How to win friends and influence people

[Old Greg]

HTH Lancey.

[meridian]

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.

Whether one or the other is “right” is irrelevant in international diplomacy.

[Old Greg]

Whether one or the other is “right” is irrelevant in international diplomacy.

Which is in itself irrelevant as Hunt and Lancey both got themselves in a muddle about post war European history.

[BlasterBates]

Yugoslavia was not liberated by the Soviet Union, they liberated themselves. Tito although a dictator was not the Soviet Union's dictator. There were never any Soviet troops stationed there and they were not in the Warsaw pact.

Jeremy Hunt just demonstrating his complete ignorance.

[Lance]

Which is in itself irrelevant as Hunt and Lancey both got themselves in a muddle about post war European history.

At least I'm not the foreign secretary.....

Anyway.... quit with the facts in this sub-forum. It's off-topic.

[shaunbhoy]

Was Switzerland doing what the. Soviets wanted?

Switzerland was still doing what runaway Nazis wanted.

As long as the commission was high enough.

[Eirikur]

Yugoslavia and the Soviet union weren't exactly friends, if anything they were more aligned to China then to the USSR.

[Old Greg]

At least I'm not the foreign secretary.....

Anyway.... quit with the facts in this sub-forum. It's off-topic.

Facts are too tricky for the hard of thinking.

[darmstadt]

Moron Johnson is at it again:

"My objection to the EU was not that it was run by foreigners,” Johnson, a Brexiteer who quit Prime Minister Theresa May’s government last year in protest at her Brexit strategy, told a New Delhi conference Saturday, according to AFP.

“The problem is we don't really know who is running it."
Saying he could not identify the people in charge of the EU’s institutions, or explain what they do, Johnson continued, "I have no idea how to kick those particular bastards out.”

[meridian]

Moron Johnson is at it again:

He was the Telegraph’s EU correspondent for 5 years from 1989 to 2004. Mind you, most of his articles were made up anyway so it really didn’t matter if he understood how it works or not.