This is the premise of that anime “The Gate”. It’s stupid, pure Japaneese military propaganda but really entertaining. To put it in perspective shadow phase in and out Dark Elves armed with manpads vs a fire dragon!
They’re using them to counter small munitions dropped from drones, Russia tried using them to counter javelins. These things might be somewhat effective to counter small stuff in an urban environment while being utterly useless against something a bit more sophisticated.
The click bait title was just an interesting detail in a long & informative article that I assumed people interested in the military would enjoy. But thanks for the well Ackchyually…
He ordered officials to look at all options for responding, and that did include asking the security services to look at whether there were any options for physically going and taking the vaccines from the Netherlands and bringing them here.
so, that would have very likely incited The Netherlands to invoke Article V against the UK. Which would have been… interesting, considering who was the US president at the time.
On a related note, I’m guessing that’s the only reason they even evaluated the option - because BoJo thought he could spin it in a way Trump would buy into the idea if they actually decided to try it. But also, something like that would have utterly destroyed the internal integrity of NATO for several pretty fucking huge reasons.
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