In addition to oil resources, the North Sea has a high position in its global strategy.

It is the edge sea in the northern Atlantic Ocean, a relatively closed open sea area, with the Isle of Great Britain and Orkney to the west, the Shetland Islands to the north, and Norway and Denmark to the east.

To enter the Atlantic Ocean, the Baltic fleet of polar bears must pass through the North Sea or can only go out from the English Channel controlled by the British.

Germany also faced the same problem. During the two world wars, the German navy never broke through the Royal Navy's blockade in the North Sea and was unable to obtain war resources from overseas. It could only fight land war honestly and eventually lost the war.

It can be said that the two continental power countries, Germany and the polar bear, were blocked by the Beihai. Whoever controls the Beihai will have the right to speak on the edge of the Eurasian continent, and then squeezes the central area and completes the occupation of the world island.

After World War II, the United States squeezed the Soviet Union based on the theory of marginal areas. Europe was a very important strategic node, while the North Sea was the top priority of the European defense zone and was responsible for the heavy responsibility of encircling the Soviet Navy.

Now, if Scotland is independent, it will inevitably regain control of the North Sea and then as capital to serve the United States, it will receive strong support from the United States. I believe the United States will also be happy to see a divided Britain.

It can be foreseen that Scotland will gain huge capital after independence, plus the oil and gas resources in the region, accounting for 2/3 of the UK's fishery, 1/2 of the animal husbandry, 1/2 of the photoelectric, microelectronics, life science majors, unique whiskey, and developed tourism. It will definitely become a small and rich country, and its richness is probably no less than that of the four Nordic countries, or even more.

On the contrary, Britain will lose 1/3 of its land, 1/10 of its population, and its hard power will further decline. The most important thing is the lack of strategic resources and military fortresses. The blow to Britain is by no means measured by data on paper.

Losing Scotland is equivalent to losing the barrier of the North Sea. It is equivalent to not carrying your pants after going to the toilet, walking on the street with bare ass, and the back door is chilly. Can you feel safe?

Why would William be worried? Although he, the second heir currently has no power, has the royal family based on a strong country, so that they can be more confident to be mascots, right?

Otherwise, the king of a poor tribe in Africa will come to your house to act as a mighty man. Not only will your wife not give you money, but she will spit on your face when she turns back. Will you pay attention to him if you don’t want to sleep?

All of them are the same. At present, ******* should have entered the coffin with glory in this life, but William may have to face a fragmented Great Britain. What should he do then?

Unless he is confident of re-controlling the army and leads his troops to snatch Scotland back with guns...

Think about Ireland back then, note: it was Ireland, not Northern Ireland!

In fact, looking at the map, Ireland and Northern Ireland are on the same island, that is, Ireland. This island is located on the Atlantic Ocean, across the sea from the Isle of Great Britain, and is not connected to England, Scotland and Wales. It seems that it should not be the same country as the United Kingdom.

In fact, it is precisely because of geographical separation that Ireland and Britain were not the same country at first.

Since the 12th century, Ireland has been eroded by the British. In the 16th century, King Henry VIII of England became the king of Ireland. However, the Irish people did not want Britain to establish colonial rule on their islands, so at that time, uprisings were everywhere.

However, Britain was powerful during the Industrial Revolution.

In the early 19th century, Ireland was officially incorporated into Britain and became a part of Britain, but this did not mean that the Irish gave up the pursuit of national independence.

In 1845, a great famine occurred in Ireland, but Britain failed to provide effective assistance, which led to the starvation of Ireland. In addition, the conflicts between the two sides in terms of religions made the already tense relationship more fragile, and the Irish independence movement gradually began.

In the early 20th century, under the pursuit of independence, Ireland established its own parliament and Republican army.

Then, the Republican Army began to kill royal security guards, ZF officials, and snatch weapons and money. Faced with this situation, the British would of course send troops to suppress it, and the Irish War of Independence broke out.

Taking advantage of Britain's quagmire of world war, Ireland really won a lot of victories in this infighting.

Of course, it is either a large-scale battle that can be called a battle or a small guerrilla war, which makes Britain really unable to bear.

Finally, at the end of 1921, the two sides reached an armistice agreement and the British side made a compromise. At that time, Britain had just experienced a war and was still in the stage of recovery. ZF believed that endless wars would weaken Britain's national strength.

Moreover, the king also tended to reconcile with Ireland and delivered a speech on "Ireland Reconcile".

Ultimately, Britain allowed the establishment of the "Irish Free State", but the king of the Free State was still the King of England, a bit like the commonwealth member states today. Of course, the British Central ZF and the British King had more power in Ireland at that time.

Nevertheless, once the gap is opened, it is only a matter of time before it is finally independent.

Although Ireland launched a war for independence, it was not achieved by defeating Britain in the war, and, judging by the situation of the war, Britain seemed to be in a more advantageous position.

However, Britain finally chose to compromise and let Ireland become independent step by step. The current situation in Scotland is similar to that in Ireland back then, and William has absolutely reason to be vigilant.

However, although the British had no choice but to accept Ireland's independence, they dug a hole in Ireland. As early as the 17th century, a large number of Protestant Englishmen and Scots moved to the Ulster area in northeastern Ireland with the support and encouragement of the British ZF.

During the British bourgeois revolution, Cromwell issued the "Migration Act" after suppressing the Irish national uprising, expelling a large number of Irish people to the desolate and barren Connaught County and the swampy Coral. Since then, British Protestant immigrants have gradually gained an advantage in the northern region.

Britain recognized Ireland's independence, but the six northern counties with the Protestant forces were dominant still remained in Britain. Of course, the British would not bring people back, and Ireland could not massacre its compatriots. There was no way, so they could only cut their noses and divide the territory, making the north a Northern Ireland under the British Queen.

However, although the Northern Ireland region continued to remain in British territory after World War II, the ZZ choice in the region was obviously maintained by the numerical advantage of Protestants in the country "voting with their feet", which inevitably led to strong dissatisfaction among the weaker local Irish ethnic group.

After all, this part of the Irish population in the Northern Ireland region accounts for one-third, and they still hope that the six counties of Northern Ireland can join the Republic of Ireland. So these Northern Ireland nationalists formed the "Irish Republic Army" and began an armed struggle with the British government for more than half a century.

The local Englishmen also formed royalist armed forces and fought against the Irish nationalists.

Currently, according to the agreement signed between the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Republic of Ireland recognizes the Northern Ireland as British territory, and the United Kingdom also guarantees autonomy in the Northern Ireland region and the power of local Catholics.

After 2005, the various factions in Northern Ireland were in a ceasefire, but the Northern Ireland issue did not end there. The hatred between the local Irish and the English in Northern Ireland will not be completely eliminated because of this armistice agreement, and the Northern Ireland issue will continue.

Seeing that the "good brother" Scotland began to take the lead in causing trouble, Northern Ireland could not sit still. The news of independence has been very popular recently. However, compared with Scotland, Northern Ireland has much less geographical location and natural resources, so the UK definitely pays attention to it not as high as Scotland, but it cannot be ignored.

If Northern Ireland and Scotland are missing at once, it means that Britain's land area is reduced by one-half at once. How dare you call it Kingdom? Is it called Great Britain?

Just call it Little England!

Putting aside historical issues, Scotland's increasingly independent sentiment is at least half of the reason for the conservative British guests.

The British conservative Dang has always been unpopular in Scotland. Conservative Dang has firmly opposed giving Scotland the right to "autonomous" like Ireland. The "poll tax" during thatcher period first implemented in Scotland, which also intensified the contradiction between conservative Dang and Scottish voters.

In the three general elections since 2001, there was only one Scottish conservative MP in the British Parliament.

A joke circulating in the Scottish zheng world: There are more pandas in the Edinburgh Zoo than Scotland's conservative MPs - there are two pandas, while there are only one conservative MPs.

The Kawhip, which came to power in 2010, imposed strict fiscal austerity on Scotland, significantly reduced welfare spending, and far less financial subsidies to Scotland than its predecessor ZF.

So the Scottish national dang took the opportunity to create momentum, saying that after the "dividing up", it could implement flexible economic and fiscal and tax policies, and regain jurisdiction over the North Sea oil and gas fields, so that the Scots could live a good life.

The Scottish separation movement was driven by both economic interests and ZZ, but that doesn't explain everything.

It is worth noting that Scottish separatists have found a new "theoretical basis" for independence: the British ZF ignored the fact that Scotland had better retained its own language, judicial and cultural traditions, and blindly emphasized Scotland's ZZ and social values, such as free higher education, generous pension policy and positive attitude towards European integration, which is completely different from other parts of the UK.

The logic can be simplified to: "I" (Scotland) and "you" (England) have different "values", so "I" must be independent.
Chapter completed!