Chapter 1605: Hard rubbing hot spots

Finished talking about foreign problems, naturally want to turn back to the domestic, domestic problems will always be greater than foreign problems, predictable, the labor party will certainly not let go of this matter, in recent years the most enthusiastic about the special relationship between Britain and the United States of the prime minister, directly by the president of the United States in the face, inevitably be derided by the labor party.

“Stinky mouth is not the way to solve the problem, the iron fist is the basis from a position of strength.” Alan Wilson dutifully advised, “increase military spending, start work on the aircraft carrier battle group is more important than anything else. The external environment is the fresh victory over Argentina, and you can’t win a general election if the citizens aren’t happy with that. Gag Labor with an increase in military spending once they are looking for trouble over Grenada.”

“Are you mocking me again?” Margaret Thatcher glanced at the man who quipped, something about a foul mouth being worse than an iron fist, clearly accusing her of being the Prime Minister, heavy-handed in the face of the Third World, cavalier in the face of the US invasion of Grenada, the so-called Iron Lady living up to her name.

“Didn’t mean it that way, but even if it did, your understanding is correct.” The Supreme Authority could certainly have chosen a more tactful expression, but he didn’t think it was necessary, “At least it would have made being Prime Minister a little less naïve, and truth be told, previous administrations have stayed away from the United States for good reason. The US had one eye on the Soviet Union after the war and the other never left Britain. The aim, of course, was to see Britain weakened to a level acceptable to the US, and this invasion of Grenada is nothing more than a sideshow.”

Female Prime Ministers are just naive, and the problems facing the world’s Margaret Thatcher are really not that big compared to the problems facing successive governments.

Alan Wilson had already warned that the US would not give face to Margaret Thatcher just because she advocated the special relationship between the UK and the US, and people didn’t believe him, so what could he do?

“As for the aftermath, since it has become a foregone conclusion that the U.S. will send troops, Britain will have to send troops no matter what, under the banner of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, even if it is only a token force, and can try to get the U.S. troops to leave Grenada after the military action, both in terms of public opinion and diplomacy. This should not be difficult.”

Alan Wilson followed the advice and told the solution, the United States is now just trying to gather national self-confidence, Britain on the one hand to accuse the United States of this self-defeating move, on the other hand, to close the door to prevent the United States from picking the peach.

Since the United States does not allow the United Kingdom to be decent, the United Kingdom can also embarrass the United States by getting covered in shit and rubbing it on the United States.

The move to invade Grenada was just an attempt to change the US’s loss of confidence in military action after the Vietnam War after Reagan came to power, and the UK first had to point out the fact that Grenada, a country of 100,000 people, didn’t even have a regular army, rip the mask off of the US’s bullying of the small and then leave the US with nothing to show for it.

“Fine!” The Prime Minister, who had been made to look bad by a close ally, was aroused to womanly vengeance, and listened to the Cabinet Secretary’s well-timed advice.

The surprise attack from across the ocean embarrassed Margaret Thatcher. Parliament convened an emergency debate in the afternoon. At the meeting, the Labour shadow foreign secretary denounced Mrs. Thatcher as “Reagan’s lapdog” and accused her of saying that it was “time for you to get down on your knees”.

Mrs. Thatcher, who had already been sensitized to what was at stake, retorted, “Britain will restore order in Grenada later, but the United States is closer to Grenada. Indeed this government is also committed to the stability and prosperity of the Commonwealth. A military presence will also follow to maintain stability there.”

Mrs. Thatcher was given a spell by the Cabinet Secretary, and directly shifted her position from non-interference to picking peaches, since the United States is now acting like a hypocrite and does not dare to continue to keep its military forces abroad for a long time, to prevent a repeat of the old Vietnam War.

Then Britain is not polite, hard to rub up, Grenada small has small benefits, since it does not involve significant stakes, Britain will rub up hard, is the United States because of an area of the world’s bottom ten, the population of less than 100,000 of the small country and the United Kingdom turned face to face?

At the end of the debate, Mrs. Thatcher took out her own response to the strategy to increase investment in military spending, the plan to build new aircraft carriers, the source of funds from the lottery to lift the ban.

In the British side of the discussion of Grenada at the same time, the United States of America’s military action against Grenada has begun, may be the shadow of the failure of the war in Vietnam is still playing a role, this time the United States of America’s military action is called a bull’s-eye, deployed including aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, including the task force, more than two hundred planes and including the Marines of nearly 10,000 soldiers.

In contrast, the Grenadian army has no navy or air force, not even tanks, and only a few armored vehicles. The country’s air defense force, with only one company of anti-aircraft guns, was clearly no match.

In the early morning hours, the U.S. Army launched a surprise attack. Four hundred Marines took off from amphibious assault ships, in helicopters, and landed lightning fast at Pearl Airport. The Grenada defenders were caught off guard and were routed within two hours. At the same time, seven hundred men of the U.S. Ranger Corps were suddenly airborne at the second largest airfield, Salines.

To the surprise of the U.S. troops, the Grenadian army at the airfield was already on alert, deploying anti-aircraft units. Upon spotting the U.S. transports, the Grenadian soldiers began shelling the air. At the same time, attack planes on the carrier, and anti-aircraft fire conducted suppressive bombardment.

After the debate in the House of Commons, another Cabinet meeting was held that afternoon to examine countermeasures. Mrs. Thatcher appeared to have a mixture of resentment and anger, convinced that she had been betrayed by her allies.

But in public, Mrs. Thatcher always maintained a calm and restrained attitude towards the crisis of the Anglo-American “special relationship”, and spoke in a very moderate and appropriate manner, without losing the true color of politicians.

Mrs. Thatcher, in an interview with the press, said that she accepted the consequences of the U.S. troop deployment, but only objected to the approach taken by the Reagan administration, because no country has the right to send troops into another sovereign and independent country.

How could Alan Wilson let go of such a good opportunity to PUA up in front of the Prime Minister, making Mrs. Thatcher’s already unpleasant mood worse, “There’s no end to it.”

“This is what happens when you really take the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States seriously, seeing your current appearance reminds me of my former self.”

Alan Wilson lied without changing his face, as if he had actually physically advanced the Anglo-American Special Relationship, but at the moment he looked as if he really did, and had only been hurt by the United States to adopt a masculine response.

It’s true that Margaret Thatcher didn’t think much of the Commonwealth, after all, it’s not like the Commonwealth had a vote, but this time the US was acting in a way that didn’t give her face as the British Prime Minister.

This is a big problem, women are small-minded, not to mention the Cabinet Secretary here arching fire.

Arching fire after not coaxing, Alan Wilson directly left Mrs. Thatcher to sulk, off duty himself, really happy to think about it.

Who dares to say that the United Kingdom is not tough, the United Kingdom has not made a resolution to send troops to maintain order in Grenada, but only until the end of the war to reach the designated location. By the way, the draft of the military spending increase was passed, and anyway, the Conservative Party had a huge advantage and the draft was passed.

This made Reagan, who was following the actions of the U.S. military, disgusted and bad, obviously said before that they would not interfere in Grenada, and now that the U.S. has sent troops, the UK has changed its own resolution, which is simply in the PUA U.S..

The British Foreign Office is even more disgusting, saying that what originally Mrs. Thatcher was reluctant to interfere, or Alan Wilson’s best efforts to persuade, only to change his mind to send troops to maintain the special relationship between Britain and the United States.

Now Washington needs Britain to maintain the special relationship between Britain and the United States? It would be better for Britain to be as far away as possible, so as not to delay its own military operations.

But Britain took the initiative to post up, Reagan can not say you stay away, women can be small-minded, but to let Reagan do the same, he also wanted to point face. So for the British move, Reagan can do is not to respond, while the British military forces to arrive before, hurry to get things done in Grenada.

Allen Wilson had already contacted Governor Scoon of Grenada, laying out the fact that British armed forces would be arriving soon, and telling him to prepare to restore the constitution.

Allen Wilson was amazed that although Governor Scoon of Grenada was under house arrest, contact with the country had not been cut off, and at that moment the President was broadcasting live to the battle.

The Grenadian government sent a company of troops and four Soviet BTR-60 armored vehicles to “protect” the British Governor General from being taken away by “imperialist” forces. According to the directive, the Grenadian infantry could only engage the U.S. troops with light weapons for fear of harming the governor-general.

“This is a rare experience, and I hope the Governor General will face it with fearlessness.” Alan Wilson said in a big official voice to the foreign ministry official who was reporting, “After the war, we still need the Governor General to use his influence to restore Grenada’s prosperity.”

The reason why Alan Wilson persuaded Margaret Thatcher to intervene in Grenada, changing the previous resolution of non-intervention, is because he remembered the Grenada War, the United States quickly withdrew after the end of the war, and did not love the war in this small island, probably to avoid the tragedy of the Vietnam War.

Since we know that the U.S. military is to fight and run, then I, Great Britain, will not hide, must be followed by the manifestation of the influence of the Sunset Empire. The U.S. can also see that the British are not leaving after they come, but it is the cost of maintaining the stability of Grenada that has to be taken out all the time.

Britain has sent a gun cruiser docked in Newfoundland, ready to join in this war, as a defense of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, only Alan Wilson estimates that when the British warships to the place, this war should have been over, the United States out of troops have caught up with a tenth of the country’s population, which is still how to play guerrilla warfare?