Harry Cox 🇬🇧

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[Harry Cox 🇬🇧 @harrycox96]

@VeteranUSA47 @WesODonnell01 If you think that the UK relies on the US, feel free leave the bases we lease you in the UK, lose access to our ballistic missile radars, our intelligence, our special forces support l, and remove your assets in Cyprus/Diago Garcia. It'll be your loss, not ours...

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@FranciscoSpace5 @Defence_Index In your misguided tweet is would be the Canadian PM following what the Canadian King tells him to do... One person, separate and distinct crowns.

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@joanperezes @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I think you overestimate Spain's air to ground capability... Maybe after months of constant bombardment. How do you think Iran is still resisting US/Israeli strikes?

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@LMAOmaster2003 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 Any such action would be via NATO than the EU i should think... It wouldn't particularly be in the UK interest to do it with the EU, although I'm sure something would be negotiated in this context, shared control or similar. We are allies after all.

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@joanperezes @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 The Royal Navy is a blue water force, more than capable of mounting expeditionary operations globals, let alone in a regional context... The rock is designed to hold out in a siege, even modern bunker buster type munitions would struggle to penetrate.

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@joanperezes @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I'm quite aware that Gibraltar is attached to Spain. Given the geography it would not be impossible to contest the Strait using the rock as a natural bunker. Dependent on the wider situation the UK would eventually have to reinforce and lift any potential siege. All very unlikely

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@LMAOmaster2003 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I completely agree with all points... Fortunately there isn't a situation in which the UK would attempt to restrict European access into the Med. I can only foresee a situation in which the UK works with Spain to control access against a non-European power.

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@LMAOmaster2003 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 This is becoming an issue of context now. As a member of NATO/European partner we could absolutely work with Spain to secure the strait, that's the point of us having it. If against Europe we'd have a fight on our hands, but could contest the Straits dependant on various factors.

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@joanperezes @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 Last time I checked the NSM is more than capable, as are the artillery systems of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment? Not withstanding any deployment of naval assets/aircraft...

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@joanperezes @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 Being Air Force I'd never claim such a thing! Haha. Suez was a military success in fairness, but an overall failure due to US economic pressure unfortunately. I'm simply stating that the capability exists should we ever need to close/control the Strait.

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@RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I'm not suggesting that the UK commits to such action, its wholly unnecessary. I'm simply stating that it could be done if there were ever a situation which justified/required it.

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@LMAOmaster2003 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I fail to see how it couldn't... NSM on its own would be more than capable of closing the strait, as would the Royal Regiment of Gibraltar given that it is an artillery regiment. This would assume working with Europe not against it. Although Gib has held out against Europe before

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@LMAOmaster2003 @LindaAn65053363 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 Not that France and the UK would ever strike eachother of course, but the UK has more than enough firepower to mutually destroy France.

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@LMAOmaster2003 @Essoeasy @RasmusJarlov @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 I wasn't really suggesting that the UK would be going against Spain per se, just that the UK could absolutely influence and control access via the Strait of Gibraltar if it so wishes to do so. As to whether it ever would,or in concert/against the EU, remains to be seen

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@cfehrenbach1 @54JohnBull @Elks1987 @fromdaburgh1 @devriesnlw9 Churchill was famously anti-Soviet, so I'm assuming with medium confidence that the UK would end support when Russia makes a break for all of Europe.

And the UK already had a mature industrial base and manpower/resources from across the Empire...

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@cfehrenbach1 @54JohnBull @Elks1987 @fromdaburgh1 @devriesnlw9 The US gained nuclear weapons first, hence why I mention the US, which is also who we merged our weapons program with. Had the UK retained its weapons program and the US not joined the war we would almost certainly have beaten Russia to gaining nuclear weapons, let alone the US

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@cfehrenbach1 @54JohnBull @Elks1987 @fromdaburgh1 @devriesnlw9 How so? Russia lacked the technology and the raw numbers to match the UK. German and even French manufacturing capacity would be negligible for years given that much of it would have been destroyed/sabotaged. That's without even going into the resources involved in occupying it?

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@SlaterTony @RasmusJarlov @Essoeasy @thestonedmonk84 @AdrianNF8173 Quite right, haha

[Harry Cox 🇬🇧 @harrycox96]

@cfehrenbach1 @54JohnBull @Elks1987 @fromdaburgh1 @devriesnlw9 As for nuclear weapons, if the UK hadn't handed over our research and scientists to the US, we would have continued to develop them in the UK; arguably gaining the weapon before the US which would lack British nuclear reasearch.