(03-12-2026, 07:37 AM)angelchemuel Wrote:Quote:Matter of fact, the very instant Comrade Starmer said "no, you can't use ourt turf", I'd have said "alrighty then. Fair enough" and immediately started pulling every single piece of American military kit, and any US military personnel, straight out of the UK.
It wouldn't surprise me at all that is exactly what Trump told our leader, including the French and Spaniards.
Funny how the French got to Cyprus "tout suite".... and Macron even visited!
Rainbows
Jane
Thee seems to be something desperately wrong, in my opinion, when the French (of all people!) have to send firepower to defend a British base that the British government hasn't got the testicular fortitude to defend themselves, and then the British government elects not to risk joining the party until after everything has already been secured by the French..
We've come a long, arduous way from the days when "Britannia ruled the waves".
And that makes me sad.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake