[Eleutheria5]

Iran is going nuclear. The whole Middle East is on the verge of multiple wars, both civil and across borders. And in the middle of all that, the UK wants to go beat up Argentina over some dinky islands?

[american_ranger]

Do you know anything about the Falkland Islands?

[hinckley buzzard]

The Falkland Islands have been the site of recent discoveries of massive seabottom oil deposits. As a result Argentina is re-asserting their historic but bogus claims on the territorial waters and the islands themselves. Might have something to do with it.

[SatinDoll]

Those islands have NEVER belonged to Argentina, and the islanders are British citizens. They have made, through their own self-determination, that they want to be a part of Great Britain.

Argentina wants to seize the islands just because...they might be able to. And the desires of the Falkland’s inhabitants?

Typical South Americans, the Argentines don’t give a damn.

The United States has more international right to take back our former colony of Cuba, than Argentina has to invade and seize the independent Falkland Islands.

[Venturer]

I suppose Argentina suspects the Brits do not have the resources to defend the Falklands.

I also suspect they are right and Britain will toss in the towel. We will see.

[rdl6989]

Not again. Didn't the Argentines get enough back in the 80's?

[yarddog]

I remember being surprised that the Argentinians put up a better fight than I had thought they would but it still was not close.

The one thing I do not understand and this seems to happen all the time, is the Argentinians sent a bunch of recent draftees to hold the islands against British professionals. Again they put up a bit of a fight but also again not really close.

[hosepipe]

A couple of submarines and Argentinas ships become reefs.. Their Air Force are merely targets.. Their Army cannot swim to the Falklands.. Falklands Oil will pay for any War..

[zipper]

When the japs bombed Pearl Harbor Hawaii wasn’t a state. With a war in Europe there was so much else to worry about.

/s

[mamelukesabre]

Iran is going nuclear. The whole Middle East is on the verge of multiple wars, both civil and across borders. And in the middle of all that, the UK wants to go beat up Argentina over some dinky islands?
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You are completely ignorant if you are suggesting the UK should hand over the islands.

[Slambat]

If Argentina was half as smart as Mexico they would have
invaded the Falklands with illegal aliens. Let their culture
rot the host like they did in California. Eventually they
would be begging Argentina to take the Falklands off their
hands like we may soon be doing with California.

[mrsmel]

Now if he would only take Britain’s sovereignty back from the unelected undemocratic EU.