Agreed. Live by the sword die by the sword.
Invade our country will kill you.
Kidnap our people we kill you.
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That I agree with. I too believe that an ultimatum needs to be given and if that ultimatum is not met, let the bombs start falling.
I dont know what the EU response is going to be but I know that the German Chancellor has stepped up and condemned the incidents and called for the immediate release of the Brits and pledged support (what that support would be I do not know since Germany can not conduct offensive operations such as an invasion or so forth based off the consitution.)
US (Iraq) is holding 5 Iranian Republican Guards suspected of training/participating in terrorist acts in Iraq. I have not read any specifics other than they were apparently caught red handed.
UK has not missed their window yet. It will take some decent assets and planning (which should have been done already for such a contingency) to put together a proper military response. However, in the mean time the EU is Iran's largest trading partner. Let's see if the EU can provide a consolidated response on behalf of one of their own.I know. Not likely.
Issue a 24hr ultimatum for release. Failure to comply, kick the Iranian rep out of the country with 5 mins to pack his ****. Simultaneous strikes against all Iranian naval assets and use Tornados loaded with Storm Shadow cruise missiles on port facilities. Then issue another 24hr ultimatum and ignore world pleas for negotiation.
it might be of note : Persia has only 1 working oil refinery. send her an ultimatum if they do not comply then send them back to the stone age ........
I believe the Royal Navy should mobilise its assets and sail a combat fleet into Iranian waters blockading all their ports. Then tell Iran that British personnel are in their waters now, what are they going to do about it?
Then order the release or the Iranian "navy" will be destroyed with its ports, oil facilities will be wrecked and Tornado's will be busting up any nuclear technology. This doesn't need to be an invasion, so the military assets do not need to be large. We shouldn't plan on an occupation so massive manpower is not required. Just hit the country to its knees then back away.
Great question. Does the EU have any capacity to do anything. Once you get past the RN and the Charles De Gaul, what kind of power projection do they have? And would you get all the countries (27?) on board for this thing?
I concur. Now why aren't enough Brits thinking like this. The reaction in the news is amazing... some blaming the brits. It's like apologizing to someone for hitting their fist with your face. As Toby Keith says in one of his songs, "it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you..." That is what I want to see. It's more dangerous to not.
Kinda thought so. Bummer. EU has the capacity (in terms of industry), the population and the know how. But I guess getting all those countries on the same page is about the same as herding cats.
Just not gonna happen.
Because we're not all stupid...
Just how would this suggestion get those sailors back... or is that a secondary concern to just smacking a few ragheads ?
Are we suddenly expecting the Iranians and the Muslim world to suddenly become reasonable because we've blown up their citizens.. ?
Now I don't know the answer, but I'm sure that an out and out fist fight live on CNN isn't it either... We Brits are a bit more subtle than that and I'd like to think that our leaders first thoughts are about getting those sailors home to their families and if that means lieing through our teath on TV, making some bullshit apology then that's what needs to be done. When that's acheived we'll make our true feelings known to em.... sublty... in the dark, so they'll not forget.
Simon
few ragheads ?
Simon