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David Perlmutter's avatar

This is a very welcome bit of context for this unnecessary martial action.

June Girvin's avatar

Interesting. Presumably the UK could be an economic winner from the Dover Straits.

M. E. Rothwell's avatar

An extra maritime tax in the Channel, because we don’t have enough taxes!

David Gemeinhardt's avatar

Back to the future!

MM Bane's avatar

A sweet and sour history lesson that, indeed, history does repeat itself. And your assessment about we'll all be poorer for it is true, sadly.

Holly A.J.'s avatar

Ironically, Canada have been having a quiet back and forth with the US for decades that our Northwest Passage is in Canadian territorial waters and they cannot just sail through it without letting us know - former PM Jean Chretien tells a story of how he directly confronted them over it.

Andrew Smith's avatar

Straight up, good writing. I tend to look to history whenever geopolitical insanity seems afoot, and there is almost always a corollary.

Andrew Smith's avatar

Crap, can’t believe I blew the pun: strait up good writing

M. E. Rothwell's avatar

Very poor from you