Well, chaps it looks as if we are alone if the shit hits the fan. America just came out with this
Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the UN.
I am not sure how Obama is thinking. But regardless of what people might think on the continent there is actually hell of a lot in that special relationship. It is not just a layman's term for mutual understanding on this and that issue. I do not want to go into too much detail for I am not sure who actually reads this blog but it is way beyond anything the MSM gives it credit for, and it is duly understood on both sides of the pond that the breaking of that relationship would be very costly indeed.
Britain is America's transit to Europe why we are partially bound into the EU currently. America was actually very complicit in getting the UK into the EU in the first place. There are countless FCO documents on this and it has been covered extensively already so I shall not dwell on it. Now likewise the US is Britain's playground when it comes to all that gucci government science for example. Lets just put it this way; it is in both countries' interest to stay on each others good side.
However... both countries currently have a) a leftist who seems hellbent on kissing his enemies and kicking his allies and b) a complete mong who got into office by default and is hopelessly out of his league. I will let the reader pair up the a) and b) with respective country. What is sure though is that both need each other not in the least for Afghanistan and all the other commitments in the world. So as far as this goes I am not sure what Obama is smoking but is sure as hell isn't common sense.
Also I urge you to have a read on
Think Defence for which I write for from time to time (well once so far). If you want to know what is really going on then that is the place to be, the national newspapers know very little of what is actually going on down yonder.
Finally, do you know what the really funny thing is? People do not like us in Europe and definitely not in the EU, where the UK is seen as the 'troublemakers' i.e. the bumpers of further integration. Yet nor are we particularly cherished in the higher spheres of America either. We cannot even get support in the form of lip-service. Still British troops are dying for a cause that Bush dreamt up while high on Ganja because Blair was and is his leg-humping poodle.
My previous post seems very apt now...
