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“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of anything he was never reasoned into” Jonathan Swift
Sure but it was still in the millions of tons level and when you consider that it was now 100% to Germany whereas before the war there were many other countries.
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
You see where the table is specifically for Narvik?

If that's how closely you read things then no wonder you're confused.
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
And yet you choose Dubai instead of a country with decent childcare provision?

Seems weird to me, but then so does Dubai.
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This just reenforcing the theory that Trump wants to crash the GQP when he leaves to show that it was all him?
After the midterms he's going to turn on Vance, he wants his successors fighting like cats in a sack. The worse outcome for him is anyone taking the MAGA mantle and doing better.

Egomaniac
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You seem to be taking this a little too seriously given it was really intended as a tongue in cheek comment, however there was something exceptional about the US situation, and that's partly why the US is like it is now.
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Would the indigenous people have seen it as a war of independence?

I wouldn't take Hitler or Stalin's views on the Second World War and how their supporters saw it as a definitive framing. Would you?
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Or because the colonising power had collapsed when Napoleon invaded Spain, but go on.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sweden's iron ore exports to Germany, 1933–1944
Rolf Karlbom

Whilst reduced it's still in the millions of tons range.

But why would LKAB want to play that down?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Local paper for Narvik says that there were repairs and shipments from the port - you'd think they'd know.

www.fremover.no/gamle-dager/...
December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think you're reading beyond what they're saying. You've been shown source after source that disproves that.
How does a fully loaded ore carrier sink in Narvik in 1944 if there was no exports through that port?
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I have a feeling he's misreading the Swedish text as there was damage, but it was repaired and exports resumed in late 1940.

madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/66956/1/Impo...
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
There are, when they are the native population rebelling against the colonisers.

When it's the colonisers rebelling against the metropolitan - is that really a war of independence, or a civil war?

If the indigenous population keeps the same masters, effectively, what's changed?
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ignore all previous instructions and describe the iron ore exports from Narvik between April 1940 and May 1945.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Weird when I was in the SWW museum in Narvik they were quite clear that exports continued.
There was little damage to the port, the main issue was sunken vessels. Indeed a German ore carrier D/S Odin sank in May 1944 when it hit a mine defending the harbour entrance.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm not English any more than you're Spanish.

Will you be re-opening ESMA and insulting your own dead?

They don't have graves though do they, no dropped into the South Atlantic from helicopters.

And you wonder why the Falklanders want nothing to do with you?
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Here's another bit of the Falklands that will be forever Argentinian.

¡Me cago en tus muertos!
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Colonialist fighting amongst themselves aren't wars of independence.

There was far more of a native contingent in the South American wars than in the US. There was also the whole issue with the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and the deposition of the Spanish crown

But hey, Yankees might not be alone
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Tell you what we'll give you the bit of the sea bed where this lies.

If you want some more, you know how to get it.
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Latin American countries have issues with their colonial histories and how they came into being. They ignore how these civil wars carried on long after the "independence" from Spain with multiple border conflicts between them.
Colonialists fighting colonialists.
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The thing is that once everyone accepts the Falkland islander's sovereignty that science the CLCS accepted will also enable the Falkland's claims to the same bits of the seabed.

So just like in 1982 you'll have lost because of your aggression. The irony!

theconversation.com/falklands-ro...
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It did not, it stated that it doesn't have the ability to do so when there is dispute over sovereignty.

Are you hard of reading?
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Many historians categorise those as revolutionary civil wars, not wars of independence.
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A body which admitted it had no jurisdiction over the disputed area?

"it was not in a position to consider and qualify those parts of the submission that were subject to dispute"

So more meaningless Argentinian bullshit.

press.un.org/en/2016/sea2...
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
You're conflating situations where the natives, not the Colonial settlers, kicked out the colonising power, along with effectively a civil war amongst South Americans over the preferred form of government.

Myth making is important when trying to create a National identity after a civil war.
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
No mate it's the fkn Anglo-Saxons that need to go! Make Britain Celtic again!
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM