Falklands

[Furunculus]

It's official!

The US tells its closest ally, the country with which it enjoys a teary-eyed Special Relationship and Civil Union: 'Up Yours, Britain'.

~~o~~o~~<<oOo>>~~o~~o~~

Latin America has awoken. a lot of this sabbre-ratlling is to do with new economic might, shifting demographic balances, and the need for Latin America to express newfound confidence and solidarity at last week's Latin american summit. Always good to have a foreign scapegoat or enemy to emphasise internal closed ranks.

Not to be mean or anything, but the very surname of the Brookings Intitution analyst is a hint to the other reason why the US does not back Britain this time round. The world changes.

that is because saint obama wants a EUropean superstate to prop up a declining american hegemony in the 21st century.

to achieve this he needs a europe that is powerful (i.e. Britain is in it), and anglophile (i.e. Britain is in it).

thus saint obama needs to 'wean' the UK of its US dependancy, because like it or not 21st europe has become a strategic backwater so having the UK as its unsinkable aircraft-carrier off europe is no longer the advantage it once was, we can be of more use to the yanks as a leading light in a federal europe.


but here's the thing Louise*, just because saint obama would have it thus does not mean that Britain should roll over and 'take' it thus. saint obama will be gone one day, and the US will once again realise that an ally that can project power (presuming we still can post May 2010) is an invaluable thing.

the fact that america wants something inimical to the soveriegnistas of Britain is not the cause of a crisis, it's realpolitic, but at the end of the day Britain is still going to have more in common with the anglosphere than it ever will with old-europe. our problems are not yours**.


* post done in a Scrubs style Dr. Cox rant (no offence intended)
** https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=1#post2064955
** https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=1#post2065209
** https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=1#post2065918