All that submarine has to do is surface under the Spanish boat, problem solved.
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.
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.
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 guess we are lucky this US commander didnt try to surrender his sub to the Spanish bass boat.
Welcome to NATO 2016.
Or maybe Spain really doesn’t like two nations that embarrassed their old empire?
You’re right. Spain does this every once in a while when they need to, in order to maintain a standing that might (in a hundred or so years) be reason enough to buy back the land from Britain.
“It’s always been ours. You’ve been unilaterally leasing it without our explicit consent.”
Thank gosh some foreign Country protect out weak American ships.
In this the Spanish are like the moslems. Because it was once Spanish territory it’s supposed to always Spanish. Tough luck. Britain has held Gibraltar longer than Spain held it after taking it from the Moors. The people of Gibraltar do not want Spain. Also, Spain holds Cueta on the Morrocan coast. Are they going to “return it” to Morocco? No? Why not? Is Spain going to return the part of Portugal they stole in the early 1800s? No? Why not?
At end of article:
“In recent years Madrid has warned it is ready to impose a new border tax, close its airspace to planes using the British overseas territory’s airport, and investigate the affairs of Gibraltarians with Spanish economic interests.
The row escalated in 2013 after Gibraltar began building an artificial reef it said would improve fish stocks depleted by incursions by Spanish fishermen.”
So brit ecological activities are harming the livelihood of Spanish fishermen and it’s pissing them off.
Eco-nazis bringing us to war.
Judging from the picture, the Spanish patrol boat is an inflatable? The words “patrol boat” alone create a different image.