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STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS

High-flying Tuesday F-16;

A tanker with its kerosene;

Soldiers out in olive green;

A slim and lethal submarine:

Reminders you can often meet

That our own peaceful, sun-soaked Crete

Fulfils strategic needs a treat

For NATO’s aircraft and its fleet.

Which means in turn that we should know

That if the region’s fuses blow

Whoever turns out as the foe

Will likely find some bombs to throw.

This is, I grant you, the “worst-case”

But still I am rather glad my place

Is not beside and doesn’t face

One or other NATO base.

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