Civilian,
While you are in Liverpool, it might be a good idea to pop into the International Section of the William Brown Library, which is acknowledged as one of the world's best municipal libraries. Pick up almost any book on history,geography or politics; hopefully this will help you to become a little better informed on the topics under discussion here - I feel you may be imposing an unfair burden on yourself by attempting to comment from such a low base of knowledge or experience.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but the library also carries material which will help you with grammar and spelling.