Comments on: Bad Old Days

By: Round Up « The World According to Me…

Round Up « The World According to Me… — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:35:49 +0000

[...] Neptunus Lex continues to chronicle the decline of Europe as a major power, if it every was in the first place – certainly some of its member nations may have been – once – but EU Europe definitely seems to be less than the sum of its parts…Britain, Eire, Netherlands, Greece, Russia… [...]

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:40:42 +0000

Speaking of the Land of the Rising Sun… shame they haven’t got over the national shame yet. At this point, it’s irritating overkill: by the standards of Asian (Mongols, etc), and indeed European (anything to do with non-Catholics and France, Napoleon’s wars, etc), wars of conquest, the Japanese were vile, but, unlike the Germans, not evil.

A re-militarized Japan would be useful, right about now, as a balance to China, and as a regional (more or less) power capable of making life miserable for SE Asian pirates (Strait of Malacca esp’) and dictators.

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:28:40 +0000

And advise dar al Islam that there’s a silo or three pointed at Mecca.

By: Zane

Zane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:39 +0000

My shorthand slights Steyn, and your thoughts are in line with his. It’s not Russia itself that poses the threat (not that’s it our friend, either), it’s what lines it grabs for as it plummets that present the danger. Lines to Iran, for example.

By: Chris van Avery

Chris van Avery — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:09:36 +0000

C’mon! They’re the French. What did you expect?

“NINOs” — Nato in name only.

Now you know why the Brits call them “the hereditary enemy”.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:56 +0000

Japan is still seething, but that simply is a lesson not to start wars with major powers when you are a minor power.