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Originally Posted by Due
Protection so they won't be invaded by a country like USA, Russia, China or whatever other country think they can just walk in ?
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who would want to have Iceland and for what?
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
nevertheless, it's nowhere near the cost of maintaining an army and you prolly know that eh.
if there were no value to the treaty, i'm sure iceland/u.s. would have nullified it at some point over the last 60+ years.
no, iceland gets a sweet deal not having to maintain an army at the u.s. expense.
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At NATO expense - where they pay for. The NATO is more than just the US.
and they have a population of 320,000 people (175th in the world) - how big do you suggest would be the Icelandic army?
like 50 guys and a rowing boat?
or do you want to put 50% of their population in the army to even have the slightest chance when the US or Russia wants to invade them?
just let those poor people alone - they are punished enough by living there (and Bjork)
