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Falklands announces new round of demining demolitions
Project Manager for Dynasafe BACTEC Limited, Julius Unsung has notified that the next demolitions as part of the Falklands Demining project are planned for Thursday 9th February 2017 between 10am – 3pm. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe minefields in both the Falklands and in Chile are there because of the imperial and aggressive nature of Argentina. Argentina was planning to invade Chile in 1978, made an agreement through Vatican mediation, then decided rather unsurprisingly to discard that peace agreement and planned again to invade Chile after it had cleaned up its Falklands adventure.
Feb 09th, 2017 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse +5The resounding and humiliating British defeat of Argentina in 1982 produced a number of benefits that restored peace in the Southern Cone. (1) It enabled the islanders to live with the government of their choice. (2) It directly resulted in the fall of the Argentine military government and the return to their corrupt forms of democracy (3) It removed the imminent threat of an invasion of Chile by Argentina.
“The resounding and humiliating British defeat of Argentina in 1982” - con los rabos entre las piernas!
Feb 09th, 2017 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse +4O lo que les quedaba de los rabos.
Feb 09th, 2017 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +2MartiLazo was entirely correct,so why this impolite outburst of Spic?
Feb 09th, 2017 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0M
demining God I hope in days to come a forgotten term
Feb 09th, 2017 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Merlinski
Feb 09th, 2017 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +1It was an altogether friendly exchange of jibberjabber, and gordito was merely reinforcing my earlier comment
saludos
Good,but your post was in English.
Feb 09th, 2017 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1M
The sooner these landmines are cleared the better.
Feb 09th, 2017 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Merlin
Feb 10th, 2017 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse -4He thinks it's impressive to write Spanish...
Not quite realising there's about 400 million folk that can also do that...;-)))
Voicey thinks it's impressive to write in English, not realising that it's also expected that the content should have some value.
Feb 10th, 2017 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Its just polite to respond in the language of the oeiginal post,that is al
Feb 10th, 2017 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.
M
“Argentina was planning to invade Chile in 1978, made an agreement through Vatican mediation, then decided rather unsurprisingly to discard that peace agreement and planned again to invade Chile after it had cleaned up its Falklands adventure” WHAT?.
Feb 10th, 2017 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse -3(1) It enabled the islanders to live with the government of their choice.
FOR THE TIME BEING. THE CONFLIC IS STILL ALIVE AFFECTING BOTH COUNTRIES RELATIONSHIP SINCE THEM. FAR, VERY FAR, FROM BEING SOLVED.
(2) It directly resulted in the fall of the Argentine military government and the return to their corrupt forms of democracy THE VERY SAME WAY IT GIVE LONGER LIFE TO AUGUSTO PINOCHET BUT..WHO ON THE HELL CARED ABOUT CHILEAN DEMOCRACY?. PINOCHET WAS “A GOOD GUY” AFTER ALL..
(3) It removed the imminent threat of an invasion of Chile by Argentina. FALSE THERE WERE NO THREAR OF AN INVASION AFTER THE VATICAN MEDIATION.
Fod God's sake...are you drinking too much? Smoking pot?
Operation Soberanía...
Feb 10th, 2017 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Did it give longer life to Pinochet? He didn't help Britain openly and I have never heard that it affected his (un)popularity one way or the other. Unless the Argentine Junta really had changed their minds and invaded; that would definitely have had an effect. The fact they kept some of their best troops on the Chilean border even during the war implies tensions were still high.
Feb 10th, 2017 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +2http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/operation_soberania
Feb 10th, 2017 - 07:23 pm - Link - Report abuse +3At the end of the discussion, one sees this...
“Although it had called off the operation, the Argentine government never gave up on the use of military force to pressure Chile.[48]:146 After the invasion of the Falklands on 2 April 1982, the Argentine junta planned the military occupation of the disputed islands in the Beagle channel, as stated by Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, chief of the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands war, in an interview with the Argentine magazine Perfil:
L.F. Galtieri: ”[Chile] have to know that what we are doing now, because they will be the next in turn.[49]
Argentine Falklands War veteran Martín Balza, Chief of Staff of the Argentine Army (1991–1999), caused a stir in 2003 when he declared his conviction that in 1978, Chile would have won the war had it broken out.[50] ”
I'd say there was a threat after after the mediation.
Just a thought,
Feb 10th, 2017 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +2if Argentina had invaded Chile first,
would the Uk have gone to her aid,
and if so, , would the Falkland's war have ever happened.
@Briton
Feb 10th, 2017 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +3“...if Argentina had invaded Chile first,....”
Then Argentina would have gotten their arses kicked in 1978 and early 1979, and would have been in no conditions to try to invade any of the other neighbours.
“[in 1978] ....would the Uk have gone to her aid,....”
- Probably not, since the UK had nothing to gain from such assistance. However, Chile in 1982 had a great deal to gain from assisting the UK in their humiliating defeat of Argentina, since that essentially removed or reduced the threat of Argentina's further aggression towards Chile . In 1982 the UK did provide military assistance that would have helped Chile if Argentina were to have elected to continue their aggression.
It's curious that pgerman knows so little about Argentine history in the second half of the 20th century. Perhaps he should have a chat with retired Argentine general Martín Balza about Argentina's plans for the invasion of Chile following the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982.
Merlin
Feb 11th, 2017 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse +1If you must be pedantic - “with their tails between their legs”!
Marti Llazo
Feb 11th, 2017 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse +1Thanks for the reply.
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Feb 13th, 2017 - 04:34 am - Link - Report abuse -4Poor old Hepatia. Again with the old “England will return the Malvinas within 25 years” BS.
Feb 13th, 2017 - 09:00 am - Link - Report abuse +2#1 Yes, we have no Malvinas...
#2 England doesn't have the wherewithal to return the FALKLANDS (please learn the difference between “England” and “The United Kingdom of Great Britain”
#3 The United Kingdom of Great Britain won't be returning the Falklands to Argentina without the express wishes and permission of the Falkland Islanders
#4 It ain't going to happen
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