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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
^ Agreed but in all honesty I don't believe Argentina have the military capability today.
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Maybe, but so has the UK no capability to retake the islands either.
And there is another difference: today Argentine has practically the complete support and solidarity of all Latin America on this issue. Parts of South America have rich reserves in lithium and a few things more desperately needed across Europe, and in the UK. Any argentinian action against the Falklands may be accompanied by international moves against the UK and at the UN as well. In 1982, it stood practically alone, and got nothing but words from its neighbours. The Western view of things dominated the world.
These things have changed.