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2012-01-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Scottish independence: The American perspective

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Posted by tipper 2012-01-24 07:24|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I'll raise a toast of an iffy pint and have it sorted out laddie.

Posted by Dale 2012-01-24 09:59|| 2012-01-24 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 If Scotland goes how long before Basque, Brittany, Tuscany and Bavaria?

Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-01-24 10:20|| 2012-01-24 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 ..sounds like a similar breakup following the collapse of another ~~soviet~~ socialist autocracy along long historical ethnic-tribal lines.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-01-24 10:29|| 2012-01-24 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Not to mention Corsica, and perhaps Normandy, Wales, and Northern Italy. Not that I care, the Europeans can organize themselves however they like as long as its peaceful.

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-24 15:13|| 2012-01-24 15:13|| Front Page Top

#5 The plan of the Scottish nationalists is to exit Britain join the EU and get EU subsidies (good luck with that). Spain does NOT want to set a precedent for regions of a nation seceding & joining the EU (like for instance Catalan & the Basque region) and has pledged to oppose a Scottish bid for EU membership.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2012-01-24 18:22|| 2012-01-24 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 TOPIX, CHINA DAILY FORUM > SINN FEIN'S GERRY ADAMS CALLS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND INDEPENDENCE, [Universal = Eire, Northern Ireland]IRISH UNITY | SINN FEIN WANTS NORTH IRELAND INDEPENDENCE, NATIONAL UNITY.

Took him long enough.

Next up is dev potent Irish mil capabilities + econ, unless Eire + North Irish wanna depend on the French???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-24 23:16|| 2012-01-24 23:16|| Front Page Top

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