[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The UK sovereign bases on Cyprus are sovereign and they have no say over them. I’m sure the British will let the US use them, even if they can no longer get directly involved.

[trebb]

The UK sovereign bases on Cyprus are sovereign and they have no say over them. I’m sure the British will let the US use them, even if they can no longer get directly involved.

Does that mean that an embassy on American soil would be in the clear if it brought in someone with a dirty bomb and allowed them to detonate it on Canada?

[kabar]

The UK sovereign bases on Cyprus are sovereign and they have no say over them. I’m sure the British will let the US use them, even if they can no longer get directly involved.

No the UK will not do something that would put them at direct odds with the host government. They would putting the future of the bases at risk. And the government of Cyprus controls its own airspace.

The French would not allow Reagan to even fly over France when he bombed Libya.