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Originally Posted by Chris
As of right now she's riding a wave of public patriotism. Apparently there were crowds outside El Presidente's palace last night after her speech to veterans about how they're going to get the Falklands back. Mind you, General Galtieri enjoyed similar support for as long as the population thought his 'policy' on the Falklands was a winner. It turned sour for him pretty quickly after HM Armed Forces brought the policy to a rapid halt.
The key thing to remember, however, is that there are no negotiations, and nor will there be any. The British Government has made clear that as far as it is concerned, there is nothing to negotiate. The Falklands are legally held British territory inhabited by British citizens whose occupation and government is every bit as legitimate as the overwhelmingly ethnic European occupation and government of South America (which Kirchner herself describes as Latin America, a term I think I'd be slightly peeved at if I were an Amerindian native of that continent).
Argentina's territorial claim over the Falklands is at odds with its disinterest in pursuing claims on the mainland over territory that was at one time or other governed by the Spanish Crown's Viceroy based in Buenos Aires - such as, for example, most if not all of modern-day Uruguay.
Kirchner's gambit can continue for only as long as she can convince her people she is making progress. As they are not going to get what they actually want - negotiations, leading to control of the Falklands - all she can do by way of a convincer is to continually ratchet up the rhetoric and pull stunts like grassing the UK up to the United Nations for having the temerity to send the Queen's grandson on a mission to rescue drowning fishermen, or for sending a shiny new naval vessel to replace the venerable but slightly creaky old frigate that's currently in the South Atlantic.
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Well to put it this way, the people of the Falklands want to be part of Britain and we have ruled it for centuries, since their claim on the Falklands (Along with the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) is based on they face they are the successors to the Viceroyalty of the RĂ*o de la Plata, they might as well claim Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia!
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Originally Posted by Chris
No, they would not. Please stop taking the discussion round in circles. Go back and read all the previous posts about the likelihood of military action by Argentina.
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You are right it is unlikely, but who know what will happen... Remember the last war helped Thacher win election afterwards, I would think that another victory would help the Tories again!
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
How many times does it have to be repeated that Argentina do not have the money or the resources at this time to mount an invasion of the Falklands.They only managed it the last time because there were no British forces of any kind on the island and no naval or air presence either so they could just stroll in.
Now we have forces and an air force present as well as a naval presence..much harder for the Argentine forces to just land and walk onto the island.
So it's not going to happen.
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What if they got the help of other South American nations?