[mr dragon]

I think this is all posturing. I doubt very much Argentina would try a repeat of their Falklands invasion of 1982- which lead to war with Britain. Either way I find it interesting, that suddenly, now that it looks like there might possibly be lucrative oil drilling inside Falkland territorial waters they're acting up again about their so called 'Las Malvinas'.

Argentina will ‘take measures’ to stop British oil drilling off Falklands

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 031163.ece

[ukus]

Tut .....tis true Dragon last time they messed with Britain's Falklands they didn't 'measure' up very well.

[mr dragon]

Y'know what makes me laugh about all this. Argentina never had a 'claim' to the Falklands before it was originally colonised by people. Argentina didn't even exist back then- and of course was another country, or sovereign area, also created by Spanish colonisation later. The islands are 300 miles off the Argentine coast. They don't actually belong to anyone- other than the people who live there. And, they unanimously choose to be British.

End of story...

[SilverMiniCooperS]

Try telling that to the Argentines....

[mr dragon]

Yeah. I know Jenn.

The funny thing was, after the Falklands war, and during the nineties following the fall of the fascist Galtieri regime, the Argentinians suddenly decided they'd try a 'charm offensive' on the Islanders instead- to try and 'persuade' them to become 'Argentinian'.

It didn't work.

There's this little thing called democracy....

[mr dragon]

I had to chuckle when I read this today.

It was only a matter of time before Chavez started making noises.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 037976.ece

There's nothing 'illegal' about drilling around the internationally agreed waters- within a legally defined sovereign area, and there is no 'sovereignty dispute'. Argentina has no legal sovereign claims in that area, and there is no 'illegal foreign occupation'. The only illegal foreign occupation that ever occurred in the Falkland Islands (in the 20 century) was when Argentina's military junta decided to take the islands by force (entirely against the wishes of the islanders and their democratic rights), and Britain had to waste a ton of money and British military lives to kick them out again, to thus liberate those people.

It's interesting that the Kirchner government, and Chavez's regime, are both in a certain amount of trouble domestically right now with the economy. Anything to distract from that.

I can not stand Hugo Chavez.