Yes, let them try take on NATO in that territory. They won't do nearly as well as on Battlefield IV I can assure you and that base won't last long after it's been carpet bombed with cruise missiles.
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Why NATO, Paddy? Is the formerly "Great" Britain afraid of getting a spanking were it to confront China on its own? Why, just over a150 years ago you won the Opium war against them, with a great deal of Indian support , one must add , without which you'd be as helpless as you're today.
Why was an alliance against Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War? China's only a naval power in the SCS.
Plenty, if China start interfering with traffic through the Suez Canal. Can't see Egypt or Saudi Arabia being too happy about that either.
You think KSA can counter China. Lol
.They're another version of the UK, paddy. They couldn't handle a rag tag bunch of underarmed undersized urchins in their backyard. As far as Egypt is concerned, why would they be interested? Pls check out the location of Bab El Mendheb straits, will you. And for the umpteenth time, pls desist from commenting on geo political events with immediate effect.
In that specific region yes. It would be a suicidal move for China to start a war there. China's a big deal in its neighbourhood, but elsewhere it isn't.You think KSA can counter China. Lol
Why would Egypt be interested? Well it's their canal you dipshit, they collect revenue on ships passing through, no ships, no revenue. So if China were to start meddling with that, then they wouldn't be happy. I suspect China would find itself on the wrong side of an Arab coalition, as well as a NATO one. It would be the single dumbest move anyone's made since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
Was referring to the Bab el Mendheb straits. This lies after the Suez Canal as the Red Sea opens into the Indian Ocean, you bullock. The Suez Canal is Egypt's responsibility not what lies & happens after it. Let's not even discuss KSA. Now, any more brain dead theories you want flushed , Paddy . Go ahead, make my day, punk.
If the strait is closed the canal is effectively closed too. What do you think people will do, pay to go through the canal and then turn back, pay to go through again, and then go all the way round?
It would also increase the cost of petroleum products made with Gulf oil, it would be the quickest route China could take to a complete kicking.
We were referring to ships from the UK not other nations. You stop repaying Chinese debt. You cross the straits into the Indian Ocean. Ka boom.If the strait is closed the canal is effectively closed too. What do you think people will do, pay to go through the canal and then turn back, pay to go through again, and then go all the way round?
We're a major part of the Western economy, and a major customer of the Suez, so there's nobody going to stand for it. Chinese made this mess itself, and it must pay for it.
Great way for China to lose some aircraft carriers though, would pave the way for a Taiwanese independence declaration.
Let me correct you Paddy. Were a major part of the Western economy & a major customer of the Suez. Not since Brexit.
Note - the Egyptians didn't even consider the Typhoon.They plumbed for the Rafale - lock stock & Barrel. That's what ex colonies think of the UK - a has been running on empty.
Post Brexit, Johnson is desperately trying to land an FTA with whoever it is who'd have the UK & he's prettyyyyy desperate.
Well, there's a saying out here when one sees a motionless snake in one's path. Is it real? Is it alive?
The phrase is - stretch your hand out to feel it. If it strikes it's real & alive.
The analogy being UK should be man enough to stop repaying Chinese debts. And we all know the UK isn't man enough to do so. They'd soil their collective underpants at the very thought. Move on to something more plausible, Paddy.
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The UK is still a major part of the Western economy, with or without Brexit. The 3rd largest GDP in the western hemisphere. Everyone should stop paying their debts after this otherwise there's nothing to stop them doing it again.
Stop behaving like a stuck record will you Paddy. Grow up & smell the coffee. Everything that you say about UK is no longer applicable. You use the past tense for all that's glorious w.r.t UK. It's as simple as that. From now on its a race to the bottom as far as you're concerned. The better ones among your PM may arrest the slide a bit but they'd never be able to stop it. Your collective goose was cooked the day you exited EU. Whatever is happening to you now is Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
If there's no deal, whatever we like.
I'm stating facts based on economic figures.
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On the repercussions of Brexit for a Brit couple aiming to settle in France post retirement, Paddy.
@BMD ; @Picdelamirand-oil
Since you were kind enough to summarize it, it would have been better had you used simpler language for @BMD 's benefit. You see English is not his first language or his mother tongue. It took me a long time to understand this.
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