(July 19, 2016 at 5:50 am)Rhythm Wrote: Do I hear a coinpurse rattling? The UK's gonna buy a few bil worth of second hand weapons from us again, are they?
Buy? No we're going to lease them from America. Buying suggests that it's an independent deterrent and that we're not in anyway dependent on America's permission to use them.
http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/brie...liance.pdf
Not only that, but it means that after making such a large investment, we need to stay subservient to the US and agree to whatever they ask in order to stay in their good books. So whatever country the US wants to invade for oil, the UK will be forced to help out.