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Hypothetical was my idea. Not Michael. I wanted to push your blockade idea some. Then there will be no blockade. FONOPS to continue as usual...

He doesn't follow history very well. Of all the nuclear confrontations between the US and the USSR, it was Moscow, not Washington DC who backed down....

If you're counting 1860 then you also have to count Edward VIII's visits as Prince of Wales. 1919, 1920, 1924, 1927.

If you're counting 1860 then you also have to count Edward VIII's visits as Prince of Wales. 1919, 1920, 1924, 1927.

Well, George V did have the title of Emperor of India. He wasn't Emperor of the United States. He went to India for a coronation ceremony. If I...

Opposition is known for coming up with false campaigns. Birther controversy is one such example and IMO this Russian collusion business is another....

So the Senkaku bit of his book is a non-event He also mentions the same dynamics at play if Russia were to occupy a town in say Estonia. Idea...

Are you suggesting everyone is measuring their dicks by their military parades? Everybody else does it, including the Poles and Dutch. Again, even...

Yeah and the answers weren't satisfactory. 1860 - 1939 is 80 years between visits. 1860 the two countries had not warmed up yet. Can go all the...

Only if you measure your history from 1776 on. Before then, the British/American Colonies had their share of humilating defeats and being driven back...

In my opinion, these parades are part and parcel of France's politique de grandeur. It is a sign of national pride, and compensatory for France's...

That was not the point I was trying to make. The point was that the French sees tanks no differently than we see F18s. To the French (and the rest of...

Sir, we've already acknowledged repeatedly that air shows and fly-overs are common and popular here in the US, but also on a completely different...

You made this observation, that's what: Ironduke was refuting that. Trump didn't take it well At All.

No doubt about it, and of course it wasn't his first time running for President either, despite his usual lies to the contrary. Ohhhh definitely....

Ah very interesting, did not know that! Visiting his nephew the Czar and checking up on an important ally.

Perhaps that's precisely why it didn't happen. It doesn't change the fact - it didn't happen. Elsewhere, humiliation, conquest, devastation,...

I suppose you are reading more than i can here. Trump has to sit there and take it ? Yeah and so what. If he was the one peddling the birther...

The current foreign minister of France is the son of a car parts salesman and a seamstress who went to the rather average University of Rennes, the...

That's because of big bodies of water. Not our military prowess. Even then, Britain was conquered when she didn't have a navy. Even then, we have...

I'm not sure I'm following you. You have mentioned ABCA being the exception, and parades elsewhere being the norm. The exception that...

You're attributing Bastille Day as a means of compensating their loss of Empire. As pointed out already, others have military parades on their...

There are many reasons a person may make a decision, some of which they are conscious of, others they are unaware of, and others they are...

Edward VII got to Russia in 1908 as king, which is significantly farther than Victoria.

We've covered that already, remember?

Not surprising considering the history of Chinese trying military shortcuts. Insufficent shore bombardment vessels? Put field artillery and tanks...

I see, one looks at the present queen and sees how well off she is and assumes during the days of empire regents would have even more at their...

I'm not talking about the kids waiting in line for iPhones. I'm talking about the people who actually shape French policy, political thought,...

The reason for the lack of state visits by British monarchs in general was because they had to fund such visits out of their own pockets or they'd...

Very good, this was something i heard in the 90s, internet wasn't fully up and running yet : )