Milei reaffirms Falklands claim as US-Argentina alignment deepens with State Department visit

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President Javier Milei reaffirmed on Friday Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falklands and said his government is “making unprecedented progress,” hours after the leak of an internal Pentagon memorandum that considers reviewing US diplomatic support for the United Kingdom over the archipelago as retaliation for London's refusal to join military operations against Iran. Read full article

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Steve Potts
Argentina's Falklands claim is based on what? Pray tell...
Apr 25th, 2026 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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Terence Hill
“Sovereignty is non-negotiable”

You're absolutely right about as “self-determination” is the irefutable binding international law.

”As late as 1886 the (US)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
Apr 25th, 2026 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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KikeUshuaia
Isn't that funny, history does keep repeating itself. Every time an Argentine President slips down the popularity ladder, they grab the Falklands as a tool, to climb up again...
Apr 25th, 2026 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Jack Jones
If i was Starmer i would tell Trump to keep his nose out of UK business and tell the Buenos Aires government fanatics to grow up.
Apr 25th, 2026 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Pugol-H
Not at all a fanatical government, by Argentinian standards.

However, Milei wouldn’t be Argentinian if he didn’t say something at this juncture.

Remember this is not something Trump has said, but a memorandum to Trump about ‘options available’ to him.

But it does show how the thinking is going inside this administration, clearly don’t know the difference between ‘allies’ and ‘vassal’ states.
Apr 26th, 2026 - 12:34 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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