Il Regno Unito deve far fronte a crescenti richieste da parte della popolazione locale di rimuovere le basi militari di Cipro.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/uk-faces-growing-calls-from-locals-to-remove-cyprus-military-bases
di JKKIDD231
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The damage Kier Starmer is doing to this country is matched historically only by Anthony Eden. The delusional left actually think he’s admired on the world stage. All because he’s terrified of losing an imported voter block…
A demonstration of roughly 300 one of whom was a rather nice Mexican Gentleman who clearly went along to make up the numbers. He knew absolutely nothing about the history of the Bases, I really don’t think you can run a headline of “Growing calls” for removal really.
The local people who live and work outside of them were more complementary and the Cypriot Government love playing politics round them every chance they get.
Oh look, The Guardian once again presenting a minority of misinformed useful idiots as a credible argument. I suppose they can’t present us as aggressors especially as the Cypriot government confirmed the strikes came from Hezbollah
Unfortunately for them, they really aren’t just military bases in the conventional sense. They’re British territory. They are crucial to maintaining influence in the region and further afield
Edit: to clarify the second comment I’ve made there – Akrotiri and Dhekelia is a British Overseas Territory, not a standard military base
And there we go, the damage to hard power and soft power by being bogged down by cowardice and inflexible attachment to law like a zealot to religion.
We didn’t have to join the war, but we should have done much better defending or at least responding to help our allies
Cyprus is experiencing loads of Russian influence right now regarding these bases. These protests had about 300 people. It would be silly to give the bases to them
I have a brilliant idea!
Why don’t we pay the Cypriot government hundreds of millions to take them off our hands?
No no they want us there, as people here have been insisting.
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The Guardian wanting to complain about the U.K. every chance it gets. I’m shocked, shocked!
It’s the only thing stopping the Northern Cypriot Turks from taking over.
The Guardian is such a rag, it’s crazy how people eat up its content
Well to be fair Sir Bend the Knee is useless and too scared to protect Cyprus, for fear of reprisals by people in the UK.
The military buildup for war the US was doing was so overt that even plane spotters with cameras filming the US airbase in the UK were saying that there was a war about to begin and yet somehow this government seriously expects us to believe our intelligence agencies and our entire armed forces working alongside the US military not only in the UK, but on bases in the US and Middle East somehow completely failed to notice the obvious signs the US was about to go to war
I don’t accept that and not one of you should, this government is throwing our armed forces and intelligence agencies under the bus just like it did with the police in Manchester after the airport attack to present a narrative that Starmer and his government were taken by surprise by all of this and thus cannot be blamed for anything which has gone wrong
So, what are the odds there is Russian money and influence behind these protests?
Not happenings very pro nato and uk. One work. Turkey.
Why? So you can give it to Isr@el, as you’ve been selling your land lately?
Unfortunately, bases are always going to be contentious, it always makes someone a target.
But I wonder how much is also down to Russian influence, like it has been with some African states and France at reducing French involvement in fighting rebel militia, to allow Wagner in there. Not just Russia. Iran was implicated in amplifying independence voice on social media, North Korea does the same, and China too to a degree. R/Sino is a cesspit of Chinese supremacy, and any contrary opinion is silenced to oblivion or they play whataboutism
One thing we’ve been slow to react to and counter is the use of our own freedom of speech against us, whereas Russian state has an absolute control over what their citizens can see and hear.
Not advocating we follow suit in controlling information. But we do need to find a way to neutralise their propaganda.
Yesterday they were complaining we weren’t protecting them enough, or was that just media froth ?
When I lived in Cyprus with the army the locals loved anything British, happy being employed due to it, happy seeing the benefits of it and generally positive about the UK, talking about how they visited often or sent their kids to university here
Iran war will have MASSIVE consequences before it’s over.
Everyone is seeing what is happening – have a foreign base in your city it’s likely targeted.
Trump disaster will be studied for years!