Originally Posted by
racedo
I love your optimism, in reality they can just ignore, unless RN is part of a USN deployment then it really has zero impact.
The "we have a big aircraft carrier" has zero impact when people you are challenging make you aware that in the event of any conflict it will be "we had a big aircraft carrier",
The Prince of Wales and The Repulse on 7th of December 1941 supposedly were a big show of RN power in Asia, couple of days later both were on the bottom of the sea.
Well how about that, a lone Royal Navy ship exercising FONOPS sets off the Chinese. Far from your prediction they’d ignore the lads.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKCN1LM017