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1 posted on 07/23/2019 4:34:06 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Maybe NATO member Turkey will give them a hand.


2 posted on 07/23/2019 4:35:05 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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No one shot those Iranians rappelling down the rope from the chopper onto the deck of the oil tanker. Why not? After the first two soldiers would have hit the deck dead, that chopper would have skedaddled!

Surely anyone shipping through the Strait of Hormuz should have armed security on board. We should expect that from our feckless allies.


5 posted on 07/23/2019 4:44:04 PM PDT by txrefugee
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6 posted on 07/23/2019 4:51:40 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Good. Trump is reminding Britain of its failure to maintain an adequate navy. This is also a variation on the “NATO obligations EU nations have not met” theme. Without US military power, EU members are helpless.

If Neville Chamberlain is not available to negotiate with Iran, Teresa May is.


7 posted on 07/23/2019 4:53:28 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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What ships would Britain use? They have only 74 commissioned vessels, including submarines, amphibious docks and patrol vessels.


9 posted on 07/23/2019 4:58:40 PM PDT by p. henry
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All this really did is confirm the US as the guarantor of NATO.

We helped out the UK during the Falklands and we can help them out now.


12 posted on 07/23/2019 5:31:58 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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