British PM says aim is to support efforts to ensure regional stability and prevent further escalation’

Britain will send surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships and about 100 Royal Marines to the eastern Mediterranean from Friday to support Israel and help prevent any sudden escalation of fighting in the Middle East.

Patrol flights of Poseidon P-8 aircraft and other planes will begin on Friday, Downing St announced, tasked partly with monitoring any efforts to transfer of weapons from countries such as Iran or Russia to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Existing UK military units and fighter aircraft, based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, are also on alert as Israel gears up for an expected ground assault on Gaza after last Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas, which has left more than 1,300 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll in Gaza has risen above 1,400.

  • AussiemandeusEnglish
    175·
    1 year ago

    So when this is studied in school for the beginnings of ww3 do we blame russia and the wests lack of commitment to stop russia which emboldened hezzabola?

    • skozzii@lemmy.caEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      Yep, and the Wagner coup in Niger will be a big part of the next phase, but that front is just beginning. North Korea will open up the Asian front and then China will make a move on Taiwan. Iran has successfully sparked the middle eastern front by using its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah(Wagner in Syria) and that will continue to escalate.

      Russia has been planning this for a long time, and it wasn’t quite time, but all the pieces are in place.

      • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        I’m waiting for a carrier to get hit. Drawing naval forces into an area surrounded by land and hostile forces, where it has been proven multiple times (including in US War games) that low tech means in high numbers can overwhelm high tech. I feel this is a ploy to take a carrier out, and a second is heading in too.