>Last week it emerged that a Royal Navy patrol boat fired warning flares across the bow of the Spanish vessel during the altercation just outside Gibraltar waters.
>It has now been revealed that the Royal Navy’s unprecedented actions were ordered by USS Florida’s no-nonsense captain Nathan Martin who warned the Royal Navy to sort the situation out or he would intervene.
>It was the first of two such actions by Spanish vessels that day.
>The second, in British waters, involved a Garda Civil police boat.
>Last night Admiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord, said: “Nuclear submarines are very unmanoeuvrable when they are on the surface, and it is very stupid for the Spanish vessel to go in close like that. The Spanish clearly resent the Americans using Gibraltar, but this is not the way for a fellow EU and Nato member to behave.”
Probably some cheeky idiot in the submarine going "lol let's see if the Brits get mad"
Brayden Brown
Just Banter
Gavin Morgan
it's like that poor 40 year old man who doesn't shower and still goes to clubs trying to pick up college students. He leaves lonely and depressed every night, but he'll do whatever it takes to pretend that he still has a shot at being relevant.
Jace Gonzalez
This desu
Jaxon White
wtf are you even talking about
John Peterson
What do you mean by that?
The Spanish vessel was trying to get into the way of the submarine.
Jason Reed
This is so annoying... and always appears in UK newspapers
Liam Scott
confiscate the submarine
turn the captain and crew into homosexual sex slaves.
Colton Ortiz
WAR ! WAR ! WAR !
Jaxon Collins
Will France stand with the UK?
Nicholas Carter
They want the rock back.
Brody Reyes
Of course ! If deus le vult, we will finally take our rightful clay (aka "Catalonia")
Adrian Lee
We're just trying to get you guys to bomb the rock yourselves.
Isaiah James
That's our colony, though.
Christian Morgan
Pls no, Spanish incompetence actually helped us, French will destroy our language and culture (again).
Ian Ramirez
Ours.
Justin Russell
what do you mean by again?
Jace Gonzalez
CRUSH CULTURES DESTROY LANGUAGES
Gabriel Hernandez
Hopefully this eventually leads to us carpet bombing the fuck out of Spain
Nathaniel Butler
You lost them twice to us. They're our colony.
Liam Adams
reconquista
and its about time
Levi Powell
Why is there a fucking nuclear submarine in Gibraltar anyway?
Tyler Reed
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Charles Anderson
They destroyed the culture and language of Catalunya Nort (North Catalonia), plus Occitan, Breton and all the other regional languages. Ille de France is some evil shit.
Adam Sanders
First on pic related, when Aragón conquered it. Then on the 1800s
William Peterson
>Last week it emerged that a Royal Navy patrol boat fired warning flares across the bow of the Spanish vessel during the altercation just outside Gibraltar waters.
So US Navy can give orders to the Royal Navy?
James King
there was also the time you lost an entire colonized continent to cannibal indios
Anthony Hughes
>cannibal indios To Criollo traitors and an invasion from a "friendly" country* And that wasn't Cataluña nor Aragón, since those Crowns weren't allowed control there since they were Castillian colonies.
Nolan Robinson
The Criollos (the ones than Started all the revolts) were mainly from Spanish stock, the only think was than weren't born in the peninsula so they couldn't get the Viceroy and upper caste jobs. The Indios and Nigs were mainly Royalist (because fueros and shit) at the start of the revolt.
Hudson Adams
We can give orders to anyone.
Xavier White
I'm pretty sure that if Americans ram a Spanish navy vessel, which it is, nato has to defend Spain.
Liam Phillips
We are NATO
Elijah Garcia
I mean really, the fucking British Royal Navy taking orders from other cunts it's kinda lame.
Even if it's the US, you don't take the shit like that.
Not really. I had to do a double take because I didn't think other cunts would take orders from a US military vessel. I don't think the US plans to take Spain though. Sounds like it was sour Spanish grapes.
Cooper Powell
Approaching a nuclear submarine like that is just asking for trouble.
Adrian Morgan
In reality, the UK already gave the sub clearance to dock in Gibraltar. The sub was in UK waters, which it was cleared for, and the Spanish vessel decided to show its ass.
The dialogue probably went more like:
"So are you guys gonna do something about these pricks? Because I'm about to ram them."
"No worries m8, we'll put a few flares across their bow"
"Thanks"
"Cheers m8 thanks m8 take care goodbye! Bye!"
Connor Ross
Lol more like the Spanish ship was hassling a US sub in international waters and could do fuck all about it and had to beg the Royal Navy for help.
Evan Fisher
It didn't happen in Gibraltar waters. Give back Gibraltar Anglo scum or we will send the goat of our Legion to take it.
Robert Butler
Etiquette and maritime law provides for those that have ownership of the water (if any) to sort the problem unless they physically or practically can't.
Lincoln Powell
Oh i see. It looked like that the US commander actually ordered the Royal Navy captain to attack.
Thomas Perry
He was just impatient, which is typical of most Americans in comparison with Euros.
Elijah Morgan
WE WARN YOU ABOUT LAS MALVINAS ARGENTINAS; YOU WOULDNT LISTEN
THIS IS THE RESULT
Jayden Hill
Well. That kinda sucks and might even fuck the relations with other navies around the world desu.
:^)
Connor Flores
Yes, those guys. They still controlled Cataluña after that, and did so for several centuries.
As a matter of fact, Spain has controlled that territory for longer than France has.
Josiah Diaz
Yeah I know I wasn't really being serious. Although the sub was still in international waters at that time so I'm not sure it was the British responsibility to act, sounds like the Spanish were just being pricks and knew there wasn't much an unsubmerged sub could do about it. You'd expect a close ally to assist especially if you're docking in one of their bases.
Lucas Stewart
>Last night Admiral Lord West, former First Sea Lord, said: “Nuclear submarines are very unmanoeuvrable when they are on the surface, and it is very stupid for the Spanish vessel to go in close like that. The Spanish clearly resent the Americans using Gibraltar, but this is not the way for a fellow EU and Nato member to behave.”
What else can you do with a country that acts like a petulant child that doesn't like what you do in a territory that isn't even its own? If they hate it so much it should be brought up on diplomatic levels, not through childish displays on the high seas.
Nathaniel Phillips
the british ship was providing escort to the sub. considering that is the job of the escort, to ward off potential threats, it kinda was the british responsibility to act.
Lucas Bell
Yeah you're right.
Spanish genes... messing with people who they can't top.
Kevin Thompson
It's literally the job of escort vessels to sort problems like this, no matter the nationality.
t. former Sailor
Ryan Sanders
Americans have a nuclear submarines everywhere. Global shipping lanes ain't gonna keep itself open.
Nicholas Walker
I'd like to see the Spanish side of the argument, because you anglos tend to say "international waters/Gibraltar waters" but the Spanish say you're entering Spanish waters.
I don't believe any of you, because both the Royal Army and the Spanish Army have been arguing over that worthless rock for centuries.
Nathaniel Harris
bost bawts from ur cunt.
Henry Cooper
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Daniel Fisher
should have retaliated with nukes
fuck spane
Austin Russell
If the sub was coming back from a Eastern Med/Horn of Africa deployment (which it likely was) for a port visit in Gibraltar, it would have been very easy not to enter Spanish waters, and I can assure you they wouldn't if they didn't have to.
Luis Perry
REMEMBER THE MAINE
Jacob Torres
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Eli Morgan
Was there an escort? Because the craft that fired the warning shot was a small patrol vessel and the first report of this story last week said that it was dispatched because of the incursion and not that it had already met the sub to provide escort.
Dominic Morris
FUCKING ANGLO SCUM YOU JEWISH LIARS
Logan Cox
WE DIN DU NUFFIN
Gabriel Bennett
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John Thomas
Say that to my face fucker and not online and see what happens
Parker Cruz
>Internet tough guy
Josiah Flores
The British patrol vessel was the escort and fired the flares across the bow of the spanish vessel
John Baker
You can't even speak to a Guardia Civil, dumbass.
Andrew Rivera
Spain needs to start a second empire. You guys can have Mexico
Luis Anderson
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Mason Turner
U.S.S Iowa
Isaiah Ward
You wouldn't let that happen now that you have caught their balls with the fucking NAFTA.
Angel Edwards
That's a big bawt.
Zachary Ross
Isn't this one of the ships that the U.S used to humiliate Saddam in the first gulf war
Gabriel Brooks
For you.
Yep. The Iraqis were terrified of the shells from its main guns.
Mt. Fuji in the background in pic related.
Easton Long
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John Foster
I just loved how they got a 60 year old ship parked it outside his line of death and shelled Baghdad
Nathaniel Bell
>The sub was in UK waters
Gibraltar doesn't have waters
Josiah Kelly
>This butthurt Spaniard again
Dominic Smith
It was in Spanish waters fucking chav
Hudson Harris
What if he's trying to find a date for his nephew?
>It's another "Spain gets butthurt about Gibraltar while doing the exact same thing to Morroco" thread At least the Argies aren't hypocrits.
Jackson Gutierrez
We ain't cucks.
Andrew Robinson
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I can't stand your ignorance, how the fuck can you compare both situations? Now I understand why a lot Brits even think that Gibraltar is an island
Jaxon Sanchez
>The British patrol vessel was the escort
There wasn't an escort. They dispatched a small border patrol vessel when the problem arose.
James Perez
You have to give it back
Ian Watson
Back to who? Portugal?
Ryan Sanders
This
Jayden Rivera
>tfw Iowa doujins in summer
n o i c e
Jose Peterson
Iowa is best shipsloot
Pic related, Iowa on the Iowa.
Lincoln Bell
Daily reminder that Albion betrayed us, the Catalans.
It was a civil war, there were Bourbon supporters in Cataluña
Samuel Garcia
No, it's Gibraltar waters and it's recognised by the UN.
Why do you lie?
A submarine has an escort when coming into a harbor. The British ship was there to escort the US sub.
Julian Gray
To the Spanish Empire, you mean?
Julian Rogers
The UN also recognise that Gibraltar is a colony HYPOCRITE
Oliver Morgan
We can still claim it pêh...
Jeremiah Gonzalez
>it's recognised by the UN. The same organization that has it under "territory to be decolonized", just like with the Spanish Sahara not long ago. And we'll take it back after you kill all remnants of Catalan culture.
