2y ago

'Argentina has non-negotiable sovereignty over the Falklands', country's new right-wing president Javier Milei declares

www.lbc.co.uk

Turning the global conflict meter and looking back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right

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England. Famous for giving things back when asked nicely.
- If we did. It would be to the French. As Argentina has never had any presence on the island.
  
  This is such a strange take. Your argument amounts to adverse possession and comes across as very colonial.
i don't think he alone has enough clout for starting a war with the UK. I think it would be best for Argentina to just let it be for now.
Mrs Thatcher, still hated by many for ordering the navy to fire on the Belgrano warship, was described by Mr Milei as "one the great leaders in the history of humanity” during his campaign.
Of course he rides Thatcher
Mr Milei, 53, said in the debate: "We had a war – that we lost – and now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels."
Less insane than most of the shit he has said I guess. Argentina is not getting that Island back through diplomacy.
Argentines still vilify the English, this isn't surprising. You find official murals around the city showing the English with labels as "THE ENEMY". There are still people in front of the Casa Rosada collecting money for veterans. Miele would have been all of 12 years old when the Falkland Wars occurred, seems he didn't learn from this.
What a noob. He should wait until a crisis on his government to drop that card.
Didn’t they get their butts beat the first time?
- Margaret Thatcher was, indeed, a terrible human and had no issue using the gigantic UK navy to put down some brown people in the global south.
  
  gigantic UK navy
  LOL Not since the 2nd world war. And def not in 1980s when we had a total of 64 active ships, at the time the lowest since 1650s. We now only have 19. We have more coastal patrol ships. But they are limited to our own waters. We have not had a "Gigantic Navy" at anypoint in modern times. Mainly because we do not see it as an appropriate defensive force any more. Air superiority is way more important. And even their we are far far from a giant force.
- "Through every diplomatic means possible"
  I.e. he's gonna ask nicely
The UK has a shiny new aircraft carrier that says he's wrong.
Aw fuck, so WW3 really is going to start over the Falkland islands.
- Everyone distracted with Palestine and Taiwan, and this is what triggers ww3? This is the most amusing of time lines.

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