HMS Montrose on the last leg of its South Atlantic deployment

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The Royal Navy HMS Montrose has entered icy waters on the latest leg of its deployment in the South Atlantic. This latest stage of Montrose’s six-month trip has taken it to the edge of the ice fields to the extreme south of the Earth, reports Montrose Review. Read full article

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briton
the new type 45, will look after things, whilst you go and rest,
Feb 03rd, 2012 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Filippo
pirate ship go home to with your illegal pirate population on our land since before our land existed!!!!
Feb 03rd, 2012 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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BenC30
Filippo - If you haven't got nothing sensible to say, don't say anything at all. It makes you look foolish when you try to compare Her Majesty's Royal Navy to pirates.
Feb 03rd, 2012 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
Filippo
The standard of Argies,please don’t insult your own people .
You embarrass your self,
Feb 03rd, 2012 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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row82
Argentines are not very bright, given the choice between fascism and democracy they have chosen fascism every time. Given the choice between American hegemony and being an independent nation, they have chosen America hegemony every time, characterised by its attendant secret police (NSA, CIA, Special Forces and other such gestapo trappings, including their own) and an attendant military or militant right government.

Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.

Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.

It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.

But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.

In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.

At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't!
Feb 06th, 2012 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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