Posted on 05/05/2016 6:02:14 AM PDT by NRx
The Royal Navy fired flares to warn of a Spanish patrol boat harassing an American nuclear submarine off Gibraltar.
The fast patrol boat HMS Sabre fired warning shots across the bow of a Guardia Civil vessel as it twice tried to cut across the path of USS Florida during an incursion into Gibraltars waters.
Gibraltar says Spanish vessels regularly stray deep into its territorial waters and the Foreign Office has attacked the incursions as provocative.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
All that submarine has to do is surface under the Spanish boat, problem solved.
Why mess with us?
Bad enough obama sits still for Russian and Chinese naval insults and incursions, now we’re even taking it from the Spanish?
America’s waiting for a president with a full set of b*lls.
The German army can’t take a full part in a NATO exercise because they’ve worked too much overtime and the Spanish are threatening our subs. Remind me again why we are defending Europe, these people are insane.
The sub was probably already fully surfaced passing through there. The Spanish boat should know better - bouncing off a very think steel submarine hull could be unpleasant. The sub also almost certainly has legal right of way in a restricted channel, since they cannot maneuver.
General Francisco Franco would never have countenanced that.
Unfortunately, he’s still dead.
Spanish-American War — Part Deux
UK and US still special, in spite of Obama.
It’s not about us. We were the inconvenience in the middle when they decided to get flappy with Britain. Every 25-30 years Spain tries to harass Britain about Gibraltar and every 25-30 years Britain ignores them.
The Spanish are our ALLIES.
For that matter, the British and Spanish are Allies, why do this?
Because they are butt-hurt over Gibraltar? Does the Schengen Agreement extend to Gibraltar? If so, doesn't that make this a mute point?
I’ve seen those subs. THEY ARE HUGE............................
I guess we are lucky this US commander didnt try to surrender his sub to the Spanish bass boat.
They're messing with our Pussy-In-Chief.
Driving from Spanish soil onto Gibraltar is a trip back in time. The spaniels never miss an opportunity to harass Brits or anyone else.
I mean get over it, Spaniards, you lost Gibraltar more than three hundred years ago!
You’ve got much bigger fish to fry because your Muslim problem isn’t going away. They want their Cordoba mosque back - see what happens when people don’t let go of centuries old grievances?
They are saying "You're president is a pussy nyah nyah nyah"
Spanish speakers seem to have a problem with established borders. The Mexicans are trying to take over Texas and California, the Argentines are trying to take over the Falklands and the Spanish want to take over Gibraltar.
....Why mess with us...
Because they can. Who is afraid of a wimp community organizer?
Our own 97 pound weakling.
Welcome to NATO 2016.
Or maybe Spain really doesn’t like two nations that embarrassed their old empire?
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