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SAW 'DUNKIRK' TODAY-OBSERVATIONS

Posted on 07/23/2017 3:18:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

The U.S. should NEVER put itself in that position. The Brits sent their civilian boaters to save them. Destroyers and most planes were left behind to 'save England.'

Make sure the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is always filled. Get the hell out of the Middle East with no more immigrints from that region. The Brits should get out of the Falklands. They have bigger fish to fry. Maybe we should al store food like the Mormons.

My history teacher, retired military, said Hitler should have bombed them all on the beach. Cost him the war.


TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: history; hollywood; militaryhistory; moviereview; moviereviews; normandybeach; wwii
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To: Yo-Yo

The demise of the British Empire was a disaster for the entire planet. What a shame Hitler didn’t go to war with Stalin in 1939.


21 posted on 07/23/2017 3:45:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TigerClaws

Russia never would have lasted without the US Lend Lease program. Our weapons saved them from losing.


22 posted on 07/23/2017 3:46:41 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
My history teacher, retired military, said Hitler should have bombed them all on the beach. Cost him the war.

Lots of theories as to why the Germans stalled x 2 days, one being Hitler was hopeful the British would accept the good will so he could turn his full attention on the USSR.

23 posted on 07/23/2017 3:48:16 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Thought the movie was excellent. Five stars!


24 posted on 07/23/2017 3:50:20 PM PDT by Mysonsrdoctors
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I saw it. There are three different story lines on asynchronous dilated timelines. Don’t bother trying to make sense of anything. Just enjoy the pretty colors.


25 posted on 07/23/2017 3:52:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: bray

Point taken.
Good point.

More on the program for those interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Soviet casualties in WW2 were massive.


26 posted on 07/23/2017 3:53:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: DIRTYSECRET
check your history of the early ar in the pacific, US made tough choices to abandon troops on multiple occasions, and to save naval assets. Stupid to make bad decisions that can cost yo the war, no matter how painful . on the movie, i saw it, AWESOME. left me with a haunging feeling, uplifting but also tragic.

WARNING: SPOILER FOLLOWS

the end part where Tom Hardy has stayed to defend the troops, runs out of gas and glides in was magic.

27 posted on 07/23/2017 3:56:51 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: gaijin
Off Topic sarc
28 posted on 07/23/2017 3:57:07 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The British Navy committed a cruiser and 39 destroyers to the Dunkirk operation. Six were sunk and 19 damaged. One of the major issues was the shallow waters off the beaches prevented even small craft from approaching closer than 100 yards from the beaches.


29 posted on 07/23/2017 3:58:45 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: gaijin

The Germans were hoping for a peaceful settlement with Great Britain.


30 posted on 07/23/2017 4:01:44 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Russia was winnable, if Hitler had allowed the Russians who hated the Bolsheviks to have their own State, even if it was a puppet state. But he basically wanted the Russians to become slaves or be killed off.


32 posted on 07/23/2017 4:04:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mysonsrdoctors

Absolutely agree that it was great. Perhaps some on this board expected a hero. Either everyone or no one was a hero. It was not meant to be a documentary either. It was a snapshot of a slice of an incredible event.

If it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine, but if you think you’d like it I would recommend going to as big a screen as you can find.


33 posted on 07/23/2017 4:05:10 PM PDT by organicchemist (Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I heard that the film is racially insensitive. It apparently has no Mexican-American characters or actors as well as no blacks.


34 posted on 07/23/2017 4:05:46 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe)
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To: bray

I had an uncle by marriage who sailed on the Murmansk run carrying military supplies. He took to the lifeboats twice as his ships were sunk by u-boats.


35 posted on 07/23/2017 4:08:36 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: gaijin

Little dialogue but high intensity action. I was totally engrossed in the movie. Two thumbs up. Go see it.


37 posted on 07/23/2017 4:11:50 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: organicchemist

i thought it was outstanding - gripping. the point of the titling of the 3 threads (land, sea, air)at the beginning of the film and the time they covered seemed clear to me. it wasn’t a chronological account - but rather an accounting of the 3 campaigns shown through the eyes of participants.it seems some here didn’t quite get that. anyway i thought the screenwriter did an amazing job of building the story line in each to a simultaneous painful feverish pitch - when i thought “will this ever turn around?” which is probably just what participants in that hellish situation were feeling. it was one horrendous situation - that 330,000 or so were rescued is nothing short of a miracle. but one had to admire the grit of those portrayed. A+ - i don’t think i could bear to see it again. it exhausted me.


38 posted on 07/23/2017 4:14:05 PM PDT by avital2
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The Falklands might just declare unilateral Independence or themselves invite Argentina in to avoid Islamization.


39 posted on 07/23/2017 4:14:47 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I was saddened at the lack of women of color in the leading roles as well as the lack of representation of the lgbtqrstuv community/sarc


40 posted on 07/23/2017 4:16:24 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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