“I wonder if Great Britain’s naval cutbacks encouraged this.”
One of the many nauseating bumper stickers on the Subaru in front of me read: “You can’t have peace if you plan for war.” I wanted to pull this woman over and explain history. Nobody has ever been attacked because they’re too strong. A couple of other factors playing into this are: NATO’s attack against Libya exhausted Britain and used up their supply of cruise missiles, a fact their idiot governmental officials felt compelled to announce. Another factor is President Urkel, who has let the world know in no uncertain terms how he feels about Britain.
This needs to be nipped in the bud. A stern warning followed by an unarmed torpedo into the side of an offending vessel. That should be followed up with a real one if they keep it up. After the General Belgrano sank the Argentine navy went on hiatus for the rest of the Falklands campaign.
Sold to Argentina by the U.S. She was originally the light cruiser (6 in guns) USS Phoenix (CL-46).
Peace is the interval between wars.
War is normal, peace is anomaly