@P_Soisialach One of Ireland’s greatest leaders, steady, honest, hardworking. His leadership ensured that the embryo Irish state lived and he succeeded in establishing a strong and independent country, considering the resources he had available to him this was nothing short of a miracle
@jonburkeUK The Netherlands is not an example that can be universally applied, its geography plays a huge part is the cycle culture, it’s basically completely flat and it’s very small and densely populated
@pati_marins64 Can someone explain how Japan can maintain and expand such an impressive fleet(at least on paper) on such a modest defence budget(1% is GDP)
@thomsonchris This is one of the most moronic things I have ever read, Scotland willingly entered into the Union with England that created Great Britain in 1701. Scotland was a active participant in empire building, it supplied as many soldiers, civil servants and politicians as England