Originally Posted by
NAROBS
Looks like I'm not the only one having brain trouble this morning - Main Building aussi.
Can somebody tell me where the major British International Trade Route in the Black Sea that the Type 45 action was ostensibly maintaining/ defending . . . . or lets be more specific, the Trade Route to a Southern Ukranian port that was being protected ? Where was the merchantman that was being protected ?
What half-wit in MB thought doing an Italian Cruise liner captain emulation ("Hey girls, look, no hands") off the Crimean coast was going to be of any long-term benefit for the UK...
I'm sure I've heard something like this before.
Now I remember. It was Neville Chamberlain on Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland in a radio broadcast on 7 September 1938:
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing."
I guess the principle of freedom of navigation just doesn't mean anything to some people.