Flashpoint Falklands: Britain dusts off war plans amid calls to send a nuclear submarine

The Daily Mail, UK ^ | 22nd December 2011 | Tim Shipman and Ian Drury

[sukhoi-30mki]

Flashpoint Falklands: Britain dusts off war plans amid calls to send a nuclear submarine after Argentina joins forces with Brazil and Uruguay to blockade islands

By Tim Shipman and Ian Drury

Military chiefs are dusting off their plans for the defence of the Falklands after South American countries banned ships from the islands docking in their ports. Sources fear Prince William's six-month deployment to the South Atlantic as an air-sea rescue pilot next year could provoke more sabre-rattling. Yesterday Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claimed Britain was ready to use its military to steal natural resources 'anywhere, anyhow'.

She said: 'They're currently taking our oil reserves and fish stocks from the Falklands but when they need more natural resources they will come and use force to steal them wherever and however they can.'

Mercosur, the South American trading block which also includes Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay have agreed to ban boats sailing under the Falklands flag from docking at their ports – even though Paraguay does not even have a coastline.

The ban affects around 25 ships – some of which are fishing vessels working for a Spanish company

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077296/Falkland-Islands-Britain-dusts-war-plans-Argentina-turns-heat.html#ixzz1hGejiubr

[sukhoi-30mki]

Head to head: How the forces compare

[agere_contra]

Thanks Obama for your mealy-mouthed equivocation about “the Malvinas” that set this whole thing going again.

[Truth29]

"Thanks Obama for your mealy-mouthed equivocation about “the Malvinas” that set this whole thing going again."

Obama's looking to stick it to the Brits again, plus his general anti-Anglosphere attitude and sow chaos everywhere approach.

[Diogenesis]

"Bust of Churchill Returned by Obama
"After the September 11th attacks our British allies loaned President George Bush
a bust of one of the greatest Britons the world has ever known, Sir Winston Churchill.
It was a gesture to show their support for the United States in one of its darkest hours.
The bust sat prominently in the Oval Office for the balance of President Bush’s tenure there,
and once President Obama took office, the British offered him the opportunity to keep it for the length of his term.
His response was cold and most likely sent tremors through the British diplomatic community."
....
"Diplomatically this is a faux pax that only an unseasoned politician could make.
The British have stood by our side as strong allies for decades and we need to maintain that relationship,
especially in a world that is becoming increasingly dangerous (See Is Nuclear Weakness on the Horizon)
If he did not want to look at it in the oval office he could have displayed it elsewhere in the White House
and not slapped the British in the face in such a blatant disregard of political etiquette."

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"The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong
to some man as his absolute property - either as a child,
a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."
[Winston Churchill, 1899, "The River War"]

[Timber Rattler]

So how are the Brits planning on getting there and fighting if most of the Royal Navy is in mothballs and the few remaining active-duty warships don’t have any missiles or ammunition?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Note to America:

This is what happens when you dismantle your Army and Navy. The rest of the world no longer fears you and are willing to take liberties against your citizens and possessions. Especially if oil is involved.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And the US is out of old 4 stack destroyers to loan...

[Tallguy]

If the Brits keep enough aircraft on the island there won't be an invasion. A few of subs could bottle up the Argentine navy. I don't think they've forgotten the sinking of the Belgrano.

[golux]

This is because:

1. There’s a new oil field

2. Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the USA.

[Sacajaweau]

The Brits did fine on this...with a little help from us. Decisive counts!!

[Tallguy]

The Brits are weaker, but they are better prepared in that they expect a move. Add that the Brits have a long military & naval tradition. Argentina has what?

[DTxAg]

Argentina has what?

Llamas with freakin' laser beams on thei...

Never mind.

[yank in the UK]

I’m surprised that Hugo Chavez hasn’t Joined the alliance of south American countries involved in this intimidation tactic.

[donozark]

Some Gurkhas would help as well. But Britain pretty much retired them.

[Tallguy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/7293985/Hugo-Chavez-demands-Queen-return-Falkland-Islands-to-Argentina.html

[donozark]

Enjoy your postings!

Others reading this thread may enjoy some of the comments on the Daily Mail article! One guy warned Christina Kirchener her breast implants would melt with the first British air burst!

[Tallguy]

History shows that a well-supported amphibious invasion force almost always wins. If the Argentines got ashore that would mean that they have control of the sea & air. The Gurkas would do their best... And lose.

[donozark]

They got ashore last time and had a “Sgt. York” moment with the Gurkhas. Article states Argentine military has failed to recover from first Falklands War. About 30 years ago! NVA re-constituted itself in less than 2 years, several times. Average Argentinian more interested in drinking and screwing and being seen on HGTV than seeing their bodies penetrated by NATO 5.56...

[donozark]

I suspect Royal Navy will get some missiles after they got so embarrassed by sending a ship to Libya with 4 AA missiles...

[donozark]

Found it quite amusing that landlocked Paraguay ordered ships flying Falklands Flag to stay out of their ports.

In other news, the Governor of Missouri ordered ships flying the Russian Flag to stay out of ports in Joplin...