I was assuming they were talking about pre-1706 given the Spanish gold context.

Is this an attempt to imply the Scots had imperial ambitions and have not been fighting to keep their homes free of invasion for several thousand years?

Fuck this sounds familiar right now

Didn't Scotland try to make an empire in Eastern Canada, eastern USA, Africa, and Panama, then bankrupt themselves and agree to the Act of Union with England making Great Britain?

Lol. If you call a segment of the merchant class (kind of like silicon valley) the entirety of the country and ethnic group.

But that would be a major misunderstanding. So no.

>Is this an attempt to imply the Scots had imperial ambitions and have not been fighting to keep their homes free of invasion for several thousand years?

Obviously yes. Who have they been fighting to avoid invasion exactly?

>Fuck this sounds familiar right now

Maybe you read it in a history textbook.

Hmm, no you misunderstand. Scotland was consumed by monied interests from across the water long ago. Now there’s just scattered populations, many of us dispossessed of our ancestral homes and not all by choice.

The past doesn’t vanish because of what Rome and its inheritors accords as history. Some of us have long memories.

It is particularly a prescient notion because I happen to be living in Canada. If you’ve read the news you should understand what I’m saying.

Just like Austria's greatest historical accomplishment: convincing the world the Hitler was German