Bittners a Legend
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I don't understand your post. "Desperation"? "Inability to do anything on our own". What on earth are you on about? Why will you not just read what I wrote rather than trying to find something to be offended by? I have no interest in adding caveats to anything, just reality. I'm simply stating factually that alongside the Poles already mentioned, many resistance movements across Europe aided us. The "we stood alone" refers to the fact that we had not been successfully invaded by Germany. As rhetoric it works wonderfully. The point is as simple as we did receive assistance. So as not to risk hurting your feelings on this matter I could not have been clearer about Britain's achievements in 1940. As I've already stated, they were remarkable. I'm not playing them down, I'm simply acknowledging what actually happened. I'm not sure if you want to use the Battle of Britain to make some weird point about the EU. If you do then it simply isn't relevant. I have no idea why my post triggered you to describe me as desperate or my post as laughable.Again, this desperation to put caveats on Britain's 'finest hour' is laughable. The whole period in the summer of 1940 has been defined as the "we stood alone" era and to drag up (as indomike did) the wonderfully laudable efforts of foreign pilots and now resistance fighters apparently as an example of Britain's inability to do anything on it own is again laughable, although not unsurprising in this Brexit era when there is political capital in portraying Britain as a little bit **** and unable to function outside of the EU's orbit.