The Insignificance of England

[TheJadge]

It won't be long now before they are invaded by Argentina.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Those Baltic countries are war-mongers!

 

[TheJadge]

The Crusades are but a blasphemy away.

 

[Fata Morgana]

It won't be long now before they are invaded by Argentina.

Cunt.

 

[oggbashan]

It won't be long now before they are invaded by Argentina.

And what will Argentina use for a navy?

From Wikipedia:

The Argentine Navy is under-funded and struggling to meet maintenance and training requirements, as a result only 15 out of a total of 42 navy vessels are in a condition to sail. The 2013 defence budget allowed for the 15 operational vessels to each spend less than 11 days at sea, while the submarines averaged just over 6 hours submerged in the whole of 2012. ARA Espora spent 73 days in late 2012 stranded in South Africa for lack of spares. The Almirante Brown-class destroyers are short of spares and their ordnance has expired while the Antarctic patrol ship ARA Almirante Irizar has been under repair since a fire in 2007. On 23 January 2013 the Type 42 destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad sank at her moorings having been mothballed for ten years.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And what will Argentina use for a navy?

From Wikipedia:

The Argentine Navy is under-funded and struggling to meet maintenance and training requirements, as a result only 15 out of a total of 42 navy vessels are in a condition to sail. The 2013 defence budget allowed for the 15 operational vessels to each spend less than 11 days at sea, while the submarines averaged just over 6 hours submerged in the whole of 2012. ARA Espora spent 73 days in late 2012 stranded in South Africa for lack of spares. The Almirante Brown-class destroyers are short of spares and their ordnance has expired while the Antarctic patrol ship ARA Almirante Irizar has been under repair since a fire in 2007. On 23 January 2013 the Type 42 destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad sank at her moorings having been mothballed for ten years.

Lend-Lease from the US which is mothballing its fleet for agricultural product to replace the acreage lost to subsidized ethanol corn.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Noor]

Whoever plans to invades has to get there first.
Then they have to actually invade.
I believe the last successful invasion was in 1688 by the Dutch Republic.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Rachel_X]

Also NATO.
By its very mandate it would have to intervene.

 

[pink]

I absolutely love the England. I hope to get there again someday.

 

[phrodeau]

If England is insignificant, what would be the point of invading it?

 

[Noor]

If England is insignificant, what would be the point of invading it?

Maybe that is why no one has invaded it since the 1600's. of course no one has invaded the US either, France however...

 

[Rachel_X]

Maybe that is why no one has invaded it since the 1600's. of course no one has invaded the US either, France however...

Well the Germans tried. Didn't go great for them though.
In fact not a lot of people have had much success with invading in the last thousand years.
I guess you just look at history and then weigh up your chances of success.

 

[removed9556]

 

[girlsmiley]

If England is insignificant, what would be the point of invading it?

I quite like their tea sets.

Reason enough to invade? Meh. I think so.

Lets be honest. They don't put up much of a fight.

"Oh behave."

 

[Fata Morgana]

I quite like their tea sets.

Reason enough to invade? Meh. I think so.

Lets be honest. They don't put up much of a fight.

"Oh behave."

We'll wallpaper you out of the country!

 

[girlsmiley]

We'll wallpaper you out of the country!

Try wallpapering us out. We'll counter with the Flexibile Australian House Spider. FAHS. They love shoes. Especially ugly brown ones. Which you guys wear all the time.

Woooo. Woooooo!

 

[oggbashan]

Whoever plans to invades has to get there first.
Then they have to actually invade.
I believe the last successful invasion was in 1688 by the Dutch Republic.

It was hardly an invasion when the next King was INVITED to come in and get rid of a useless and unpopular Papist monarch. It was big business arranging politics to their advantage.

It was called The Glorious Revolution and the 'invasion' was welcomed by cheering crowds.

The last, often forgotten but nearly successful invasion was by Prince Louis of France, against King John:

In 1215, the English barons rebelled against the unpopular King John in the First Barons' War. The barons offered the throne to Prince Louis, who landed unopposed on the Isle of Thanet in eastern Kent, England, at the head of an army on 21 May 1216. There was little resistance when the prince entered London, and Louis was proclaimed king at St Paul's Cathedral with great pomp and celebration in the presence of all of London. Even though he was not crowned, many nobles, as well as King Alexander II of Scotland on behalf of his English possessions, gathered to give homage.

On 14 June 1216, Louis captured Winchester and soon controlled over half of the English kingdom. But just when it seemed that England was his, King John's death in October 1216 caused many of the rebellious barons to desert Louis in favour of John's nine-year-old son, Henry III.

With the Earl of Pembroke acting as regent, a call for the English "to defend our land" against the French led to a reversal of fortunes on the battlefield. After his army was beaten at the Battle of Lincoln on 20 May 1217 and his naval forces were defeated at the Battle of Sandwich on 24 August 1217, Louis was forced to make peace on English terms. In 1216 and 1217, Prince Louis also tried to conquer Dover Castle, but without success.

The principal provisions of the Treaty of Lambeth were an amnesty for English rebels, a pledge from Louis not to attack England again, and 10,000 marks to be given to Louis. In return for this payment, Louis agreed he had never been the legitimate king of England.

 

[oggbashan]

Maybe that is why no one has invaded it since the 1600's. of course no one has invaded the US either, France however...

No one has invaded the US?

You are forgetting the War of 1812 when the British burned Washington (in retaliation for US forces burning towns in Canada).

 

[oggbashan]

They successfully invaded London. I expect the population was too busy at a unicycling and micro-brewed ironic sourdough convention to mount much of a defence force.

Wrong. London, and particularly London's merchants, wanted access to Dutch territories overseas. It was a commercial coup against a Papist king. Alliance with the Dutch helped create the British Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

 

[TheJadge]

Cunt.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Cunt.

Now, now...that would imply that Jimbo has both warmth and depth!

 

[TheJadge]

And what will Argentina use for a navy?

From Wikipedia:

The Argentine Navy is under-funded and struggling to meet maintenance and training requirements, as a result only 15 out of a total of 42 navy vessels are in a condition to sail. The 2013 defence budget allowed for the 15 operational vessels to each spend less than 11 days at sea, while the submarines averaged just over 6 hours submerged in the whole of 2012. ARA Espora spent 73 days in late 2012 stranded in South Africa for lack of spares. The Almirante Brown-class destroyers are short of spares and their ordnance has expired while the Antarctic patrol ship ARA Almirante Irizar has been under repair since a fire in 2007. On 23 January 2013 the Type 42 destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad sank at her moorings having been mothballed for ten years.

A French Exocet should suffice.

 

[TheJadge]

If England is insignificant, what would be the point of invading it?

Argentinian staging ground perhaps.