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Oh for fucks sake. How many times does this bullshit get promoted. Iceland != Ireland! Or any other distressed european nation for that matter. It's FUCKING TIN
by retube 14y ago
Oh for fucks sake. How many times does this bullshit get promoted. Iceland != Ireland! Or any other distressed european nation for that matter. It's FUCKING TINY. Population: 320k. GDP: $14bn, or 1/1000 that of the US, or 1/100 that of a peripheral european nation. The impact of Iceland defaulting on it's debt does not compare to a "full-sized" nation. </rant>
- talmir 14y agoWe may be small but we are wiry ;) But honestly, when I read a lot of what the foreign press is saying about us Icelanders it almost seems like they are telling a fairytale. We are being used as an example for some mythological "We should have done that!" type thing. There are no delusions here that what we did would never work for a larger country, and what we did was indeed morally questionable. But it is fun reading about the miracle of iceland on the net tho :)