Posted on 02/01/2012 1:46:16 PM PST by naturalman1975
Don’t cry for me, Argentina...
/johnny
The Brits might not have a big force any more, but let nobody doubt their professionalism and courage. Not for a second! They are world class in their categories, ship for ship and battalion for battalion.
Anybody who gets into helicopters ever day for a living is a hero in my book.
They look at flaming death and laugh every time they fire up the turbines.
The Argies have not really updated their military since 1982.
Have we gotten to a wussification point in history where being called “the conqueror” is a negative?
“10,000 rivets flying in formation.”
Argentina’s greed for the Falklands is exactly that, unmitigated colonialist greed. Never mind that Argentina nor Argentinians have done SQUAT there for centuries, that it was almost entirely colonized by the British, is entirely occupied BY British AND routinely votes overwhelmingly to REMAIN British.
This is rather like Gibraltar and Spain. Not happening. Get over it. It’d be like the USA deciding, in 2012, that “We’re closer to Martinique than France is, so it’s not French anymore. Nonny-nonny.”
Might the Falklands be Argentinian if we somehow newly discovered the islands, pristine and uninhabited by humans, today? Sure. But that’s not the situation.
Interesting that the US overlooks its own Monroe Doctrine concerning the Falkland incursions.
You do know its the Argentinians who are calling him that? The country that elected a Socialist woman who thinks she’s Evita? So, Socialists are calling him “The Conqueror”.
The scar on Kirchner’s throat from her recent thyroid surgery is quite visible and she does not look all that well. Few do after such surgery. Benign. But still traumatic. Best if she sits this one out. Better to verbalize against Britain than attack the Falklands. Nothing to gain. Much to lose.
All the Brits have to do is send a squad of Gurkhas down there and the enemy will run screaming for home.
Yep.
Helicopters don't fly.
They're so ugly the Earth repels them.
And I wouldnt blame them a bit - those little guys are scary, and are always smiling while being scary!
Talk about sending a message, Sending the newest ship in the fleet and a Prince down there to show the flag. A pretty smart move by the Royal Navy.
“Helicopters don’t really fly, they beat the air into submission.”
Anyway, the Argies are probably still miffed at the Brits not only since Falklands, but since WWII when Juan Peron ousted his pro-U.K. predecesssor and threw in their lot with the Nazis. Juan & Evita’s own brand of national socialism bankrupted the third strongest industrial economy in the Hemisphere, and Argentina has never fully recovered.
So all they can do now is blow razzberries at a British prince.
“This is rather like Gibraltar and Spain.”
Bad example; Spain owned Gibraltar before.
In the end these outposts simply drain British resources as their country continues its decline; the sun set on them a long time ago. Soon the “British” units in Gibraltar, the Falklands, and northern Ireland will all be Jamaican, Pakistani, and West African units anyway.
You’re right that Gibraltar had been Spanish. My bad. My point was primarily (not entirely) about “who’s living there now, and how do they vote, plebiscite-wise?”
And it may be true that it would be a good economic idea for the UK to investigate selling (in effect) some of its far-flung, tiny, non-wealth-producing dependencies.
But Argentina’s notion that “It’s just ours, because, um, it’s sorta close to us, and because Shut Up,” is nonsense.
“My point was primarily (not entirely) about “who’s living there now, and how do they vote, plebiscite-wise?”
Another very poor example. As per, China invading Tibet. Relocating its citizens throughout China and moving Chineese in to Tibet. Destroy the culture but hey, they now have the vote.
And though the Chi-coms claim Tibet to historically being part of China, that too is B.S.
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