The Falklands

A US mea culpa?

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c980g0g7yyjo

The BBC reports:

Trump's response is key as Argentina's Falklands demands get louder

President Milei began his Thursday address with a brief history of the Falklands, very much from the Argentine perspective. He repeated the refrain at the heart of their position: the islands "rightfully belong" to Argentina. The British had invaded and colonially occupied the islands in 1833, he said, violently wrestling the territory from Argentina's hands.

Hmm.

The UK Government would say he conveniently overlooked a few details: the islands – over which the European powers had interchanged control throughout the 17th and 18th centuries – were uninhabited at the time the British reoccupied the land. The Argentine settlement had been forced out two years earlier, not by the British but by the Americans. A warship, the USS Lexington, destroyed a fort established there in December 1831 amid a dispute over local fishing and sealing rights.

So maybe this is all a 'mea culpa' by Trump on behalf of the USA?

Then again with oil and gas reserves in prospect maybe Trump views the Falklands as just another Venezuela?

Land some Navy SEALs (maybe even from today's USS Lexington towed there for the purpose), kidnap the Governor, try him for guano smuggling, job done!

Interesting?

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