Scottish independence
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- detritus0
Hmm, sounds like a bad case of insularity to me - you're intent on shutting down Scots trade and keeping Scottish produce for the Scots?
I'm not sure that's a recipe for a strong, economically-viable Scotland.
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btw, you do appreciate that back in the bad old days (by which I mean, still when I was a kid), there was a Very Good reason for Britain's maintenance of a nuclear capability (one that isn't quite as tied to American oversight as you've been led to believe, we keep our own keys — we'd just have problems getting our hands on more nukes if we used them like assholes. We do maintain the capability of using them like assholes though) and that's a reason that even in today's much less fraught climate, we can't 100% guarantee isn't needed.
Personally, I'd offload nuke capability to some Euro-level structure.
I believe it is naive for the world's largest trading bloc to not have what is seen, rightly or wrongly, as the Ultimate guarantee of peace and military might.
That France and Britain, along with America, maintain this capability on their own shoulders is in the medium to long-term, the aspect that needs addressing.
You might not like them, but they exist and there are other assholes in the world who are bigger assholes than us our the 1% we so loathe in London.
“let he that desires peace prepare for war” and all that.
- Actually, I think we should get rid of nukes entirely, secretly, and just continue pretending we have them.detritus
- if it ever got out, it could set off a disarms raceFax_Benson
- Civilisation's growth from the very start has been based on trade. Egypt without the trade river wouldn't have existed.sem
- I think it's called the Nile.detritus