What do Americans think of Britain? - Page 5

**G10** · 07-10-2007, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

I was just joking around Gio, and Rankenstein, for your information, they didn't get knocked back and England signed a peace treaty to avoid the Dutch to enter London, which they were getting very close to without too much effort, after destroying most of the English fleet on the rivers.

This is correct, they did sign a peace treaty

Come to think about it, bloody waste of space this country really, isn't it!

To all other Brits, I'm just pulling your leg

**Rankenstein** · 07-10-2007, 03:06 AM

We should pack it all in, abandon all self-respect, and become European.

Ferre · 07-10-2007, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Rankenstein

We should pack it all in, abandon all self-respect, and become European.

I don't think so. I think that the people in all the different countries in Europe should wake up and dismantle that whole communist EU concept forced upon us by powerhungry bureaucrats.

**John Scott** · 07-10-2007, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

Not really, but who wants it?

Ever heard of the Raid on the Medway? Or heard of a dude named Michiel de Ruyter?

Guess not.

LOL. 300 years ago. More recently they just surrender.

StrongInTheArm · 07-10-2007, 04:50 AM

Brigadier General Rankenstein and his horde of Mancs can take the sea ports.

Air Commander G10 can parachute in with with his morris dancers.

And I'll take some lads from a few of the London estates via the channel tunnel.

Europe will be ours in days.

That'll put the wind up'em

And if we can get some of the 18-30s holidayers in Spain and Greece to join in we would be home by the weekend.

Ferre · 07-10-2007, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

LOL. 300 years ago. More recently they just surrender.

Yep, as in WW1, the Netherlands was NEUTRAL and Hitler invaded it by surprise in the nigh time without even declarinig war up front. Needless to say that the Netherlands was not at all prepared for war, as they had been neutral in the first ww and did not even have a real sufficient army at the time.

Because our borders where not protected, and because of the dense population in the little country it would have been a historical mistake to not surrender. taking an allready lost war into the cities would have resulted in massive casualties for the Dutch population with an outcome that was allready clear to begin with.

Did you know that Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands, was bombed (and everyone in that city) untill the whole city was flattened by the nazis because one of the tiny islands didn't want to surrender? Did you know that the nazis treathened to do the same with Amsterdam if that island (Walcheren) didn't surrender and that this was the reason why those people gave in and surrendered to save Amsterdam?

Guess not.

**John Scott** · 07-10-2007, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

Yep, as in WW1, the Netherlands was NEUTRAL and Hitler invaded it by surprise in the nigh time without even declarinig war up front. Needless to say that the Netherlands was not at all prepared for war, as they had been neutral in the first ww and did not even have a real sufficient army at the time.

Because our borders where not protected, and because of the dense population in the little country it would have been a historical mistake to not surrender. taking an allready lost war into the cities would have resulted in massive casualties for the Dutch population with an outcome that was allready clear to begin with.

Did you know that Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands, was bombed untill the whole city was flattened by the nazis because one of the tiny islands didn't want to surrender? Did you know that the nazis treathened to do the same with Amsterdam if that island (Walcheren) didn't surrender and that this was the reason why those people gave in and surrendered to save Amsterdam?

Guess not.

Actually, I had read the Wiki article I linked to, so yeah I know the place was bombed. But you got to think, if you know you're living next to a bloodthirsty tyrant, why not get prepared?

Ferre · 07-10-2007, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

Actually, I had read the Wiki article I linked to, so yeah I know the place was bombed. But you got to think, if you know you're living next to a bloodthirsty tyrant, why not get prepared?

You seem to forget that Hitler had exactly the same political status as president Bush has today. He was democratically elected, supported by American bankers and industrialists like Henri Ford and grandpa Bush and even respected by many politicians in that time, even the Pope praised him into heaven. His swift to fascism happened in a relatively short period and as the Netherlands had been successfully kept its neutral position in the first war there was no reason to believe that it could be attacked, specially not by neighbours it had been in peace with since generations. Nazi Germany had a beef with Poland, Russia and France at that time and there was no reason at all to suspect that the Netherlands could get pulled into the conflict.

**John Scott** · 07-10-2007, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

You seem to forget that Hitler had exactly the same political status as president Bush has today. He was democratically elected, supported by American bankers and industrialists like Henri Ford and grandpa Bush and even respected by many politicians in that time, even the Pope praised him into heaven.

LOL. So Dutch foreign policy is dictated by Henry Ford?

**G10** · 07-10-2007, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by StrongInTheArm

Air Commander G10 can parachute in with with his morris dancers.

Morris dancers?

Good old british ballroom old boy, what what!

KeithCash · 07-10-2007, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by StrongInTheArm

Brigadier General Rankenstein and his horde of Mancs can take the sea ports.

Air Commander G10 can parachute in with with his morris dancers.

And I'll take some lads from a few of the London estates via the channel tunnel.

Europe will be ours in days.

That'll put the wind up'em

And if we can get some of the 18-30s holidayers in Spain and Greece to join in we would be home by the weekend.

Just let us know across the pond if you need us to come save your asses again if you get stuck.

Cheers

**John Scott** · 07-10-2007, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by KeithCash

Just let us know across the pond if you need us to come save your asses again if you get stuck.

Cheers

Hehehe.

Greened.

KeithCash · 07-10-2007, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

Y even the Pope praised him into heaven.

I some of my research, Hitlers propaganda show that his war against europe was a "Holy War" to defeat evil for God.

In the same type fashion as the Crusades

Cheers

Ferre · 07-10-2007, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

LOL. So Dutch foreign policy is dictated by Henry Ford?

Man, I nreally don't see how you can come to that conclusion, not even when I read that one part of the longer sentence you cut off to to take it totally out of it's context.

Dutch Policies, at that time, were dictated by the political situation at that time and experiences from the past with the parties involved in the conflicts that were accurate, again, at that time.

There was no reason whatsoever to suspect an invasion. In fact, before he started to invade other countries, and even when he allready had invaded Poland, the germans still had the reputation to be trustworthy regarding respecting diplamatic agreements and they had embassies all over the world.

Maybe the concept is a bit hard for you to understand, but in those days a man's word and a country's official stance was something one could rely upon. Germany had been doing everything it could to pay back the war debts layed upon them by the allied forces after ww1 to the point that it litteraly starved their own people and nothing indicated that they would take any violent action whatsoever against a country that wasn't even involved in the first war.

StrongInTheArm · 07-10-2007, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by G10

Morris dancers?

Good old british ballroom old boy, what what!

OK, if you want to take the ballroom boys in I'll have to change your title to Rear Admiral of the Fleet. But no wearing those skimpy dresses, it gets quite cold in the Pyreneese

Kieth: watch it or we'll start a war on two fronts and send the Essex girls across the pond!

**G10** · 07-10-2007, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferre

even the Pope praised him into heaven.

Here lies one of the major paths laid out for setting of WWII.

If the pope and the Vatican would have unitedly condemned Hitler and his regime early on, due to the fact that most of the Wermacht were Christian, this would have caused a major rift within ranks and the war may have just ended up being a civil war