The Falklands thread

ubersonic said:
I didn't say that but without the tanker parked at the island we wouldn't have been able to mount the bombing run.
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A tanker that was there because we lease part of the RAF base to the USAF and NASA and had been doing so since around WW2 and the fuel tanker agreement is part of that lease.
 
The Argies are a good laugh arent they?

Never heard of the invincible sinking, thats classic, do a google for it and it brings up an 8 page forum rant by 3 Argies who drone on and on about the ship growing in length and Phalanx. Brilliant fun.
 
Cristina Kirchner has today rejected calls from the UK to discuss the sovereignty of the river plate. David Cameron condemned the actions of the Argentine government as unhelpful, "All we are asking is that both our governments sit down and discuss this issue"

When you reverse things it just highlights what a silly argument the Argies have.
 
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has reignited the row over the future of the Falkland Islands in an open letter to David Cameron calling on him to relinquish British control.

The letter, published as an advert in the Guardian newspaper, says that Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas - the Argentinian name for the islands - in "a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism".

The 59-year-old president, who made several calls for the return of the islands during last year's 30th anniversary of the two countries going to war, urged the Prime Minister to abide by United Nations resolutions she says back the Argentinian cause.

"One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000km (8,700 miles) away from London," she said in the letter, copied to United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

"The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule. Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity. The Question of the Malvinas Islands is also a cause embraced by Latin America and by a vast majority of peoples and governments around the world that reject colonialism."

Mr Cameron and Ms de Kirchner clashed over the Falklands when the pair came face to face at the G20 summit in Mexico last June. He rejected her demand for negotiations over the sovereignty of the islands and told her that she should respect the result of a referendum next year, when the Falklanders will vote on whether they wish to retain their ties with Britain.

The Argentine president had earlier taken her demands to the United Nations, appearing at the annual meeting of the little-known UN Decolonisation Committee on the 30th anniversary of Britain's ousting of an Argentinian invasion force from the Falklands. She used the occasion to reiterate Argentina's opposition to any more wars and to criticise the Prime Minister's decision to mark the day by flying the Falklands flag over his official 10 Downing Street residence.

In December Argentina protested at Britain's decision to name a vast swathe of Antarctica Queen Elizabeth Land, with its foreign ministry handed a formal protest note to British ambassador John Freeman in Buenos Aires. The area, which makes up around a third of the British Antarctic Territory, is also claimed by the South American country.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said that the Falkland Islanders "are British and have chosen to be so".

"They remain free to choose their own futures, both politically and economically, and have a right to self-determination as enshrined in the UN Charter," she added. "This is a fundamental human right for all peoples. There are three parties to this debate, not just two as Argentina likes to pretend. The islanders can't just be written out of history. As such, there can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until such time as the islanders so wish."
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For those who don't want to or can't read the link.
 
yet again a smoke screen to try and save her failing political career.

if she goes to hand cameron another letter he should just nut her and be done with it.
 
The greater problem ultimately is not Argentina, but of the rest of the south american Continent, they seem to be more and more like minded.

Which presents problems, for our power, latent as it is.

So the best solution is to make their leader look like an ass.
 
GAC said:
yet again a smoke screen to try and save her failing political career.

if she goes to hand cameron another letter he should just nut her and be done with it.
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I voted for him anyway but if eh did that I wouldn't care about future policies! :P
 
StriderX said:
The greater problem ultimately is not Argentina, but of the rest of the south american Continent, they seem to be more and more like minded.

Which presents problems, for our power, latent as it is.

So the best solution is to make their leader look like an ass.
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The rest of the continent (bar maybe Venezuela) really couldn't care less about the Falklands but they support Argentina because it costs them nothing. Whenever Argentina attends any inter South America conference they won't discuss any other business before the rest of the countries give some kind of message of support over the Falklands even if it has nothing to do with the topics to be discussed. The statements released by the other countries tend to be worded vaguely enough to allow for various interpretations, which Argentina can then interpret in their favour.
 
Oxy said:
HMS Dauntless, that is all :D
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Argentina simply cant do anything approaching a military effort, most of their combat planes haven't flown for years, half their ships are broken and their sub service only received a total of several hours training last year.
 
Station a type 45 destroyer and an astute class sub, a couple of apaches, typhoons and tornados, and it becomes an impregnable fortress to the Argies

The more I read into it, the more I want a war, but without the loss of life O_o
 
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