[kabar]

Analysts have previously pointed to Argentinian politicians seeking to divert voters from the pain caused by inflation and reduced subsidies on oil, gas and electricity.

"The government is being squeezed from lots of different areas, so one way to distract from the economic problems facing the country is to raise the Malvinas issue," Professor Mark Jones, an expert in Latin American politics at Rice University in Texas said last year. "It's one of the few issues outside football that you can get universal consensus on."

[Red Badger]

Oil............

[DBrow]

I remember that our Secretary of State Mrs Clinton stirred that pot about three years ago, she had some meetings with Argentinians and made some public comments.

This was at the beginning of Dear Leader’s benevolent reign when it looked like our administration would do anything to hurt or embarrass the United Kingdom.

[Cicero]

It’s what always happens in Latin America when you have a Communist dictator who promised them endless prosperity and then gave them the very opposite, to distract the peons from poverty, hunger, and despair. The people are angry, and that anger has to be directed elsewhere.

The Falklands were never Argentine. Basically, they were pretty nearly uninhabitable until British shipping made it possible to reach them.

David Cameron is a wuss, but evidently he realizes that giving up the Falklands and betraying the islanders would not gain him any votes even on the left.

[Darksheare]

Oil, Obama, Hilliary, and Chavez stirring up trouble.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."

V.K. Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War

How did that work out the Russians?

[Apparatchik]

Answer is easy: it's because our Dear Reader now has more "flexibility", as he told Medvedev. Hitlery likely said the same to Kirchner when she rattled her saber at Britain last year. Besides, she wants to be the new Chavez when he finally dies of syphillis cancer.

[Apparatchik]

Answer is easy: it's because our Dear Reader now has more "flexibility", as he told Medvedev. Hitlery likely said the same to Kirchner when she rattled her saber at Britain last year. Besides, she wants to be the new Chavez when he finally dies of syphillis cancer.

[Gay State Conservative]

Oil...and the fact that the president of Argentina is probably in deep trouble domestically.This is simply what banana republic thugs do.

[gaijin]

Senkaku is to China/Japan as Falkland is to Argentina/UK.

Interesting times...

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Cristina is ‘wagging-the-dog’ to make her citizens forget about the miserable economy.

[Gamecock]

Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

[GeronL]

The socialists have destroyed the economy and now they need a foreign enemy. This always seems to happen.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Because they just now saw Brokeback Mountain and think that sheep need love too?