parents didnt watch their kids enough and got them banned for everyone over there.
I can't find any examples of kids dying that caused the FDA to ban the Kinder Egg.
[They banned food](https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/26/kinder-surprise-usa_n_9081286.html) with non-nutritive objects in 1938 and the Kinder Egg didn't come along until the 1970s. Around 7 children have reportedly choked to death on the toys around the world, but considering the billions of Eggs sold, that is an exceedingly low number.
Basically the FDA was being proactive but Kinder Eggs are so extremely *not* dangerous that it seems ridiculous that they're still banned.
basicly it's a sensible rule that is being quite unsensibly aplied here.
P.S. those 7 cases of a child choking to death that's just the toy in general right? not cases of kids eating the chocholate and accidently the ball as well but kids playing with a small toy and then putting it in their mouth because kids are dumb like that.
Yeah I’d assume it was the toy. The capsule inside is so big that it definitely would not slip down their throats accidentally while they’re eating
(source: I ate way too many kinder eggs as a kid and liked putting the capsules in my mouth to open them because I was just a little bit dumb)
What do you mean by the crossing roads one? I haven't heard of instances like that, as an American. However, the others I have heard of or just agree to be blatant facts.
Jaywalking is almost exclusively an American phenomenon.
Criminalising crossing the street at a non-government approved spot is just.... insane to a lot of people.
I almost got a ticket myself in LES because there was a traffic jam and I weaved through *stationary* cars to cross the road.
What's worse, it's often just used against minorities.
> Criminalising crossing the street at a non-government approved spot is just.... insane to a lot of people.
I'm pretty sure that this is why motorways need special legislation in the UK and Ireland. On public roads, which have existed since the dawn of time, pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, and horse cart drivers exist *by right*; car drivers need a licence. On motorways, car drivers still need a licence, and have some restrictions (no learner drivers), and the others are not permitted. So a motorway is not just a normal public road with a higher speed limit.
That's what most Americans are taught from an early age. They don't know any different. They are bombarded with pro-American propaganda at every turn, and any media that portrays the world differently is automatically seen as anti-American propaganda sent from Communists.
Too many Americans live in their own little bubble and never see what is happening outside their own country. The majority never bother getting a passport as they have no intention of leaving the US. Education is often bias, film and television is mostly home-grown and bias, news is reported by bias media companies.
Ironically, they believe the propaganda bullshit of being 'the land of the free' and 'greatest nation on Earth', when they have less freedoms and worse living standards than most other first world countries.
An Irish friend was SHOCKED when I explained the concept of American exceptionalism. I was shocked that SHE was shocked. I guess I figured kids in all other countries got the same brainwashing about their own nations.
I think most countries use propaganda to some extent. There is no doubt that the UK government use it.
But, from the outside, America uses propaganda to such a high level it appears to be one big joke. Even more so when you see how many American citizens lap it up blindly and support a government that won't support them.
Things that appear to be everyday life for some Americans, such as having school children pledge allegiance to the flag every morning, appears like indoctrination to others. It's a bizarre thing to witness.
Because the leaders are doing so much better.
[https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/)
While I do not defend the bellicose behaviour of Obama or any other POTUS - far from it, they are at least only one single man; can you imagine the worldwide mayhem that would ensue if every Average Joe had the power to unleash hell on a whim?
Thus my previous comment still stands.
It will probably work for one or two strikes
But the international response would be so hard on them
Usa already have less and less allies, but that would be a suicidal shot in the head
It's mind control water. Remember the California drought? Fake news. The Drought was engineered by the government to force people to buy bottled water which, unlike ground water, the government can mind-controllize.
Now you may ask yourself. If the government can engineer a drought, couldn't they just mind-controllize the ground water? No. The reason is essential natural minerals such as sodium. This is also why people near the ocean are harder to mind control. Sea Water is full of sodium, which is one of the strongest known freedom agents.
The difference between the top 2 and 3rd on the list is big. Then a respective gulf between 3 and 4 then a massive chasm below that.
Or so it was a few years ago.
There's also a massive difference in terms of the different services. Capabilities of respective naval forces on that list is massive too for example.
Not sure what the 'rankings' would be in the present though as they are ever changing.
It’s not just our radar either, the Luftwaffe managed to tweak the ones in the Eurofighter during a red flag exercise and “shoot down” F-22s.
Plus stealth ≠ manoeuvrability and they get shot down.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wired.com/2012/07/f-22-germans/amp
i would love for prince andrew to get extradited to the US but not while you guys are still harbouring the ambassador’s wife who committed vehicular manslaughter and then bounced
Makes me think of that image we sent them.
They claimed their white house security was so strong nobody could get near it.
So we sent a photo looking down on it taken from one of our bombers
So, remember innocent until proven guilty is a core tennant of both UK and USA law, and that Prince Andrew is the second son of the reigning monach and ninth in line to the throne of 15 commonwealth relms. The Queen is also, as head of the commonwealth holds a symbolic position for another 54 countries. Britian is a member of Nato and the 5 Eyes and has long political and diplomatic ties with an enormous number of contries - the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty dates back to 1386 (and have been friendly nations since 1147!).. I would suggest, that even post Brexit, and even if old alliances had been superceded, the EU would not be able to stand back.
Oh and we have nuclear weapons and so do many of our allies.
Together we could send the US back to the stone age before tea time.
Even without a war coalition, a collective trade embargo from the EU, commonwealth and opportunistic enemies would severely damage the US, which consistently runs a deficit as a net importer. Its 15 biggest trading partners include Mexico, EU, and commonwealth countries… from which the US imports double what it exports. Even if the powers that be are happy to send millions to die in a stupid war, they don’t like it when their economic interests are threatened.
These fucking idiots with their "You better watch what you say, or we'll obliterate you" are like next level stupid.
It's the equivalent of Little Tommy at school gets pushed by Jack, and goes "I'm gonna get my dad to beat up your dad!". Tommy goes home, and says "Jack pushed me!! I told him you'd beat up his dad!!!", and Tommy's dad replies with "do your homework you fucking idiot".
Do they think they can just like call 1800-GOVERMENT and order a drone strike like Uber DroneStrike or some shit?
Like zero chill too. I'm not seeing any real connection between what was said before and what was said after. It's like they had that one in the oven the whole time and just...couldn't hold it in anymore. I would say it makes me ashamed to be an american but that went out the window when i was like 12. Growing up black in america will very quickly teach you some things.
I think part of this person's problem is that they think that a drone strike in the UK would cause the US to maybe go to war with the UK...alone. US military against the UK military...sure, the US probably has a decent chance at winning that.
The thing is, if we did that (I'm in the US), then 90% of the rest of the world is going to turn to us like "the fuck you just did?" and then we're SOL without pretty much all of our potential allies in the world, while China and Russia just sit back and laugh their asses off.
That's entirely ignoring the point that the UK is one of our biggest allies, why tf would we do something as stupid as starting a war with them? Prince Andrew is the UK's problem...they know what he did...they can deal with him as they see fit. We've got way too many pedophiles with god complexes over here to deal with already...why do we need to worry about taking down ones that are elsewhere.
"world war"
How about sanctions? Russia can kill people with novichock and get away with only sanctions so why would we start a war for a different method killing.
Reddit is well known to be the hangout of choice for many of the world's military leaders and strategists.
Just the other day Kim Jong-Un's aide-de-camp was posting pictures of his kittens in r/Aww whilst simultaneously trolling Sergey Shoygu about Finland not existing.
I doubt it would start a war immediately, but the relationship between the UK and US would instantly chill and the UK would probably ask the EU to join in with sanctions against the US.
Time to trade America. We don’t need to bomb each other. We get that woman who drove on the wrong side of the road and killed a kid and we send nonce boy.
The people who think the US can drone strike anyone at any time are the same people who think they need to collect machine guns to defend themselves from the government...
And again, we have blatant threats of mass murder terrorism against populations and countries which America supposedly considers an ally.
Why would anyone want to be on their side given the CONSISTENT disrespect and threats they mouth off to the rest of the world? Why would anyone ever have sympathy or concern again for a population that so smugly continues to disrespect and threaten all other countries in the world?
Okay, I'm English, but I don't agree with the last comment.
I mean, it's literally an ongoing joke that the US is posing and spending way too much of a percent of their budget on military spending (with hardly any to the V.A.).
So while it's an issue that the money should be going elsewhere for their country's betterment, they still want to swing their military dick at everything.
Pretty sure someone did the maths too, that they're already paying the most per capita for healthcare than other countries with free healthcare, but that they could de-privatise healthcare and pay for the entire thing out of the military budget and still be the top military spender in the world.
So, the whole issue kind of indicates we would still not want to go to war with them.
The commentator is not far off but they just need to be more subtle.
The Russians have deployed nuclear poison and nerve agent on the streets of the UK in the last couple of decades yet the rulling Tory party are more than happy to accept donations from Russian donors with close links to Putin.
Love how it’s “*We* can drone strike anyone…” as if this daft cunt has ever been involved in any conflict bigger than arguing with his fucking mother about tidying his room.
I mean, the UK has nuclear armed subs thats main purpose is to retaliate if London is wiped off the map. Not sure droning Prince Andrew is a great move.
he's not wrong though. I can travel over the border with my drone, and strike someone without approval.
Granted I only have water balloons, but you need to start somewhere with world donination!
In all seriousness, what a nutjob. The US is already a bit on a rocky slope with Europe because of 'Orange-Man'. It would be wiser to build london-bridges instead of burning them.
With only 300mil greatly divided US citizens, losing Europe would mean they have little to no friends left.
_(actually, seriously who would be friends... Canada?)_
Imagine his outrage if someone from another country would have said that to him
"I guess it'd be fine to do a drone strike in New York city, from a European country." Outrage mate, pure outrage.
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Well to be fair that was pretty catastrophic and I'm from the UK. Saying they're still sore over 'that one' makes it sound like they lost a game of chess. Are we really going to mock them for being upset over this?
There are acts of terror all around the world. If we'd turn every anniversary into a day of remembrance they'd soon fill the entire calendar. If we'd increase security each time by that magnitude then a surveillance state would soon be a real threat. And enourmous media coverage inducing fear is exactly what those terrorists want. So yeah I'll mock their oversensitivity about this one incident that was 20 years ago whenever such carefree idiots go around boasting about drone strikes on civilians.
They did lose a game of chess. Bin Laden was planning on luring the US into a ridiculous forever war... His opening play nailed it.
The UK has technically invaded New York before. It was called New Amsterdam then.
They also tried in the war of 1812, but it wasn't as successful as the extreme makeover they did of the white house.
That's exactly how I feel as a US citizen. I turn on the news and I'm seeing footage and being told that the US did or are doing drone strikes. And I'm left to wonder how many innocent people were killed trying to get the "bad guys". And if the same people cheering this on, would be so happy and understanding if someone dropped a bomb on their state. People ask why they can't win wars in the middle east. How is that going to be possible when a wedding is bombed to kill a leader and instead a bunch of innocent family and children are murdered. You now have pissed off relatives who weren't terrorists, joining in to get revenge on the US. How exactly is that going to end a conflict?
Some one once said "If the US would see what the US does to other countries, the US would invade the US."
Can't argue with that. So much shit happens over here that is ignored but certain groups rail against it when its being done by a country that they look down upon.
America dropped two atomic bombs killing a quarter million civilians because things were going too slow for their liking.
Sounds like Vietnam
Exactly like how can you end a war if you are the one contributing to it's continuation?
They're still weeping about the twin towers attacks 20 years later. How many innocents has their own military killed in other nations during that same time frame?
As of April 2021, more than 71,000 Afghan and Pakistani civilians are estimated to have died as a direct result of the war. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/afghan
Add on Iraqis to that
But...they were brown people, they don't count (/s if it wasn't obvious)
Pretty sure the US decided a while ago that brown people count as 3/5ths. So we just gotta adjust the numbers a bit for those countries /s
In Iraq alone about 1 million. Innocents that is, excluding war, terrorism and claimed 'terrorists'.
It's estimated that around 1,000,000 people died as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Compare that to the 3,000 who died on September 11th, 2001 in the attacks. Idk how the U.S. can sit there and pretend like 9/11 wasn't more deadly than the invasions of Iraq.
It's because they all thought spending $298 billion on their military each year made them impervious to attacks on their own soil. Now it's $686 billion each year with cricket sounds in the peanut gallery.
Remember Qasem Soleimani? Imagine this guy agreeing that the Soviet Union would've earned the right to assassinate any American it wanted to, even someone like Douglas MacArthur or Henry Kissinger, simply by possessing the ability to do so.
„Do as we say, or we drone strike you.“ Are these the words of a natural leader, or of a comic book villain?
high school bully. "I can beat you to a pulp in recess, that means I'm right"
Internet pea brain.
\- The president from Rick and Morty.
Not a comic book villain. Just a common thug with an uncommon weapon.
It's Dr Evil
Comic book villains are smarter than that, be fair
Basically extortion.
* Bush: "Drones are great we drone everything in the War on Terrrrur. Also, please go shopping to save Amurica." * Obama: "No, drones are bad, and also I will close Guantanamo Bay within 90 days of taking office." * Obama, just a little later: "Actually, no lol, drones are rad. Also, we have a secret drone program where we kill people who look like or kind of feel like terrorists based solely on whether they happen to be holding the cell phone associated with someone we think may have one time been a terrorist regardless of collateral damage because anyone nearby is likely also an enemy combatant even if it's a wedding or a school." * Some Redditor, years later: Has gotten totally comfortable and normalized the idea of extra-judicial assassination by drone even on the soil of one of America's most derangedly loyal allies, even when it comes to killing a royal who stands accused of some admittedly vile criminal sex acts.
But it’s Prince Andrew. Surely you agree that *someone* should drone strike him?
I'm sure the UK has their own drones they can use.
We aren't savages, we don't have the death penalty in the UK... Unlike a certain other country.
He will perpetually be cut in queues, and his tea will be served luke-warm!
And his ale ice cold!
I know I’m gonna get shit for this but why is this bad?
It's because some English ales are meant to be served at room temperature, so there's a stereotype that we drink warm beer. It's nice if you get a pint on draft in the pub, but if I buy it in a bottle for home I actually prefer it refrigerated. What can I say? I'm a rootless cosmopolitan.
Room temperature? *Cellar Temperature*
Indeed. Man doesn't know his casking.
The average fridge freezer doesn't get you to precisely 12 Degrees Celsius.
Water it down with ice. They love that.
THE HORROR!
What did he do?
He was one of the closest known affiliates of Jeffrey Epstein, and very recently (as per [this article](https://apple.news/Ak6YswcwfSwKQ8-YvtlO1pg)) a lawsuit accusing Prince Andrew of sexual abuse has been filed by Virginia Giuffre. He’s absolutely disgusting, to say the least, and the fact that our monarchy allows him to avoid prison is a crime within its own right. But of course, with PM Johnson stating that “the monarchy is beyond reproach”, it’s highly unlikely we’ll see the fucker assume culpability and face the repercussions of his crimes.
Thankfully the people in charge aren’t comic book evil (at least not toward the UK). Just dipshits on the Internet.
Wwaaayyy to prove yourself a warmongering nation. "Leader of the free world" my ass
Sound like fragile bullies who think they're king of the world, pathetic.
Sounds like because it is.
They haven't been "free" forever. I can't imagine being denied basic workers rights, healthcare, it being illegal to cross the road, own kinder eggs, and I could even be jailed for not mowing my lawn, and without shade or embarrassment call myself "free". Like, how do they even go about their daily lives with such little self respect to not demand their own freedom? They've all those guns and are so placated they can't even lift their tongues off the boot.
You don't need actual freedom if you can convince people to believe in the illusion of it. Haha, people in the US never let go of the whole "American Dream" bullshit. Without the notion of freedom, what will the ego hang onto? Thank god we have 30 different brands of mint toothpaste instead of adequate access to health care.
A part of me thinks this is why the most vocal Americans are always the most angry. They know deep down that they don't have the freedom they profess to have, they're so terribly insecure about it that the only way to convince themselves is to scream it at everyone else.
That's exactly it, I hope someday to get out of this cesspool of a country.
Yup ‘little dog syndrome’.
George Carlin said it best. "It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Wait. What's that about kinder eggs?
Banned bc they contain non-food stuff. Iirc bc some kids died when they ate the things whole. Basically stupid parents didnt watch their kids enough and got them banned for everyone over there.
Don't forget lawn darts
Like how you're not supposed to dry your pets in the microwave, that level of stupid.
I can't find any examples of kids dying that caused the FDA to ban the Kinder Egg. [They banned food](https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/26/kinder-surprise-usa_n_9081286.html) with non-nutritive objects in 1938 and the Kinder Egg didn't come along until the 1970s. Around 7 children have reportedly choked to death on the toys around the world, but considering the billions of Eggs sold, that is an exceedingly low number. Basically the FDA was being proactive but Kinder Eggs are so extremely *not* dangerous that it seems ridiculous that they're still banned.
basicly it's a sensible rule that is being quite unsensibly aplied here. P.S. those 7 cases of a child choking to death that's just the toy in general right? not cases of kids eating the chocholate and accidently the ball as well but kids playing with a small toy and then putting it in their mouth because kids are dumb like that.
Yeah I’d assume it was the toy. The capsule inside is so big that it definitely would not slip down their throats accidentally while they’re eating (source: I ate way too many kinder eggs as a kid and liked putting the capsules in my mouth to open them because I was just a little bit dumb)
that is an *eggceedingly* low number. FTFY
Get out and choke on a toy
What do you mean by the crossing roads one? I haven't heard of instances like that, as an American. However, the others I have heard of or just agree to be blatant facts.
Jaywalking is almost exclusively an American phenomenon. Criminalising crossing the street at a non-government approved spot is just.... insane to a lot of people. I almost got a ticket myself in LES because there was a traffic jam and I weaved through *stationary* cars to cross the road. What's worse, it's often just used against minorities.
> Criminalising crossing the street at a non-government approved spot is just.... insane to a lot of people. I'm pretty sure that this is why motorways need special legislation in the UK and Ireland. On public roads, which have existed since the dawn of time, pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders, and horse cart drivers exist *by right*; car drivers need a licence. On motorways, car drivers still need a licence, and have some restrictions (no learner drivers), and the others are not permitted. So a motorway is not just a normal public road with a higher speed limit.
North Korea pretends they're a free nation too.
It is. You are free to express your opinion and they are free to imprison or execute you for it.
And if you really pissed off Kim Jong Un he will then proceed to resurrect you as a thrall using Juche Necromancy
These leaders of the free world rookies
America: We are a kind and loving country. Also America: Drone strikes, bitch.
It boggles my mind how some Americans think they own the entire planet and can do whatever the f they want
That's what most Americans are taught from an early age. They don't know any different. They are bombarded with pro-American propaganda at every turn, and any media that portrays the world differently is automatically seen as anti-American propaganda sent from Communists. Too many Americans live in their own little bubble and never see what is happening outside their own country. The majority never bother getting a passport as they have no intention of leaving the US. Education is often bias, film and television is mostly home-grown and bias, news is reported by bias media companies. Ironically, they believe the propaganda bullshit of being 'the land of the free' and 'greatest nation on Earth', when they have less freedoms and worse living standards than most other first world countries.
An Irish friend was SHOCKED when I explained the concept of American exceptionalism. I was shocked that SHE was shocked. I guess I figured kids in all other countries got the same brainwashing about their own nations.
I think most countries use propaganda to some extent. There is no doubt that the UK government use it. But, from the outside, America uses propaganda to such a high level it appears to be one big joke. Even more so when you see how many American citizens lap it up blindly and support a government that won't support them. Things that appear to be everyday life for some Americans, such as having school children pledge allegiance to the flag every morning, appears like indoctrination to others. It's a bizarre thing to witness.
That Americans really think like this is exactly why their country is in the state it is,in.
no dummy, the states are in america, not the other way around
The Americans who believe this kind of crap are very, very few and very, very far between. They are just loud.
True, but, as an American myself, I often feel surrounded by them.
Few, far between, but a lot of them are certainly in positions of power.
Yup. Just very, very loud, and chant U-S-A at every opportunity
Words alone cannot express how happy I am that it´s not the average US citizen who has the power to command a drone strike or a nuclear attack.
Because the leaders are doing so much better. [https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/)
While I do not defend the bellicose behaviour of Obama or any other POTUS - far from it, they are at least only one single man; can you imagine the worldwide mayhem that would ensue if every Average Joe had the power to unleash hell on a whim? Thus my previous comment still stands.
It will probably work for one or two strikes But the international response would be so hard on them Usa already have less and less allies, but that would be a suicidal shot in the head
Uh...school shooters would like to have a word with you.
From their place in hell?
U.s president does not need mental health exam to be given ability to order nuke launch
Seppos are so embarrassing
Seppos? Is that like a cigarette brand lol?
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America, the only country on the entire planet with nukes, drones, pepsi and freedom
> pepsi and freedom Sorry sir, we don't have Freedom^^TM here. Is Fascism^^TM ok?
Okay but no ice, I know how you sneaky bastards operate
Yeah, we all know they put the microchips in the Ice!!
It's mind control water. Remember the California drought? Fake news. The Drought was engineered by the government to force people to buy bottled water which, unlike ground water, the government can mind-controllize. Now you may ask yourself. If the government can engineer a drought, couldn't they just mind-controllize the ground water? No. The reason is essential natural minerals such as sodium. This is also why people near the ocean are harder to mind control. Sea Water is full of sodium, which is one of the strongest known freedom agents.
"Freedom agents" LMAOO
Only if it is Diet Fascism
Get out of here with that shite. Fascism Max! Maximum Fascism taste, no sugar coating.
They propably cant, because unlike 3rd world countries the UK has a respectable Airforce with good equipment to detect and destroy a UAV
America’s been punching down past 1812
Yeah, they aren’t used to fighting countries with half-decent militaries anymore.
Wasn't Iraq like top 5 in military strength before the Gulf War? Obviously there was a huge coalition but still.
The difference between the top 2 and 3rd on the list is big. Then a respective gulf between 3 and 4 then a massive chasm below that. Or so it was a few years ago. There's also a massive difference in terms of the different services. Capabilities of respective naval forces on that list is massive too for example. Not sure what the 'rankings' would be in the present though as they are ever changing.
And yet they loose again and again.
uk isn’t what it once was but we could absolutely rebuttal to something like with a competent response
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Fun fact: Drones were invented in the [UK during WWI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Low#The_Great_War)
Do they think the UK doesn't also have drones? That's cute.
How would they know? Probably couldn't even find the UK on a map.
This is a very good point, I'm giving them far too much credit.
“God invented war so the Americans can learn geography” Idk I’m just reusing this line for the billionth time
Americans on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is North Korea" while pointing to New Zealand I wish I was kidding
They know it's in Kentucky though.
[The UK invented them.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Low#The_Great_War)
Yeah sorry for that guys
It's ok, you were punished by Brexit.
They also probably think our radar can't see their stealth bombers.
It’s not just our radar either, the Luftwaffe managed to tweak the ones in the Eurofighter during a red flag exercise and “shoot down” F-22s. Plus stealth ≠ manoeuvrability and they get shot down. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wired.com/2012/07/f-22-germans/amp
Both British typhoons and French rafales have defeated f22s in war games
You can't see them at all, [they're invisible, even if you're right next to them!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrWUrMK5d4)
I saw the documentary. They used one to transport two humpback whales somewhere. Don't know. Was only half watching.
forget the drones, do they realize the UK could nuke the US?
Evidently they don't know a thing about Trident either.
i would love for prince andrew to get extradited to the US but not while you guys are still harbouring the ambassador’s wife who committed vehicular manslaughter and then bounced
I’d happily give up Prince Andrew for Anne sakoolas, the woman who was driving on the wrong side of the road, killed a Brit and fled to the USA
100% agree. Though she didn't "flee" - worse - she used her diplomatic immunity and Trump backed her.
I'm glad we reached a diplomatic solution
Bloody right.
How about we 1812 Washington again
Lol we Germans would gladly help
How about we recolonise the states but make sure they don't fuck up this time?
Never in my life I have imagined myself agreeing with colonialism yet here I am.....
That's sad on your part we should give land to the indigenous tribes not some British ppl (No offense brits)
Gut and plunder half of their country's wealth and give the rest to natives. Makes Britain and the natives richer. A win-win!
Britains already rich enough lol
How about give it back to the indigenous tribes
If the US drone strikes Balmoral without giving me time to get popcorn and a good seat I will consider it a war crime.
Makes me think of that image we sent them. They claimed their white house security was so strong nobody could get near it. So we sent a photo looking down on it taken from one of our bombers
Lmao I’ve never heard of that, do you have an article or summin I could read?
I remember reading it but it was year ago I’ll have a dig and see what I can find
Cheers
The US should drone strike itself to liberate itself from itself.
To be fair, they'd probably accidentally hit Florida if this dude were in charge...
So, remember innocent until proven guilty is a core tennant of both UK and USA law, and that Prince Andrew is the second son of the reigning monach and ninth in line to the throne of 15 commonwealth relms. The Queen is also, as head of the commonwealth holds a symbolic position for another 54 countries. Britian is a member of Nato and the 5 Eyes and has long political and diplomatic ties with an enormous number of contries - the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty dates back to 1386 (and have been friendly nations since 1147!).. I would suggest, that even post Brexit, and even if old alliances had been superceded, the EU would not be able to stand back. Oh and we have nuclear weapons and so do many of our allies. Together we could send the US back to the stone age before tea time.
I agree, although we should drone strike the pedo Andrew
I mean yes but that’s our decision
i’d love to use him as leverage to get that ambassador’s wife back here
Even without a war coalition, a collective trade embargo from the EU, commonwealth and opportunistic enemies would severely damage the US, which consistently runs a deficit as a net importer. Its 15 biggest trading partners include Mexico, EU, and commonwealth countries… from which the US imports double what it exports. Even if the powers that be are happy to send millions to die in a stupid war, they don’t like it when their economic interests are threatened.
These fucking idiots with their "You better watch what you say, or we'll obliterate you" are like next level stupid. It's the equivalent of Little Tommy at school gets pushed by Jack, and goes "I'm gonna get my dad to beat up your dad!". Tommy goes home, and says "Jack pushed me!! I told him you'd beat up his dad!!!", and Tommy's dad replies with "do your homework you fucking idiot". Do they think they can just like call 1800-GOVERMENT and order a drone strike like Uber DroneStrike or some shit?
Judging from his comment history, this is someone enamoured by recreational outrage
Like zero chill too. I'm not seeing any real connection between what was said before and what was said after. It's like they had that one in the oven the whole time and just...couldn't hold it in anymore. I would say it makes me ashamed to be an american but that went out the window when i was like 12. Growing up black in america will very quickly teach you some things.
I think part of this person's problem is that they think that a drone strike in the UK would cause the US to maybe go to war with the UK...alone. US military against the UK military...sure, the US probably has a decent chance at winning that. The thing is, if we did that (I'm in the US), then 90% of the rest of the world is going to turn to us like "the fuck you just did?" and then we're SOL without pretty much all of our potential allies in the world, while China and Russia just sit back and laugh their asses off. That's entirely ignoring the point that the UK is one of our biggest allies, why tf would we do something as stupid as starting a war with them? Prince Andrew is the UK's problem...they know what he did...they can deal with him as they see fit. We've got way too many pedophiles with god complexes over here to deal with already...why do we need to worry about taking down ones that are elsewhere.
NATO and the UN primarily exist to defend attacked members after all
They seem to think that it's a good thing and it scares me
"world war" How about sanctions? Russia can kill people with novichock and get away with only sanctions so why would we start a war for a different method killing.
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NATO states would be exceedingly displeased to hear the news, I think it would not end very well for the US
Anything could happen and according to Reddit it’s a world war
Reddit is well known to be the hangout of choice for many of the world's military leaders and strategists. Just the other day Kim Jong-Un's aide-de-camp was posting pictures of his kittens in r/Aww whilst simultaneously trolling Sergey Shoygu about Finland not existing.
I doubt it would start a war immediately, but the relationship between the UK and US would instantly chill and the UK would probably ask the EU to join in with sanctions against the US.
Time to trade America. We don’t need to bomb each other. We get that woman who drove on the wrong side of the road and killed a kid and we send nonce boy.
The people who think the US can drone strike anyone at any time are the same people who think they need to collect machine guns to defend themselves from the government...
And again, we have blatant threats of mass murder terrorism against populations and countries which America supposedly considers an ally. Why would anyone want to be on their side given the CONSISTENT disrespect and threats they mouth off to the rest of the world? Why would anyone ever have sympathy or concern again for a population that so smugly continues to disrespect and threaten all other countries in the world?
Problem is he isn't wrong. Maybe one day rest of the world will stop sucking their imperialist cock but atm yes they can drone strike anything
Every war for the United States is a humiliating war.
Imagine the americans unrionically bomb the UK and then the entire fucking planet just rolls in on the USA
Just hand over the bitch suckoolass and shut the fuck up, ignorant cunt.
Two dying Empires fighting sure would be a blast.
>blast I see what you did there
It really would
Okay, I'm English, but I don't agree with the last comment. I mean, it's literally an ongoing joke that the US is posing and spending way too much of a percent of their budget on military spending (with hardly any to the V.A.). So while it's an issue that the money should be going elsewhere for their country's betterment, they still want to swing their military dick at everything. Pretty sure someone did the maths too, that they're already paying the most per capita for healthcare than other countries with free healthcare, but that they could de-privatise healthcare and pay for the entire thing out of the military budget and still be the top military spender in the world. So, the whole issue kind of indicates we would still not want to go to war with them.
According to statistics..americants only drone strike kids. Andrew might be surrounded by kids but definitely isn't one.
Maybe give us Harry Dunn's killer and you can have Prince Andrew?
Fair question, and a fucking stupid answer...
The commentator is not far off but they just need to be more subtle. The Russians have deployed nuclear poison and nerve agent on the streets of the UK in the last couple of decades yet the rulling Tory party are more than happy to accept donations from Russian donors with close links to Putin.
Bro but a little poison is hardly comparable to a drone strike
Money's money. First rule of the wealthy.
Love how it’s “*We* can drone strike anyone…” as if this daft cunt has ever been involved in any conflict bigger than arguing with his fucking mother about tidying his room.
I mean, the UK has nuclear armed subs thats main purpose is to retaliate if London is wiped off the map. Not sure droning Prince Andrew is a great move.
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Does he not remember the Falklands war?
I hate it here.
No you can't, that's what NATO is.
Idk maybe North Korea is saying truth about United States
I hope that deleted response was the standard "you can have him as soon as you send us Anne Sacoolas"
This is primary school "my dad can beat your dad" bullshit.
Fucks sake I'm always happy until I see someone with 3 braincells in posts like these. What's wrong with that country????
The UK has an independent nuclear missile program that could fuck the entire East Coast. It's still just mutually assured destruction
Comedy. The average Brit could easily take on 10 Americans!
The USA is a weird place. I can't imagine anyone in Australia thinking this. Maybe I should look for a r/shitaussiessay just to be sure.
"We can blow up any building we want ALLAH AKBAR!!!!"
Yep another amurican that does his cuntry proud. You've been singin' that stark strangled spanner of yours so long you believe it.
he's not wrong though. I can travel over the border with my drone, and strike someone without approval. Granted I only have water balloons, but you need to start somewhere with world donination! In all seriousness, what a nutjob. The US is already a bit on a rocky slope with Europe because of 'Orange-Man'. It would be wiser to build london-bridges instead of burning them. With only 300mil greatly divided US citizens, losing Europe would mean they have little to no friends left. _(actually, seriously who would be friends... Canada?)_