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**somamasoso** · 05-04-2012, 10:16 PM

The original falklands war, IIRC, was a move by the fascist government to take the people's minds of their dictatorship, with them thinking, for some reason, that they'd have the support of, I think, America.
Disn't work out then and I don't expect anything to change now - the island people want to remain British, Britain will continue to defend them as long as they wish to remain so (just like N Ireland) and with the reported fossile fuel reserves, I expect it to remain that way.
I think with Argentina there're two reasons, the oil and a stirring up of national pride.
As is, the main result of this is pissing of the islanders and britain and putting their international relations back a few years.

Perhaps, with the massive cutback in the British miliary since that war, they fancy their chances?

05-04-2012, 10:16 PM	#4
somamasoso Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	The original falklands war, IIRC, was a move by the fascist government to take the people's minds of their dictatorship, with them thinking, for some reason, that they'd have the support of, I think, America. Disn't work out then and I don't expect anything to change now - the island people want to remain British, Britain will continue to defend them as long as they wish to remain so (just like N Ireland) and with the reported fossile fuel reserves, I expect it to remain that way. I think with Argentina there're two reasons, the oil and a stirring up of national pride. As is, the main result of this is pissing of the islanders and britain and putting their international relations back a few years. Perhaps, with the massive cutback in the British miliary since that war, they fancy their chances?
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