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Moreso when Russia and friends are putting their finger on the scale. After all it certainly doesn't make economic sense.
by jpfromlondon 10mo ago
Moreso when Russia and friends are putting their finger on the scale.
After all it certainly doesn't make economic sense.
- rayiner 10mo agoCountries aren’t just economies. Scotland was colonized by England and it’s reasonable for them to want to be independent. It’s also reasonable for them to want to remain in the UK. Trying to paint one side as the one Russia supports is an ugly way of treating a decolonization movement.
- arethuza 10mo ago"Scotland was colonized by England" That's not really true, it was a union agreed by both sides - hence the name.
- rayiner 9mo agoThe British East India Company’s colonization of India also involved negotiated treaties.
- inglor_cz 9mo agoAren't you a German? (Maybe I am mistaking you for someone else.) If so, I would like to remind you of the German saying „Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich“. Your analogy is very, very stretched. One can definitely say that suppression of Highlanders after the defeat of the last Jacobite Uprising was somewhat similar to other British military actions, including those in India, but that was the standard of the day in the 18th century. Scotland was in no meaningful way "colonized". The local elite kept their power, their property, and got adequate representation in the common British Parliament, which meant real influence over the legislative process and formation of governments. Can you name any Indian MPs sitting in the Westminster back then and co-determining the next budget and the next Prime Minister? No.
- mistrial9 9mo agocomments on the person of a comment are not allowed on YNews by the guidelines here
- pas 9mo ago... too bad there's no precedent for some part of an island around there uniting with this fancy free trade group of maverick countries!