Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
02-03-2012, 15:58
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Yes I wonder what reason Mr Waters might have for taking advantage of the current situation to aim a cheap publicity shot.
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02-03-2012, 16:07
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Osem
Does Waters suggest what should be done about the small matter of the people who've actually lived there for generations and want to remain British?
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Of course not. It is just a publicity stunt for a has been.
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02-03-2012, 16:08
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Publicity stunt, probably.
Has-been - not in my opinion...
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02-03-2012, 16:16
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Publicity stunt, probably.
Has-been - not in my opinion...
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Is it possible for us to return the falklands as Waters suggests if Argentina have never actually owned them officially
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02-03-2012, 18:35
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
Cobblers should stick to their lasts.
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05-03-2012, 16:26
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
How France helped both sides in the Falklands War
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In his memoirs, former UK Defence Secretary Sir John Nott describes France as Britain's "greatest ally" during the Falklands War. But formerly secret papers and other evidence seen by the BBC show that was not the full story.
Before the war, France sold Argentina's military junta five Exocet missiles.
At the time, few suspected that the regime's longstanding claim on the Falklands would lead to war, and the sale went largely unnoticed. But when in May 1982 these Exocet missiles were used to strike Britain's HMS Sheffield and Atlantic Conveyor, with the loss of 32 British lives, near panic ensued in London.
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Linkage HERE
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05-03-2012, 16:35
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
How France helped both sides in the Falklands War
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That was talked about earlier in the thread. MI5 were trying to buy up the worlds stocks of exocet missiles to try and stop Argentina getting them.
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05-03-2012, 16:36
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
That was talked about earlier in the thread. MI5 were trying to buy up the worlds stocks of exocet missiles to try and stop Argentina getting them.
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and France helped us buy them up IIRC...
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05-03-2012, 16:39
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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and France helped us buy them up IIRC...
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Wasn't that only after Maggy made threats to use nukes?
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05-03-2012, 16:41
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Wasn't that only after Maggy made threats to use nukes?
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Don't think so, IIRC they sort of shamed themselves into helping, looks bad failing to support another European power and ally against some tin pot South American junta.
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05-03-2012, 16:50
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Don't think so, IIRC they sort of shamed themselves into helping, looks bad failing to support another European power and ally against some tin pot South American junta.
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I'm sure the story was in a link somewhere in this thread. But it would take ages to find with so many pages.
---------- Post added at 17:50 ---------- Previous post was at 17:43 ----------
Found it:
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According to author Ali Magoudi, French President Francois Mitterrand (1916 – 1996) made a stunning claim that during Britain’s Falkland Islands war with Argentina in the early 1980s, Margaret Thatcher (1925) threatened to use nuclear weapons. Unless Mitterrand gave the British the "deactivate" codes used by anti-ship missiles that France had sold to Argentina.
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http://blogcritics.org/books/article...entina-during/
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05-03-2012, 18:07
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
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Oh right never heard that before, sure I do recall the French buying back large numbers of missiles on the open market or canceling orders to help us out though as well.
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05-03-2012, 18:46
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
Wasn't that only after Maggy made threats to use nukes?
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I did no such thing.. 
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05-03-2012, 19:42
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
There were quite a lot of threats issued by the UK to france and that was the only reason they started to buy back and cancel orders also i believe the US discussed serious political consequences if france didn't cease trading missile tech to argentina. France didn't do a damn thing because it was the right thing to do they only did the right thing when it became in their national interest to do it not exactly what i would call a good ally at all but then my history with the french military does make me extremely biased where they are concerned.
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05-03-2012, 20:22
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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I did no such thing.. |
Slapped legs more your thing eh? 
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