The Falklands thread

The alternative is to let Argentina continue blustering and continue to ignore them. They don't have the military strength to take the islands by force any more, and any diplomatic happenings are always going to conclude that the islands belong to the nation the inhabitants want them to. So there's really no harm in letting them blow off some steam about it.
 
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Abraxaz1 said:
The real question would be if we did nuke argentia, where will greggs get its corn beef for my wenseday morning pasty??
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Just stampede a herd of cows through a large diameter turbofan engine running on a test stand. The resultant paste spattered across the nearest wall is what you'd call "corned beef".
 
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

There was talk of "rising tension" when I was there, but nothing more than a load of hot air.

It's such a strange place, I can't imagine how many times I sat out just looking over the mountains thinking "There's just nothing here...", from what I heard from a few people who work with the oil industry down there, it's so far from being viable still.
 
Cristina Fernandez, Argentina’s president, announced on live television that the takeover of YPF would go ahead. She revealed that a bill had already been sent to Congress that would allow nationalisation of 51pc of the company, which is Argentina's largest oil group.
Repsol had been expected to lose half its 57.5pc stake in YPF, but the country will now confiscate almost its entire shareholding.
Ms Fernandez said that pressure from foreign governments would not change her mind and she was acting in the national interest. “I am a head of state and not a hoodlum,” Ms Fernández said in her television address.
Spain, which has several sizeable operations in Argentina, warned that it would take "clear and forceful measures" in response. "It's a hostile decision against Repsol, thus against a Spanish business, and thus against Spain," Jose Manuel Soria, Spain's industry minister, said at the same news conference.
In Madrid, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Spain’s foreign minister, said measures against Argentina would be announced in the next few days.
“This has broken the climate of friendship that existed between Spain and Argentina,” Mr Garcia-Margallo added. “Spain had worked with Argentina during its hardest hours.”
The Argentine government has been tightening the noose on Repsol over recent months, withdrawing operating licences and accusing the company of failure to invest adequately in its Argentine operations. Repsol has denied these claims.
Spain is one of the biggest foreign investors in Latin America. Banking groups Santander and BBVA, and telecoms giant Telefónica have operations in Argentina.
Analysts at Investec said Repsol had been "tangoed" by Argentina's actions, and moved the stock to sell, from hold.
Stuart Joyner, an analyst at Investec, said: "We had hoped that Argentina would pull back from this extreme action, but, now that this is apparently off table, our worst case scenario values Repsol (with YPF at zero) at €15.62 [...] At a minimum, Repsol is now set to lose control of YPF and, of course, any compensation seems set to be at current depressed prices."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...adrid-with-plans-to-seize-control-of-YPF.html

She really is a complete loon. At least this is going to turn more countries against Argentina.
 
Not too loony. She's cutting off others oil and pointing the finger at Britain with a "LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO!" attitude hoping that Spain will put pressure on Britain.
 
from what i was reading yesterday she was saying they would do this because of the lack of investment in the oil field and slowing of oil flow.

im guessing she just wants more oil anyway she can, and seeing as she has no hope of getting her hands on the falklands she will boot out other countrys from argentina to try and get more cash from them.
 
EdGey said:
Given the name change, I thought I'd post some interesting resources I've used for my own research.

Here is a timeline of the Falklands war. It's in depth, and makes for interesting reading...

http://www.falklands.info/history/82timeline.html

Here is a map of the Falklands. It highlights everything from battlegrounds to where ships were hit and sunk. (extends further than just the Falklands war if interested)

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=-51.7194782&lon=-59.3769837&z=9&l=0&m=b
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Wow, until I saw that map I didn't realise that the Falkland islands were more than half the size of Wales, their bigger than the whole of North Wales including Anglesey, I thought they were only tiny but their almost as big as Northern Ireland.
 
spudbynight said:
She really is a complete loon. At least this is going to turn more countries against Argentina.
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It's ok, she will simply replace the Repsol workers with ones from Argentina and up production..... Or not as the case may be.

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face, what a moron.
 
Me tongue out.

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