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A quick check of Google Earth suggests that increasing territorial waters around the Falkland Islands would have minimal direct impact on Argentina, since at the closest point the countries are only 230 miles apart anyway (eg a dividing line has already been drawn and wouldn't change).
What it does do, particularly around South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands is significantly extend the potential areas for drilling to cover a sizeable chunk of the South Atlantic.
Seems as if its just another case of Argentina trying to claim the Falklands (again) and not liking another thing that might make the UK even more certain that its staying put.
Anyone know if anyone has done any drilling and if there is real, rather in wishful thinking, oil in the area?
Somebody punched a hole down there back in the late '80s.
No idea of the actual result. I do know that there is as much "rumour oil" down there as is located in the Canadian arctic.
Info on Falklands exploratory drilling (first posted by MUDLOGGER about a week ago
http://www.desireplc.co.uk/pdfs/journalpart1.pdf
Regards Chris
Hmm, interesting.
Although I'm not well enough informed to know what that means for the possibility of finding oil deposits in the region.
Its interesting to note how the territorial waters shown would extend further eastwards if 350 rather than 200miles were the limit.
There was already a war there between Britain and the Argentines twenty five years ago. I believe there, as in Iraq, we took a crap on the PM's desk as well, failing to back them when the Falklanders' interests and theirs coincided.
With allies like us the Brits don't really need enemies, do they?
If there is oil we'll get a nice Hugo Chavez/GWB ego proxy war out of the deal, and then perhaps some real shooting later.
A lot of people back home felt like the US shat all over the UK over the Falklands too...
...though personally to be fair, I heard that the US, and Regan administration, did some strong behind-the-scenes work in the UN to help out without coming out and directly helping...
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All these memories will be lost in time
like tears in rain
I was not politically aware when the war was on ... I recall the U.S./U.K. "misalignment" from an article I read within the last year - probably something in the CFR's Foreign Affairs.
Bummer about that, as we got on rather famously on a shared problem back in the 1940s ...
The US should have helped the Argentines! In fact, the US did provide logistical support for the British, I think in or near Bermuda, as their ships proceeded South.
I am of the opinion that the Argentinians have a legitimate claim on the Falklands (Malvinas) and that the British shoiuld relinquish control of the Islands. The French were the first to settle on East Falkland in 1764. The British settled an outpost on West Falkland in 1765. Spain bought the French outpost and rights to the Island in 1767. The British withdrew in 1774 due to economic reasons while the Spanish remained until 1811. Argentina became independent in 1816 and declared sovereignty over the islands and established settlements in 1828. The British took the islands by force in 1833 and forced the Argentinians to leave. Argentina has maintained its claim ever since.
Although I believe that Argentina has a legitimate claim to the Malvinas, I disagreed with the invasion in 1982. Again, the Malvinas is Argenine territory and should have the rights to all resources around the islands.
See: http://yendor.com/vanished/falklands-war.html
Amen.
I was in the UK during the Falklands War in 1982 and as a Canadian it was embarrassing to see the blatant jingoism on the street and in the tabloids ("gonna get me an Argie!").
This was a 'war we can win' just like the US invasion of Grenada around the same time; a war to increase support of the government in power.
Grenada- Wasn't that the last war the US won?
Oh- I forgot about Panama-
It was a distraction for the press, to get the Marine Corp Barracks Bombing in Lebanon off the front page--
And the sheeple went along.
You seem to have forgotten that the Argentines actually invaded the Falklands. Forcibly. Armed with weapons. You also seem to have forgotten that the Argentines at the time were in thrall to a military dictatorship (which had 'disappeared' 10-20,000 of its own people). The Falkland locals did not ask them to invade. At the time (and now) 99% of the population wanted to remain linked to the UK.
As for it being a 'war we can win' - I suggest you study the campaign in detail; the UK forces were operating at the end of a 5000 mile seaborne supply link which was extremely tenuous (with aircover provided by less than 30 Harrier jump jets), and the Argentine military (particularly its aviation) were no Grenadian militia (I wonder if you have heard of the word Exocet?). The loss of one aircraft carrier would have doomed the enterprise. Considering the difficulties with logistics (at one point the Argentines knocked out 90% of the UK forces heavy lifting helicopter force) it was really an immense gamble to even undertake the mission.
Still, hell why let a few inconvenient facts get in the way of your political bias.......
absolutely right
the entire argument seems to be that Argentina is close by therefore they have the right to invade
and as to easy - this was an incredible achievement that few militaries in the world could have matched at the time and the Argentine army was a serious foe
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All these memories will be lost in time
like tears in rain
Has anyone thought to ask the folks who live there what ought to be done?
Seems like its similar to Gibraltar - an issue between the U.K. and Spain, but the Gibraltarians have their own ideas on what is good for them.
they did
the islanders didn't want to be Argentinian
just cos a country is close to a small nation doesn't mean it has the right to invade
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All these memories will be lost in time
like tears in rain
just cos a big country is far away from a small nation doesn't mean it has the right to invade
The US military secretly helped the Brits in the Falklands. The US transferred some missiles to the Brits and helped out with logistics.
If they push it and drill down there they might be flying every last nut and bolt in. LOL.