the cheese

like Brian Fitzpatrick replacing Mike Fitzpatrick

yeah exactly. And if you consider functionally- Whitehall was encouraging dependence on Argentina (YPF had the gas contract, the air link was LADE, the Spanish teachers in the schools were paid for by the Argentine government)

the irony of this of course was that if galtieri hadn’t invaded there’s a 50:50 chance (imo) the islands are Argentine today

no lie there was an entire exhibit about all of Britain’s crimes against Argentina going back to a Baring Brothers loan shortly after independence

if you go to the museum of the malvinas in Bs As that’s basically the argument it makes (or at least did when I visited in 2017)

This is also why Operation Algeciras (if it had been executed) would have been completely legitimate. It would not have mattered that the target vessel was moored in Gibraltar. It still is a warship and would have been a legitimate target!

the only body in Argentina which has consistently accepted the legitimacy of the Belgrano’s sinking is the Argentine Navy

Adm. Molina Pico (head of the naval staff in the 90s and commander of ARA Hercules in 1982) said that calling it a war crime insulted the memory of Belgrano’s sailors

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it’s also an indictment of the state of affairs today that an american ambassador publicly met with a convicted spy who did incalculable damage to american intelligence and we are supposed to be okay with it