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"no country has attacked Iceland in the last 70 years" This isn't strictly true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
by shermozle 10y ago
"no country has attacked Iceland in the last 70 years"
This isn't strictly true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
- afarrell 10y agoAccess to cod-rich waters was something the US insisted on in the treaty of Paris that ended the revolutionary war. By "the US insisted", I mean "John Adams insisted", because he was from Massachusetts, which has an eleven-inch carved-wood cod sculpture hanging in the legislature.