Ministers step up fight to protect City from EU trading shake-up

[DodgyAgent]

They did not lose because they had bad firearms, on the contrary their equipment remained top rate, especially light firearms (compare tulipy Bren gun vs MG42 or even MP44) - WW2 was won because Nazies expended majority of their forces on the Eastern Front.

So they lost the war because they had good firearms but pointed them in the wrong direction

[sasguru]

They did not lose because they had bad firearms, on the contrary their equipment remained top rate, especially light firearms (compare tulipy Bren gun vs MG42 or even MP44) - WW2 was won because Nazies expended majority of their forces on the Eastern Front.

Anyone reading your posts would conclude you are a 15 year old boy.
Which, I guess, in many respects you are.

[AtW]

So they lost the war because they had good firearms but pointed them in the wrong direction

Yes, they've pointed them at Soviet Empire

[OwlHoot]

Why would we want to buy firearms from the team that lost the war?

I believe some German mobile artillery kit is being used in Afghanistan, and they can lob a barrage of shells about 20 miles and land with 30 feet accuracy in any one of various programmable patterns. They can clear a whole mountainside of pesky Taleban in a couple of minutes.

edit: The Panzerhaubitze 2000 I think, and it has a maximum range of 60 Km. So you might not even have to be _in_ Afghanistan to clobber hordes of Taleban!

[AtW]

I believe some German mobile artillery kit is being used in Afghanistan, and they can lob a barrage of shells about 20 miles and land with 30 feet accuracy in any one of various programmable patterns. They can clear a whole mountainside of pesky Taleban in a couple of minutes.

New model has allegedly been reported there:

[TimberWolf]

New model has allegedly been reported there:

NSFW!

[Bunk]

So your quid pro quo, as it were, is that you'd accept the UK's demands in defence of The City if the UK accepted Germany selling firearms here.

AtW would cut off his left testicle if it meant being allowed to buy a gun here. Which is precisely why he shouldn't be allowed one.