You know, I generally support secessionist movements, but I really don't have a dog in this fight. My ancestors on my father's side came from England so many years ago that the only thing we retain from England is an English last name. But with that being said, it is amusing to see the anti-secessionist people jump through hoops to get the Scots to vote No.
Perhaps the best one is the argument from the American
Weekly Standard who want the Scots to vote no because
Putin and the Russians :
...It is not at all far-fetched to imagine Vladimir Putin offering financial aid to a post-independence Scotland that will inevitably face severe economic challenges.
The price for that aid might include, among other things, basing rights for Russian military and naval forces. Certainly there would be little or nothing that the United Kingdom could do if an independent Scotland decided to rent its deep water submarine port at Faslane to Russia’s Northern fleet or if it let Russian maritime air patrols fly out of former RAF air bases.
That would essentially mean a shifting of NATO’s frontier hundreds of miles to the West and a revolutionary change in the balance of power in Europe....
Heh-heh. And you thought the Cold War was over.
Onward and upward,
airforce
