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Today marks 42 years since Argentina tried to colonise and ethnically cleanse the Falklands Islands only for progressive decolonial thought-leader Margaret Thatcher to support land back and defend the indigenous people’s right to self determination against fascist imperialism. pic.twitter.com/aHRGQVIzIs
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@SonAmyHeartbreakCompany doth wonder...
!latinx !neolibs !historychads assuming that he succeeds in turning Argentina into the perfect ancap utopia he wants, would Milei ever consider retaking Las Malvinas? Or at least try to negotiate a takeover? I know he's pretty nationalistic, but as a lolbert guy I'm not sure if that's something he would desire (especially since those cringe af Peronists tried to earlier and fricked up hard)...
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The Milei administration is the most pro-British in recent memory
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He said it would be unfair to annex the Falklands while Argentina is in its current state. He claims once Argentina rebounds and becomes an actual developed country then the Falklanders themselves will want to join, in other words it is not on his priority table.
Also the Argentine Armed Forces are in a terrible shape, they're in no condition of taking anything from anyone, I know people here love to make fun of Bongland but despite being much smaller than during it's heydey the Royal Navy is still a formidable force, they have nuclear subs, 2 large aircraft carriers and F35 fighters.
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Based and reasonable-pilled.
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It wouldn't work if he tried. The modern Argentinian military is a meme and ranks solidly behind even Chile who's way behind Brazil. The Falklands on the other hands is the most militarised possession of the UK in the world with a dedicated army and RAF base.
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Is there literally any way in which he could succeed at that, though? I imagine if things got actually dire for the brits down there they'd tap on America's shoulder for air support, and a single US carrier group could probably rout the entirety of Argentina's navy and air force.
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It only took a little baby British helicopter carrier with one of those gay takeoff ramps with Harriers on it to win the last one. (Tbf it was actually really close and if a few rolls of the dice went the other way Argentina would have won.)
The Argentinian military was actually pretty strong then. They had a good air force with modern weapons, the French Super Etendard/Exocet, which unfortunately for them was defective kinda like how the French sold everyone hemophilia drugs infected with literal AIDS at the same time. I'm a hardcore francophile but that was a bad time.
Anyway my point is, Argentina's military capabilities now are minimal. They (rightly) decided not to pay billions of dollars keeping it up the last 40 years. It would take at least a decade to buy new stuff and train guys on it before they could think of even taking on Britain's pathetic remnant of an empire.
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It's a miracle they won the Falklands war they simply didn't have the logistics to support such an operation and had to commandeer container ships to use as helicopter landing ships. If the Argentina's were a little more competent they would have lost.
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Depends on America's appetite for wasting gunpowder on protecting British overseas territory yet again. Sometimes they send a million men to die over it, sometimes they tell the queen they'll dissolve her banking system if she doesn't surrender.
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A lot of frigates with plenty of anti-naval missiles might work. It would take 5 years tops (
) to get there, but everyone in the world would notice.
The other problem is maintaining the supply. Assuming they can carry out the amphibious assault with 5k soldiers, they'd need to keep shipping supplies over, but at that point the UK and eventually the US could blockade the islands.
It would be really expensive for them to gain a shitty little set of islands.
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He's literal a fanboy of that c*nt thatcher so nope.
The way things are going the argies will get the fricklands plus reparations for RACISM from king abdullah al-kebab in about 20 years or so.
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