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Major UK warfare exercise in the Falklands to repel “enemy invasion”
British forces have been taking part in a major warfare exercise in the Falkland Islands, where hundreds of servicemen died during the 1982 conflict. The Highlanders (4 Scots) joined the Royal Navy and RAF in a two-day operation after an “enemy invasion” on the islands, 8,000 miles from the UK, in the South Atlantic. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe circus of Colonization continues in the XXI Century..
Dec 28th, 2009 - 09:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Better than being part of the third world circus that is currently Argentina, and it wouldn't be necessary if Argentina wasn't a bully intent on making life for the Falkland Islanders difficult.
Dec 28th, 2009 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing new Nitro - this excercise happens 2 or 3 times a year every year - it,s callled commonsense and done in public so your side knows this side will not be caught unaware again - so less chance of a silly leader trying to launch another attack. But as Carl says - there would be no need at all for exercises and military forces here if the threat from across the water was lifted.
Dec 29th, 2009 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Now we are the threat! ROFL! There is a serious threat that Argentina attemps to recover what was stolen from them. How do they dare!!! Isn't it funny?
Dec 29th, 2009 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jorge, so the end justifies the means does it? You support the oppression and isolation of a small and vulnerable island community? My, how noble and brave of Argentina. It's not the actions of a petty tyrant at all is it?
Dec 29th, 2009 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is the XXI century you know, so I would have thought Argentina would have evolved enough to recognise the islanders' right to determine their own future.
Jorge, Argentina has always been the threat. Stop the threatening behavior and drop the unjustified claim and the Falkland Islands would not need Britains protection.
Dec 29th, 2009 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Carl, Everyone knows it sounds kind of evil. But, the thing is, those are our islands and you stolen them twice (1833 and 1982). We failed trying to recover them with weapons and now we are trying other strategies. We are the ones who decide how and when these strategies are. Islanders have the key to stop all these things. They need to recognize they inhabit argentine terretorie and say good bye to their masters, then everything will work out. They could have a governor and councilors of their own chosing, their own police force, their own justice and whatever. Of course there are things Bs. As. will take care, after all, those are argentine islands.
Dec 31st, 2009 - 11:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Khh, what you call “unjustified claim” is a very very very very very very justified claim for us and we won't drop it. You have to think that we have nothing to lose and you........ and there are more british people now that say ..................... “We have many problems here to keep maintaining forces protecting others overseas”.......................“If gibraltar and falklands' people want to be british, that's fine, as long as they do it with their own taxes”.......... They will give you up, we only have to wait. Time is not a problem for us, time is our ally.
Happy new year!
Time is not your “ally”, the more you whine on about it, the more people tire of your belly aching. People are just bored with Argentina whining about it.
Dec 31st, 2009 - 11:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its the 21st Century and you're still whining about the events of nearly 200 years ago, events that you have to distort to contrive an illogical irredentist case, one that you have to stoop to lying to support.
You could be tired and bored and What are you gonna do about it? Uh!!
Jan 01st, 2010 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0The idiom in spanish is “Nosotros tenemos la sarten por el mango”. The more you deny our rights, the more you suffer isolation.
Happy new year Justin. Be happy!
Actually Jorge, I think a more appropriate idiom would be: “De nada vale llorar sobre la leche derramada”. The islands are not Argentine. Get over it!
Jan 01st, 2010 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What are you gonna do about it?
Jan 02nd, 2010 - 04:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Quite simply ignore you as irrelevant, like most people do.
The Argentines are know as bad political loosers. Its pathetic they go on war, loose it, and then go to the United nations and say they need to get in back. Its even funny. So they hope the UN will say: ok Argentina, hundres of UK soldiers died, but here you go, ..
Jan 02nd, 2010 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its the most dumb way to go ahead. They should creat economic ties, airways, create a friendly atmosphere and then, maybe, create a common interest. But you can imagine, after the war, and the bullying, that the Islanders will not want ANY argentine on the island. Its just to late and its there own stupid fault.
The only one thing that some one who studyed hes whole life about the conflict and keeps on doing it, could fell when reads many of your comentarys, is what we call in argentina (verguenza ajena), shame and sorrow.
Jan 03rd, 2010 - 07:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Some of you (islanders), and some of my compatriots are so selfish and lack of ojetivity, you dont want to recognize the rights of the other part, you think that only your truth is valid, and you dont even respect the opinion of the rest of the people, i got enough of your idiot mentality.
What i heard the most is, the islands are just argentine, and bretain doesnt have any thing to do there, or we have right to self determination, or the islands are just british and we want to remain in this way.
As long as our goverments dont start to talk to find a solution to the conflict, the F.I.G must be included obviusly, the status quo will remain for many years, and we just will keep on claming, and you will be for years just a prosperous dependent territory.
Any way i dont regret for writing in this forum, because i found also very smart people, it's really constructive to talk to all of them, and if some day i travel to the islands, i hope we can meet.
I studyed your arguments, i keep on doing it, and i m talking to expert profesors on the conflict who studyed at the university, they recognize that some arguments of the islanders are true, but they also gave me enough reasons to keep on clamig the islands, any way my survey doesnt finish here, i need more opinions to be sure of our rights.
As long as my country doesnt recognize that the islands are british too, and as long as bretain and the islanders dont recognize our rights on the islands, we will keep on reading the comentarys of just a few pathetic people insulting each other, some of them think that we should to subdue the islanders, or many islanders hold tha we have nothing to clame, you just represent (VERGUENZA AJENA).
To finish my comentary you should take into account that, is not our fault for what happened in 1982, one day we woke up, and we saw on tv on national chane that an irresponsable drunk president who we didnt even voted, took possesion of the malvinas-falkland islands, i was a baby in that time , and sadenly many young people were called to fight for what we consider as part of our terrytory, all that rest of the history you already know it.
Those criminals just played with our illusions like many others in democratic times did it too, any way in spite of all the terrible moments that these corrupters made us live, i am totally sure that before i die, we will have the country that all of us deserve, it's a great nation with good and bad aspects like any other.
hahahaha!!!!! Roberts, that's a very good one. But you must know that we don't cry over that milk. We keep fighting.
Jan 03rd, 2010 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And you Justin, you can't ignore us. We control the flights in and out of there. Did you know that? We control the sea wich surrounds you. Did you know that?
Don't say that again! You don't even believe yourself!
Jorge,
Jan 05th, 2010 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0We do just ignore you. You control squat.
“you can't ignore us.”
Jan 05th, 2010 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes we can, and we do.
We control the flights in and out of there. Did you know that? We control the sea wich surrounds you.
There's not much evidence of your “control”.
If you ignore us, why do you go always to your disgusting masters to complain about Argentina? You are such a small comunity of pirates suffering isolation due to argentina meassures and you will have to recognize some day you inhabit argentine terretorie. You will do it one day ARROGANTS!
Jan 06th, 2010 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dady! Dady! Argentina is picking on me! They don't want to talk about fish, oil and flights! please Dady do something with these evil argentines!
Jan 06th, 2010 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I pity you!
Kelpers, Argentina will not invade. The next conflict will probaly start with an incident. You will launch some tomahawks, we will respond in kind with missiles. We will have our own cruise missiles then (Unless you start the conflict early) and we will have some condors. Mount pleasant wil be bombed day and night and turned into an ash heap. What will you be thinking when the missiles start hitting town. Perhaps not much, because at this rate, you will likely get yourselves killed.
Jan 06th, 2010 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Tronador2.2b.jpg
FIG doesn't complain about Argentina to the UK Government, it just ignores the usual Argentine bitching and gets on with it. Argentina is irrelevant. Your own arrogance in refusing to talk to the islanders is isolating yourself from the future of those islands. The more you childishly rail against the situation, the more bully and try to intimidate, the more irrelevant you are.
Jan 06th, 2010 - 05:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jorge you dont pity us, you envy us because we have it all. We have these butifull islands, clean smelling air , great people most anyway.
Jan 06th, 2010 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not like Argentina that is like a smelly little shed full of dead flys.
There is only one real name for the islands & that is the FALKLAND ISLANDS - British territory. like I said we have it all even with a smelly troll nextdoor playing silly buggers all the time.
We are not isolated. I bet per head of population more Islanders travel then argies do. 3 flights a week and cruse ships all summer long , no problem.
Sounds like exocet82 wants his ass kicked again. Ok you start it and we will finish it http://www.flickr.com/photos/45547666@N02/4249972917/again!!!!!!
Jan 06th, 2010 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To JustinKuntz : you make a good pt about talking to the islanders- who have a right to decide their destiny. HOWEVER-Britian and its inhabitants in the islands have a moral responsibility ( as do any people of all nations) to question when their country does something that is wrong. As in Britian stealing the islands -given to Argentina by Spain.
Jan 08th, 2010 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0(and when they invaded all of Ireland and still have not returned the northern section)? Miltitary might and wealth are not rewarded by God.
To both sides- insulting each other and ignoring the valid points of the opposing view is childish as well as .
Rob, the Falkland Islands were never given to Argentina by Spain, either explicitly or implicitly.
Jan 08th, 2010 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not sure why you mention Northern Ireland? The six Irish counties which form Northern Ireland voted to remain part of the UK by opting out of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Whatever the history, the only thing which counts in the Falkland Island equation today is Islander self determination. Argentina refuses to accept this and until Argentina does then there will be deadlock.
khh, you will start the next confrontation through a preemptive strike. We will respond.
Jan 09th, 2010 - 07:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://blogs.clarin.com/blogfiles/ciencia/Tronador2.2.jpg
http://blogs.clarin.com/blogfiles/ciencia/Tronador2.2.jpg
khh, we never started this conflict. You did in 1833.
Jan 09th, 2010 - 07:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jorge, “we control the airspace and flight to the Islands and the Seas around”? Sorry - you dont!! By international agreement Arg has the responibility to co-ordinate and manage “Air and Sea rescues” in the south atlantic - each nation in the world has its bit of offshore area to be responsible for. Today in reality as there are now good emergency assets here it would be the Islands who first respond to something close by.
Jan 09th, 2010 - 09:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can control commercial flights from overflying your territory enroute to the Islands- but that is all.
We receive 2 passenger flights a week direct from Britain anyway. We receive a British cargo ship every 5-6 weeks direct from Britain, every 2 weeks we received a container vessel from Montevideo and Punta Arenas. Every summer we receive many many cruise vessels from all parts of the world,
So much for your control over air and sea!
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