I’m wondering if this is some kind of payback for our role in Ukraine’s coup. I think that ticked Putin off.
It is the good old ‘Great game’ or a ‘zero-sum-game’ as it has become known in the second part of 20th century when US has joined backsiding Britain. Too bad opponent has dice to roll too. Now played in Western hemisphere.
We violate his sphere, so he violates ours.
Of course, admittedly, the Falklands are a lot further from the US than Ukraine is from Russia. But there is that Monroe Doctrine thing there to be violated.