Perhaps making sure that independence would come to Malaya and Singapore in an orderly way, ensuring that the nations would develop into the kind of countries that still honour the British?

Well I am interested in one question alone, for people in the UK how is UAE genocide in Darfur different than anything Israel is accused of or the UK is accused of? What makes UAE and UK different than UK and Israel?

Kind of a generous use of the term 'sledge hammer', seems more like regulation. Wall Street major banks remained, they just had to function a bit differently.

The US was able to develop and deploy lots of new weapons during the war, the mustang fighter, the navy had to develop new fighters, I just am drawn to the conclusion the US could have, if it had the will, pushed Pershing into product earlier and made lots and lots of them

Well give the Sherman's high profile it was an easy target from the side.

I fully understand the 'lots of Shermans' argument and it was a better tank than it gets credit, but Sherman crews died in huge numbers.

the Americans had a lot of industrial capacity I would hope they could have provided a tank that could do everything a Sherman could do but even better, Sherman's problems were not just tank on tank, its high sides were ideal for Hitler Youth with a Panzerfaust

Fans make masses of such cross overs

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Yes well when some Shermans did go toe to toe with a Tiger or a Panther that was operating my understanding was they generally came out the worse for it. I am certain that US tank crews took very heavy loses in their Shermans and the strategy of mass meant throwing lives away

As a kid the SU-122 was the first tank I painted in winter camo. I really like the soviet tanks back then.

I understand the logistics, but the US had massive production capacity, they had more than enough Shermans as it was, and I would assume that every Pershing was probably worth more than 2 Sherman's in a fight. If a Pershing could go toe to toe with a Tiger than it would be worth 4 Shermans

Many American men could have lived to be grandfathers if this tank had been deployed in a timely fashion. This thing could have given the Tigers a run for their money.

Well sadly we live in a society where a generation has grown up thinking their lives are content to be monetized.

Excuse me, but they guy was past out drunk. She was in her rights to contact DoorDash and the police and the matter would have been sorted, she uploaded it to TikTok where she tried to provide by nude pictures of a man in his own house.

Don't harm the cause of women by bringing her mistakes in

She was not arrested because she was SA, she filmed a naked man at his home and posted it to social media to make money. Don't confuse what she did to what SA victims go through

Recently I saw someone ranting here about details of a trial they faced

Against my better judgement I tried to tell her that she should probably best keep silent until at least after the trial is done. She and a gaggle of her support attacked me.

you just cannot help some people

she needs to stop using social media

I can remember about 2 events that teachers who I totally respect, one I keep in touch with now 40 years later, when I am sure glad they were not packing.