Eternal_Freedom wrote:ANd what will an independent Scotland do once the oil is gone? How will they then pay for their own defence and healthcare? I would imainge they will ask for the Scottish regiments to be turned over to them, and yet they mostly (from what I have heard from soldier friends) have English or English-trained officers.
English-trained officers? huh? Also, how do Highlands regiments get English officers? I am just wondering. Is it a lack of Scots officers (like how in USSR there were more russian officers and more azeri/kazakh/etc enlisted?)
streetad wrote:Salmond gives the impression that he hasn't thought through a lot of how an independent Scotland would work, instead swinging wildly between opposing positions depending on polling data; renewable energy, oil revenue, monarchist, republican, wanting the Euro, wanting to keep Sterling (ironically this would create a situation where Scotland has LESS control over its own fiscal policy than it currently has). Really whatever will further the independence agenda....
I remember Gavilo Princip's trial and him talking about how he did not care about which form a Yugoslav state was, as long as it existed for South Slavs. I guess it is similar to that.
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Eternal_Freedom wrote:ANd what will an independent Scotland do once the oil is gone? How will they then pay for their own defence and healthcare? I would imainge they will ask for the Scottish regiments to be turned over to them, and yet they mostly (from what I have heard from soldier friends) have English or English-trained officers.
English-trained officers? huh? Also, how do Highlands regiments get English officers? I am just wondering. Is it a lack of Scots officers (like how in USSR there were more russian officers and more azeri/kazakh/etc enlisted?)
From what I understand it's that all of the officer training schools are in England (hence, English-trained) and that being trained to fight in the British Army tends to remove Scottish/Welsh/Irish/Cornish/Whatever nationalism.
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Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
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Saxtonite wrote:Weren't Sons of Glendwyr aided and supported by the IRA?
Not really relevant. We are talking about a Scottish government with highly trained soldiers, not a small terrorist organisation. Also there isn't a sectarian problem in Wales as there is in Scotland.
