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    Default Re: What does the UK, France and the Netherlands have in common?

    Sow how far back do you draw the line? Suing the NL for the cost incurred to Spain with their disobedience? Suing the Mongols for wages lost when they beheaded iranian peasants? Suing the Visigoths for books lost when they looted France? Or Charles Martel for the arab horses he killed in Rousillon? I say get them all. Since we have proved time and again that money is just a number, we might as well put some zeroes behind it. I for one will buy government debt with El Cid's face on it. Or Frederic Barbarrossa's. Or Totanka's if it comes to that.

    Edit: Ah, shouldn't then the formerly-colonised countries pay back the cost of the buildings they inherited from their suzerains? I know Ireland has a bunch of buildings built by the British, should they claim the costs back? Should they claim the cost for building up Jamaica, or Hong Kong? Should Spain for Buenos Aires or Havana, or France for Casablanca or Pondicherry?
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