independence for Greenland?

[moochedit]

Do you think that was done on purpose?

Of course it wasn't done on purpose but they didn't have permission from denmark to have nukes in greenland.

Project Iceworm - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Edit- actually thats not quite correct as there was secret permission given according to this link:

1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[PTK]

Every nation with a seacoast has this. This is a victory?

No, it was a defeat. One side winning what it was demanding is, as everyone knows, a defeat.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's funny coming from the nation that produced Cornwallis

You think I defend the British Empire?

You're allowed to criticise the US as well, you know, despite being USAian.

 

[klang]

You think I defend the British Empire?

You're allowed to criticise the US as well, you know, despite being USAian.

More of an USAist

 

[andysays]

Every nation with a seacoast has this. This is a victory?

They didn't in 1976

Also from your link

Since 1982, a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zone has been the international standard under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

 

[bcuster]

You think I defend the British Empire?

You're allowed to criticise the US as well, you know, despite being USAian.

I do criticize the US. Often.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

You provided an informative link, bc. I'll give you that. You didn't read it...

 

[brogdale]

They get free healthcare. None of that health insurance shite they get in the US.

Indeed, and may be that was one factor in the reversal of sentiment found in recent polling about a potential move to re-join the EU...

 

[PTK]

Some of the comments above are an example of how it is not uncommon for people to look at the world today and believe that the current dispensation has always been the way things are.

 

[bcuster]

I maintain the Cod Wars were the result of a bigger nation attempting to take advantage of a smaller, weaker nation.

No one was given a vote in Iceland whether they wanted the British to steal their fish.

After a bloody, expensive hot war, Iceland was "awarded" some basic prizes of sovereignity. Not a victory in my mind. UK could've invaded and Iceland couldn't've stopped them.
Greenland, were they to amalgamate, by choice, with the US, would never have to fear anything like this again..

 

[PTK]

We have also seen an example in a couple of posts above of something that I saw in a Youtube video recently. Apparentyly,
many people in the USA believe that people in Britain are very interested in the American War of Independance, and know much about it. I am not sure if I know who Cornwallis was, but from the context I assume that he was a British general.

 

[PTK]

After a bloody, expensive hot war,

What was the death toll in this "bloody" "war"?
It was not an actual shooting war.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

We have also seen an example in a couple of posts above of something that I saw in a Youtube video recently. Apparentyly,
many people in the USA believe that people in Britain are very interested in the American War of Independance, and know much about it. I am not sure if I know who Cornwallis was, but from the context I assume that he was a British general.

Southwest branch of the Islamic Caliphate no?

 

[moochedit]

After a bloody, expensive hot war, Iceland was "awarded" some basic prizes of sovereignity. Not a victory in my mind.

What would a victory for them have been like then? What didn't they get? (I'm not defending the uk's actions in the cod war by the way).

 

[PTK]

Southwest branch of the Islamic Caliphate no?

Could be. Or of the International Socialists.

 

[tommers]

I maintain the Cod Wars were the result of a bigger nation attempting to take advantage of a smaller, weaker nation.

No one was given a vote in Iceland whether they wanted the British to steal their fish.

After a bloody, expensive hot war, Iceland was "awarded" some basic prizes of sovereignity. Not a victory in my mind. UK could've invaded and Iceland couldn't've stopped them.
Greenland, were they to amalgamate, by choice, with the US, would never have to fear anything like this again..

That's some nice green land you got there buddy, be a shame if it had a little accident huh?

 

[bcuster]

What would a victory for them have been like then?

Extensive Reparations and UK cedes some of their islands to Iceland

 

[PTK]

What would a victory for them have been like then?

We would all writing Icelandic. Cod would be on the menu every day in canteens in schools, hospitals, and the armed forces. There would be no televison on a Thursday.

 

[moochedit]

Reparations and UK cedes some of their islands to Iceland

Fair point about reparations. Which islands? Rockall?

 

[tommers]

Hahaha, fucking cod wars!

 

[Elpenor]

We have also seen an example in a couple of posts above of something that I saw in a Youtube video recently. Apparentyly,
many people in the USA believe that people in Britain are very interested in the American War of Independance, and know much about it. I am not sure if I know who Cornwallis was, but from the context I assume that he was a British general.

Cornwall is the most southwestern British county

 

[andysays]

I maintain the Cod Wars were the result of a bigger nation attempting to take advantage of a smaller, weaker nation.

No one was given a vote in Iceland whether they wanted the British to steal their fish.

After a bloody, expensive hot war, Iceland was "awarded" some basic prizes of sovereignity. Not a victory in my mind. UK could've invaded and Iceland couldn't've stopped them.
Greenland, were they to amalgamate, by choice, with the US, would never have to fear anything like this again..

If you're going to continue this bizarre line of argument, maybe go back and read the whole of that wiki page you linked to, then you might have some idea what you're talking about.

At the moment, you clearly don't have a clue.

 

[brogdale]

Extensive Reparations and UK cedes some of their islands to Iceland

They're not getting fucking Sheppey.

 

[moochedit]

We would all writing Icelandic. Cod would be on the menu every day in canteens in schools, hospitals, and the armed forces. There would be no televison on a Thursday.

Didn't they ban beer until about 20 years ago? That might be a false memory.

 

[tommers]

They're not getting fucking Sheppey.

Literally deliver it myself.

 

[brogdale]

Literally deliver it myself.

Now, now.

 

[tommers]

Now, now.

Gonna strap it to the back of my fucking trawler.

 

[bcuster]

If you're going to continue this bizarre line of argument, maybe go back and read the whole of that wiki page you linked to, then you might have some idea what you're talking about.

At the moment, you clearly don't have a clue.

I hope we have a Greenlander lurker here who reads my post and takes note of what a serious threat a bullying nation poses to a small, unprotected nation that has vast wealth

 

[PTK]

Didn't they ban beer until about 20 years ago? That might be a false memory.

They are always putting out false reports, in order to confuse us, and thereby weaken us. They have the most successful spy agency in the world - they never get caught. When was the last time you heard of an Icelandic spy being arrested anywhere?

 

[PTK]

I am old enough to remember when Isle of Dogs declared independence.