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bob.appleyard
Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Location: Manchestar, innit
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Snow Patrol wrote: After all as far as i'm aware there are no American bases left in Scotland and the only significant Nato related issue is Britain's nuclear deterrent (Trident) being based at Faslane.
*Ahem* yeah, right. |
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ToonArmyIsComing
Joined: 15 Feb 2005
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Location: Ontario
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Snow Patrol wrote: ToonArmyIsComing wrote: Snow Patrol wrote: What i don't get is why America would care if an independent Scotland joined, or didn't join, Nato or the EU. Surely a country of 5 million wouldn't matter much in the grand scheme things.
After all as far as i'm aware there are no American bases left in Scotland and the only significant Nato related issue is Britain's nuclear deterrent (Trident) being based at Faslane. Which in all probability would revert to the remainder of Britain anyway and only result in a change of location.
The US cares as it tends to want to discipline ALL Western countries and make them follow the US lead [as they have done during the Cold War]. Indeed, the reason for the American government's outrage over the French, German, and Canadian non-participation in the Iraq war partly stems from this tendency.
Interesting, a sort of Monroe doctrine applied to the rest of the world then?
Not the world, but mostly the Western countries. For example, look at the outrage of the US when Europe wanted to sell weapons to China. In effect, this tendency is present in a lot of US-Western world relations. |
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Snow Patrol
Joined: 30 May 2005
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Location: Glasgow
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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bob.appleyard wrote: Snow Patrol wrote: After all as far as i'm aware there are no American bases left in Scotland and the only significant Nato related issue is Britain's nuclear deterrent (Trident) being based at Faslane.
*Ahem* yeah, right.
I know Trident is a waste of space, but it still has some relevance. Unless you're getting at something else? |
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