It really wouldn't. Russia's GDP is approximately $2.2trn. EU GDP is $21trn and ours is another $3.6 trn so our combined GDP is comfortably more than 10X Russia's. Russia had a massive… (View Post)

We are coming into Aberdeen station (late, of course) and it is still bloody dark. The amount of surface water lying around is impressive. (View Post)

I always assumed it was Aesop. I am genuinely surprised to learn it is newer. (View Post)

This is what happens when the US also elect a gangster and a thug. (View Post)

Where the Americans do have a point is that the do not owe us anything and we have been very content to sit under their umbrella. Of course it suited the Americans too when confronting the USSR but t… (View Post)