Posted on 06/16/2019 6:55:12 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Hey dude, F off!
Because nothing says more about the health of the British Commonwealth than having a part of said commonwealth licking Castro's boots and hosting a Soviet bomber base. /s
Well to tell the truth, the sun is setting on Britain AND the U.S. and in many parts of Europe. Read the Camp of The Saints a 1973 book that mirrors what is happening in the civilized world today - except it was set in France and the invaders were from the Indian subcontinent. The author of this best selling novel hit the concept spot on. Furthermore, the U.K. started the industrial revolution and then just stopped being great between WWI and the end of WWII. They pretty much did it all by themselves. Isn’t that exactly what we are doing now??
Sorry to say this but this greatness thing is like the setting sun. It is moving to the west from here (and I don’t mean Hawaii).
Forgot to add this. Under Regan in conjunction with the Saudis the Saudis put much excess oil on the world market. This actually hurt the Saudis. With oil being the basis of the Russian economy it collapsed as did the Soviet Union.
Even more odd is that today due to fracking the United States is the largest producer of oil in the world. We now have the power that the Saudis once had. The Saudis do have much excess oil as defined by their local needs and are a potent force in the price of oil. They actually have more excess oil than the USA even though we do now export oil. The security of Saudi is only assured by our military might. Saudi will cooperate.
“I fear that this has become a bad relationship. One that is based on the President taking exactly what he wants and casually ignoring all those things that really matter to Britain.”
I saw great respect with the Trumps and everyone in England they met with.
England gets the respect it deserves. If Trump said something, it was to aways benefit England in what was better for them.
This man is a profound idiot.
So you are defending this writer? Really?
Bindar Dundat? Wasn’t he a friend of the late Bush-41? At least President Bush used to mention his name from time to time.
Donald Trump could file away Dean Rusk’s comment (”When the Russians invade Sussex”) for possible use on the Governor of New Jersey...except that Sussex Co. is probably the county in New Jersey least likely to be in danger of invasion by the Russians. (It’s in the extreme northern part of the state along the Delaware River.)
A lot of Brit complaining in that article. But they forget to mention how they tried to kill our young republic in 1812. And how they tried to split us up during the civil war. They forget their treachery on the creation of the Federal reserve and the hijacking of our finance. They forget their treachery in WWI in which they threatened US neutral shipping. They forget the Naval Treaty in the 1920s where they insisted on having superiority over the USN in battleships because they still kept the idea they might need to fight us one day.
They forget the degree to which they insisted on US actions in the Mediterranean in WWII to shore up their colonial positions.
The special relationship includes them undermining or attempting to control us every few decades.
But all of that could be overlooked if their intelligence services did not try to interfere in our 2016 election and assist with the coup attempt afterwards.
What is your issue?
OM goodness, is that a real name?
I am reading Pat Buchanan’s ‘The Unnecessary War’. Guess he took down Churchill a notch or 2.
The Brits broke their alliance with their participation in the coup attempt. As that country is willingly submitting to Islam, the time to cut this tie has come.
The commonwealth is a talking shop. It has no purpose, no authority and no force. It was a good half-way shop for countries recently independent of the British Empire, but it is well past it’s due date.
This Iran mess is their fault too.
And I’m not at all satisfied about how their massive oil spill in our waters was “resolved”.
"Because nothing says more about the health of the British Commonwealth than having a part of said commonwealth licking Castro's boots and hosting a Soviet bomber base. /s"
Those must have been British Cubans over there... And the American medical students weren't really hostages, they were guests of Fidel Castro.
What nonsense.
Ike put the US guarantee on oil shipments from the ME to Europe because he could, and Britain couldn’t.
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