The steel industry of the 2020s and 30s

This thread has quickly evolved from a commentary on how exposed the Reeves budget strategy is to global shocks to "the UK's imperial and colonial interests entangle it into yet another American war" discussion

Ah lovely little land border there for Guyana and of course, the British Army's facilities for jungle warfare in Belize. I'm sure that the latter will not be of any use to an American occupation force in Venezuela.

Ah lovely. I'm sure also the fact that we also have 4 colonies in the Caribbean won't expose us to any acute economic fallout or indeed, military or political fallout!

A global economic shock? Stemming from a war of aggression? Negatively impacting the UK economy in terms of direct price increases? Will never happen (link below unrelated).

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Just phenomenal geostrategy at play. Peppered with golden nuggets like Attee wanting to keep the Andaman and Nicobar islands for the Anglo-Indians and Nehru considering allowing it because he thought it funny to reduce the former jailers of India to a penal colony.

Unsurprisingly, that is an argument and worldview taken straight from the depths of X. Just rancid.

And after trying to make the French Union and its sequel, the French Community, happen

Indeed and in fact the British Government refused the Maltese the chance to become a constituent part of the UK in 1956, which set the precedent for independence or continuation as a colony, rather than the French model of incorporation