According to reports out of the Sunday Times, Britain is set to deploy approximately 100 Royal Marines to the Gulf of Oman in the days to come, with an eye toward protecting British warships in the area.
Officials cited “concern” about mounting tensions with Iran, and noted
that Iran had summoned the British Ambassador to protest Britain blaming
them for last week’s tanker attacks.
Yet this deployment is, if officials are to be believed, unrelated to
those attacks. Rather, they say the deployments had been planned for
several weeks, as part of the general escalation toward Iran, and just
happen to coincide with the tanker attacks.
Iran has denied attacking the tankers, though both the US and Britain
have declared Iran the guilty party. So far, there has been no sign of
any incidents in the region threatening anyone’s warships, and with the
ongoing US escalation, there are a lot more warships in the region than
there normally are.
I’m sure the Royal Marines and their families are just thrilled.
I can’t imagine that the majority of Brits are on board with this, just like when they were dragged into the Iraq War against their will. Does this almost guarantee that Corbyn will be the next PM? Not if the Zionists have their way it won’t. Boris is their man and he’s Trump’s poodle.
“Does this almost guarantee that Corbyn will be the next PM?”
Unless he switches to the Conservative Party and they really, really, really like him, he won’t be the next PM. There’s not a general election in play. May is leaving, but the Tories are still in charge and whoever they choose as their next party leader is the next PM.
Corbyn could become Prime Minister if whoever is elected to Tory leadership can’t command a majority of MPs in the House of Commons. He or she would have 14 days to form a government before a general election is triggered. Candidate, Mark Harper, said that then it would be “perfectly possible that Mr Corbyn would be invited to try to form an administration, and would then go into the election as the incumbent prime minister.” So, technically it’s possible but not probable.
The “Royal Marines” aren’t sent to protect anything. They are sent to gather intel, to coordinate and to recover. So says Mr. Stewart.
Or, you know, they’re being sent to commit various covert missions against Iran or to assist whoever in conducting more false flag attacks. Marines can’t “protect” anything – and certainly not ships – they can just do offensive operations. So that’s what they’ll be doing. Unless the idea is that they’ll be pulling guard duty on ships – which is ridiculous.
“Marines can’t ‘protect’ anything – and certainly not ships”
Actually, that’s a major part of their job.
Not when they’re at sea. They’re not much good against mines and missiles. On a ship at sea they’re about as useless as when they perform Embassy guard duty (they’re no good against truck bombs, obviously, since Lebanon, and little good against a mob of terrorists since Iran in the ’60’s.)
They got a lot better against truck bombs after Beirut (I was on that kind of security for the Marine Corps’ headquarters in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of Desert Storm).
As for ships, mines and missiles aren’t the only dangers, or even the most likely ones in every scenario (ask the personnel from any ship taken by pirates off the African coast).
It’s true that there aren’t a lot of naval boarding attacks (or need to repel boarders) in conventional naval warfare today, but they do happen. I knew a Marine who was one of the guys jumping the gunwales onto the Mayaguez in 1975.