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To: Alberta's Child

You’re still wrong. You still can’t name a single colony. You can keep embarrassing yourself by confusing allies with colonies but in the end you’re just not getting any where.


70 posted on 07/26/2015 7:15:01 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998; Alberta's Child

The U.S. has never been a ‘colonial power’, unlike the UK, France, Russia, Spain or the Netherlands (Holland), as examples.

Even during WW2, mainly Britain and Russia for a very short period of time occupied an officially neutral Iran (Russians in the north & Brits in the south).

It was Britain who accused the late Shah’s father during WW2 of being a ‘nazi sympathizer’, and forced his subsequent abdication in favour of his son, exiling him to South Africa.

Iran throughout WW2 was neutral; the allies went along with Britain because of strategic reasons, and to prevent Nazis from potentially expanding territory; not because the Shah was a ‘nazi sympthasizer’.

And, in hindsight it was absurd to accuse the late Shah’s father of being a ‘nazi sympathizer’, when it’s clearly documented that Britain had many prominent figures itself, who were clearly associated with Hilter and his Nazi party.

Post-WW2, and during the Cold War, the U.S. had military and other presence in Iran, based on mutual agreement, for the fear of Iran’s BIG, socialist, and very much colonial neighbour up north violating the sovereignty of Iran; USSR shared a border spanning some 2000+ kilometers with Iran, constantly looking to expand further south of the border.


76 posted on 07/26/2015 5:02:45 PM PDT by odds
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