UK pretends it still has a navy; "Right wot's all this then", says Admiralty

[Valmy]

What budget cuts? I see no budget cuts 

Just naval glory amiright? *sings 'Rule Britannia'*

Ok Marty maybe it is working.

[derspiess]

As much as I love the Argies, I also love seeing them get tweaked over their Falklands fixation.  Send more ships, plz.

[Richard Hakluyt]

They need to get a majority of the Falkland Islanders to want to be a part of Argentina, then they will get the islands. But everything they do seems designed to piss the Islanders off. Is it incompetence or are the Falklands just too convenient as a distraction  ?

[HVC]

They need to get a majority of the Falkland Islanders to want to be a part of Argentina, then they will get the islands. But everything they do seems designed to piss the Islanders off. Is it incompetence or are the Falklands just too convenient as a distraction  ?

all they have to do is bribe 3 of the 5 islanders and they're golden.

[Berkut]

They need to get a majority of the Falkland Islanders to want to be a part of Argentina, then they will get the islands. But everything they do seems designed to piss the Islanders off. Is it incompetence or are the Falklands just too convenient as a distraction  ?

But there is no way they can get the islanders to want to be part of Argentina, ever. Why would they?

I am convinced that the only reason Argenitna doesn't just give up on the Falklands altogether at this point is stubborn pride.

It's the same reason the US still has an embargo on Cuba. It doesn't make any sense, but nobody has the balls to just stop it.

[HVC]

They need to get a majority of the Falkland Islanders to want to be a part of Argentina, then they will get the islands. But everything they do seems designed to piss the Islanders off. Is it incompetence or are the Falklands just too convenient as a distraction  ?

But there is no way they can get the islanders to want to be part of Argentina, ever. Why would they?

I am convinced that the only reason Argenitna doesn't just give up on the Falklands altogether at this point is stubborn pride.

It's the same reason the US still has an embargo on Cuba. It doesn't make any sense, but nobody has the balls to just stop it.

Florida is to blame for the Cuba embargo, isn't it?


*edit* or to be more accurate, cubans living in florida.

[CountDeMoney]

It's the same reason the US still has an embargo on Cuba UK continues to stay in Ireland. It doesn't make any sense, but nobody has the balls to just stop it.

[Valmy]

It's the same reason the US still has an embargo on Cuba UK continues to stay in Ireland. It doesn't make any sense, but nobody has the balls to just stop it.

It is exactly the same reason: the locals do not want them to.

[CountDeMoney]

Florida is to blame for the Cuba embargo, isn't it?

*edit* or to be more accurate, cubans living in florida.

New Jersey, too.  And their Republican stooges.

[HVC]

it'd be better if the irish just learned their place. Every time they try to go at it alone they fail miserably. They should just accept the guiding hand of England and be happy with it.

[CountDeMoney]

it'd be better if the irish just learned their place. Every time they try to go at it alone they fail miserably. They should just accepting the guiding hand of England and be happy with it.

I saw your first post, faggit.  Nice try. 

Maybe the Argentinians should do the same thing, then:  infuse the Falklands with more Argies than Brits.

[HVC]

Florida is to blame for the Cuba embargo, isn't it?

*edit* or to be more accurate, cubans living in florida.

New Jersey, too.  And their Republican stooges.

There are cubans in Joisey? their boats get lost or something?

[HVC]

I saw your first post, faggit.  Nice try. 

curses

[Richard Hakluyt]

They need to get a majority of the Falkland Islanders to want to be a part of Argentina, then they will get the islands. But everything they do seems designed to piss the Islanders off. Is it incompetence or are the Falklands just too convenient as a distraction  ?

But there is no way they can get the islanders to want to be part of Argentina, ever. Why would they?

I am convinced that the only reason Argenitna doesn't just give up on the Falklands altogether at this point is stubborn pride.

It's the same reason the US still has an embargo on Cuba. It doesn't make any sense, but nobody has the balls to just stop it.

Britain was neglecting the Falklands and their population was falling before the war, that might have been a time for an Argentine charm offensive, subsidised ferry to the mainland, sweet trade deals...........that sort of thing. Instead that idiot Galtieri invaded to bolster his crummy regime; how he thought that Thatcher would put up with it eludes me.

[Admiral Yi]

Florida is to blame for the Cuba embargo, isn't it?


*edit* or to be more accurate, cubans living in florida.

I think it has more to do with absence of any moves in the direction of political freedom that the US can respond to.

Plus the fact that Cuba can't afford to buy anything we make.