Originally Posted by
Bastardeux
I'm presuming you have no interest in the price of your clothes, your fuel, your food, your electronics or your cheap chinese tat that all get shipped through the Gulf.
And UK MPA has done what to support this?
I'm also presuming you take delight in the prospect at the flood of class A drugs into your neighbourhood because we've given up the anti-drug trafficking mission.
We have an African anti-drug mission? I thought it was the RN in the Caribbean that did this and was not aware of a prior UK MPA presence. I did see a US P3 down near the Venezuelan coast once but I wasn't quick enough to see the operator or indeed if it was US.
Or perhaps you prefer the thought of some terrorists holed up in some armpit of the world getting their hands on some rather destructive substances from a country that I won't name, but I'm sure would rhyme with shmorth Shmorea or Shmiran.
And UK MPA? As I said earlier, based where exactly.
Obviously I've embellished some of the threats, but economic prosperity and world intervention, whether you like it or not, go hand in hand. We've moved far beyond the days of mercantalist economics and are now more dependent on the rest of the world than ever...do you not think its stability is necessary for our own prosperity? And do you not think, that as the 6th richest country in the world with resources that the vast majority of the world's countries could only dream of having, we should play our part in securing that stability? Even for our own selfish needs...
You seem to have moved well away from Africa and while your concerns are real I do not see a UK MPA aspect, especially one in single figures.