http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23617910
This is what happens when you allow your military power to diminish too much and be deployed to support actions not in your own interest ... the politicians of nations in economic trouble start thinking they can make waves about things that were settled (and enshrined in legal treaties) centuries ago.
First we had the Argies kicking up a fuss over the Falkland Isles, yet again (like they didn't learn anything the last time) and now we have the Spanish showing their teeth over Gibraltar :sigh:.
It's our naval base ... you can't have it ... the residents don't want you and have said so twice in the past few decades ... so shut up and go away.
This is what happens when you allow your military power to diminish too much and be deployed to support actions not in your own interest ... the politicians of nations in economic trouble start thinking they can make waves about things that were settled (and enshrined in legal treaties) centuries ago.
First we had the Argies kicking up a fuss over the Falkland Isles, yet again (like they didn't learn anything the last time) and now we have the Spanish showing their teeth over Gibraltar :sigh:.
It's our naval base ... you can't have it ... the residents don't want you and have said so twice in the past few decades ... so shut up and go away.