Post-match: Germany vs England|June 27|1/8 finals| [R]

I have actually met people that thought the Galapagos Islands were part of the US...

 

I shouldn't smirk.....When the Argies invaded The Falkland Islands a bunch of British people wondered just what the fcuk the Argentians were doing off the coast of Scotland....

 

But why is that?, what's the use?. Is there some kind of official reason for it?.

 

Goes back to the cold war....they're stationed there as a deterrent to any Russian ideas....

 

The Americans also because this way they have a big base close to the middle east with top hospitals and stuff like that.

 

jeez. where are they in germany?

 

I dont know about British, But most, if not all American Bases in Germany are in Southern/Central Germany (Bayern,BW,Hesse,Rhineland,etc.) But they are beginning to get rid of many of them because there is not as much of a need.

 

It's mostly a logistic issue. I think there are about 25.000 British soldiers left here in Germany, and they can't just all go back at once because they don't have the facilities in England. They'd need to restructure everything. So it will take some years until all of them have left (which will be painful for some cities because many jobs depend on those caserns). Then we can start invading other countries again.

 

Yeah.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5655378,00.html


Please close this thread now, dear mods. )

 

He'll be in Berlin in no time (but Lena stays here!)

 

Here's some more off topic:
US has chosen Wiesbaden, my hometown, yet again to be their "European headquarters". They will not leave, they will extend their presence (Maybe just centrelizing their presence, and getting rid of other bases). This has of course nothing to do with a possible rumour in Germany, but with the friendship that has evolved between Germany and the US in general. We provide them an European base, from where they can operate, in terms of conflicts nearby, maybe near to middle east, sooner or later.