Argentina - new president

domalino said:
I listened to the excellent Rest is History podcast series on the Falklands recently, Dominic Sandbrook has written a book on the Falklands War, and they brought this idea of a second war near the end of the series for a bit of fun and basically...if our military has gone downhill since 1982, Argentina is exponentially worse. They would probably be sending some of the same equipment as they did 40 years ago.

Although I found the most interesting thing about that series how desperate Thatcher was to give them the islands! She tried about 4 or 5 times. First she proposed offering all the islanders 100k each to leave and full citizenship of the commonwealth country of their choice. Then several times she tried to get the Argentines to accept the UN proposal of them taking control of the islands and deciding who owned them peacefully - which Thatcher was advised would almost certainly end up with Argentina getting them.

It changed my perspective a lot, because not having lived through it, these days the conventional wisdom is that Thatcher was chomping at the bit for a war so she could rally around the flag and dress up to play in tanks etc.
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Fair enough (that the Argentinians have been even more useless than us).
 
Lets see how it goes with this one. I dont like the msm portrayal of these guys as nut jobs etc. They might actually have some revolutionary way of doing things that havent been tried before. But in general all these far left/right govns are too amateurish to be able to run a govn and dont understand why governing is done the way it is. Liz Truss really thought she could steam roll through public opionion.

These people, groups run govn like they played it in some computer game. They're probably all brilliant at Sim City!
 
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