Rogue Nation Argentina

ARGENTINE AGGRESSION:

ASKING FOR A BLOODY NOSE AGAIN?

30 years after signing an armistice, an Argentine leader yet again beats the drums of war, staking an irrational claim to the British archipelago of the Falkland Islands. The adventure on which president Kirchner of Argentina embarks on, while doomed from the onset, is aimed at rallying her countrymen in times of economic misery, just as 30 years and two sovereign defaults before, by another dictator.

Back then, in 1982, General Galtieri led his nation into war by invading the Falkland Islands. The days of glory lasted nine days, before Great Britain mustered her forces and started the rolling-back of the gaucho invaders. The conflict lasted sixty days, cost nearly 1,000 soldiers their lives (70% of the fatalities were Argentines), and was succeeded by the military rulers chased out of office by a popular uprising in Buenos Aires. Mrs Kirchner is forewarned ...

The Falkland Islands have been governed by London without interruption since 1833. If the Argentines have a desire to rectify history they should start with their neighbour Paraguay, and return the 880,000 square miles of territory usurped after a vicious war in 1860-1864 ("The Paraguayan War", AKA "War of the Triple Alliance"), when rogue nations Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay attacked Paraguay.

 

The Falklands are indisputably British territory, and the islanders British citizens. If anything should change in their status it can only be the result of a referendum on the islands. Argentina stands no chance to conquer the Falklands, and its crusade to rally other South American monkeys to support Kirchner's delusions bound to fail, militarily as much as diplomatically: the UN has no sway over Argentina's reach for belligerent goals. Any blabbering in front of the UN is futile, and Argentina's presentations there irrelevant and inconsequential.