LOL - Denmark to reemerge as a global naval power?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
BTW, we're still bugging the Yanks about 1812.

Why? You didn't win.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Monk


I do think I understand that, but doesn't it ever get old? Not that I'd spoil anybody's party or anything, though.

When is this idiotic issue being settled either how?

Not any time soon. Its one of those issues that has no practical implications right now so there is no real need or push to settle it. However the implications on the ownership of the channel and any possible seabed resources could be large so neither side would want to capitulate.

It would get settled when it is necessary to settle it

[Zoid]

Denmark - Proud supporter of the War on Terrorism! At least now they send a surface ship to help keep the nasties at bay.

[Dinner]

They should do a Greater Scandinavian Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland) and then build a real navy.

[Monk]

Originally posted by Oerdin
They should do a Greater Scandinavian Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland) and then build a real navy.

We'd have Norway provide the oil, Sweden a couple Volvo engines, Finland could work on the communication thingies while Denmark provides the alcohol that you need to fuel sailor-friendly nightlife as seen in Iceland.

Of course, somebody would eventually screw up and the once-great viking fleet would suffer from Danish war planning, Norwegian porn restrictions, Icelandic beer prices and Sweden refusing to fight anybody just a little bit when we eventually get there. Oh, and we'd use Finland's currency, while we're at it.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
BTW, we're still bugging the Yanks about 1812.

Great overture.

Diddie diddie, diddie dit bumbum
KABOOM!
Diddie diddie, diddie dit bumbum
KABOOM! KABOOM!

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Monk


We'd have Norway provide the oil, Sweden a couple Volvo engines, Finland could work on the communication thingies while Denmark provides the alcohol that you need to fuel sailor-friendly nightlife as seen in Iceland.

Of course, somebody would eventually screw up and the once-great viking fleet would suffer from Danish war planning, Norwegian porn restrictions, Icelandic beer prices and Sweden refusing to fight anybody just a little bit when we eventually get there. Oh, and we'd use Finland's currency, while we're at it.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Monk


We'd have Norway provide the oil, Sweden a couple Volvo engines, Finland could work on the communication thingies while Denmark provides the alcohol that you need to fuel sailor-friendly nightlife as seen in Iceland.

Of course, somebody would eventually screw up and the once-great viking fleet would suffer from Danish war planning, Norwegian porn restrictions, Icelandic beer prices and Sweden refusing to fight anybody just a little bit when we eventually get there. Oh, and we'd use Finland's currency, while we're at it.

Though, while it may sense to use finns on comm, while noone would be able to decipher what was said, we would have the same problem - thousands of Pekkas ranting wildly

[Monk]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Though, while it may sense to use finns on comm, while noone would be able to decipher what was said, we would have the same problem - thousands of Pekkas ranting wildly

SuperClone? MultiCitizen?

A disturbing thought. A thousand Pekkas, all each other's next-of-Finn.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Why? You didn't win.

Keep repeating it and you might make yourself believe it one day.

[DinoDoc]

Well seeing as how we weren't conquered by the UK. I'd say it's fairly certain that you and your masters didn't win.

[KrazyHorse]

Hate to tell you this, but we had no serious intention of conquering the US. Whereas the conquest of Canada was a major stated war aim of the US.

Do they put something in the water in mississippi?

[DinoDoc]

No, do they teach distorted history in Canada to compensate for a lack of any national identity other than being "not the US"?

[KrazyHorse]

Let's see: the US starts a war in which most of their major moves are aimed at complete conquest of Canada

They fail miserably

British & Canadian forces launch punitive raids across the border with mixed success, British fleet blockades the East Coast

After Britain's done dealing with Napoleon they start to arrive in force, allowing a couple of raids on the midatlantic coast

The British have no appetite for a protracted war to reconquer the US (which would almost certainly fail) and the US has had its hand singed, so the two sides agree to peace

A British force lands at NO and is routed after peace has been signed

= AMERICAN VICTORY BECAUSE KING GEORGE DIDN'T CONQUER U.S.

I'm glad to see you also scored a fabulous victory against the forces of North Vietnam by avoiding conquest at their hands.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
No, do they teach distorted history in Canada to compensate for a lack of any national identity other than being "not the US"?

Distorted history? Was the conquest of the US a stated war aim of Great Britain? Was the conquest of Canada a stated war aim of the US?

Give it up, DD.

The British had no interest in the reconquest of the US. They had no reason to think that they could manage then what they'd failed to do 40 years earlier against a much weaker enemy.