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To: SatinDoll

Precisely. The Royal Navy is but a yacht club and Hussein The Magnificent Muslim, won’t get our USN involved.

This summer in the southern hemisphere may be the last best chance for Argentina to occupy and steal the Falkland’s oil resources.


18 posted on 12/24/2011 5:40:44 PM PST by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: Jacquerie

The RN is smaller than it was in 1982, but they still have attack submarines.


19 posted on 12/24/2011 5:43:34 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jacquerie

Also, the Royal Navy does maintian a guided missile destroyer in the area and there is a garrion of 500 light infantry on the islands.


20 posted on 12/24/2011 5:47:35 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jacquerie
Precisely. The Royal Navy is but a yacht club and Hussein The Magnificent Muslim, won’t get our USN involved.

He might get the USN involved, as a blocking force to deter any effort by the UK to support the forces already present in the Falklands...

the infowarrior

34 posted on 12/24/2011 9:13:16 PM PST by infowarrior
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