The Brits are playing off the Dauntless being in the Falklands with captions like this....
They didn't chest thump or make public pronouncements. They made two shrewd moves and have their enemy in check!
pics via Royal Navy News...
The bleak beauty of the Falkands on a glorious winter’s day provided the stunning mise-en-scène for HMS Dauntless.That's cute with a big dash of British understatement but I believe we're seeing chess being played against the Argentinian government. First we heard of a US oil company getting rights to oil exploration off the coast and now we see a powerful warship prowling the waters.
The Portsmouth-based warship quickly proved a hit with islanders – youngsters especially – who visited her at the remote East Cove port on East Falkland.
They didn't chest thump or make public pronouncements. They made two shrewd moves and have their enemy in check!
pics via Royal Navy News...
Hopefully with the Argies chest thumping and the British staying relatively quiet but making moves like this, the international community will see the Argentinians for what they are, brash bullies with no real argument, while the British quietly get on with showing them who is still in control.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I get the feeling South America and Britain are about to fall out over this Assange thing. Ecuador has called a load of American meetings to get some back up for messing with European justice systems. No doubt this willk be used to drive a wedge.
no worries there Grim. the US is in the middle of presidential elections. groups have already accused the president of leaking sensitive information to his benefit and to the detriment of special operations people. he wouldn't dare come out on the side of Ecuador on this issue just because of the way it would look politically. it would seem that he was aiding a person that helped damage US intelligence. his instincts might lead him to WANT to assist but politics will keep him and the US govt on the sidelines. this won't be a wedge issue.
ReplyDeleteI think we will see a stalemate over Mr Assange
ReplyDeleteI cannot conceive of any circumstances in which the British Government will use its powers to enter the Ecuadoran Embassy and extradite him to Sweden because of the precedent it sets. We will have every tinpot dictator walking into Western embassies left, right and centre.
That said, the Government is legally obliged to extradite him so unless they put him in a diplomatic bag and try and smuggle him out I reckon he had better get used to living on a camp bed!
I read somewhere that a similar thing happened I think in one of the Eastern Bloc countries and he ended up staying there for 15 years.