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Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier
Vodalian writes "Distinction as the last surviving Aircraft Carrier built in England for WW II and commissioned as the HMS Vengeance in late 1944, this unique vessel served the British then the Australian Navy as HMAS Vengeance prior to her sale to Brazil In 1956. Undergoing reconstruction and overhaul in Rotterdam from 1957 to 1960 she was commissioned as the Minas Gerais in December of that year. During her service with the Brazilian Navy she was overhauled from 1976 to 1980 completing a 5-year refit in 1981. She was decommissioned on the 16th of October 2001 and is currently for sale."
A free Europe.
With cameras on every corner.
With ID cards for every serf^H^H^H^Hcitizen.
With manditory key escrow.
Hmmmm. This must be some new, European definition of "free" that hasn't yet spread to the US.
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Shhhh! You're supposed to pretend that it's the United States which has been trying for centuries to become a fascist, totalitarian empire, and Europe which is trying desperately to preserve Western civilization. It's the new fad, you see.
Sadly, you completely misunderstand why Europeans don't like US policies. Europeans don't argue about whether it is the US or Europe that should "preserve Western civilization", they believe that any such undertaking is intrinsically flawed. That was a lesson painfully learned over several centuries by Europeans, but America seems intent on repeating the same mistakes.
As for fascism and totalitarianism, no nation is immune, not even the US. But maybe that, too, is a lesson Americans may have to discover for themselves.