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WI no White Sea – Baltic Canal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sea_%E2%80%93_Baltic_Canal The Öresunds bridge lead to a heated fight within what is now the Alliance. WI Olof Johanson stopped it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresund_Bridge I don't know about aluminum plants but I'm under...

Part 2: The Rise of Cobra Many of the older members left for the Soviet Union or at least offered them their services. The younger members founded a breakaway fraction named Cobra. The name may come from a member only identified as Number 5 who had a pet cobra he used to play with during...

Lucifer and Cobra Nobody studying the Lucifer Organisation and its sucessor, Cobra, can avoid thinking about the famous words of Angelton, the CIA counter intelligence chief who fought them during his career. "It's a wilderness of mirrors." Peter Wright who studied and confronted the Lucifer...

I wrote my own Lucifer/Cobra article, trying to fill it with cool stuff. I probobly missed some stuff so feel free editing and adding stuff to this.

automobile have been shorten to auto in Germany and bil in Sweden. For some reason, I think mo would be a cool thing to call a car.

"The Canadians are good at digging trenches and we are good at converting trenches into graves. They, too, know this. We know each other very well." - Bill "The Great" Clinton "The Mexicans are good at building walls and we are good at digging under them. They, too, know this. We know each...

What about baby (ie non-US) carriers? The recon range is limited (IIRC) due to the Harriers shorter range. What if somebody decide to fight only baby carriers? (Pakistan vs Indian carrier?).

It might be cheating but you didn't specify what goverment. He could make a coup another country. He was in Europe post WWII so he could make something there, he could pull something in an alt Koerea or Japan, or get involved in early Vietnam. He could realize that Batista is unpopular and about...

They could always be Upper Volta with nukes so it have to fall due to inside pressure. And that is a interesting process. The way I see it, people ask for as much as they are allowed. When the crackdown comes, they get crushed. (As a consequence, I don't really take the word from people living...

One thing keeping it from becomming a Italy wank is that it's to easy to copy.

"They can take our lambs, but that makes them look like perverts infront of the TV CAMERAS!!!!" -Mel Gibson

My favourite joke is somewhat relevant, a conspiracy of lone nuts. :D

The guy who choses the Lama choses a Russian?

c) Western forces would have been a de facto peace keeping force. If we buy the Russian/commonly accepted version, South-Ossetia where minding their own buisness when Georgia attacked. Which wouldn't have happened if they where to attack trough a massive NATO army. I don't get how that...

I'm a bit lazy at the moment. Have to watch hockey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstein_Doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostpolitik Still, the argument isn't about legal principles. It's about avoiding potential conflicts. And cold war Germany is that.

"I didn't steal the election, I just borrowed it." - GWB "Join my religion. We are the easiest offended group of people." (Could be atributed to a figure but they may be offended.)

The Swedish Robinson could easily have been taken of air after the first episode. It was a fairly big scandal/debate at the time when it was seen as bullying TV and one of the contestants commited suicide. It's a nifty pod in it self.

I'm sure there's some legal difference but I fail to see the difference between Georgia and Cold War Germany, 1/4 occupied by the Soviet Union. After all, the argument beeing that it's a potential flashpoint and it's hard argue Cold War Germany isnt't one. When thinking about this issue, I...

The moderate/less wacky presidential candidate become president and he will have a little stronger mandate to reform the Iranian society due to the show of force that brought him to power.

Without research and expertese, and a bit angry because computer issues made me rewrite it: The South African Vietnam The Vietnam analogy comes to mind. Not only did South Africa get involved in a number of low intensity conflicts, they also put great strain on the South African society where...