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Moscow and Falklands' war: “ironically the Soviet Union came on the side of anti communist Argentina”
Sputnik, the official Russian news agency has recalled the 1982 South Atlantic conflict on the 36th anniversary, and offers an interesting interpretation of events previous to the war, the fighting itself and prospects for the future, making emphasis on the overall world scenario at the time. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCan Putin's Russia be trusted?
Apr 03rd, 2018 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse +2Presidents (Macri (Argentina) & Putin signed a 30-point collaboration agreement in different areas, including the need to resume the negotiations with the United Kingdom for the Malvinas Islands. (La Voz, 23 Jan 2018).
How would a map of the world look today if all of the territory lost and gained over the past 180 years reverted to its 19th century status? Quite a ridiculous proposal.
Falklands – Acquisitive Prescription(1 pg): https://www.academia.edu/35552595/Falklands_-Acquisitive_Prescription
“British foreign policy pinball between “the right to self-determination and the principle of territorial integrity,” adding that the contradiction still exist” Au Contraire, as the former is binding international while the latter is post 1945 which is barred from being applied retroactively to 1833.
Apr 03rd, 2018 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse +1”...The rule of the intertemporal law still insists that an act must be characterized in accordance with the law in force at the time it was done, or closely on the next occasion. ...
The Acquisition of Territory in International Law By Robert Yewdall Jennings
a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1982. He also served as the President of the ICJ between 1991 and 1994 .
Ha. Russia's idea of self-determination only has one option. If you want to join Russia, that's fine, but when Chechnya wanted to leave, they fought two bloody wars to force them to stay. No referendums for any peoples in Russia.
Apr 03rd, 2018 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Also, I thought it odd he said the decision to support the UK had cost the US dearly. I would imagine their support for the earlier coups, and the CIA training on torture methods would have done a LOT more to undermine whatever moral authority they still had in Latin America.
An expansionary dictatorship which tortured and murdered its opponents supported another expansionary dictatorship which tortured and murdered its opponents.
Apr 04th, 2018 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse +1What's ironic about it?
“Time is on Argentina's side”
Apr 04th, 2018 - 06:41 am - Link - Report abuse +2Actually. It isnt.
Technology is changing fast. Time to get ti the Falklands
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Apr 05th, 2018 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse -1England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Apr 06th, 2018 - 02:58 am - Link - Report abuse -1”Boris Martynov, head of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)”
Apr 07th, 2018 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +1But still unable to research basic history............
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
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