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The main source is the Daily Mail, so this is truly non-credible in the most literal sense of the word

Groves, J. (2023, December 4). Revealed: How Boris Johnson asked spies to plan a military raid on Dutch Covid vaccine factory to. . . Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12820877/Boris-Johnson-spies-raid-Dutch-Covid-vaccine-factory-EU-stole-doses.html

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 29 points 2 years ago

Clownshoes Churchill is at it again

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago

This clown wants to start the Fifth Anglo-Dutch War.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

I would believe Boris if he told me the Tories have the interests of the common man at heart, before I believed even a single word put out by that racist, xenophobic, hate-filled shitrag

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

Sounds like something our idiots would do.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That sounds more like using military aircraft to collect the vaccines than taking them by force.

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.

[–] Adubya@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

If Geert forms a government they might re-elect Boris now

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Do you want to lose your flagship in a raid? Because that's how you lose your flagship in a raid.