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Did any other country supply Argentina with state of the art guided missile destroyers a few years prior to the conflict? answers on a postcard
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Got any links to that, even though its way off topic
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UK supplies Saudi Arabia with weapons, They don't care how they use them.Falklands
when that spat with Argentina kicked off Reagan had never heard of the place
The French supplied the Argentines with weaponsyes exactly
Pinochet helped us out down there
UK supplies Myanmar with weapons, They don't care how they use them.
UK supplies arms to many repressive regimes. They don't care how they use them.
British arms sales to repressive regimes soar to £5bn since election
This article is more than 3 years old
Campaigners claim that government is putting ‘exports to despots ahead of human rights’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/09/arms-sales-repressive-regimes-saudi-arabia
Brexit was a boost to UK arms sales and Human Rights Abusers.This article is more than 3 years old
Campaigners claim that government is putting ‘exports to despots ahead of human rights’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/09/arms-sales-repressive-regimes-saudi-arabia
Brexit Boost for Arms Industry & Human Rights Abusers As ‘Global Britain’ Gets Underway
Steve Shaw
14 January 2021
Now isolated from the Continent and determined to ‘rule the waves’ once more, Britain looks to countries with questionable regimes to strike up business deals
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/14/...ghts-abusers-as-global-britain-gets-underway/
Steve Shaw
14 January 2021
Now isolated from the Continent and determined to ‘rule the waves’ once more, Britain looks to countries with questionable regimes to strike up business deals
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/14/...ghts-abusers-as-global-britain-gets-underway/
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Ireland was neutral during the war.
It's that neutrality that meant they could provide assistance to either side.
Many other countries also declared neutrality.
In some cases it was because they did not want to engage in war. In other cases it was a smokescreen to hide secret preferences. In still other cases it was because they simply did not have the resources to engage in war.
Ireland probably refrained from taking sides for all three reasons. (They had recently been fighting a war with UK because UK wanted to rule Ireland)
Great chum of that Thatcher woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car...van of Death (Spanish,30 and October 22, 1973.
"General Joaquin Lagos explained why he didn't return the bodies of the 14 executed prisoners of Antofagasta to their families:
I was ashamed to see them. They were torn into pieces. So I wanted to put them together, at least leave them in a human form. Yes, their eyes were gouged out with knives, their jaws broken, their legs broken ... At the end they gave them the coup de grace. They were merciless. "[...] "The prisoners were killed so that they would die slowly. In other words, sometimes they were shot them by parts. First, the legs, then the sexual organs, then the heart. In that order the machine guns were fired[3][4]"
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Transam displaying his customary racism, as usual.
I'm surprised he hasn't resorted to his customary genocidal tendencies as well.
Transam told us his mother and other relatives are Austrian, Some of his relatives were officers in the SS and Gestapo.
The SS were architects of the extermination of Jews during WW2.
Transam exhibits similar genocidal tendencies towards Iranians.
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UK opens files on Israeli arms sales to Argentina during Falklands War
A report by the Telegraph said the Jewish state had provided Buenos Aires with Skyhawk fighter jets which were used during the conflict to sink four British warships, killing dozens of soldiers
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-op...arms-sales-to-argentina-during-falklands-war/
A report by the Telegraph said the Jewish state had provided Buenos Aires with Skyhawk fighter jets which were used during the conflict to sink four British warships, killing dozens of soldiers
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-op...arms-sales-to-argentina-during-falklands-war/
One of my customers,a lovely old couple who were both in intelligence ops during WW2 (it’s where they originally met) loved telling me stories about their past experiences. That one is the one story that really sunk in. I haven’t spoken or seen them for 6 or 7 years now, I doubt they are both still around to be honest. Shame, they really enjoyed reliving stuff.
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The Falklands windy in Summer calmer in Winter, like the Llandegla moors, as no trees and loads of peat bog, climate is around same as UK except wind in summer.
Thatcher made an error, she knew it was very likely to be invaded she should have sent it troops before the invasion, not waited until after, her actions cost many lives. However if she had then likely by now in all but name the Falklands would have been part of the Argentine as they were becoming more and more dependent on the Argentine for supplies, the airport was not big enough for international planes, so two ships a year supplies all their needs and took out all their produce.
So the war resulted in the Airport at Mount Pleasant and in turn that stopped the Falkland's being reliant on Argentine for supplies, so want it or not, had the Argentine not invaded even if not officially Argentine it would have been as the children were being educated there.
It was an odd place when I lived there, as to run a business other than farming only place was Stanley, so all the tradesmen and professionals lived in Stanley, also if you were not intelligent enough to farm, only place was Stanley, and secondary school only place was Stanley, so it seemed Stanley filled with super thick, super intelligent, and secondary school children. Most normal people lived on the camp (countryside) but even then DIY was a must, could not take car to local garage, so people had a wide verity of skills, I remember seeing a 4 x 4 a mixture of Mercedes and Landrover combining best of both. They had become very ingenious, I remember being told never under estimate a Benny.
We called some one born on Falklands a Kelper, but some one who immigrated there a Benny, and military were not really liked as they tended to think the locals owed them, so did was they liked, breaking down fences and leaving gates open. With 10,000 acres being a small holding and likely split into three fields, leaving a gate open resulted in 5 men a weeks work to separate the hogget's from ewes. Clearly did not want rams in with the hogget's or they would die giving birth too early. Before conflict the military did around 2 years, and they realised what was the result of their actions, but after they only stopped 4 months, and the result was they did not realise the problem until too late.
As a contractor I was unusual, most would never leave the confines of Mount Pleasant, and if they did Stanley was about the only place they visited, however one Irish guy came to Mount Pleasant with a broken generator pleading for help, and I was lucky enough to be sent to his small holding to repair it, this resulted in my buying a two meter two way radio and getting to know the locals on the radio, this also resulted in more than normal visits for me to local farms and small holdings, I was able as a result to arrange R&R for military to local farms, and as a result was given a few rides out myself, as to going to live there, it was the education system which stopped me. I did not feel it was fair on my children to get them educated there. Plus lack of accommodation, in real terms would need to be single or at least childless to want to go there. Lovely place don't get me wrong, and today may be we can learn from them, primary school children were taught by radio, only at secondary school age did they go to Stanley.
But they did not see what rest of world was like, I was bored and was listening to kid being taught on radio, teacher had asked him to read a passage from a book, which included the word semi-detached house, so the teacher asked to child to describe a semi-detached house, answer was a house if you fly over it in a helicopter is not quite put together, not bad really since he had never seen one.
Thatcher made an error, she knew it was very likely to be invaded she should have sent it troops before the invasion, not waited until after, her actions cost many lives. However if she had then likely by now in all but name the Falklands would have been part of the Argentine as they were becoming more and more dependent on the Argentine for supplies, the airport was not big enough for international planes, so two ships a year supplies all their needs and took out all their produce.
So the war resulted in the Airport at Mount Pleasant and in turn that stopped the Falkland's being reliant on Argentine for supplies, so want it or not, had the Argentine not invaded even if not officially Argentine it would have been as the children were being educated there.
It was an odd place when I lived there, as to run a business other than farming only place was Stanley, so all the tradesmen and professionals lived in Stanley, also if you were not intelligent enough to farm, only place was Stanley, and secondary school only place was Stanley, so it seemed Stanley filled with super thick, super intelligent, and secondary school children. Most normal people lived on the camp (countryside) but even then DIY was a must, could not take car to local garage, so people had a wide verity of skills, I remember seeing a 4 x 4 a mixture of Mercedes and Landrover combining best of both. They had become very ingenious, I remember being told never under estimate a Benny.
We called some one born on Falklands a Kelper, but some one who immigrated there a Benny, and military were not really liked as they tended to think the locals owed them, so did was they liked, breaking down fences and leaving gates open. With 10,000 acres being a small holding and likely split into three fields, leaving a gate open resulted in 5 men a weeks work to separate the hogget's from ewes. Clearly did not want rams in with the hogget's or they would die giving birth too early. Before conflict the military did around 2 years, and they realised what was the result of their actions, but after they only stopped 4 months, and the result was they did not realise the problem until too late.
As a contractor I was unusual, most would never leave the confines of Mount Pleasant, and if they did Stanley was about the only place they visited, however one Irish guy came to Mount Pleasant with a broken generator pleading for help, and I was lucky enough to be sent to his small holding to repair it, this resulted in my buying a two meter two way radio and getting to know the locals on the radio, this also resulted in more than normal visits for me to local farms and small holdings, I was able as a result to arrange R&R for military to local farms, and as a result was given a few rides out myself, as to going to live there, it was the education system which stopped me. I did not feel it was fair on my children to get them educated there. Plus lack of accommodation, in real terms would need to be single or at least childless to want to go there. Lovely place don't get me wrong, and today may be we can learn from them, primary school children were taught by radio, only at secondary school age did they go to Stanley.
But they did not see what rest of world was like, I was bored and was listening to kid being taught on radio, teacher had asked him to read a passage from a book, which included the word semi-detached house, so the teacher asked to child to describe a semi-detached house, answer was a house if you fly over it in a helicopter is not quite put together, not bad really since he had never seen one.
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complicated I guess, does France have a claim on the channel islands?
TBH I feel Argentina's claims to the Falklands are more rooted in fishing and mineral rights.
TBH I feel Argentina's claims to the Falklands are more rooted in fishing and mineral rights.
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