As far as the US is concerned, South America is a matter of domestic not foreign policy. (View Post)

I'll confess to not knowing enough about Venezuela or Maduro to really have a view, but I will now research it. I've heard he's like another Chavez, but haven't digged into that y… (View Post)

Far too often in history America's interpretation of the Munro doctrine has been that they can do whatever they like in South America. (View Post)

You can predict their "Diversity" in almost any programme they make though. It's like it's the only thing they really care about. (View Post)

Good word, ostentatious. I'm reading Advance Britannia at the moment, and was warmed to read that Winston Churchill ostentatiously urinated in the great German Rhine during Operation Plunder. (View Post)