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Scotland to leave the UK?

Never mind that. Would an independent Scotland put you off coming here on holiday? I suppose depending on what happened to the currency would decide its popularity as a holiday destination.
Oh God no. I still intend to visit the homeland (Killin) someday, regardless if the natives speak Scottish, the Queen's English, or Norwegian.
 
Every historian and military expert for the past 66 years disagrees with you. On the conservative side, an Allied invasion of Japan would have cost hundreds of thousands of American deaths alone and would've resulted in the total destruction of Tokyo and everyone in it.

While Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrid, but the 250,000 deaths are obviously better than the millions who would've been killed on both sides had the alternative happened.

That's fine. My degree was modern Japanese history. My opinion on America's use of nukes is largely based upon reading War Without Mercy. Again, not the right thread for this so I'm not taking it further.

As for Britain, assuming the likeliest enemy would be Russia, the Royal Navy's current Trident force is sufficient to place roughly 192 warheads (three per missile as per current deployment, sixteen per Vanguard), at 100 kilotons at maximum selected yield. That's not enough to kill everyone in the Russian Federation, but it's certainly a plausible deterrent.

I seriously doubt the Russians would care about the UK's SLBMs. Let the French and the Yanks do the heavy lifting if they care about those weapons so much.
 
A Toast to the Four Kingdoms:

First, here's to the Welsh who pray upon their knees and prey upon their neighbors.

Second, here's to the Scots, who keep the Sabbath...and anything else they can get their bloody hands on.

Third, here's to the Irish, who keep fightin' for it!...even if they don't quite know what "it" is anymore.

And last but not least, here's to the English who, by claiming to be a self-made race, have absolved the Almighty God of a heinous responsibility!

:)
 
If Scotland leaves the UK and joins the commonwealth, they'd get the Scottish Dollar, keep all their natural resources, and we'd no longer have to pay for them in Westminister. There'd be no Union anymore and the British Isles will be divided, again. 'I am well aware of the border between Northern Ireland and Eire.'
 
Shaytan said:
Especially when you ran away from Dunkerque, that was glorious.

The alternatives for the BEF were?

Oh, a sensitive topic apparently :lol:

No alternatives but I always find funny that the best way to run away can be called a miracle. In the end, it's not better than de Gaulle telling us that we were all resistants : you lost but you oficially lost with pride and glory :lol:
Acording to Nostradamus :p, Napolean was the first antichrist who gave way to the second antichrist who is believed to be non other than Adolf Hitler... Maybe France wanted the Nazi's to win World War Two, how else do you explain the white flags and red carpet? :lol: 'Just saying' - The third is told to have come, and die, and start 27 years of bloodshed in the end of days after his death, or so the History Channel tells me.
 
Yeah, sure :lol:
Nostradamus was a guy from the 16th century who wrote vague predictions because that was fashionable and the Catherine de Médicis was stupid enough (not a first fro her) to buy them.
No, thank you, I will pass :lol:
 
Yeah, sure :lol:
Nostradamus was a guy from the 16th century who wrote vague predictions because that was fashionable and the Catherine de Médicis was stupid enough (not a first fro her) to buy them.
No, thank you, I will pass :lol:
Well, I wasn't quoting it because of any truth it may contain...

:D
 
Yeah, sure :lol:
Nostradamus was a guy from the 16th century who wrote vague predictions because that was fashionable and the Catherine de Médicis was stupid enough (not a first fro her) to buy them.
No, thank you, I will pass :lol:
Just take it all as tounge a cheek really. Clues are found by those who look for them.
 
It's just funny, okay, that Napoleon's one of the antichrists and, Hitler's another; is a little funny, to me, they're History's villians anyway, to me, okay. :)
 
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