- 21 Jul 2019 17:01
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Long term, as oil becomes less and less important to the global economy. I wonder how this will change the middle-east. There will certainly be less meddling in the middle east, that's for sure.
Nonsense wrote:Time was when 'third world' nations knew their place in the international pecking order, not now.
A country like 'Great Britain' was(notice the 'Great')once a sea power that used a different type of 'diplomacy' where necessary.
That was 'gunboat' diplomacy, now all it can cook up, is 'bum-boat' diplomacy, I am talking to mainly Americans here, Britain, is\has been on the greasy pole since 1945, today, we can't even get a gunboat to where they should be on duty, even if they could, ship's orders would be to wear 'pink' to to deter any agression,the Royal Navy couldn't fight it's way out of a bird bath.
Look back at the Falklands, militarily speaking, it was a complete & utter 'lash-up' of a disaster.
They couldn't even defend themselves or the assets, so the gutless Margaret THATCHER orders the sinking of the antiquated General BELGRANO, when it was steaming away from the Falklands & was not considered a 'threat' - it wasn't.
Our 'navy' cannot even stop illegal migrants crossing the English Channel in a bathtub, yet, the government orders the wasteful spending of £x10's BILLIONS on two 'white elephant' capital ships, with no aircraft to fly from & which are completely useless for protecting ships at sea anyway.
It's all about 'common sense', with priorities, yet Theresa MAY has cost the U.K more treasure & inflicted more economic damage on the U.K in her short time acting out her fantasy as a P.M than HITLER did between 1939-1945.
When the 'cold war' ended, the government said that it's direction of defense policy would be one of 'rapid response', that's turned out to be complete, utter B$.
The £BILLIONS spent on the two aircraft carriers, should have been spent on procuring fast attack craft, with small powerful torpedoes, light-smart missiles, powerful, rapid fire, high velocity & large calibre surface weapons.
Playing 'diplomatic' games with lying Arab tin pot regimes like the Iranians, is just plain bonkers, force should always be met with force, it's the only language that regimes like Iran understand.
Bring in a couple of destroyers, in order to 'soften' them up, after giving notice to all 'foreigners' to leave Iran immediately of course.
Long term, as oil becomes less and less important to the global economy. I wonder how this will change the middle-east. There will certainly be less meddling in the middle east, that's for sure.
I can think of 11780 reasons Trump shouldn't be president ever again.