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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
Wouldn't the main invasion threat to the Falklands be the possibility that the Argentinians may use "Trojan Horse" ships or aircraft, which look like civilian ones but are packed with soldiers, like the ones the Nazis used to invade Norway...
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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
Charlie Stross @323: Wouldn't a deflation of the housing bubble actually benefit savers at the expense of property owners (especially highly levaraged BTL landlords)?...
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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
Greg Tingey @309: Brest-Litovsk looks worse than Versailles because Germany was a nation-state while Russia was a multi-ethnic empire (which made it easier to come up with pretexts to deprive it of territory). Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (which unlike...