Some sort of theatrical deployment to the Falkland Islands, where I have family. Anyone would think that the Conservatives were about to lose a General Election.
It was of course the Callaghan Government that actually prevented an Argentine invasion. Galtieri had to wait for Thatcher, under whom the Royal Navy that she had starved had to stage a kind of coup for the duration.
She had thought that the Falklands could be reached within three days by the ships that, until that point, she had been planning to flog on the cheap to Argentina.
There was no suggestion of an active threat at any point between 1997 and 2010. But those days are gone.
Oh, well. Let us treat this performance seriously for a moment. Is it not just as well that we kept our nuclear "deterrent", in order to ensure that any such danger could not arise?
The same is true in relation to those Russian planes over the Channel. "They were carrying nukes, dontcha know?" Course they were, dear. Course they were.
I almost wish that they had been. That would have proved, yet again, that absolutely nobody was in the least bit "deterred" by ours.
It was of course the Callaghan Government that actually prevented an Argentine invasion. Galtieri had to wait for Thatcher, under whom the Royal Navy that she had starved had to stage a kind of coup for the duration.
She had thought that the Falklands could be reached within three days by the ships that, until that point, she had been planning to flog on the cheap to Argentina.
There was no suggestion of an active threat at any point between 1997 and 2010. But those days are gone.
Oh, well. Let us treat this performance seriously for a moment. Is it not just as well that we kept our nuclear "deterrent", in order to ensure that any such danger could not arise?
The same is true in relation to those Russian planes over the Channel. "They were carrying nukes, dontcha know?" Course they were, dear. Course they were.
I almost wish that they had been. That would have proved, yet again, that absolutely nobody was in the least bit "deterred" by ours.
Oh, but they are deterred. Nobody has ever invaded a nuclear-armed country. Not once.
ReplyDeleteThey never will.
Tell them that in the Falkland Islands.
DeleteOh, and weren't we supposed to believe that Iraq did have them, hence our own "need" to invade Iraq?
DeleteIf it was a submarine, nobody would know about it hence no politics.
ReplyDelete