Falkland Islands Tension increase

[mumkin]

Oil that was his interest and living, and the waters around the Falklands are full of it. arnt his old company drilling for it, his interest was there no dought.

 

Then you'll have no problem proving it will you!

[mort]

Threads merged

[mumkin]

"Borrowed" from elsewhere:

 

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Dear Argentina...

NOW look. You've been whining about this since 1767 and it's starting to get on my wick.

 

 

After that we are quite prepared to let you come and holiday on these windy rocks, where you will be invited to pitch a tent anywhere you like within the 13 square kilometres where you left 19,000 landmines last time you visited.

 

We know they're a long way away. We know there's not much to the rocks, and there might be oil and it might give someone a claim to Antarctica.

 

But we also know something you don't - which is that a well-run, law-abiding and happy bunch of rocks is the best bunch of rocks you can hope to have. You're no more up to that job now than you have ever been.

 

In case our position is still not clear, the above could be summed up as: No.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Blighty

 

PS Can we interest you in Julian Assange?

 

Link to the original:

http://www.fleetstreetfox.com/2013/01/dear-argentina.html

 

 

Good article, thanks for posting.

[Cyclone]

I think you should read this

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Argentina

 

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I read it, was there something specific you thought was relevant?

[kidley]

So if someone invades Cornwall for example, no lives should be sacrificed over it?

 

---------- Post added 04-01-2013 at 12:38 ----------

 

 

The ownership is a bit cloudy, but we had settled them before Argentina had been stolen from the indigenous people there.

 

i think you will find there was no indigenous people.

[Cyclone]

I think you should read this

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Argentina

 

For everyone elses benefit

 

By the year 1500, there were many different indigenous communities in what is now modern Argentina. They were not a unified group but many different ones, with varied languages, degrees of development and relations with each other. As a result, they did not face the arrival of the Spanish colonization as a single block, and had varied reactions toward the Europeans. The Spanish people looked greatly down to the indigenous population, to the point that they held in doubt whether they had souls, following the general thought in Europe. For this reason, they kept very little historical information about them.[7]

[andygardener]

The argies are idiots. If they'd put the war down to an abomination by the junta and recognised the Falklanders right to self determination they'd have a good trading relationship with the people by now and would be a key partner in the upcoming oil industry. As it is they threaten and browbeat and seek to blockade the islands like Franco did Gibraltar. As a result they won't see a penny from the oil.

[Magilla]

I think you should read this

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Argentina

 

Yes, that confirms the point made in post 10.

[maxmaximus]

I dont understand what you mean, i was in favour of the war and still in favour. left to rot, far from it they are well looked after and quite right to

 

My apologies for jumping to the wrong conclusion.

[Nesbitt]

My guess is that most people did not realise that the French were involved in the Falklands war...BUT....they were!!!

 

http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/falkland-islands/45704/bbc-finds-evidence-french-helped-argentines-sink-our-ships