Weekly Standard: Scottish Independence May Sound Harmless, But Just Wait Til the RUSSIAN SUBMARINES Arrive

Aficionados of anti-Scottish-independence scaremongering should
enjoy The Weekly Standard‘s
contribution to the genre. Especially this part:

It is not at all far-fetched to imagine Vladimir Putin
offering financial aid to a post-independence Scotland that will
inevitably face severe economic challenges.

The price for that aid might include, among other things, basing
rights for Russian military and naval forces. Certainly there would
be little or nothing that the United Kingdom could do if an
independent Scotland decided to rent its deep water submarine port
at Faslane to Russia’s Northern fleet or if it let Russian maritime
air patrols fly out of former RAF air bases.

That would essentially mean a shifting of NATO’s frontier hundreds
of miles to the West and a revolutionary change in the balance of
power in Europe.

I’m inclined to support Scottish independence, but I don’t have
strong feelings about it; it’s the Scots’ business, and I won’t
complain if they vote No. But watching all the Serious People
line up against the idea, and seeing the sheer hysteria required to
bring up this reheated ’80s imagery of Russian subs threatening the
West, I have to admit my smile will be pretty wide if Yes wins.