auntblabby wrote:
i'm wondering if the average English chap would fall down laughing at the sound of the phrase "president trump"?
Or run to a safe place to hide and cry if he heard, "Take up the white man's burden."
A little study of history shows that sometimes the only choice is, "Be a man!"
It was a struggle when they were few and badly armed, now they are many, and have wealth and the White man's technology.
Still, they are primitive religious fanatics.
They have easy access to the homeland, and any place they live becomes the property of their god. Their god commands them to become the rulers. You offend their god by existing.
You can claim to be liberal and progressive, but they only see the unfaithful. That Infidels exist is an attack on their religion.
While slavery did end in America, slavery in place, Colonialism, continued for another hundred years in French and English lands.
They know you well, they lived beneath your boot for hundreds of years.
Mostly you were less enlightened than Kipling writes, less leading them to civilization, and more exploiting them.
The USSR left better behind when they left Eastern Europe, they built factories, schools, roads, economies, and did not require the people to learn Russian. Housing, water, power, the Russians made as good as they had.
The British and French were the wealthy and enlightened, and left behind illiterates living in shacks in slums.
Your Post Colonial War is happening in Europe, and America is not going to get involved.
Obama, Hillary, Britain and France destroyed Libya, that is also a European problem.
The British Army was in Ukraine, offered full European Union Membership, but only wanted Crimea. Not the first Crimean War. Overthrow yourselves, poke the Russian Bear with a sharp stick, and we will occupy the Navel Base.
You grabbed a sack of rotting s**t, and cannot let go. Those who listened, who trusted you, now need $40 Billion a year forever. They want to move to Europe like you promised. Open the UK to those who trusted you, open the door for the Bandera.
The European history of setting up their chosen governments on ex colonial countries is well known. Such as overthrowing the elected government of Iran, and imposing the Shah.
Whoever you are against, we will elect, NATO needs to be much smaller and locally funded.
Europe is Europe's problem.