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hahahahahaha.......another article which proves me right and you wrong........what on earth are you doing you moron?
sorry dick-eye, i dont understand the purpose of your post. was your intention to prove yourself a liar and me correct in one foul swoop.....LOL......utterly priceless.
what a grade A clown.
P.S. hows that "cheering on" of Putin going? and when are you leaving the comfort of your western freedoms to go and live in Russia or China......?.........or are you just a hypocrite?
haha, here he is, wading into a debate that is on a subject matter he knows little, if anything at all, about.
lets pick apart this nonsense.....again
"China has double the size of the US navy alone"
China has about 350-400 naval ships depending on exactly what you count as actual naval/combat ships and the US has about 300. so unless ol' dick-eye is awful at maths, "double" is a blatant lie.
then there is the fact sheer number of ships means barely anything. what matters is TONNAGE and the US fleet displaces approx 4.5 million tonnes, which ironically is actually DOUBLE that of the Chinese Navy.....LOL
add to that the American ships pack more than twice (there's that irony again) as many offensive missiles—and that’s not even counting the missiles that the U.S. fleet’s carrier air wings could bring to bear.
then there are the air craft carrier stats which are the true projection of naval power.....China has 2....and wait for it.....the US......has 11......errrrr, slightly more than double on that front, eh?
so not only has our resident genius decided to just focus on the navy for some reason, he's focused on an aspect that the US far out power the Chinese on.
finally on the navy, what experience do the Chinese have at naval warfare?
then lets not even mention air craft capabilities and numbers. nah, actually i will mention them, lol.
United States - 13,247 (that's across air force, army and navy)
China - 3285 (same as above)
think that might be just over "double" too........
yes the Chinese will over take the US on nominal GDP, but that's a given with 1.5 billion people vs 350 million.
but on the military front China are decades behind. and what did they do when Pelosi visited Taiwan, basically just bombed some fish!
no idea why oil refinery construction comes into it, but then again this is ****eye. but fact of the matter is the US is the worlds biggest oil producer, so they trump China on that too!
also check out the recent news on the chip restrictions the US has just imposed on China.......that's gunna hurt
"involve Belarus, with another attack from the north and getting supplied with weapons from them"
Lukashenko is stupid, but not that stupid. he is deeply unpopular in Belarus and the only reason he is in power is because of rigged elections. if he sends Belarusians into the meat grinder he's done for.
and even if he does, what good are they going to be apart from diverting some Ukrainian troops away from the current front lines?
Belarusians are even more useless, untrained, unmotivated, ill-equipped, incompetent and inexperienced than the Russians and that's saying something.
and exactly what weapons are they going to bring to the table apart from just more of the same (actually worse) than the Russians have already been using for the past 7/8 months?
and in the short term they might be able to field, 6, 7 or 8 thousand men and circa 15,000 in the medium term? And with nearly 200,000 Russians not being able to achieve their goals in the last 8 months, and feeling like they need to conscript another 300,000 men to get the job done, the Belarusians are almost utterly irrelevant.
I still cant see it spilling outside of Ukraine unless Putin goes nuclear. He wont attack any NATO country as he guarantees a total loss for the Kremlin and reality is the Russian troops in Ukraine will be obliterated in about 6 weeks. NATO would immediately have air superiority, actually make that air supremacy, and the Russian losses would be unequivocally untenable.
but in the absence of NATO getting fully involved, i agree it will be a long haul, the west isnt going to give up, i mean why would they just have to supply weapons to kill thousands and thousands of Putins men whilst not sacrificing a single soldier of their own. and its a great showcase for western weaponry, any country using soviet weapons are quickly going to pivot away when its all over and the west are rubbing their hands waiting for that time.
simply put, nothing can compete with the industrial military complex of the US. Russia spends about $60 billion per year on their military and its now clearer than ever a lot of that never actually makes it into the armed forces because of corruption. the US alone spends nearly $800 billion and on a lot higher grade, more technologically advanced materiel. then add in the UK, Germany, France and everyone else. its not even remotely a competition.
and of course Putin's fragile ego wont allow him to bow out either without some sort of victory. likely hood is he just dresses up defeat as some sort of symbolic victory in someway and why not when 98% of the population is too brain washed to know any different, and will believe any lie, not matter how ridiculous, dished out by the Russian media, which of course is just an extension of the Kremlin's press department.
Don't be ridiculous SS, no one would "pay" BB for the garbage he spouts and then there's the fact even Stevie Wonder could see his agenda
He's just a bitter, sad loser like bigdog and oilman who cant move on after their irreversible losses financially and in the credibility arena too.
Anyone who seriously listens to Broadfraud needs a MRI scan, pronto.
"Why would you pay for unproven resources?"
firstly, because they have a perceived value
secondly, this question coming from the man (along with oilman and bigdog) who back in 2012, with no reserves, no production, no divis, no O&G law, no revenue, no profit, no infrastructure, said GKP was worth over $10 billion based on just Oil in Place
priceless, utterly priceless
FH1.......we've been through this before, he is here to appease oilman.
his modus operandi is to just spread negativity, whilst trying to convince everyone he is "balanced". his attempts are as pitiful as his expectations that people actually fall for the facade.
you have to remember, the "fraudulent few" as they are known, oilman, broadfraud and bigdog were all ramping this to high heaven back in 2012 when the SP was 400p+ in old money, think thats £400.00 in new money......
a time when GKP had no route to market, no reserves, no cash, no divi's, no production, no revenue, no profit......nowt except a snake oilman in charge and just some oil in place numbers. despite all that not ONCE, and i mean ONCE, did these clowns urge caution.
in fact quite the opposite, they used to shout down anyone that was negative. so that gives you some idea of why they might be hurting so much, hurting in the financial and credibility senses. no wonder they all hang around like a bad smell, nothing better to do than just whittle away the hours by just trashing the investment that took so much from them.
oilmans the leader, bigdog and broadfraud his stooges.......they are either too scared or too infatuated to do anything other than dance to oilmans tune.......... what a life, eh?!
cheers ****eye, but you've, not surprisingly, missed the point again.
why is the daily mail a source you trust when it comes to covid nonsense, but when it comes to Russia it isnt?
you either trust them as a source or you dont, its not a hard concept to grasp? where is your consistency, Einstein?
and then yet again, i have to re-ask. if you are so much brighter than me why couldn't you even score a single blow in our more recent debate? why did you resort to lying and deviation? there's that irony klaxon again....full bore
an imbecile and an immoral one at that......what a combo
and what about the 3 listed questions i put to you? not afraid to share your views on that are you?
what a really, really, really weird response.......you are a very strange little man BSeye
i tore you apart during our recent debate, not a single (and i mean SINGLE) point of mine could you counter. you lied, rambled on like a mad man and you sarcastically call me "bright"...........you could cut the irony with a knife!!
we already know you're several sandwich's short of a picnic, but out of interest could you give us your view on the following subjects, as i am trying to gauge just how staggeringly moronic and deluded you really are.
1) moon landings - real or fake?
2) is the earth flat or spherical?
3) did the US carry out the 9/11 attacks?
cheers babe x
"The greater sense I get from you (and a few others) is you really don't know how the world works, or is being run, or what is planned"
BSeye, is that why last week when we debated on Russia, you proved you didnt have a clue what you were talking about? you lost on every single point we discussed. you diverted, lied and rebutted only with nonsense.
your MO is to spout ludicrous conspiracy theories, to side with the immoral lunatics and to provide zero substance to any of your utterly laughable and pitiful views.
and then you have the sheer audacity to claim others dont know whats going on..........the mind boggles, it really does.
i noticed you provided a daily mail link recently to support one of your covid conspiracy theories. not only is that laughable on its own, but this is the same source that pumps out several times a day articles that completely contradict your view on Putins actions.
so basically there is no consistency either.........priceless
p.s anyone looking at Enquest down near 20p...........?
"Why all the scaremongering"
because its broadfraud, and he is unwilling to approach this any other way.......it's really that simple
to be fair, as optimistic as i am with GKP, on the surface this news does sound worrying, but the market doesnt seem to care at all........make of that what you will
either way broadfraud will always tell us to worry about the most minute details, so its not surprising this "balanced" (lol) poster is here yet again to only highlight the negatives
broadfraud, are you locked in to a legally binding deal based around the desires and demands of oilman? does it have an end date, payment structure, defined posting regularity, etc?
or is it more a case of simply doing it for his admiration?
hi BSeye (i like that, very apt indeed, thanks bill)
i see you're still unable to counter any, and i mean any, of my points directly, so a little pitiful diversion tactic there again, bit sad really.
and we have seemingly diverted on to another irrelevant and nonsensical point. my investment in GKP Kurdistan (thats not Saddams Iraq, not that it matters one iota) has no relevance to the war there. based on your logic everyone who invests in GKP or Genel or Dana etc all support the killing of millions of innocent people apparently. in your small mind i assume having money in GKP (a company with no direct link to any killing) is on par with "cheering on" a mass murderer?
you are a warped and twisted individual that much is clear, but stop projecting that on to others.
the US and UK invasion of iraq was illegal and Bush and Blair should be tried for war crimes, the same as Putin should be. no western hypocrisy here.
honest question, do you think you will ever research and educate yourself on a subject before you start running your mouth about it? its a rather peculiar thing to do, dont you think?
i mean who in their right mind jumps into a debate, especially on a subject so controversial, whilst not knowing a thing about it and not having the cerebral capacity to engage in honest and reasonable dialogue?
very, very strange little man........
cheers Jimmee, good to know there is more than one or two of us that agree with not putting up with such immoral, ludicrous and dishonest posts, despite it being "off-topic".......i mean if we were only allowed to discuss the enthralling world of GKP and all that has happened in the last couple of days, i dont think we'd be missing much!
"I personally am sick and tired of reading long and tedious rants about putin's politics and I'm going to filter anyone who writes them. At least that way they'll take up less room on my screen. Bye Bye IndridCold"
no issue with that bill. if you're happy to stand by and say nothing while immoral morons like truthsayer and ****eye preach vile, untrue, delusional opinions dressed up as fact, that says more about you than it does me
"There is only one thing duller than a ranting, raving, insult laden ignoramus, and that is one with the grammar and syntax of a 10 year old"
there's that irony klaxon, going off full bore.......priceless
says the man who cant substantiate a single one of his own views. any time he is countered, he changes the subject, avoids the question or just simply lies.
and on top of being completely unable to construct an honest, logical, reasonable, intelligent, fact-based argument, when he finally does post up a link/source that has some validity, its one that proves his (and truthsayers) view absolutely wrong. it would be hilarious if the subject matter wasnt so tragic.
****eye if i am an "ignoramus" how come you have lost to me on every single point we have debated? what on earth would that make you?......a protozoa or similar? the hypocrisy is mind boggling, it really is.
have you ever heard of that saying:
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt"
i suggest you heed that advice and quick.
and add to that he is "cheering on" (his words) Putin and his killing of thousands of Ukrainians (and Russians) because one battalion, in a country of 44 million, are Nazis. that's enough justification for him, for the dead men, women and children and the millions homeless.
the man is a scum bag, plain and simple.
sorry all, as i know this is a GKP board, but one more thing to truly hammer home how Putin has already lost in the grand scheme of things and to deal another crushing blow to ****eyes and truthsayers nonsense.
so along side the crippling of his own economy, the reduction of his army, decrease in his military hardware and capabilities, the complete destruction of the idea Russia are to be feared by all, turning Russia into a pariah state, adding 2 more countries to NATO, there is also the Finland border question.
before the Ukraine invasion the NATO/Russia shared border spanned 754 miles across northern Norway, eastern Latvia and Estonia, and the borders with Poland and Lithuania around Russia's Kaliningrad region.
Putin made it very clear one of his primary goals was to deter the expansion of NATO
however with Finland joining it would add 830 miles of continuous border along northwestern Russia, taking the total to 1,584 miles.
so not only has Putin shot himself in the foot by his actions leading to 2 more countries joining NATO (the polar opposite of his aim) with Finland joining it has MORE THAN DOUBLED the NATO/Russia shared border. absolutely priceless.
then on top of everyone now knowing his threats against Sweden and Finland were empty, adding to the already present "paper tiger" tag, there will be an increase of NATO troops from 40,000 to 300,000......thats an increase of 750% just in troop numbers, not to mention all the hardware that will accompany the personnel.
the scale of Putins misjudgement in this respect, could not be made any clearer. he has made a MASSIVE strategic mistake.
hundreds of thousands of more NATO/Western troops, all that are better trained, better motivated, more skilled, with better weaponry, better intelligence services supporting them, backed by wealthier and more diverse economies too.
and all to get rid of one battalion of Nazi's..........wow
oh lets not forget the HDI (human development rankings) either, even though i doubt ****eye or truthsayer actually know what that is, and lets compare western countries or countries with western values to Russia shall we?
so from 1 to 20 it goes like......
Norway
Switzerland
Ireland
Germany
Hong Kong
Australia
Iceland
Sweden
Singapore
Netherlands
Denmark
Finland
Canada
New Zealand
United States
United Kingdom
Belgium
Liechtenstein
Japan
Austria
and then where is Russia........
oh......number 49.........long live Putin......PMSL
"Russia have had a singular, highly intelligent, leadership structure for 20 years. Winning hands down"
mental, simply mental.
this is the short fat guy that rides around on horses topless? PMSL
the same guy that cant win an election without rigging it and also kills his political opponents?
the same guy that has ensured his reign has led to more than 20 million of his people living in poverty?
the same guy who is so sure of the nobility and righteousness of his "special operation" he has shut down all free media and threatens his own people will jail if they mention the word "war"
the same guy who resided over a change in the law that essentially states domestic violence isnt illegal?
funny things is as another poster has rightly commented, the likes of ****eye and truthsayer would never live in Russia, despite all the bluster and BS about how much they hate the west and admire Putin, they wouldnt switch their western freedoms and western made material possessions, for Russian oppression or russian made crap.
all their views are utterly flawed and i expect most of them lies too. they wouldnt give anything up to actually pick up sticks and move to live under the reign of Putin. they are liars and immoral morons, nothing more.
*they can not get out of this more than they put in, thats a FACT.
"But Russia are flying, EU is dying. UK is in freefall, 5 percent economic shrinkage since leaving EU"
this is the sort of comment that proves truthsayer is not interested in facts or the truth in anyway shape or form. its the ramblings of an obese lonely old man, sitting in his pants, 24 pack of Stella to hand, who spends 20 hours a day scouring conspiracy websites to give some meaning to his life.
so lets break this down with actual facts:
truthsayer - "But Russia are flying"
"Russia's economy will shrink 15% this year and 3% in 2023 as the hit from Western sanctions, an exodus of companies, a Russian "brain-drain" and collapse in exports wipe out 15 years of economic gains, a global banking industry lobby group said. The IIF forecasts that Russian gross fixed capital formation will contract 25% in 2022, imports 28% and exports 25%."
truthsayer - "EU is dying"
the IMF - "Real GDP growth in both the EU and the euro area is now expected at 2.7% in 2022 and 2.3% in 2023"
"UK is in freefall"
the IMF - "Depending on the scenario, we expect UK GDP growth to average between 2.8% - 3.8% this year"
UK GDP = nominal $3.38 trillion, GDP per capita $49,760
US GDP = nominal $25.35 trillion, GDP per capita $76,300
EU GDP = nominal $17.2 trillion, GDP per capita $38,560
Russia GDP = $1.83 trillion, GDP per capita $12,570
so those are the facts, that some delusional unsubstantiated, drivel that comes from our resident russian sympathising troll truthsayer.
and to that the Russian economy is utterly dependent on natural resources, so not actual talent, manufacturing, technology, innovation, finance, services, like the western world. its literally just LUCK that under the earth, within the countries borders, they have stuff the free and civilised world used to buy of them. without that they would have next to nothing.