Ironic that it was a successful invasion of Sweden by Russia that made them forswear war (which up to then they had been rather good at, eg Gustavus Adolphus) and come over all neutral. Not so much b… (View Post)

And politically - when there was a Kingdom of Great Britain after the Union of Crowns, it was part of the Kingdom of Ireland. (View Post)

I think that's entirely reasonable, we have nothing to fear from EU food standards. Free trade is good. The EU ought to reciprocate. (View Post)

I think we are gradually ratcheting up what is considered acceptable. So we never cross the line. In February sending tanks would have been unthinkable, we were only sending "defensive" wea… (View Post)

Why would we unambiguously state our war aims? Why do you want us to tell the enemy? For example, the Russians committing troops to Crimea in a defensive capacity, even if they don't need to, would b… (View Post)