Brexit DOOM™: £50 bln divorce bill to pay

[scooterscot]

He can't; otherwise the Iberian peninsula would be deep red for routing half the world. Looking further afield, there are plenty more that are the wrong end of the pH scale.

You need not be a historian to know Mao is probably responsible for the most death, but more through starvation, labour camps, rather than conflict. And I assume conflict is what we're talking about here since the OP brought up NATO budgets.

[vetran]

Care to put some facts to that?

I think we just invent them as usual it is a Scooter post.

I think he is still sore over Falkirk.

[PurpleGorilla]

Brexit DOOM™: £50 bln divorce bill to pay

You need not be a historian to know Mao is probably responsible for the most death, but more through starvation, labour camps, rather than conflict. And I assume conflict is what we're talking about here since the OP brought up NATO budgets.

NATO is about peacekeeping, security and defence, not conflict.

[The_Equalizer]

I think we just invent them as usual it is a Scooter post.

I think he is still sore over Falkirk.

Not dissimilar to reading The Guardian these days. You just get the feeling of a side that knows it's lost the argument.

[scooterscot]

NATO is about peacekeeping, security and defence, not conflict.

So what happened with the Iraq conflict and those invisible weapons of mass destruction 45 minutes away from reducing Whitehall to dust?

NATO keeps the peace? The US ignored the rules it agreed to follow and now complains some nations are not pulling their weight into the budget!

Years from now people will look, did they serious say 45 minutes?

[OwlHoot]

NATO name and shame list.

Big respect to Greece.

Estonia spends less than us as a percentage of GDP, and yet they are above us on that graph.

That can't be right surely!

[vetran]

Estonia spends less than us as a percentage of GDP, and yet they are above us on that graph.

That can't be right surely!

Its EU accounting its completely right but certain transactions aren't shown for Clarity

[tomtomagain]

Germany and Italy need to double their defence budgets. That's cool I'm sure we could sell them a nuclear submarine or two.

[The_Equalizer]

Germany and Italy need to double their defence budgets. That's cool I'm sure we could sell them a nuclear submarine or two.

Nothing like arms sales to boost the UK's coffers.

[PurpleGorilla]

So what happened with the Iraq conflict and those invisible weapons of mass destruction 45 minutes away from reducing Whitehall to dust?

NATO keeps the peace? The US ignored the rules it agreed to follow and now complains some nations are not pulling their weight into the budget!

Years from now people will look, did they serious say 45 minutes?

Iraq wasn't a NATO operation.

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_51977.htm

The two key failures IMHO with Iraq was the lack of a transition plan, and the treatment of detainees and the general population.

Militarily the Iraq conflict was shooting fish in a barrel.