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A mix of mental disorder and extorsion of funds from gullible Parliament by industrial-military complex and out of control intelligence gathering agencies :) I see the SI's job as preventing the waste of funds on la-la land projects, private nest-lining at Public expense, misguided idiocies...

LOL! Like a Radio Erevan joke :) Q: Is it true that the British captured Vladivostok during the Crimean War? A: True, but not Vladivostok (est. 1860) but Petropavlovsk Kamtchatskiy, and they did not take it but only attacked it. Sorry, could not resist :) But regardless - IMO not worth it...

What you mentioned is not worth it either. Maybe only Okinawa as trading hub&naval base - a big Hong-Kong. But prolly too far north/away from China. Taiwan is THE place for mega-HK :)

Wow! Possible landfalls between Tonkin and Japan?!? I'd hang the navigator ...

As @ATP brought up a yank-screw :) 1 - Texas - it was broke - make it a financial offer it cannot refuse and keep it independent/turn into a protectorate. Maybe send Little Green Men to help with the Texan Revolt of '35? 2 - Oregon- a more favourable settlement is easy. Fortyfive or FIGHT...

You can have such a Brit wank that it isn't funny :) You will be like the movie Galadriel who took the Ring - the world will love you and despair :) Coming to the throne in 1830 you can save the world from Belgium! Or at least - considering how much the British Monarch can do - try to ...