Given how controversial the British attack was on their allies even after the French assured them that ships would not be captured, I guess this passage is, as

Given how controversial the British attack was on their allies even after the French assured them that ships would not be captured, I guess this passage is, as the kids say, "shots fired". :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir