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Originally Posted by The Bear
The British residents of Gibraltar will simply wake up one morning and like the Spanish realise that they along with the Southern Irish and the Northern Irish AND the Scots AND the Welsh and all the other piffant little “countries” and realise that they are nothing more than at best states of the USE.
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And at that point what do you think will happen ?
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As for the fourteen or so little islands, they WERE of value but today with the exception of the Falklands because of its potential as an oil producer, are of no use to Britain whatsoever and are actually a simply a net cost to us.
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These are they and I don't think that they are a net cost for the value we get
British overseas territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The piracy that is taking place is not being affected by the Navy nor could it be.
The days of The Empire are LONG gone and the piracy is on goods being transported not from parts of the British Empire but from overseas nations.
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A life time ago and we still have the Commonwealth of Nations and if we had a proper Navy it could do a lot
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The US were content to provide arms to both sides in WW2 until they were dragged following Pearl.
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Prove it
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One reason for the US NOT getting involved until they were brought in as a result of the axis between Japan and Germany was the unwillingness of the MAJORITY of the American people to get involved.
Had Japan not been an Axis power it is probable that the US would have limited its actions to the Pacific.
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Funny that the yanks were already defending themselves against the Germans
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Certainly the issue of the taking of territory that had been a part of Germany, Prussia, Russia, and Austria to create a modern state of Poland as part of the Treaty of Versailles was a key factorresulting in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and that resulted within a week with the Polish Campaign by Germany.
There is however a strong argument that the retaking of what had been parts of Germany etc. was in fact the rightful restoration of lands to the nations of which they were a part as was also the invasion / liberation of the Sudetenland.
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That's ok then but on that basis you can keep going back until it all belongs to the neanderthals
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Remember, history is written by the victors.
IF the argument that Germany et al should NOT have tried to restore their territory, then that opens the possibility of raising very interesting questions regarding both Israel and Iraq not to mention present day Turkish borders.
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Shame you appear not to read it then although in fact books have been written by the losers as well
Are you going to give the USA back to the Native American Indians - thought not
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If that is what I was doing then I would agree but I argue that I am not.
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And you can argue black is white but you will be wrong - again