If the roles were reversed and the UK was an expansionist dictatorship with designs on France and the Russians were a French ally then yes, Russian planes based in Western Europe would be a reasonable deterrent.

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English folk singers need to realise that they're allowed to sing about things that happened after the 19th century. I can only listen to so many songs about miners or boatmen or chimney sweeps.

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@nikkijay.games Brian Blessed paid tribute on Facebook. ❤️

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A lot of Americans come here and think they're "one of us," then demonstrate at every possible turn that they couldn't be more different to us if they tried. I can't imagine that's uniquely an Irish thing, to be fair, but I don't really know how it plays out in other countries.

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Problem being, unless they are citizens of the Republic of Italy, the Italian nation-state explicitly doesn't consider them Italian. But it's a different way of looking at the world which, weirdly, is bizarrely more blood-and-soil than you might expect from ostensibly left-ish Americans.

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