I thought we Brits were the ultimate underdog supporters
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Wanting the trojans to win
- S3 u1 H* @% T( u [! Wsupporting the confederacy (not slavery though)
5 o+ I, ]2 A% V' Z5 _0 J# icheering on vercengetorix (even though he's french )
7 _2 W; I L1 rsupporting (eventually ) an israeli state even after the brutal % A0 x0 [! g+ w% g$ o) \% l
civil war, and now i want to support the palestinains as we really let them down in the 1st 30 years of the 20th century.(not condoning suicide bombing in any way)
+ P! V! P' p; m* mmorally supporting the finns vs the USSR in 39, and shamefully not sending men, although that was
0 l& R6 |8 b+ f/ @; F2 Sprimarily stopped by norway and sweden.
' ]0 Z% K! T; ?: oand oddly likeing Napoleon as a great man while plotting his downfall and exile.
5 W& x9 j- B7 D+ v, m8 ]# |3 B+ S( wsame with Rommel , almost a folk hero to some vets even though he was the enemy. (first hand testimony from an ex-pow held in italy ).
2 {9 |0 Z$ I4 Q, a; B, Dsupporting protestanism <sp> against the all powerful catholic church from 1548 onwards ( again though nowt to do with real religous conviction but just convenience).
) T/ D9 Z+ a; [% H+ Vhuge respect for Yuglavia's and greece's(crete esp) partisan actions during WW2.
d; n% \& r/ J# ]1 T; ~6 {Rome vs the all conquoring huns held at bay finally in eastern france. |