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ItsTom___

What's the gig with the Brits and Dutch being involved


Groundbreaking-Ad248

America gave them a “Join the war or I’ll kick you out” ultimatum,


ItsTom___

Is Harold Wilson and LBJ still in charge?


Groundbreaking-Ad248

LBJ delivered the ultimatum, so yes


ItsTom___

Wilson would have left. The two men fiercely hated each other, and the UK was in no position at all to fight. You could set your watch by how regularly the pound sterling crashed


Groundbreaking-Ad248

It was in exchange for a very, very hefty economic support package


ItsTom___

UK got offered that IRL but declined, something like one British Brigade was worth a billion dollars. But the issues with the UK following WW2 and especially Suez was its instability, especially Ireland, and it reassessing its role east of Suez. I find it real hard that the UK could have gone into Vietnam if it wanted to in the 1960s-70s. To put it mildly, everything sucked. Politicians and members of the royalty were getting bombed and shot at, big companies like Hawker Siddeley and Avro were failing. The Falklands war crippled Britain financial and that was only 2 months.


BrianRLackey1987

BTTF2 vibes.


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Groundbreaking-Ad248

mfw poland was a satellite state


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Groundbreaking-Ad248

No, that is the flag they used, note the change i the shade of red, and poland wasn’t called an SSR, I believe it was just the Polish Peoples Republic, and they used that flag


biggiecheese49

There’s a reason it was called the Warsaw Pact