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This is a phenomenal article! Thanks for the link! (I had never heard of the “Cod wars” until now but they are fascinating...)
by LolWolf 6y ago
This is a phenomenal article! Thanks for the link! (I had never heard of the “Cod wars” until now but they are fascinating...)
- pjc50 6y agoFish are a resource to be colonized at gunpoint like anything else. It's just that this (fortunately) produced a set of ludicrous little skirmishes rather than the Royal Navy turning up and shelling Reykjavík.
- LolWolf 6y agoOh, no, absolutely; it is just quite surprising to me that these were relatively modern events. (It’s also a fun case study where negotiations failed spectacularly, with interesting/unexpectedly underlying causes.)
- ashtonkem 6y agoSome say that the golden age of naval idiocy has gone away forever, fortunately these people are wrong.
- an_opabinia 6y agoExcept absolutely nothing in the world would be lost, in reality, no aspect of human existence, no reduction of joy, if people fished less and fish was more expensive, or whatever crap, in retrospect, people were collecting into their bellies or as stupid fashion for history.