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Wouldn't that just make him her other uncle?

You are probably going to regret not thinking that through a little further.

With Sweden and Finland in NATO the strategic situation has probably improved. The Poles did everything possible to make Russians hate them. In highly unlikely scenario where Russians move West the Poles may last long enough to get support from NATO. If the West continues to support Ukrainians Russian capabilities will diminish further.

When fighting in Iraq my son said the Polish guys were darn good at what they did.
They called them several times for backup in fighting, they showed up in those giant helicopters loaded to the hilt with everything and once directed where to lay down cover fire they blew the chit out of the enemy.
He traded with them and got some nice souviners, hard drinkers as well.

i am a 4th generation Pole. i hate Russia even more than the Nazis. at least the Nazis didn't provide "friendship" only to make your country a puppet state. Poland is Europe's military powerhouse. it is what we in the US call "The European Texas".


https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=poland

https://www.warpowerpoland.com/

Man it's a good thing someone as hysterical as you isn't in charge of anything.

Probably won't really regret it one way or the other... but curious what I'm missing. (I assumed the uncle was a blood relative... I guess if it's an uncle by marriage the brother doesn't become her uncle?)

No. Her Uncle was married to her father's sister. Her Uncle's brother is her Uncle's brother.

Gotcha. Started wondering above and edited my comment. That's what I get for assuming.

Let's face it, the Brits are just one messed up bunch of leftist retards on a number of issues. They deserve to be overrun by moslems and their culture destroyed. Only the Germans are as stupid.

kwg

sure Jimbo... wanna explain a cause for your analysis of my "hysteria?"

But if we are involved in anything, I'm more than happy to let you be "in charge."

Who's more logical and experienced than a NW Montana Rancher / EMT?

Pretty good at bowling and polka too.

If I was a pollack I’d be proud of it and be a fanboy too maybe. No winged hussar reference?

But I’m an American an I’m proud of our boys. Supersedes all else.

Just to clarify, IIRC the RAF’s fighter tactics consisted of a squadron of twelve aircraft formed up into four tight “Vic’s” of three aircraft each. See the link for a clear explanation.

https://www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/royal-air-force-tactics-during-the-battle-of-britain.php

The theory was that three fighters attacking in unison would bring more firepower onto the target in what was expected to be just a two-second window of opportunity per firing pass.

The two second presumption was remarkably prescient and was the basis for the sudden upgrade to eight gun fighters such as the Hurricane and the Spitfire as opposed to the two or four gun designs in previous fighters. They had estimated how many .303 bullets would be needed to be delivered on target to down an enemy aircraft and calculated how many machine guns would be needed to achieve that. Hence the new requirement for eight gun fighters.

The tight three plane vic formations however were a disaster, the two trailer planes giving all their attention to maintaining formation with the leader rather than scanning the skies and when they did get “bounced” the Bf109’s diving from above had three targets to choose from.

During the BoB some RAF flight leaders adopted the highly effective German loose four-plane “finger four” formations but apparently this did not become official dogma as taught in training squadrons until 1942, long after the BoB and even after the RAF fighters consistently got their a$$es kicked by the Luftwaffe during their “rhubarb” fighter sweeps over Northern France in 1941.

They are reaping what they sowed. It is only fitting they become servants of colonials. Same for the Germans. The first concentration camps were established by them in Africa, long before they appeared in Germany and German-occupied Europe of World War II.