Originally Posted by
denachtenmai
Bit disingenuous there hunterboy, seeing that the discovery has only just been announced,
Although, to be honest, it had been predicted.
Regards, Den.
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/self-governance/relationship-with-argentina/
And then there is the small matter of those who live there, were born there or know no other home than the Falklands/Malvinas. It is unlawful to make people stateless and the Kirchner administration's rhetoric, coupled with the actions of a previous Argentinian administration does not leave much to the imagination about the likely treatment of the Falkland Islanders under Argentinian rule.
The Falkland Islands Government has established self sufficiency for everything except defence and the Kirchner administration is doing all it can to destabilise that. In normal circumstances, that would be that - in time a more reasonable Argentinian Government would emerge and co-opertion could continue.
Unfortunately, we are in the midst of some quite extraordinary change - and change that Russia is playing a major hand in bringing about. Russian defence doctrine uses the stoking of of tensions as a means of warfare and I believe we will be seeing much more 'encouragement' being passed Argentina's way courtesy Mr Putin.
On the positive side - makes the case for some serious re-equipping much stronger - and with some of the new equipment on the horizon and better interoperability we may yet end up with something quite credible.