Falklands/Malvinas: Argentina slams UK over 'colonialist' comments

[Toidissatafu]

The extreme fascist Argentine government gifted the islands away.

There was no literally zero credible sense why they tried to claim the islands by force when they did.
If they had waited just a year (2 at most) >> the events would have been very different.
They would have had more effective planes and missiles from France Germany and Israel which were on order and not far off supply
They could have trained more regular troops instead of conscripts.

And the British would have struggled for a rapid and effective force >> the aircraft carriers used would not have been available >> and for almost certain Thatcher would have been on the opposition bench.
The conflict resuscitated the whore.
Even as things went >> The British got extremely lucky >> if the Argentinians had of concentrated attacks on the Canberra it was game over.

One Irony is a lot of the islanders are DNA Irish from 19th Century empire garrisons.
The islands themselves were a shyte hole in the middle of no where dying a natural economic death >> the events ironically transformed them.
Not been out that way for years now >> but by accounts the living is now fine.

How we can solve our IMF EU problems.
The Irish should emigrate out there in numbers >> would not take thousands to change the vote out there.
They are not that unlike the Irish west coast >> emigrate en-masse.
While they are arguing over who should be in charge, the Irish can F them both.

[fionnmccool]

all they'll need in the south atlantic is one nuclear sub to deter an argentine military ambitions.

Can the UK not call upon assistance from NATO anyway ? I think that would be enough to deter most sane countries.

[Desperate Dan]

No it's not, it's a statement of fact. The Argentnians are busy with political sabre rattling whilst in reality they aren't militarily capable of anything.

kerdasi amaq seems to think that the Royal Navy will be at the bottom of the Persian Gulf when all they'll need in the south atlantic is one nuclear sub to deter any argentine military ambitions.

I think you should grow up. This is 2012 not 1982.

[Impartial_Eclipse]

How we can solve our IMF EU problems.
The Irish should emigrate out there in numbers >> would not take thousands to change the vote out there.
They are not that unlike the Irish west coast >> emigrate en-masse.
While they are arguing over who should be in charge, the Irish can F them both.

Who is to say we'd be allowed in? Anyway, the islands don't seem to be economically that lucrative.

Or is this another of those "irony" posts?

[sgtharper]

It didn't count for anything in 1982.

No indeed, not to the Argentinians anyway.

Now, please explain in detail when it was exactly, that the Falklands were Argentina's "national territory". Take your time.

[Dunlin3]

I think you should grow up. This is 2012 not 1982.

It is 2012 but in Buenos Aires they seem to be reminicing about the good old days of 1982.

[Dunlin3]

Can the UK not call upon assistance from NATO anyway ? I think that would be enough to deter most sane countries.

Not sure, I don't think they'd need to though.

[Hitch 22]

The Argies can simply go f*ck themselves.

This graph explains who owned Falklands and when. France and Spain have a more credible claim that Argentina. The UK have held it longer and a British community has lived in the islands for most of their recorded history:

[Desperate Dan]

No indeed, not to the Argentinians anyway.

Now, lease explain in detail when it was exactly, that the Falklands were Argentina's "national territory". Take your time.

It must be sad for you Sarge, to look up at the union jack, and think all that is left, and that the brits can afford, is a little bit of saber rattling, in the Malvinas, and Rockall. How the mighty have fallen.

[kerdasi amaq]

No indeed, not to the Argentinians anyway.

Now, please explain in detail when it was exactly, that the Falklands were Argentina's "national territory". Take your time.

That's my point. It didn't count then and it won't count now.

Maybe the Argentines are thinking; England's self inflicted potential difficulty is Argentina's opportunity.

If the Argentines think they're theirs; it probably is.