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HMS Gloucester scheduled to call at Valparaíso Expo-naval next November
HMS Gloucester the Royal Navy’s lead patrol vessel in the South Atlantic and currently deployed in the Falkland Islands will be calling in Valparaíso next November to participate at Chile’s Expo-naval. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“ ... Other vessels, including innocent pass, through Argentine waters heading to or from the Falklands have to report with the Argentine Coast Guard, according to the latest Argentine noose-tightening of the Islands...”
Oct 14th, 2010 - 06:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0A noose with only one side :-)
From the desk of Mr think :-)
Oct 14th, 2010 - 06:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0My personal evaluation is that, thanks to the British haughtiness about the “Malvinas Issue”,the Islands case can be developed from a little forgotten pastoralist South Atlantic anecdote to an interesting, productive and winnable “South vs North” argument.”
Any one want to punt a few bob on the Argentinians denying her 'right of free passage' off the eastern entrance of Magallanes.... not going to happen.
Oct 14th, 2010 - 08:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentinian Navy... weak as piss and half as salty.
Frank, Is none of your business anyway, why did you move from USA ?
Oct 14th, 2010 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to ruin it for you lads (and MercoPress)..............
Oct 14th, 2010 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But it seems that the Gloucester will NOT be attending Expo-Naval 2010 in Valparaiso after all.......
The organizers can say what they want but.... it is still the Chilean Parliament that runs the Country :-)
http://www.diarioreddigital.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1462:rechazan-presentacion-del-destructor-ingles-hms-gloucester-en-exponaval-2010&catid=36:nacional&Itemid=58
Viva Chile Mie***!
Early days Think
Oct 14th, 2010 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MP of the radical social democratic party, Fernando Meza, presented a draft for the Chamber of Deputies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Chile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Deputies_of_Chile
yes, but will the argie navy have the guts to stop the royal navy ship.
Oct 14th, 2010 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i think they will quietly dissapear and tell every one they forgot,
Wonder if You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours translates well into Spanish
Oct 14th, 2010 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sergio Galvarino Apablaza Guerra for no show HMS Gloucester
US is increasingly verborragic about UK busineses.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/8065363/Hillary-Clintons-warning-to-Britain-over-cuts-in-defence-budget.html
“ ... But it seems that the Gloucester will NOT be attending Expo-Naval 2010 in Valparaiso after all.......”
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Makes no great difference to the UK .... saves a little money though :-)
Marco #4, My business is what I choose to make my business...re the other...pay attention you dickhead... You don't know where I come from, where I am or where I'm going.... live with it.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 04:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Frank, Like I said before Is none of your business anyway...up yours yankee.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 04:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0A British ship visiting Chile... so how is it an argie's business?? Oh thats right ... everything everywhere is argentinas business.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 04:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Frank the Yank
Oct 15th, 2010 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0British (Malvinas related) ships NOT visiting Chile … That’s Argentinean business…
British (Malvinas related) ships NOT visiting Uruguay … That’s Argentinean business…
Next step: British (Malvinas related) ships NOT visiting Brazil … That’s Argentinean business…
Twanky.... Stealing from other people ( both foreign and domestic) is Argentinean business.. at both at a government and a one on one level.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 05:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0British (Malvinas related) ships NOT visiting Chile … That’s Argentinean business…
Oct 15th, 2010 - 06:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0not just yet
All that work and all that effort Think, and you still won't get the islands ..... but, hey .... whatever makes you happy :-)
Oct 15th, 2010 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0I bet she wished She called them the Falklands
Oct 15th, 2010 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320640/U-S-launches-attack-David-Camerons-plans-sweeping-defence-cuts.html
Still no matter what the cuts, Garrison Falklands will remain till the Argies wake up in the 21st
Wooooow… This sounds like Argentina in the 80’s ……..
Oct 15th, 2010 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Military “take over in Britain 2010? :-)))))))
“Last night, in what was described as ‘an escalation’ of hostilities with No 10,
Britain’s five top military officers took the unusual step of wearing uniforms for their meeting.
A senior defence source said: ‘The chiefs have gone to Downing Street in uniform to stare him down.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320640/U-S-launches-attack-David-Camerons-plans-sweeping-defence-cuts.html#ixzz12Pw5hzki
They had Cameron in their sights .... so to speak :-)
Oct 15th, 2010 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not to worry ... our top brass don't get as many medals as those in foreign parts .... not much point in taking over if you can't flash a few gongs about!
Besides, Twinky, Clinton and Gates are irrelevant. Particularly Clinton, as she never knows what she is talking about!
Oct 15th, 2010 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Senior defence sources said military chiefs are considering using the ‘nuclear option’ of threatening to resign if they don’t get more money to preserve vital military hardware”
Oct 15th, 2010 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In Argentina, they staged a coup, murdered 30000, invade a peaceful island community and threaten the neighbours. In Britain, they do the honourable thing and resign. A military take over would never happen.
There is no comparison. But does neatly illustrate Think's mind.
Let's really hope so........ Would hate to see Good Old Britain subjugated by the British military
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Like Ireland ... you know..........
Subjugation in modern times adopt different ways.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps, only perhaps, if you cut social spending in favour of your military corporation your society is being subjugated by them.
I didn't even know that 'Good Old Britain' had been subjugated by Ireland? When did that happen then? And why did nobody tell me?
Oct 15th, 2010 - 03:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Billious ... you're rambling again ... take the pink pills ... I said, the pink ones !! :-)
C’mon Hoyt
Oct 15th, 2010 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know that those Fenian Free Staters Bullies have tried, during centuries, to destroy the Greatness of Great Brengland….. They even plotted with Adolf against you……
That’s why you have to police them so sternly.......
Sadly......, while keeping Pax Britannica in green old Éire and the South Atlantic, you were backstabbed by those other Treacherous Tartanic Bullies in the north and their Scottish Mafia….
I hope to see her at Valparaíso Naval Expo ....like HSM Portland visit us last Bicentenario Parade..
Oct 15th, 2010 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The PRSD parliamentary Meza is not more than a stupid leftist speaking just because he has a mouth...
In Chile, who rules the country is the President, not the Parliament.... And the Foreign matters are exclusive issues of the Executive Power, it means the President and his Foreign Minister.
It would be very bad image for both countries if they choose for an exchenge like non HSM Gloucester visit by terrorist extradition.
We, after the our gvt. demonstration of capability, can´t compare with a gvt. that have such a weak CV....We are in a higher level of management from last March 11 th....
Well seem that a comment of Hilary is enough to have a coup de at banana republic style in Britain.
Oct 15th, 2010 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The militaries also will win and will avoid major cuts.
We should help them with a new overnight invasion.
Cameron is weak like was John Major in the ’90 a lost in the south Atlantic water will drag Britain into a complete chaos. Anyway they will face this chaos next years when the QE and the stimulus package ends.
We should help them with a new overnight invasion
Oct 16th, 2010 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0any time pal, any time
An invasion requires you to.
Oct 16th, 2010 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 01 land tropps on the island
2 defeat the current garrison
Both of which you are incapable of doing.
After 82 and specially after february2010 there is no need to land troops, only interdicting the sea with small patrol vessels covered from mainland airfields for a short period of time and you will see kelpers, stockholders, usa, un, and the list goes on crying for negotiations.
Oct 16th, 2010 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Today, are more usefull as potential targets for intervention the oil rigs and fishing fleet than mount pleasant or stanley.
Covered by mainland airfields. Skyhawks against typhoons? LOL.
Oct 16th, 2010 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you was to step things up there by attacking fishing boats and oil rigs it would just go to straight out war, the difference being that the UK would have a place the launch troops from(the islands) and the only target would be mainland Argentina.
@31 Please go with your idea. I am sure that both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy are just itching to turn your mainland airfields into large holes in the ground.
Oct 16th, 2010 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and your naval bases into empty garden ponds
Oct 16th, 2010 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the Argies misbehave again just give them the German treatment... 1st innings.... had an armistice and left the German homeland untouched ... next time they played up razed their country to the ground ... and let them start again from scratch.... it seemed to modify their mindset...may work on the argentinians.
Oct 16th, 2010 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ ...After 82 and specially after february2010 there is no need to land troops, only interdicting the sea with small patrol vessels covered from mainland airfields for a short period of time and you will see kelpers, stockholders, usa, un, and the list goes on crying for negotiations ....”
Oct 17th, 2010 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Silly Billy ... what do you think the missile tests are about :-)
Warmongers of the world, unite!
Oct 17th, 2010 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0But, Twinky, you clowns WANT conflict. You prove it every day. Now we have a response to belligerents who want conflict. You don't like it? You know what to do.
Oct 17th, 2010 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Got to love how someone can have a hypothetical conversation about Argentina attacking the islands, and us defending them.
Oct 17th, 2010 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The hypothetical conversation being started by an Argentinian.
Then think, the Argentinian accusing us of warmongering. Double standards much?
perhaps Chile should allow British bases on her land, [just for protection you understand] against the argies aggressor,
Oct 17th, 2010 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If HMS Gloucester goes anywhere near Chile, it will be appropriate to do so with everything loaded!
Oct 18th, 2010 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Cocaine?
Oct 20th, 2010 - 03:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0@26
Oct 20th, 2010 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0When did all this happen twinky?
On what planet?
Have you taken someonelses medication?
Snorted marcos cocaine?
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