Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
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Are we at war? No.
However, the Commonwealth, our global "British interests" and the interests of our close Allies will mean we are never far away from a theatre of conflict.
It is conceivable that our enemies will conflate fighting the Houthis and their attacks on shipping with Western support for Israel and opposition to Islam and then strike on the British mainland or at British military bases. We've seen with WW1 how something something small and self-contained - like two neighbours fighting over land - can develop into a global conflict.
We're already doing enough to provoke our enemies into reacting in a way that could start WW3.
Quite why it is the British shooting down Houthi drones and not the French or German is an historic anomaly, for they benefit just as much as we do from those ships safely passing through the Suez Canal into the Med.
It worries me that Trump could win the next election and embark on isolationalism and a cutting of US funding of NATO and the UN. Where will that leave the UK now we have left the European Union?
However, the Commonwealth, our global "British interests" and the interests of our close Allies will mean we are never far away from a theatre of conflict.
It is conceivable that our enemies will conflate fighting the Houthis and their attacks on shipping with Western support for Israel and opposition to Islam and then strike on the British mainland or at British military bases. We've seen with WW1 how something something small and self-contained - like two neighbours fighting over land - can develop into a global conflict.
We're already doing enough to provoke our enemies into reacting in a way that could start WW3.
Quite why it is the British shooting down Houthi drones and not the French or German is an historic anomaly, for they benefit just as much as we do from those ships safely passing through the Suez Canal into the Med.
It worries me that Trump could win the next election and embark on isolationalism and a cutting of US funding of NATO and the UN. Where will that leave the UK now we have left the European Union?