EN DEBATE
"I AM LORD, NOT LORD ... IF LORD"
Revelations and last-minute infidences would expose an attack on the Argentine submarine. Hustle in the Ministry of Defense
By Dany Smith
The tragedy of "ARA San Juan"
seems to have entered a new chapter and it seems to venture into the stormy
waters of international politics. It was inevitable. The malleable Argentine
public opinion also senses that his government was lying to him in what had
happened with his submarine and the fate of his 44 naval sailors. How long
could one continue to hide a submarine of almost 76 yards? For those of us who
know the sea and have been in naval accidents, we know that time is vital for
the success of the rescue.
For the Argentine Navy it was a devastating
blow but it has also meant a gymnastics of running and hiding, of simulating
and pretending that they are not as bad as everyone suspects. This can be a
lesson that Buenos Aires can take advantage of and exploit for their benefit
and at the same time a very serious problem for London.
Actually there are several
"friends" who must give explanations of what happened there in that
area other than what the mass media indicate as close to the abyssal zone
outside the 200 nautical miles of Argentine sovereignty. For years, the 4th
Fleet of the US Navy has operated in the southern seas. Lately the number of
nuclear submarines that are prowling the waters of the Argentine maritime coast
has grown and some suspect that this is due to the unexpected Russian presence.
With the arrival of the Russian navy, the
fears have climbed high in the naval high command of both the Americans and the
British who see some degree of threat. Do you fear that the Russian naval
explorers will discover something really not confessable? On that road, it
seems to go no matter what else.
There seems to have been a clear
disinformation campaign from the beginning of the media campaign, which sought
to distract the eyes of the government and Argentine citizens. This was noticed
almost immediately by the Russians when they arrived in the area and verified
that they were looking in the wrong place. The American units and our
colleagues from Mount Pleasant did not know it or are amateurs fresh out of the
naval school? No, not at all!
Little by little the clues are leading to
clarification that has happened and the concerns go from the Foreign Office to
the offices of the Ministry of Defense that could have to start making
explanations and publish to the Parliament memos classified on the naval
activities of the Royal Armed in the South Atlantic on the date on which the
incident occurred with the submarine. That, my friends, is really a much more
serious problem than justifying what happened that November 15 between 1400
GMT.
For years now there has been a wave among
those who criticize the military budget increase and the insane expenses for
the Royal Navy especially to expand its endowments in sensitive destinations
such as the Persian Gulf and the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. The
issue of the costs of "1 Billon" British Pound vessels for
maintenance of units that are falling apart in operations in warm waters is
still an unresolved issue. These investigations have targeted the defense
contractors and the Ministry for the large budgets.
In what it does to the situation of the
surface and submarine fleet in the waters of the "South Atlantic" be
very cloudy. Precisely much darker in moments that the incident was recorded
that apparently sources within the Argentine Armada itself recorded accurately
and (despite not expecting it) caught one of our own in a situation not only
hostile but within Argentine territorial waters . All that masquerade of coming
out in relief and rescue ordered by the London government was a way to cover
what they had done.
It is also from the cabinet of May to
discredit the Russian aid with the oceanographic ship "Yantar" and
its equipment "Panther Plus" claiming that it is a "spy
ship" that more than being in rescue tasks of the Argentine submarine have
purposes to intercept and manipulate the fiber optic lines that pass through
the ocean, in this particular case with concern for its facilities in the
Falkland Islands, where a powerful NATO communications area is located. With
this the concerns of Stuart Peach official of the British Ministry of Defense
be a fairy tale for children.
Bad play. Not only because the Argentines
once again with their few resources proved to be smarter than our high
officials of the Royal Navy and politicians of the Foreign Office but because
indiscreet eyes swept from the geostationary satellites the scene and that is
recorded in the records not of a ministry, but of the most important of the
globe. To think that the government of Theresa May is sure of not having been
discovered and exposed to public questioning is absolute nonsense. This is not
the twentieth century when the masses were manipulated like sheep to the
slaughterhouse. Today a young adolescent of only fourteen years can with a
modest domestic computer equipment impersonate the head of the CIA. Taking the
subjects of the crown as stupid seems unlikely but less likely to the
Argentines.