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US favors supplying Argentina with vintage F16s to counter Chinese influence and despite UK's objection
A leading US Navy think tank feels it is imperative for the US to pay close attention to the South Atlantic given China's growing trade, financial, investment influence in countries such as Argentina, and suggests a joint security cooperation investment with the UK, but especially overcoming an “outdated United Kingdom post-Falklands War security policy” Read full article
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Jan 02nd, 2023 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse -2The truth is that Argentina, or any other country, will never attack the Islands without the permission of all of South America, Southern Africa or the United States.
The Islands are safe!
Fine words “Brasileiro”, but Argentina can Never be trusted on Words alone as they have Broken so many promises before!
Jan 02nd, 2023 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Looks like the US is getting nervous about Chinese influence in the region,
Jan 02nd, 2023 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Why does Argentina want modern fighter planes?
Jan 03rd, 2023 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina is safe, no other country will risk to attack it, thus causing US wrath.
Who is Argentina going to attack?
“US Navy think tank…”
Jan 03rd, 2023 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is apparently an oxymoron. “The UK was forced to rely on the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to defend its South Atlantic territories”
There was never a reliance on NATO, as the Falklands is outside its remit.
The only thing “now limiting present-day military capabilities in the region.”
Is Argentine intransigence over her refusal to accept her own previously made promises.
'As late as 1886 the Secretary of State found it necessary to inform the Argentine Government that as “the resumption of actual occupation of the Falkland Islands by Great Britain in 1833 took place under a claim of title which had been previously asserted and maintained by that Government, it is not seen that the Monroe Doctrine, which has been invoked on the part of the Argentine Republic, has any application to the case. By the terms in which that principle of international conduct was announced, it was expressly excluded from retroactive operation.”
P.60 Sovereignty and the Falkland Islands Crisis D.W. Greig
“A State which has ceased to exercise any authority over a territory cannot, by purely verbal protestations, indefinitely maintain its title against another which for a sufficiently long time has effectively exercised the powers and fulfilled the duties of sovereignty in it.''(Theory and Reality in International Law, de Visscher, 1957, p201).
The Malvinas Islands are safe until they are ready to become part of Argentina.
Jan 05th, 2023 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or that the world decides it's necessary.
The inhabitants of the Falkland Islands will always be safe. Ever.
“Or that the world decides it's necessary.”
Jan 06th, 2023 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, self-determination is the trump card of the UN Charter
Sounds like the US Navy is all at sea, while the US army considers the issue correctly.
“...But, after critically reviewing the bases for Argentina’s claim to sovereignty, one must conclude that Argentina never developed definite title to the Islands. None of the bases argued by Argentina are conclusive in establishing sovereignty. Applying the rules concerning the mode of extinctive prescription to Great Britain's claim results in a different conclusion. Extinctive prescription involves possession, ... However, since this was such a long period of time, exceeding eighty years, one could conclude under general principles of international law that this was a sufficient period to extinguish Argentina's claim in spite of her diplomatic protests.
“Great Britain has acquired title to the Islands by extinctive prescription Argentina did not take advantage of the available international bodies for peaceful adjudication of the disputed title.
6. Comparison sf the Competing Claims of Argentina and GB
Regardless of the conclusion reached above, however, the establishment of the world courts changed the situation so that diplomatic protests were no longer sufficient to keep Argentina's claim to sovereignty alive.”
The Falklands (Malvinas) Islands: An International Law Analysis of the Dispute Between Argentina and Great Britain Major James Francis Gravelle
MILITARY LAW REVIEW CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES
Pamphlet NO. 27-100-107 HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY; Washington, D.C., Winter 1985
https://tjaglcspublic.army.mil/documents/27431/2250255/View+the+PDF/9f574121-93e6-4494-a347-89f4999c3bee
Given the Peronist's hostile attitude to the US and its allies, if the sale of these outdated planes goes through, they'll be fitted with kill switches...
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