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To: apillar; yank in the UK

The European Union is not a military alliance. An attack by Argentina would not trigger a European response.

Nor would it trigger a NATO Response as such responses are limited to attacks on particular geographical areas that do not include the Falklands - it is the North Atlantic Treaty.


19 posted on 02/02/2012 2:35:58 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975; apillar; yank in the UK

Fun Fact: That non-entity of a country, Belgium, dark heart of the EU project, refused to sell us any more ammunition when the Falklands Conflict broke out...


21 posted on 02/11/2012 2:17:21 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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