• Magos_Galactose
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    They are reports that UK MoD is in a panic mode right now that as many as 30 of ex-RAF pilots became instructors in China. I can’t find any confirmation one way or another on the subject, but it fit the trend.

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      Oh my god I saw something like this earlier!

      Here it is

      Wasn’t hard to find when people are freaking the fuck out about it.

      • redtea
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        “lured by annual salaries of around £240,000”

        There’s a straightforward way to not get your top talent lured away for money: guaranteed housing, healthcare, education, pension, etc, and for veterans – guaranteed employment after leaving the military service.

        Still, £240k is a tidy sum.

        But actually not that much considering how much effort goes into propaganda around fighting for one’s country.

        If there was a war between the UK and China, and China get an advantage from this, the UK is going to feel pretty embarrassed that China only had to pay £8.4m (per year) for the betrayal.

        Almost like the capitalists are creating the conditions that communist states can exploit, to the eventual detriment of the capitalists.

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          But if a NATO country did the same thing it wouldn’t be a big deal. How many years have they been peddling this narrative of China destroying the world?

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          Sometimes the easiest way to gain intel is the simplest.

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      Can’t say I feel sorry for UK, certainly not their military. The state of civilian aviation in Russia, however, is troubling.