Tom Kirkman + 8,860 February 1, 2020 This didn't age well Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rasmus Jorgensen + 1,169 RJ February 1, 2020 On 10/4/2019 at 2:57 AM, Douglas Buckland said: It is handy to label all these conflicts as ‘US led’, but generally that is simply because NATO and the EU would rather sit on the sidelines NATO is DEFENSE pact. It is NOT an aggression pact. Of course they should sit on the sidelines during OFFENSIVE actions. NATO members individually agreeing to particiapte in offensive actions has nothing to do with NATO. Duh. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tomasz + 1,608 February 1, 2020 (edited) It just so happens that even in Poland many people think that EU enlargement led to Brexit. It just so happens that about 1-2 million or even more people left Poland for the British Isles. For this mass of Bulgarians, Romanians and smaller quantities formally Latvians, Lithuanians often ethnic Russians. Contact with them for the ordinary British could sometimes be a shock. I don't know how other nations but about 10,000 Poles are convicted annually by English criminal courts. Also because of the fact that, apart from young, very talented Poles with higher education, a large number of Polish criminals went out, ordinary clutter with no prospects in Poland or sly people with a very loose lifestyle, who in turn became homeless quickly on the Islands. In addition to many talented and hardworking young Poles who Poland did not give a chance for a better life, also a large number of people who simply did not deserve a better life and in total people in Poland and polish authorities unoficialy sometimes breathed a sigh that now Great Britain will struggle with them and they will use all the gaps of the British system. For these all new EU members, it was such a mass of people that in my opinion this is one of the most important reasons for Brexit and I am very curious what will happen to these Poles now. Some obtain British citizenship which Great Britain gives them with great willingness because they are doctors, engineers, economists the elite of the Polish society. But there is also, as I say, a whole large number of people who neither Great Britain nor Poland want because there is no great use of them and a lot of problems. Edited February 1, 2020 by Tomasz 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douglas Buckland + 6,308 February 1, 2020 7 hours ago, Rasmus Jorgensen said: NATO is DEFENSE pact. It is NOT an aggression pact. Of course they should sit on the sidelines during OFFENSIVE actions. NATO members individually agreeing to particiapte in offensive actions has nothing to do with NATO. Duh. So Kosovo was a defensive operation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites