Posted on 03/28/2007 3:34:07 PM PDT by blam
Argentina scraps Falklands oil deal
Staff and agencies
Wednesday March 28, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Relations between Britain and Argentina took a turn for the worse today after Buenos Aires ended an agreement for oil exploration near the Falkland Islands. Argentina's decision came just days before the 25th anniversary of the war for the South Atlantic islands.
The move ends a 1995 accord designed to foster cooperation on oil prospecting around the islands.
Scientists say that there may be billions of dollars worth of oil under the waters in the area.
The Argentinian foreign minister, Jorge Taiana, said the move was taken as Britain had unilaterally floated public bid oil deals in the area. Mr Taiana said he had informed Britain's ambassador in Argentina, John Hughes, about the decision, adding "the Argentine decision brings an end ... to an instrument the United Kingdom sought to use to justify its illegitimate and unilateral action to explore for resources that belong to Argentines."
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Time to send the British Navy back down there. Oops! There is no more British Navy. Nevermind.
I hate to say this, but the UK brought this upon itself
Argentina smells blood in the water. An apparent timid response to Iran is perecived as weakness and invites this type of behavior
Right you are.
This could easily mean Argentina has decided the time is right to take the Falklands.
After all, Great Britain is in the process of showing just how they weak they are, and the U.S. Congress is doing the same.
Weakness encourages aggression.
I know somebody who worked at the United Nations, who told me he saw "Las Islas Malvinas SON ARGENTINAS" scrawled across a wall in one of the bathrooms at the UN.
Can you explain how Argentina is going to move vessels into Falklands waters with RN SSNs on patrol? Can you tell me exactly how Argentina is going to take out the garrison of the Falklands and stop reinforcement of that said garrison? Argentina simply does not have the capability to retake and re-enforce by sea any attempt at seizing the Falklands.
All it takes to encourage a bully is the PERCEPTION of weakness.
Once it is perceived that you do not have the will to fight, it does not matter how strong you might be on paper.
The United States and Great Britain have BOTH created the perception that they no longer have the WILL to fight.
Perceived weakness encourages aggression.
I agree with you. And ol' Nestor Kirchner just might be nuts enough to start something.
You realize the Commander of the Falklands fleet put out a public plea for funding, stating his patrols didn't have enough budget to run training missions?
You realize that the UK has absolutely no heavy lift air support available at this time?
You realize the Blair gov said it would take 6 weeks for the British military to muster a sufficient force to respond to Arg aggression on the Falklands?
Arg can send over 300 fishing boats full of soldiers and take the island at any time. Within 4 years Arg can send a cruise ship blaring tango music while putting on a laser light show and the Brits wouldn't be able to muster a response....
......Can you explain how ....
Simple actually.
A politician will give the military commander an order and he will spend all the lives and treasure at his disposal until there is none left.
"Perceived weakness encourages aggression."
Something that a lot of politicians can't seem to realize. Or refuse to think about.
And for those who constantly refuse to acknowledge this fact, human nature has a way of taking care of them.
Really? I think not. Someone is living in dream land. Let me know when it takes place.
Beat me to it. Spot on.
Hey Tony Blair,
Even the smallest show of weakness will bring out the scavengers and other opportunists. Argentina will see any weakness in your dealings with Iran as a signal to take the Falklands.
This is an outrage! They should take this to the EU immediately, form a committee to bring this before the Security Council of the UN, pass 36 resolutions, and 10 years later buy oil from the Falkland based Malvinas Oil Company of Argentina.
It's ironic that the countries who contribute nothing for the good of the world sit on the means of production for those who do.
I agree, I suggest we pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and base them all in the Falklands.
NYMEX oil 65.25 +1.18
RBOB gasoline 2.11 + 5 cents
It's not going off like a volcano, but it is moving up fairly quickly.
I refilled my 'hurricane-gasoline' tanks the morning I heard about the capture of the Brit hostages. $2.44 a gallon.
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from Brazil, almost half of Brazil's soy oil exports and nearly 10 times as
much as the U.S. ever sold to Iran in a single crop year, said Conrad
Leslie, president of Leslie-ADM Investor Services, a Chicago consulting
firm."
[and...]
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There is no imminent threat of invasion; furthermore, Argentine politicians wouldn't survive the upheaval from such an act.
Ejercito Argentino - Argentine Army
Site maintained by: John Pike
Page last modified: 27-04-2005 17:31:28 Zulu
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/argentina/army.htm
"The Malvinas War clearly indicated the failure of Argentine doctrinal and operational framework. The conflict in the Falkland Islands, in the early 1980s, illustrated the need for proper equipment and training to handle the harsh environment. Many Argentine conscripts were poorly clothed and trained. Frostbite and trench foot were rampant in the Argentine Army. Budget policies and cost reductions embraced by the Argentine government, like other countries, compounded structural problems. To meet this reality, studies were required to guide development of the army. Thus, a long-range goal was implemented by a comprehensive and ambitious project, "The Military Ground Component of the Future," which spanned over twenty years (until 2010)... The Argentine army has conducted peacekeeping operations among various other missions in an effort to help maintain international order and balance in compliance with resolutions of the U.N. Security Council. The military has thereby gained national and international recognition for its professionalism, devotion to duty, and discipline evidenced while participating in multinational peacekeeping forces. This motivation has enabled the Army to overcome other difficulties and strengthen a commitment to world peace, in keeping with the objectives of Argentine foreign policy... Recently, the Army created an Air Assault Battalion capable of displacing part of its resources with its own helicopters. In early 2001 the Argentine Army signed a contract with the US for the purchase of AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters for the ‘Air Assault Force’ that will include personnel from ceremonial regiments (Patricians and Grenadiers), Command Companies 601 and 602 and the 601 Air Assault Battalion.
The Argentines don't have the capability to take back a garrisoned Falklands.
They could easily take the islands because Britain is the New France. They will surrender and not fire a shot because it is against their own rules of engagement. Britain doesn't want to start a war because it is against their policy.
geopoliticalpetroping
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Thanks for the ping!
Why are you posting that link to me? Argentina doesn’t have the capability, or the shipping force protection, to mount an invasion of an already garrisoned Falklands.
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