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Col De Bretton Gordon has a book to sell

 Wed 8:04 pm +00:00, 5 Jun 2024  1
posted by Tapestry

Are they merely incompetent or knowing and willing purveyors of propaganda? I heard Hamish de Bretton-Gordon on BBC 5 Live talking to Nick Campbell spout utter tosh.

It was Monday 27 May 2024 at about 9.03am when Col. de Bretton-Gordon
was introduced to the airwaves to pontificate on the evil Putin and Russia’s designs to invade the universe.

For the record, it was approximately 3 minutes into the broadcast, though I have a BBC license to access and chronicle the official version of everything and you may not…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmqz
‘We’ve never been at a threat position like this since 1939.’
The conversation was sparked by the Conservatives announcement that should they win the 2024 election, they intend reintroduce national service for 18 year olds up. I believe part of the new policy will include writing off student debt to encourage joining the armed forces.
Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon informed us the UK has a standing army of 70,000. I doubt that will worry Russia too much in any potential ground war.
At 9.10am he explained, ‘What I am expert in is military capability… Ukraine has shown us mass numbers matter… we need to deter Putin…. Make that tyrant stop in his tracks… we’ve got a fascist tyrant steaming across western €urope…’

BBC presenter Nicky Campbell appeared to find it all a bit of a blast, making for entertaining radio. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is offered up as an expert, but compared to the likes of The Duran, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Ryan Dawson and a long list of military and civilian commentators and analysts, he sounds more akin to an inept military muppet espousing war propaganda. As far as I can determine, Putin has no designs on €urope or any other nation state. He will act if NATO keep poking the Russian bear.

FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon
He has a book to sell too!

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One Response to “Col De Bretton Gordon has a book to sell”

  1. 6 Jun 2024 15:35
    Belyi says:

    I could copy and paste a comment I made on another item on Tap today, because the same comments fit the two.

    Many years ago a friend was in the USAF and married to a colonel in the US Army. I never liked Gus and kept telling myself that he was an army colonel after all and couldn’t possibly be as stupid as he seemed to be. I realise now, that with some notable exceptions, he was par for the course.