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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. |
My two pennies worth....
As I understand it Thatcher was warned that Argentinia was about to invade the Falklands some 8 months before it happened by the Americans. Instead of putting more troops in and around the Falklands, she actually did nothing(inviting the invasion)
When the "war" got under way, again the Americans had got Argentinia agree to talks with our government, and at almost the same time a nuclear submarime sunk the Belgrano(apologies if I misspelt its name)not in and also heading away from the exclusion zone. No-one to this day knows for sure who gave the order as the subs log books went missing on the way back here.
We know what happened next. An awful lot of lives were lost and Thatcher was re-elected on the back of the war.
I for one can't wait to dance on that womans grave! (it wasn't just the Falklands - that witch ruined our country, and we're still reeling from her control now) |
Bit of trivia, to the extent of my knowledge it was the second time the Belgrano had sunk, the first time was as USS Phoenix (appropriately enough) at Pearl Harbour. As I say IIRC according to Wikipedia it survived the attack, I also thought it was the Carolina...