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I wouldn't put it down to Gavin Williamson flexing his muscles.
I'd put it down to the Chinese flexing their muscles.
There is an emerging Chinese caused threat to stability in that region...and other nations like the Philippines, Malaysia etc are under pressure.
The UK also has strong links to Brunei.
Sending an aircraft carrier to the region indicates to China that the UK is willing, with the US and others (I may be wrong I'm thinking Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand, five power defence partners) to support the less militarily capable countries who find themselves in dispute with China over this matter.
Its using military assets to diplomatically influence a situation.
All my own opinion BTW...I have no inside track on this other than a passive interest.'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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Originally posted by Poiuyt View PostAlso could be a request by the US for support or covering where the US is pulling back from.
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An attempt to justify Defence spending ahead of the inevitable post-Brexit austerity budgets?'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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Originally posted by Poiuyt View PostAlso could be a request by the US for support or covering where the US is pulling back from.“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Thucydides
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Originally posted by Shaqra View PostProbably closer to the mark. Attempting to curry favour with the US prior to trying to negotiate a new trade deal. However if the ProPublica reports are to be believed (https://features.propublica.org/navy...ailynewsletter ) the 7th Fleet needs a lot of help just to make space for training and routine maintenance. I'm sure the additional hull and crew would be very welcome , even without it's own aircraft.
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Originally posted by Shaqra View PostI'm sure the additional hull and crew would be very welcome , even without it's own aircraft.
The US can easily spare the aircraft, gives them some room to breathe and keeps everyone happy while the UK does something with their £3Bn flagship and gets some brownie points.
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