Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "TIKhistory"
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^ SNAT bot confirmed XD.
The Scots are going nowhere but with the rest of GB, as anyone versed in economics and law can assert.
The EU is disintergrating, and in no position to "encircle" anyone; whilst the Russians are an overhyped irrelevance, made a bogeyman by western politicians desperate to refight the cold war, a war the Russians withdrew from generations ago, having finally grasped the economic futility of contesting the US, and that communism just doesn't work.
The main threat today is China, and its insidious activities worldwide. Only in that, is the west being complacent, as it has been for decades.
(1989 having proved Nixon's grand plan to be a dismal failure, as PRC despotism proved more resistant to domestic calls for democracy than expected)
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The "GB had a choice of German or US vassalage... and chose the US!" and "GB was bankrupt and a US puppet postwar!" fallacies also fall apart when availed of a knowledge of postwar history, and using ones brain:
. The UK didn't lose her empire, she turned it into something else, after having an empire at all had become economically irrelevant.
. The UK still had the means for developing an independent nuclear deterrent, and vast military spending, that even in the 1950's still represented 11% of GDP. All this whilst spending tons on public sector welfare.
. Under said fallacies logic the UK would have gone into Vietnam when asked, given the Argies the Falklands when asked by Reagan, and approved the invasion of Grenada... she told the US Nope on all three.
(and that's just the best known examples)
Only a country without control over their foreign policy, is a vassal to another.
(example Korea, which has always been servile to one regional power or another, and in the present case; two)
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