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Nah, nah... The reason the UK likes us is because they know if they made us mad we'd take Canada out of spite...
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Interesting question.Comment
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Let's put it this way.
On the one hand, the US has a long history of dodgy foreign affairs, is showing what some feel are alarming imperialist tendencies, has fought wars on shaky grounds and has uniquely used nuclear weapons in anger.
On the other hand, the EU has France in it.
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Zorba: Your avatar is the best.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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For the last 300 years Britain has conquered and run a large part of this planet, mainly by using local leaders and mercenary troops. We are still doing it but allow our main colony the fiction of believing they make their own decisions and are an independent country.
Given that their decisions often involve electing a President who has trouble tying his shoelaces unaided, it is inevitable that they then have to be quietly told what to do whilst no-one else is looking.
Far cheaper and easier than doing all the work yourself.
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still woof.Comment
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Re: Question about the UK's Foreign Policy
Britain's military capacity (including the nuclear capability) is closely tied to the US. They get more for their money that way (eg France's nuclear weapons program is independent, but much more expensive), but have to, shall we say, properly consider what Washington wants. Similar things go for intelligence.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Why does Great Britain perfer to be a pet of the United States rather than a semi-equal among Europeans?
Britain has still maintained a semblance of independence - until Blair. He really loves it up the arse with a spiked dildo.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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Delusions of grandeur. By being our *****, they get to pretend that they still have dominion over half of the world."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Originally posted by paiktis22
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Sir Humphrey: "Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?"
Jim Hacker: "That's all ancient history, surely."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing [the EEC] up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times."One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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UK!
Attached FilesWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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If your not with us your against us or if you are with us your a poddle. Seems a little unfair.
Blair was talking about getting rid of Saddam long before good al George even thought about being pres.Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Re: Re: Question about the UK's Foreign Policy
Well you clearly don't remember the Thatcher years. When Libya was bombed, where did the bombers come from?Originally posted by HershOstropoler
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Britain has still maintained a semblance of independence - until Blair. He really loves it up the arse with a spiked dildo.
Clue- Lakenh*ath.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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