“Today we could sink the British fleet.”
I’ll never understand why we didn’t come to Britain’s aid in that war. It was an attack on a NATO member’s legal territory. The attack-one, attack-all policy should have been enforced.
We were caught in a bad place in the Falklands. We were on good terms with both countries at the time. Argentina sought to invoke the terms of a mutual treaty which said we would aid Argentina in the event of an attack.
We tried to be neutral but eventually gave aid to the British. I actually have a picture somewhere which I took of three British Frigates leaving Norfolk after being refueled etc. I always wondered of one of them was the Sheffield.
On the other hand, we could have invoked the Monroe Doctrine and quarantined the British warships in the South Atlantic as well. Conflicting policies.
‘North Atlantic’. The Falklands is in the South Atlantic. The rules have changed on the then territorial limiations of the treaty. The rules were changed for the NATO forces to operate in such places as Afghanistan.