Nice little link with another island war there Jim, I like it.
To be fair though, the US didn't vck us over in the Falklands war, in fact they were giving us intel throughout it all IIRC as well as letting us use the Ascension Island base (we own the island but they run the airbase) and Sidewinder missile restocks. They had to stay neutral though for obvious reasons, it's a political mess and the US doesn't want to tie itself to that. I don't blame them, after all we didn't send forces to aid in the Bay of Pigs incident or the Panama crisis.
Heck, we had support from a lot of nations, France gave us Mirages and Etendards to train against and the details of their Exocet missiles, Chile gave us intel support (presumably because they knew that a strong Argentina was a threat to them), and New Zealand took over some of our deployment roles in the Indian Ocean to free up warships to send to the Falklands.
So, we may have fought militarily quite alone, we had the support of a few nations which helped things along in the background.
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