Reply to: Brexit DOOM™: £50 bln divorce bill to pay

[NigelJK]

Then the big bad USA will come along and put a compulsory purchase order on it for a minimum sum because you're in the way of 'World Domination Enterprises'

IIRC this massive land grab that people talk about consists entirely of land in which to inter their fallen. Just saying, like.

[northernladyuk]

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

So just like Brexit?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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!

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[LondonManc]

Care to put some facts to that?

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.

[scooterscot]

Care to put some facts to that?

Cheese louise.

[PurpleGorilla]

Mainly because of its neighbours.

That's the whole point!