Milo, you might have noticed that I disagree with Penn.
As to Guam, there's a bit more to that than guano.
Likewise Puerto Rico.
Navaleye, I agree with your position.
FWIW, Clausewitz has a pithy little quote along the lines of
"In war, the outcome is never final" or "never finished" or something like that.
What's behind that
bon mot seems, to me, to be a restatement of the premise that war is a subset of politics. Following that thought, even if you think the battle, or war, is won, each morning thereafter some wag gets up and tries to get what he wants, via whatever scheming and skullduggery can be arranged in politics (also called the "art of the possible") via another means.
That looks like what Kirchner is doing, but I'll offer that she's trying a page from Sun Tzu's book.
"The acme of skill is to win the war without fighting."
She's trying to conquer the islands without having to put it to the test, as I suspect she understands that her team are probably not up to it.
I hope your PM understands what she's up to.