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

    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
    I seem to remember an act of regicide about 300 years ago. So that's us off the hook then.
    One problem is that you still celebrate and defend the atrocities, another is that you didn't have a restart like France did as Sarmatian explained.

    I have incidentally found a way out for you. Given that your Royals are German royals anyway, they could become viceroys of the German colony of England, basically turning your entire country into a German colony, which also equals a change of great magnitude. Since we have already paid our war reparations, you'd be off the hook. The whole story being voluntary, there wouldn't be any bad blood between us either and who knows, maybe we'd improve your country and let you off our hook after 200 years or so.

    Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy View Post
    Ah, the assumption that people lived idealistic, ultruistic lives before the evil Europeans intervened. Hilarious.
    No, that is not in there, set your strawman up somewhere else. However, tribal cultures do require more cooperation within a tribe even though there is a clear leader with benefits, it's usually not as blatant and the whole thing is more transparent for all members. In contrast we got duped by our banks and our governments pretend there was nothing bad about it, just threw more money at them. Regardless of this, European intervention was not aimed at improving anything but the situation of the Europeans. To assume any kind of altruism by colonial powers is even more hilarious.
    Last edited by Husar; 10-14-2013 at 11:07.


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