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This is certainly a reasonable hypothesis. Tell SAS guys they have a 3 month expenses paid holiday as civilians in Eastern Europe. Job done. ”don’t get yoursel

by hughrr 5y ago

This is certainly a reasonable hypothesis. Tell SAS guys they have a 3 month expenses paid holiday as civilians in Eastern Europe. Job done. ”don’t get yourselves into trouble. Wink wink”

robkop 5y ago
I wonder how large you could take this strategy before it turns into a NATO intervention. Could you have 3 full battalions of British troops all take time off and decide to go fight for Ukraine on their own? Could you have a full armoured regiment take 1 month PTO and go fight for Ukraine and then suddenly have some British armour dropped off for the Ukrainian army to use? Could you say a drone command group is taking a month off then lend and lease a fleet of drones to the Ukrainian air force? This feels like a very Putinesque salami tactic, maybe we should be hitting back the say way he's hitting Ukraine.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  This feels like the way the world ends. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-puts-russia-nuclear-deterrence-forces-on-high-alert-ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin...
- glogla 5y ago
  I guess it depends on how much you can get away with. For guys with guns, those are guys with guns. For drones, it is hard to prove it's not Ukrainians flying those TB2s or how many they have or anything. Getting away with Patriot or few A-10's being on vacation might be hard.
  - le-mark 5y ago
    There’s certainly a long history of Soviet Russian and Chinese personnel embedded with and “helping” US adversaries in Korea, Vietnam, etc. quite egregiously in fact. So there is definitely historical precedent.
justsomehnguy 5y ago
PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: gasps UK: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: claps I guess in a three months I would have more than enough of these gasps/claps jokes.
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pbourke 5y ago
Little green men.

by hughrr 5y ago

This is certainly a reasonable hypothesis. Tell SAS guys they have a 3 month expenses paid holiday as civilians in Eastern Europe. Job done. ”don’t get yourselves into trouble. Wink wink”

robkop 5y ago

I wonder how large you could take this strategy before it turns into a NATO intervention. Could you have 3 full battalions of British troops all take time off and decide to go fight for Ukraine on their own? Could you have a full armoured regiment take 1 month PTO and go fight for Ukraine and then suddenly have some British armour dropped off for the Ukrainian army to use? Could you say a drone command group is taking a month off then lend and lease a fleet of drones to the Ukrainian air force? This feels like a very Putinesque salami tactic, maybe we should be hitting back the say way he's hitting Ukraine.

jessaustin 5y ago
This feels like the way the world ends. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-puts-russia-nuclear-deterrence-forces-on-high-alert-ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin...
glogla 5y ago
I guess it depends on how much you can get away with. For guys with guns, those are guys with guns. For drones, it is hard to prove it's not Ukrainians flying those TB2s or how many they have or anything. Getting away with Patriot or few A-10's being on vacation might be hard.
- le-mark 5y ago
  There’s certainly a long history of Soviet Russian and Chinese personnel embedded with and “helping” US adversaries in Korea, Vietnam, etc. quite egregiously in fact. So there is definitely historical precedent.

justsomehnguy 5y ago

PUTIN: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: gasps UK: These guys were on a holiday there THE WORLD: claps I guess in a three months I would have more than enough of these gasps/claps jokes.

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pbourke 5y ago

Little green men.