Fair point, lonewolf in as far as dragging us off the case of the USN. But when you say "no big deal for professionals..." the trouble is, it wasn't military professionals who bore the brunt of the sudden reroutes caused by the Channel portion of this willy-waving adventure. There are huge tracts of the world to play Cold War posturing to everyone's hearts content but it's not reasonable to expect the general public, families travelling with children to shoulder needless risk.