Thank you US of A

[InsaneApache]

The French?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Didn't want to be petty, but now that you've brought it up: indeed, the French partook in the airlift. Canada btw did not. But for all intent and purposes it was a British / American show of course. The help of France consisted mainly of trying to not get in the way.
Especially in the way of the indispensable Texan Air Force - whose pilots' virility is still legendary amongst rural French women. Many of whom gave birth to half-Texan offspring after the airlift. These descendants later formed the backbone of the French football team that went on to win the European Championship thirty years later in 1984. But I digress...

Gratitude to America for the airlift is Ser Clegane's prerogative. Instead, I shall express my admiration for this very right decision that was made in the aftermath of WWII by America (and Britain, grumble). The Berlin airlift drew the democratic allies together, pulled a directionless France firmly into this camp, established a democratic West-Germany, demanded and aided reconcilliation in Western Europe, showed the Soviets a clear line in Europe that was not to be crossed, and it put up a framework that lasted for fifty years and safeguarded West-European freedom. All under the umbrella of US leadership.

(Now to wait for the East European version. Did they feel abandoned? Do they see the airlift as aggressive posturising that aided the establishment of the Iron Curtain? Do they feel the door towards a non-Soviet dominated central Europe was not yet closed? Or do they feel that the Curtain was an inevitable result of Soviet aggression, thankfully contained midway through Germany?
Do the South Europeans feel that the aggressive stance of the western democracies installed a policy that prolonged western support for their dictators? That America chose agressive anti-communist containment at all costs too easily?

Questions, questions...And no, not rhetorical ones, plain curiosity)

[LittleGrizzly]

What about the Welsh!!

I bet you don't all know the story of the Wel....

i forget, never mind... ;)

[Tribesman]

I bet you don't all know the story of the Wel....

Is it of an ovine nature ?

[Samurai Waki]

What about the Welsh!!

I bet you don't all know the story of the Wel....

i forget, never mind... ;)

We should never forget the Welsh contribution to the Berlin Airlift, I think I may have a picture or two of a Sheep handing out cigarettes to the Poor and Needy.

[Pannonian]

We should never forget the Welsh contribution to the Berlin Airlift, I think I may have a picture or two of a Sheep handing out cigarettes to the Poor and Needy.

Was the Sheep still attached to the Welshman?

[Samurai Waki]

Was the Sheep still attached to the Welshman?

Now you've just gone off and made my perfectly innocent joke dirty.





























yes.

[Tribesman]

Now you've just gone off and made my perfectly innocent joke dirty.

Innocent ???welsh and sheep
You may as well have made a joke about Fred West having a family business in patios