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yeeeeeeeees, that was my point? Ah, the old trick of 'let's have the UN survey it and not call it ethnic cleansing, that way it won't be'. It's still a treaty dictated at gunpoint to people who don't know their own interests and are magically raised up by Western education inside of half a...

Let's treat the natives, literally called 'tribesmen', no leadership being established or even relevant to any signing of any kind (is it a NeoIncan, is it a Colonel Kurtz NeoIncan) to the full might of a US Division which we'll somehow airlift in more or less one go and which will be present at...

Well you certainly got the white man's burden in the negotiations down pat. And Bundy's figures don't add up.

The tragedy of not being a great power. However, considering a Norwegian debacle was the cause for the last significant British Cabinet reshuffle and that one former First Lord of the Admiralty was fairly responsible for it and, er, (checking of notes) got promoted for it, maybe the Norwegians...

Why would you waste manpower, boats, equipment and specialist knowledge to achieve an objective that will be fulfilled come Spring or Summer with the overall surrender of German forces and where it's a net resource sink for German occupying troops who don't have an easy way to make it home...

With what kit? Dunkirk did a number on that and the British have had to work like crazy to build the necessary replacements and not all of them are much to look at. Hobart's funnies have not even been thought of yet as Dieppe has not ironed out the kinks in effecting a contested landing. And the...

The Mel Brooks method before the fact? That way?

Yes, I think we've established that's exactly the problem.

Not even a shred of irony as this wooshes high above your heads?

It's no shame admitting you don't know the first thing about the man.

Sétif and Madagascar say otherwise to say nothing of the torture and the actual wars of independence. The building of the Congo-Océan railway line likewise. French rhetoric in its colonialist attempts probably puts it above the other discourses. The reality of it, not so much. There is some...

Because those are two things that would happen.

Even if we were to leave the matter over Mandela slide, which we shouldn't, there is then the problem that this sort of things pop up everywhere. To use one example I'm familiar with, de Gaulle fails to reform the Fourth Republic and not only stays on, but meekly agrees to be elected a...

[Marcus Octavius is being manhandled out of the Forum]

I crossed the Lapeyrère street on my way home tonight. If I had had a hat, I would have doffed it. It's not actually named after the admiral, but still.

If you're trying to have people on tenterhooks, well done! Are you sure about the way you're phrasing this, though? I think, from your schéma that Lapeyrère is trying to cross Haus's T.

But I had this lovely guillotine ready for the bastard Nepomuk! :(

Hardly. It's roughly the same size as Northern Ireland which has nearly double that population. It works out to a bit over 80 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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Ooooo. Ta-sty. And my, West Paris almost cracked, didn't it?