Oil. Control the Falklands, you control the local oil fields.
It’s pretty simple. And, the Brits will project their forces to protect it.
Actually, the locals are quite content being under British rule. I believe the British government has offered them their independence but they declined.
No! As you say it never belonged to Argentina. It stays British!
> At the end of the 99 years Argentina gets control. <
One problem here is that your plan recognizes the Falklands as really belonging to Argentina.
The Falklands situation is quite different from the Hong Kong situation. Hong Kong was always a Chinese city.
Is Argentina now threatening to take those islands again?
I wouldn’t say like Gitmo. But it is ego driven. Once upon a time the sun never set on the British Empire. That’s really the last holding they have. Yeah sure there’s the Common Wealth but that’s different. The “solution” is way easier than that. Brits just need to accept they ain’t that anymore and walk away.
Look what we did with the Panama Canal. We were able to put to rest the resentment much of South America had for us gringos up north. Our hero Ronoldus Magnus was against the ‘giveaway’ at every step. At the very end of the congressional debate a bone was thrown his way-in the event of a local insurrection the US had the right to intervene. Like the 99 year ‘offer’ on the Falklands it was take-it-or-leave it. These qualifiers are enough to calm down local objections to where the hot heads have no choice but to calm down. It should be an offer they can’t refuse.
Britain might not be able to “mount a rescue” but Argentina’s military is also much reduced from ‘82.
The Argentine military have degraded since 1982 so they won’t be in the position to take the islands for another 20 years at least.
When does Canada take Pierre and Miquelon back from the French?
*oil fields. It’s pretty simple. And, the Brits will project their forces to protect it.*
They decommissioned one of their aircraft carriers. Won’t be able to do it.
*No! As you say it never belonged to Argentina. It stays British!*
Churchill hornswaggled us into WW2. Do it again?
*your plan recognizes the Falklands as really belonging to Argentina.* No it doesn’t but it will be.
*Is Argentina now threatening to take those islands again?* Think Chile. Socialists now in control. I say head them off at the pass-they’ll chill out.
*Brits just need to accept they ain’t that anymore and walk away* That’s why you need people like me around.
Hey there Chamberlin, the Falklands belong to the United Kingdom and if you don’t like it then it sucks to be you.
The reality is the British need the Faulklands as a naval base to operate in the South Atlantic.
This was proven in WWII when there was a German battleship in the South Atlantic which threatened the shipping lanes. The Faulklands were indispensable to dispatching this battleship to the bottom.
The Brits should do everything the can to maintain control of them
Its culturally, linguistically, historically British.
Not that deep state globalist lizards in London, DC and elsewhere care about that any longer though
At this point, its strategic. If Argentina controlled it, one corrupt government or another would probably lease it to China for a nice big payment.
The Brits may have cut back on their military, but so has Argentina. Any attempt at Falklands War 2.0 would end disastrously for Argentina. There is also the fact that the Brits have no reason to turn the Falklands and their British inhabitants over to the rule of a senile puppet.
You ignore that the islands are populated by Brits. They're not going to turn them over.
*Falklands belong to the United Kingdom and if you don’t like it then it sucks to be you.* I do believe another fight will be more expensive. I’m just trying to help out* I enjoy your disagreements. It allows me to correct you.
*Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with the giveaway of the Panama Canal, that was Jimmy Carter.* There you go again. I used the term giveaway in quotes. RR had everything to do with the conversation.
*British need the Faulklands as a naval base to operate in the South Atlantic(WW2).* We have the Monroe Doctrine. Good for more than those 99 years.
*British government won’t hand their subjects over to a country with an unstable* The subjects number 3k-not worth it. They’ll have 99 years to figure it out. I say let the British population there ‘wither on the vine’.
UK isn’t giving them away.
About 70 per cent are of British descent, primarily as a result of Scottish and Welsh immigration to the islands.[14]