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Britain could buy oil from Middle Eastern countries in the Sterling bloc using Sterling whereas if Britain bought oil from the Western hemisphere it would have to use dollars and this would cut into the dollar reserves. A minnimum of 2000 million dollars was needed to maintain the sterling bloc...

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You really think Britain had that much sway over US foreign policy?:rolleyes: The West refused to sell him arms because they knew he wanted to use them against Israel. There's so much wrong with this. First of all, the Suez Canal company was not controlled by Britain. Britain only had 44%...

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at in the bolded bit? Are you talking about Nasser's nationalisation? If so, the reason it was nationalised was because Britain and America cut off funding for the Aswan dam and Nasser was looking for a way to finance the dam. Which British invasion are you...

You, or someone else, said to look at things from the Egyptian perspective. Well the truth is that Nasser caused this mess in the 1st place because he was so bloody desperate for arms with which to fight Israel. Egypt was a very poor country at the time and yet their leader thought it best to...

One division in Egypt is worth 4 in Algeria - Robert Lacost. The FLN's HQ was in Cairo and was was getting a lot of it's arms from Cairo. For the French, the Suez Operation was cutting off the head of the snake so to speak.

His actions, did, however break the treaty of Lunevillle. The view in London was if he's willing to break one treaty then why not another?

If Napoleon agrees to Whitworth's proposal for a 10 year British occupation then at the end of the ten years yes. The extended occupation was seen as necessary because of Napoleon's actions in Italy. Declaring himself President of the Italian Republic and all that. France had thus extended its...

Our quarrel is not with the Egypt, still less with the Arab World. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. - Eden...

You mean apart from French and Israeli of course. Australians and New Zealanders?

If Nasser hadn't bought arms from the Czechs he would have had his dam funded by the West.

Like every Dictator, Nasser's hold on power appeared stronger than it was. All that needs to happen if for an Egyptian who's popular with the people and willling to agree to re internationalise the canal to be put in charge. British troops would be out by mid 1957 at the latest.

That's very interesting.

It's true that the canal was closed by Nasser, however, the only Arabs who imposed an embargo on Britih oil were the Saudis. Syrian sabotage on pipelines to the Mediterranean reduced flow there from 40 million to 14 million tonnes annually. I see no reason why Britain couldn't requisition or buy...

Made up by who and for what 'political reasons'? Not disagreeing with you just curious.

The reason Addington declared war in 1803 was because he felt Napoleon could not be trusted. His treatment of the Luneville treaty showed that he did not care to stick to agreements his diplomats had negotiated. Secondly, his continues fascination over India and failure to denounce the...

Could you elaborate on that please?

Amazing how politicians seek to act in their nation's best interest when their suppossed ally is economically strangling them.

So you admit you were bullshitting about a US military strike?

How can you expect the task force to invade Egypt, occupy the canal and Cairo all within 36 hours? The failure to take the canal was due to the short amount of time between the invasion and the cease fire, not due to Egyptian military valour.