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Next year's won't be just another Malvinas anniversary, Argentine Defense Minister Rossi vowed

Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 07:04 UTC
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Argentine Defense Minister Agustin Rossi Friday presided over the ceremony where the Armed Forces commemorated the 39th anniversary of the military landing on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands which eventually led to the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom and promised things will be different a year from now. Read full article

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  • Lord Loon

    Ya shower of tossers, couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag then and even less so now. Typical tin pot banana republic dictatorship, all ranting and raving and strutting around in big hats thinking you'd mess up the evil English if only you could have another go and weren't shite at everything. All mouth and no trousers as usual.

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 10:53 am - Link - Report abuse +6
  • Brit Bob

    Is Argentina afraid that her Falklands claim will be exposed?

    Argentina’s Failure to Present Its Falklands Case to the International Court: (2 pgs): https://www.academia.edu/44992287/Argentinas_Failure_to_Present_its_Falklands_Claim_to_the_International_Court

    Frit?

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Pugol-H

    They found out the hard way that unlike Atahualpa or the Mapuche, the British have more than just sticks and stones with which to defend their territory.

    Remember your dead by all means, but please don’t try and pretend they died for any kind of “just cause”.

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +9
  • Think

    TWIMC...

    Next year's won't be just another Malvinas anniversary...
    Next year's will be the 40th. Islas Malvinas anniversary..., Argentine Citizen El Think vowes...

    Capisce...?

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse -11
  • Islander1

    Correct Think- it will be the 40th Anniv. of a country celebrating a war it started by invading a peacefull and pretty well defended territory and in breach of the UN.
    Me thinks Argentina is the only nation inn the World daft enough to celebrate such an event especially as it then went on to ignore and disregard a formal ruling from the UN Security Council passed with a large majority- that it should immediatley withdraw all its Forces - and instead then went on to loose anyway!
    Yes by all means - remember those young lads your old half drunk Generals sent to their deaths- after so many hundreds of thousands of you went cheering those same old Generals in the streets 2nd and 3rd April 1082!
    Those lads did indeed pay the ultimate sacrifice of a soldier in uniform - even we in the Islands respect that.

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +11
  • Brit Bob

    Poor Narnia - only two-thirds of the world laughing at its Malvinas myth. Must try harder.

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +7
  • Judge Jose

    Yawn, yawn ,yawn, and life will go on for the Falklanders just as it always has,

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Think

    Mr.Timlander1

    Yes by all means - we remember those young lads that our fully drunk..., coke sniffing..., degenerate criminal generals, admirals and brigadiers sent to their deaths..., every April 2..., on Malvinas Day (Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas)..., lad...

    Next year is a round Malvinas Day anniversary...
    And it won't be just another Malvinas Day anniversary...

    Nice Easter to you too...

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -8
  • Islander1

    Think- Fair Dos- so long as that all the focus is on April 2nd- one can understand it. Next year i t will be just another one from your side, albeit the 40th.

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Think

    As you may know..., Mr.Timlander1..., lots of focus will be on Malvinas the coming 365...
    Next Malvinas Day will be quite a special one from our side vs your side...

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Pugol-H

    “our side vs your side...”

    Ahhh, at last we see the truth, the stinking Kurepi, NogF*ck the F*ckwit, squatting in Argy occupied Patagonia, admits that this “handful of savages” are not so easy to, “put down as soon as possible, by reason or by force”.

    Ooops!

    Apr 03rd, 2021 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Don Alberto

    Next Malvinas Day won't be just another Malvinas Day anniversary, it will be quite a special one from both sides - ought the UK perhaps to test it's nuclear deterrent capacity somewhere immediately south of Uruguay?

    Apr 04th, 2021 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Islander1

    Yes Thimnk- it will be- and I expect our side will. invite your side for a joint commemoration remembrance service to the fallen -;liker the did for the 25th - and your side rejected it - wonder f they will do the same again
    One side wants to draw a line and move on in mutual respect - to date the other side appears not to.

    Apr 04th, 2021 - 09:08 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Think

    Mr.Timlander1...

    Your side wants to flip the bird and move on with the whole pirate booty - to date and in the thinkable future my side will disaprove of your cunning plan...

    Capisce...?

    Apr 04th, 2021 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Pugol-H

    “pirate booty”, Kurepi Planter, is most of S. America.

    You only had to “put down” a “handful of savages” there.

    Not so easy when you are trying to steal from Pirates, is it!

    Apr 04th, 2021 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • FitzRoy

    Hmmm, the rate things are going in Argentina, I doubt there will be the usual charter flights for families, so yes it will certainly be a different fortieth anniversary. If they can't get a handle on C-19 and vaccinations no one will be visiting.
    As for celebrating an invasion? The only country in the world to celebrate the start of a war. Most of us give thanks that a war is over, show our gratitude to those who fought for us and remember the dead. What a funny little country Argentina is.

    Apr 05th, 2021 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Pugol-H

    Apart from raping Paraguay and butchering the native Patagonians, the successful start of the war is the neatest thing they have to a victory to celebrate.

    Apr 05th, 2021 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Terence Hill

    Think

    “with the whole pirate booty ”

    The only pirates in the area were from - “There is scarcely a Buenos Ayrean privateer which has not committed piracy of every description” John Quincy Adams July 20th, 1820. David Jewett, and Louis Vernet

    Apr 06th, 2021 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Roger Lorton

    Latest UN Working Paper on the Falklands has finally been made public. Very last paragraph, as every year, remains the most important. Still no member of the UN calling for a GA debate on the subject. Not even Argentina.
    Funny that.

    C. Action taken by the General Assembly
    74. In its resolution 58/316, the General Assembly decided that the item entitled
    “Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)” would remain on the agenda for
    consideration upon notification by a Member State. As at the date of the issuance of
    the present working paper, no such notification had been received.

    https://falklandstimeline.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/working-paper-2021.pdf

    Apr 07th, 2021 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    As you may know..., Mr. Roger Lorton..., lots of focus will be on them Islands the coming 365...
    Next Malvinas Day will be quite a special one from our side vs your side...

    Capisce...?

    Apr 07th, 2021 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Judge Jose

    Why would anyone want to celebrate the death of 100s of soldiers of an illegal invasion (re-UN) no civilised country would do that, by all means commemorate the soldiers who died in a solemn way,

    Apr 07th, 2021 - 08:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Roger Lorton

    Thunk, ...... there's always a lot of focus. Never made a difference yet. Seems unlikely that it ever will.

    The questions that are not being asked, remain - 1) why has there been no UN Resolution on the Falklands since 1988? 2) why has there been no UN debate since 1988? & 3) why does the C24 fail - every year - to recommend its own draft-resolution for adoption by the UN?

    https://www.un.org/en/sections/documents/general-assembly-resolutions/

    Apr 07th, 2021 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    Copper (retd.)...

    Why..., you ask...?

    Well..., 'cause the elusive diplomatic intractability of such matters takes some time..., laddie...

    Apr 08th, 2021 - 06:17 am - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Roger Lorton

    33 years to date.

    Grand total of 188 years of diplomatic failure.

    And Argentina still thinks it has a claim?

    Risible.

    Apr 08th, 2021 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Think

    I don't Think so..., copper... ;-)

    Apr 08th, 2021 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse -2
  • FitzRoy

    So Think, what exactly do you think the focus will be on? How will your government make more of it than they usually do. Casting thinly-veiled hints is all well and good, but in truth, you don't actually have anything substantial to offer up, yourself, do you? It's not like your Minister for Foreign Affairs is constantly phoning you up and asking for your guidance, is it?
    So, please, for benefit of all here, what exactly are you hinting at? I know it's not the ICJ, I know it's not the UN and it certainly isn't invasion, so, please do, share your boundless knowledge.

    Apr 08th, 2021 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    Troll FitzRoy...

    As you would be aware..., if you had some awareness..., I do tend to keep my interacting with Anglo Turnips & Trolls down to a minimum...
    It could be contagious...:-(

    If you want to know..., inform yourself...
    If not..., keep trolling on the empty seas as usual...
    Paraphrasing some of your meaningless trolling from above...:
    ***“What a funny little troll Fitz Roy is.”***

    Capisce...?

    Apr 08th, 2021 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • FitzRoy

    Hardly a troll Think, and if I were I am hardly on the same level of “trollness” as you. So what you are actually saying, if I interpret your last, directed at me, is that you don't actually have anything to say? I am informed and am completely unaware of anything substantial that your debt-ridden government can do, or are willing to do. You purport to be some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing oracle and when we, the masses, hungry for the pearls of wisdom that drip from your keyboard, ask for guidance, we find you empty. Oh well.
    Capisce...?

    Apr 09th, 2021 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Pugol-H

    Well, what’s another year eh!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3XTj5G_SA

    Apr 10th, 2021 - 05:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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