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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

U.S. military has begun reestablishing air base inside Saudi Arabia

Here we go.

Nice one and hopefully the UK will step up to the plate with whatever means we have in the area.

There must be many EU countries whose shipping uses these lanes (there certainly was when I was there in the late seventies) so lets see them sharing the burdon with military means and not leave the lions share of said burdon on the few as was so often the case during the last world war.

Diplomacy isn't working so perhaps matters need to be addressed in a way there can be no misunderstanding that piracy in international waters will never be acceptable.