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I did idly wonder if it would come to that, when Icesave announced it wouldn't honour guarantees given to British savers. Iceland's defence strategy during the Cold War was to umm, do nothing, and rely on NATO, knowing that it would never permit the Soviet Empire to gain such a strategic foothold. Even tho' the Royal Navy is but a shadow of its former self, invading Iceland would have taken all of one afternoon, if that.


Economically the UK almost did that by seizing Icelandic assets. Quite the quid pro quo, pun intended ;-)




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