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Originally Posted by STEED
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Originally Posted by August
So you're saying that if a foreign nation were to occupy British territory you wouldn't feel it necessary to do anything about it?
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We should have declared war it's strikes me as some what odd with no declaration of war, an interesting thing here Margret Thatcher was becoming unpopular here and it looked like she was going to loose the general election but after the war there was a massive u-turn and she was re-elected.
Was there a political agenda here? I don't know is my answer. |
Well I don't have much an opinion of Thatcher one way or the other, but I thought her handling of the Falklands situation was excellent. The RNs slow deployment down to the Falklands gave time for world opinion to turn against Argentina, which your government was very convincingly able to cast as being in the wrong.
It reminded me of your countries efforts to turn US opinion against Germany and in favor of the Allies in WW1. It was very well played by Britian, especially for a country that, back then, was still thought of more as a former enemy than as a friend.