It's German for Dutchman 
I believe the one in Charles' pic is Mussert, the leader of our small Nazi party in the '30ies.
I believe the one in Charles' pic is Mussert, the leader of our small Nazi party in the '30ies.
What comes to your mind when you think in this countries?
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CharlesBronson
Senior Master Sergeant
Yes, reading again it was the other guy, sorry about it.
No problem, Charles
JugBR
Staff Sergeant
what do you think about palestinians ?
Pisis
2nd Lieutenant
LOL, at first I thought it's Churchill.
They have a though situation not having their own state. But I do not agree with the general Palestinian approach how to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - with violence and terrorism against civilians.
Palestine - Terrorism, Gaza, Rammalah, Arafat, Abu Mazen, Hashish, Keffiyeh, Kalashnikovs and Hookah
pbfoot
1st Lieutenant
screwed with no lube
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Terrorists, cannot be appeased, waste of time to negotiate with, they worship death
JugBR
Staff Sergeant
very nazi opinion !
ARTESH
Chief Master Sergeant
1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language ,
pops-paolo
, BCS [Brigata Corazata Sepeciale] , San Marino and Vatican city micro-nations 15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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-Argentina
Long history of bad government. Military too powerful in domestic politics.
-Brazil
Long history of bad government. Current president is an idiot.
-Chile
Still recovering from a long, murderous dictatorship. Seems to be doing better than many South American countries. Atacama Desert is a great place for astronomical observatories.
-Uruguay
Don't know enough to even comment out of ignorance.
-Colombia
Still recovering from FARC, narco-terror, and the resulting damage to the police, courts, etc.
-Mexico
Trying hard to be a modern country, but badly corrupt police forces make that difficult
-USA
Politics are more volatile than since the 1850s. Voter suppression is returning in the form of "reforms" to correct non-existent fraud. Violent extremists are finally being recognized as a threat to democracy, but also have support among significant parts of one mainstream party.
-Canada
Lovely country peaceably coming to grips with its past internal unpleasantness, such as maltreatment of First Nations, but largely accepting of a large linguistic minority in many provinces.
-Spain
Mostly sorted from the terror of the Franco regime. Reaction to Catalan independence movement seems a bit harsh, but that movement is probably because of Franco (as was the Basque terrorism).
-France
Still scarred from WW1 and WW2. Better than its (largely American) detractors claim.
-Germany
Probably got over its loss in WW2 better than Japan, and certainly more willing to accept that massive war crimes were committed by its people, in its name.
-Austria
Expensive and good pastry.
-Sweden
I know an American expat who lives in Sweden, with her husband and family. Overall, a great place to live.
-Italy
I know somebody who works for an Italian company, which is run by officious, inefficient, and arrogant misogynists. On the other hand, practice with organized crime and the red brigades probably made their security services good at dealing with terrorism
-England
Not really the center of the universe, but seems to think it is.
-Czech Republic
Renamed Czechia. Surprisingly separated from Slovakia with no bloodshed.
-Hungary
One of the countries in Europe which doesn't speak an Indo-European language (the other is Finland)
-Ukranie
Flat.
-Russia
Managed to move from autocracy to communism to quasi-autocracy with a small attempt at democracy.
-China
Showing that capitalism and dictatorship mix quite well, thank you. China, Inc. is the world's largest business enterprise.
-Japan
Recovering from its bubble. Still not willing to accept responsibility for its war crimes during WW2.
-Saudi Arabia
Theocracy in all but name.
-Lebanon
It's there, again, but Beirut will never again be the Paris of the Middle East.
-South Africa
Seems to have gotten over apartheid. Now, it needs to get its crime under control. They should have had enough time to rebuild their police force to deal with crime, not just political dissidents.
-Israel
Intransigent leadership is not helping. Rabin, where are you?
-Australia.
Big, dry. According to my brother (who visited multiple times when he was in the USAF) full of gearheads. Probably one of the dominantly Christian-dominated countries which doesn't want anything to do with the Easter Bunny.
-New Zealand.
Beautiful, small, and possibly the most civilized country on Earth.
Long history of bad government. Military too powerful in domestic politics.
-Brazil
Long history of bad government. Current president is an idiot.
-Chile
Still recovering from a long, murderous dictatorship. Seems to be doing better than many South American countries. Atacama Desert is a great place for astronomical observatories.
-Uruguay
Don't know enough to even comment out of ignorance.
-Colombia
Still recovering from FARC, narco-terror, and the resulting damage to the police, courts, etc.
-Mexico
Trying hard to be a modern country, but badly corrupt police forces make that difficult
-USA
Politics are more volatile than since the 1850s. Voter suppression is returning in the form of "reforms" to correct non-existent fraud. Violent extremists are finally being recognized as a threat to democracy, but also have support among significant parts of one mainstream party.
-Canada
Lovely country peaceably coming to grips with its past internal unpleasantness, such as maltreatment of First Nations, but largely accepting of a large linguistic minority in many provinces.
-Spain
Mostly sorted from the terror of the Franco regime. Reaction to Catalan independence movement seems a bit harsh, but that movement is probably because of Franco (as was the Basque terrorism).
-France
Still scarred from WW1 and WW2. Better than its (largely American) detractors claim.
-Germany
Probably got over its loss in WW2 better than Japan, and certainly more willing to accept that massive war crimes were committed by its people, in its name.
-Austria
Expensive and good pastry.
-Sweden
I know an American expat who lives in Sweden, with her husband and family. Overall, a great place to live.
-Italy
I know somebody who works for an Italian company, which is run by officious, inefficient, and arrogant misogynists. On the other hand, practice with organized crime and the red brigades probably made their security services good at dealing with terrorism
-England
Not really the center of the universe, but seems to think it is.
-Czech Republic
Renamed Czechia. Surprisingly separated from Slovakia with no bloodshed.
-Hungary
One of the countries in Europe which doesn't speak an Indo-European language (the other is Finland)
-Ukranie
Flat.
-Russia
Managed to move from autocracy to communism to quasi-autocracy with a small attempt at democracy.
-China
Showing that capitalism and dictatorship mix quite well, thank you. China, Inc. is the world's largest business enterprise.
-Japan
Recovering from its bubble. Still not willing to accept responsibility for its war crimes during WW2.
-Saudi Arabia
Theocracy in all but name.
-Lebanon
It's there, again, but Beirut will never again be the Paris of the Middle East.
-South Africa
Seems to have gotten over apartheid. Now, it needs to get its crime under control. They should have had enough time to rebuild their police force to deal with crime, not just political dissidents.
-Israel
Intransigent leadership is not helping. Rabin, where are you?
-Australia.
Big, dry. According to my brother (who visited multiple times when he was in the USAF) full of gearheads. Probably one of the dominantly Christian-dominated countries which doesn't want anything to do with the Easter Bunny.
-New Zealand.
Beautiful, small, and possibly the most civilized country on Earth.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I believe they are called states instead of provinces because the United Colonies individually thought of themselves as 12 independent nations that joined together. The 13th came along later.1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language ,
15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Before the United States won it's independence from Britain, it was an assortment of European Colonies (Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands, etc.).
The newly formed Continental government drafted a framework that allowed each defined "state" to join the Union as a constitutional "sovereign".
What this means, is that each state's Govornor is the leader of their state and can conduct that state's affairs without Federal approval (within reason), the Federal government oversees the well being and protection of all states in the Union.
Each state has it's own Senate, which are elected by it's citizens, who also elect represantives that represent that state in the Federal Senate.
It might also be fun to know that there were several states that were former sovereign nations:
Republic of Vermont
Republic of Texas
Kingdom of Hawaii
Republic of California
When they applied for statehood, their constitutions were incorporated into their statehood charters.
This is just a brief overview to give an idea of how things are set up.
-Argentina
Football, Maradona, Messi, very tough and unfortunate for the last 40-50 years; a lot of expatriate Croatians there; 1st international football match vs. Croatia; we've used Argentinian weapons (rifles, howitzers) when it mattered back in the 1990s - thank you; brave & capable military pilots
-Brazil
Beautiful country that is badly governed, Pele, football, Ronaldhino
-Chile
Again a lot of ex-Croats there, seems the country has on of better economies as far as L. America goes
-Uruguay
Probably a quiet place, a place of the Battle of River Plata
-Colombia
Drugs, cartels, rebels - not a place to me
-Mexico
It is slowly becoming the second Colombia
-USA
Invented aircraft and internet, gotten the proper job for Nikola Tesla, once upon the time a symbol of freedom and affluence, nowadays too often 'either you are with us or against us' mentality can be read; health care and schools availability too much depend on how much of money one has; American football, basketball, Dream Team, F-14, Lockheed, P-51, baseball, guns & ammo, Neil Armstrong, Metallica, Megadeth
-Canada
Still a fine place to live, unless one hates low temperatures; hockey
-Spain
Move away from tourist-high places and you're golden
-France
As above; Mirage; TGV, Napoleon
-Germany
A great country, that unfortunately miscalculated twice in the 20th century; BMW, Mercedes Benz, Bosch, Focke Wulf, Tiger
-Austria
A very good place to live
-Sweden
As Austria; Viggen
-Italy
A lovely country that I've never been to; Ferrari, Alfa Romeo 8C
-England
Iron 'effin Maiden; Winston Churchill (just those two make it great); Rolls Royce, Sir Stanley Hooker, Dowding, Nelson, Wellington
-Czech Republic
Nicest people in Europe. Definitely (I meet them almost daily). Skoda.
-Hungary
Also nice people. Good looking women.
-Ukraine
Flat land. Kharkov tank works. Nation is betwen the rock and the hard place today
-Rusia
Too much of potential, too many times as if they wanted to burn it all together. MiG-31, Su-27.
-China
Premier country in the world, both in good and bad terms.
-Japan
Very, very nice people. Subaru, Honda, Nakajima, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Sony
-Saudi Arabia
Indeed, a theocracy.
-Lebanon
A very unfortunate country.
-South afrika
It will take a lot for them to live up to the potentials.
-Israel
Not to be take lightly. Merkava.
-Australia.
Big country, a democracy, again a lot of Croats there.
-New Zealand.
Probably one of best places to live - climate of Dalmatia, standard of Germany?
Necothreads again...lol
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I'm glad they're being resurrected. Some interesting stuff and similar topics coming back. Fastmongrel beat me to aviation myths by a few years. Who knew?
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fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
It's in the mail.
tomo pauk
The Czechs just donated a new word to the English language Schickener:- a goal scored from the half way line against Scotland, comedy gold.Scotland 0-2 Czech Republic - Euro 2020: Patrik Schick downs Scots with long-range stunner | Daily Mail Online
pops-paolo
I will love England forever despite Euro 2020!
ayee i seem important at least in someones life (I'm joking)1- Silver, Epic battle of Islas Malvinas, Football, Their flag is nice!
2- Amazon Rain Forest, Football, The statue of Jesus Christ!
3- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
4- same as above.
5- same as above.
6- Football
7- why do they use "state" instead of "Province"? , Birthplace of many [modern] things , lots of Nobel and other international prizes winners , It is said that taxation is too high! , Lots of Iranian leaving in Texas and other big cities [ or States? IDK.] , good wrestlers!
8- Nothing special at moment.
9- Kicked Muslims out of Europa. The Spanish language, music and dances!!! some separatist movements!
10- weirdest and hardest language of world, IMO! , nothing else at moment.
11- 2nd to above! but not in "hard" part.
12- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
13- Nobel prize! , Dynamite! , lots of Iron mines
14- Colosseum, Roman Empire , Latin language ,
15- TEA! , London Tower , The Eye of London , Stonehenge , Politics , Iran's embassy siege , many streamers! [mostly ESO and GW2] , plan to learn British Accent!
16- Cheapest beer in the world as themselves claim it! , The Brno city and its gun factory, lots of cool castles!
17- legösszetettebbszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttesmegnyilvá-nulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálataitokként
18- Pripyat , making money from modernizing old soviet era military equipment
19- Hackers , Crackers , good programmers , Mafia , Russo - Persian wars of 1800's
20- make Copy-Paste of other things!!! , low quality and cheap products , almost 25% of total pop.
21- TBH, IDK anything about Japan & Japanese!
22- birthplace of Islam! , nothing good [PPoV].
23- Terrorists Supported by Iran's pan Islamist regime , nothing good [PPoV].
24- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
25- Rightful owners of land!
26- Sorry, IDK anything about this country.
27- Same as above.
