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2 UK ships collided with eachother in Bahrain (nitter.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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The ship names are absurd lmao. HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor.

It's not a real country. They don't deserve to issue their own currency, the EU needs to invade immediately and force the Euro on them.

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

“fair fights” are so rare and assiduously avoided by everybody they have no place in serious analysis

Obligatory reminder that British definition of "fair fight" is the battle of Omdurman.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Aye, so what if the Brits lose as much as casualties as the enemy in a battle? A crushing defeat?

I always wonder the same with other empires...

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aye, so what if the Brits lose as much as casualties as the enemy in a battle? A crushing defeat?

Then it's still the moral victory, "tough win" or "glorious last stand" (yes even when the Boers shot them like ducks) depend on circumstances.

About the Royal Navy, i think their most embarassing lose was Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741, where they got absolutely massacred despite outnumbering Spanish 8 to 1. In newer times Battle of Coronel in 1914 made Brits absolutely livid and red hot for revenge. And of course Kuantan in 1941, this one was so onesided it is not even officially called "battle".

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

(yes even when the Boers shot them like ducks)

That was the only time I felt bad for them Brits.

Say what ye want, but a bunch of Imperial British soldiers too removed to live and think normally in their homeland are nothing, compared to dedicated settler colonists who want nothing more than to create lebensraum...