How to win friends and influence people

[meridian]

Days after pissing off Japan and China (though to be fair, China was Williamson’s doing), Jeremy Hunt thinks it’s a good idea to annoy an EU country.

It’s not like any of them have a veto on any future trade deal or anything....

Milan Brglez,former president of the Slovenian parliament:
“The British foreign minister comes to Slovenia asking us for a favour(to discuss with the foreign minister how to avoid a no-deal Brexit)while arrogantly insulting us. We were never a 'vassal state of the Soviet Union'."

Perhaps if Hunt spoke louder and slower they’d get the message.

[Lance]

To be fair to Hunt, Slovenia wasn’t a state when it’s was subjected to the vassalage of the USSR.
So they were both right.

[Lance]

Although it would help if hunt were to get his civil servants to check his speeches before reading them.

[Old Greg]

To be fair to Hunt, Slovenia wasn’t a state when it’s was subjected to the vassalage of the USSR.
So they were both right.

Yugoslavia was a non-aligned state.

[Lance]

Yugoslavia was a non-aligned state.

Oh come on..... it was pretty black and white during the Cold War. You were either in NATO or you did what the soviets wanted.

[Old Greg]

Oh come on..... it was pretty black and white during the Cold War. You were either in NATO or you did what the soviets wanted.

Was Switzerland doing what the. Soviets wanted?

[vetran]

Was Switzerland doing what the. Soviets wanted?

Depends which vault the gold was in.

[Lance]

Was Switzerland doing what the. Soviets wanted?

Ok I should have geographically isolated that for the hard of thinking.

Central Europe, east of Germany.

[Old Greg]

Ok I should have geographically isolated that for the hard of thinking.

Central Europe, east of Germany.

Was this doing what the Soviets wanted?


Tito–Stalin Split - Wikipedia

[Old Greg]

Ok I should have geographically isolated that for the hard of thinking.

Central Europe, east of Germany.

Do you think the Soviets wanted Albania to leave the Warsaw Pact?