As the Empire burns… “Rescue Mission” was the excuse for the ultimately FAILED invasion of Grenada, to draw attention away from the Iran/Contra cartel FAILURE getting skunked in Lebanon. And to divert attention from the British Naval bombardment of Argentina under pretext of defending an Imperial Possession and the fact that the U.S. Military, in direct renegation of the Constitutionally ratified treaty with the Organization of American States, was actively assisting the British Empire with their unlawful attacks against the people and nation of Argentina. Just a small part of that Wonderful Reagan/Maggot Thatcher Legacy that the right wing TeaTards are celebrating. Stupid Bastards.
The Cuban medical school on Grenada is still in operation, Cuba is still providing far more medical aid in the Caribbean nations than the United States, Grenada in the first actual election (not the Rigged One the U.S. Military imposed on them after the “liberation”) voted for the same Socialist government the U.S. had deposed.
The British Empire has declined even further since then, and will again be challenged on las Islas Malvinas “falklands” (named after a Scots sellout who sold Scotland to the English)
The next time, the Mighty Rule Britannia won’t be ruling the waves. They got sucked into or perhaps manipulated the U.S. attack on their Former Raj in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq. They no longer have the Imperial Navy to spare on another colonialist defense Belligerent Assault.
On the other hand, they do get to (pay for) another Wedding Extravaganza involving their overprivileged Dangerously Inbred Royal Family. While their American allies, at massive taxpayer expense, lose the rest of the Former Empire.
Including Egypt. Ireland? Gone from their grasp. Iraq? on the way out of the Empire. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Hong “Gone” Kong? Kenya, Zimbabwe? If they weren’t taking us down along with their empire it would be a pleasant jest…
Welcome, New Princess Kate! One of your long-deceased outlaw in-laws, your namesake, Katherine “The Great” died when her horse fell on her… in bed. –just one of a long line of miscreants in your new family. Jack “the Ripper” for instance, Vlad “The Impaler” Ivan “the Terrible” William “The Bastard” what wonderful surnames they bring! There’s not one class of crime in the world that cannot be assigned to that family name. Fratricide, parricide, matricide, infanticide, they’ll probably have to invent yet another way to say “murder” to fit it all in.
You should run like Hell away from that diseased family, they put the Funk in Dysfunctional. Your new Father in law is accused of killing your new husbands Mum, but of course you know that…
But you get to provide the same spectacle she did and for about the same reason. Just another Royal Distraction, bread and circuses as the Empire burns.
A wonderful imperial gesture, yes? “We are mighty, you shall obey us!”
The Pentagon has been suppressing the press. ‘Mr Davis said a High Court ruling, which pointed to complicity by the UK and US authorities in his torture, was prevented from being published after the US put pressure on the UK.’