Det är ju helt klart vad hotet att lämna Nato i klartext betydde eller i vilken huvudstad man skulle få huvudvärk. In other words jag ville inte antydda att frågan var diskutabelt eller oriktigt formulerad, jag bara beskrev how my brain worked.But Iceland still had their ace card to play. A US-manned NATO naval air base was located on the Reykjanes peninsula, near the town of Keflavík in western Iceland. This base housed the US 85th Air Group, radar stations and anti-submarine warfare units as well as serving as a base for US search and rescue units. As the third cod war was taking place at the height of the Cold War this naval air station was crucial for the Americans to track and monitor Soviet submarine and airplane movements through the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) gap – a key choke point for Soviet forces gaining access to the open Atlantic and US territorial waters.
Without this base America would be blind to what was happening in huge areas of the north Atlantic, as well as losing the deterrent factor of having forces amassed relatively close to the USSR. Believing that Iceland was serious about closing the air base America began putting huge pressure on Britain to comply with Iceland’s extended EEZ. Talks to end the Cod Wars took place in Oslo in spring 1976, with the threat to close the NATO base placing pressure on Britain to end the dispute. An agreement was eventually reached on May 28th. A maximum of twenty-four British trawlers were allowed to fish within the new EEZ as long as their catch was limited to 50,000 tons. However, this agreement only lasted for six months, after which Britain agreed that it had no right to fish inside the zone.
Jag grävde i minnet och ett "krig" dök upp. Ett krig utan fregatter eller militärer över huvutaget.
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USA:s president Gerald Ford som fick efterträda Nixon och världens genom tiderna bäste fotbollsspelare Pelé (Om vi inte räknar Maradona förstås 
) på samma bild, 1975 kanske gissar jag?