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Argentina launches naval campaign to isolate Falkland Islands
Telegraph (UK) ^
| 8:28PM GMT 05 Dec 2011
| By Fergus MacErlean
Posted on 12/05/2011 2:56:23 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Uh, oh. The economic situation in Argentina must be worsening if Mme. Kirchner is trying to fan nationalistic flames with some sabre-rattling towards Britain.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:00:28 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Well, UK deciced to abandon Navy. Weakness invites trouble. This time UK would have to give up without a fight.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:00:34 PM PST
by
heiss
(heartless and inhumane (just say no to amnesty))
To: DeaconBenjamin
A newly formed gathering of South American nations meeting in Venezeula Venezuela ... the citadel for Communist advancements in the America's.
Argentina's government is beginning to smell.
To: DeaconBenjamin
Call Lady Thatcher! She’ll tell you how to deal with these pirates!
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:04:16 PM PST
by
In Maryland
("If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?" - Mark Twain)
To: heiss
Bingo..RN has NO carriers..can’t project force..
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:04:27 PM PST
by
ken5050
(Support Admin Mods: Doing the tough, hard, dirty jobs that Americans won't do...)
To: ken5050
I think a cruise missile flying low over Buenos Aires might get the point across.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:06:31 PM PST
by
In Maryland
("If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?" - Mark Twain)
To: DeaconBenjamin
I wonder if Great Britain’s naval cutbacks encouraged this.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:07:43 PM PST
by
meatloaf
(I've had it with recycling politicians in any way shape or form. Toss 'em out!)
To: ken5050
Will the Brits ask the US to deal with the situation this time?
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:10:05 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: meatloaf
Note to the United Kingdom:
You don't got no Navy, you don't got no Falklands.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:11:28 PM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: OldNavyVet
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if we finished Keystone to increase the flow of heavy oil out of Canada, I think Venezuela would be the big loser since Gulf Coast refineries would have a new alternative.
Instead we support Chavez.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:12:52 PM PST
by
meatloaf
(I've had it with recycling politicians in any way shape or form. Toss 'em out!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
"Will the Brits ask the US to deal with the situation this time? " Let me see...
Are the people of Argentina considered people of (ahem) color?
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:14:18 PM PST
by
blam
To: DeaconBenjamin
Maybe Cameron will get his “el Belgrano” moment.
To: meatloaf
"Correct me if Im wrong, but if we finished Keystone to increase the flow of heavy oil out of Canada, I think Venezuela would be the big loser since Gulf Coast refineries would have a new alternative." Venezeula exports 80% of their dirty/heavy oil to the US...we are one of the few who have the capability to refine that oil. That import is only 14% of US imports.
They have lots more to lose than us.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:17:53 PM PST
by
blam
To: DeaconBenjamin; Perdogg
Where’s Maggie Thatcher when we need her?
F*CK CHRISTINA KIRSCHER!!
To: DeaconBenjamin
I doubt Britain has what it takes anymore, but these Argentinian patrol vessels need to be treated as pirates and a few of them sent to the depths.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:20:57 PM PST
by
Truth29
To: ken5050
“Bingo..RN has NO carriers..cant project force..”
Nukes project force just fine. The Argies are banking on the Brits letting them have the Falklands. But if it comes down to the Argies committing atrocities I’m thinking it might behoove Cristina to put on her SPF 45,000,000,000 sunscreen.
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posted on
12/05/2011 3:24:57 PM PST
by
MeganC
(No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
To: meatloaf
I wonder if Great Britains naval cutbacks encouraged this.
One of the many nauseating bumper stickers on the Subaru in front of me read: You cant have peace if you plan for war. I wanted to pull this woman over and explain history. Nobody has ever been attacked because theyre too strong. A couple of other factors playing into this are: NATOs attack against Libya exhausted Britain and used up their supply of cruise missiles, a fact their idiot governmental officials felt compelled to announce. Another factor is President Urkel, who has let the world know in no uncertain terms how he feels about Britain.
This needs to be nipped in the bud. A stern warning followed by an unarmed torpedo into the side of an offending vessel. That should be followed up with a real one if they keep it up. After the General Belgrano sank the Argentine navy went on hiatus for the rest of the Falklands campaign.
To: heiss
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Well ... partially correct ...
No classic Force Projection available ...
However, a British 688-Class Attack Sub should sink every Argentine Naval Vessel it sees ...
I doubt the Argentines have the stomach for that kind of action ...
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To: Enterprise
Her Majesty's navy maintains several warships on near permanent station in the Falklands environs and, while nothing fires American Anglophilia so much as the sailing of the fleet, the construction and maintenance of the RAF Mount Pleasant air base allows a lethal British response to Argentine misbehavior far more quickly than commandeering whatever Cunard has sailing near Southampton and sending it south.
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