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Trump’s ‘retribution’ could now include Falklands as favor to Milei – and revenge on the UK

Trump’s ‘retribution’ could now include Falklands as favor to Milei – and revenge on the UK

Donald Trump has long embraced vengeance. “I am your retribution,” he declared to an admiring audience at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as he commenced his march back to the White House.

It is unlikely Argentina, and far-flung holdovers of the former British empire, were on the US president’s mind at the time.

But the tide of international events in the past three and a half years have turned Trump’s vindictive mindset to the advantage of Javier Milei, the boisterous rightwing Argentinian president.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina, UK, USA

Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands

Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands

Donald Trump has suggested he is reconsidering US support for Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, in a move likely to strain the “special relationship” between Washington and London.

“I always review every position – that’s just one of many,” the US president told reporters in the White House, in response to a question about whether he was reviewing the US’s position over the South Atlantic islands, an archipelago whose status has long been disputed by Argentina, which claims sovereignty.

Officially, the US takes a neutral position on who has rightful sovereignty over the islands, which Britain first claimed in the late 17th century and has held almost continually since 1833. In practice, it recognizes British administration over the territory, which was the subject of an Argentinian invasion and subsequent military conflict with Britain in 1982.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina, UK, USA

The Falklands: Is Argentina About to Have Another Go?

The Falklands: Is Argentina About to Have Another Go?

Readers will be aware of the shenanigans after the World Cup football match when England lost to Argentina. A group of Argentine footballers held up a banner claiming the Malvinas are Argentinian. It would seem that our Argentine friends are still rather keen to snaffle the Falkland Islands from us. They tried this in 1982 and were pushed out. But much has changed since then and it seems that politically, diplomatically and, above all, militarily those changes have been in the Argentinians’ favour.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina, UK

The Falkland Islands are richer than Britain, but anxiety’s in the air

The Falkland Islands are richer than Britain, but anxiety’s in the air

Tony Scales was playing cards below deck with three friends — a game of Sergeant Major — when the announcement came over the loudspeaker: “Take cover!” He barely had time to react before the explosion ripped through the ship.

“It was like being inside a big flame,” he said, standing on a wind-blasted hillside looking over the bay where the RFA Sir Galahad was hit by Argentine jets on June 8, 1982. A total of 48 people were killed, including 32 Welsh Guardsmen, in one of the deadliest single incidents for British forces in the Falklands conflict.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina, UK, USA

Falklanders should go back to England, says Argentina’s vice-president

Falklanders should go back to England, says Argentina’s vice-president

Falkland islanders should go back to England, Argentina’s vice-president said after Buenos Aires renewed its claim to the British overseas territory.

Argentina’s claim to what it calls the Malvinas was boosted when Donald Trump threatened to review the official US position on the islands after the UK did not join his war on Iran.

Javier Milei, Argentina’s president and a close ally of Mr Trump, said last week that the “the Malvinas were, are and will always be Argentine”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina, NATO, UK, USA

How Milei’s chainsaw economics proved his Left-wing critics wrong

Maga has taken on a new meaning at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires.

It’s been more than a year since Javier Milei moved into Argentina’s presidential palace, sweeping to power in a landslide victory. The man who looks like Wolverine and thinks like a libertarian has also garnered the attention of the new leader of the free world.

Milei was the first world leader to shake Donald Trump’s hand when the Republican candidate enjoyed his own landslide win back in November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina

Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong

Argentina’s reforms prove it’s possible to slash a bloated state

Argentina has historically been a country of failed governments, economic collapses, and debt defaults. Yet incredibly there are signs that – against all the odds – the bold, free market reforms of its libertarian President Javier Milei are beginning to work.

With inflation falling, interest rates coming down, and the peso on fire in one market, Milei is already proving the global Left-wing economic establishment – addicted to bigger government and endless deficits – wrong. Indeed, it may provide a template for other countries to escape from zero growth.

Will Argentina finally catch a break? h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina

Javier Milei: Argentina’s far-right outsider wins presidential election

Argentines have elected far-right outsider Javier Milei, 53, as their new president.

With almost all votes counted, Mr Milei had won close to 56% in the decisive run-off, ahead of his left-wing rival, Sergio Massa, with 44%.

The radical newcomer’s victory has been described as “a political earthquake”.

It has been welcomed by like-minded politicians such as US ex-President Donald Trump, who said Mr Milei would “Make Argentina Great Again”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina

Tucker Carlson goes to Argentina — and shows us what it’s like to live in a country where the government can’t stop printing money

Argentina is a developed country, with an educated population, a huge middle class, and tremendous natural resources.

But when you look at it closely…you learn quickly why its nationals want to flee, and why anti-establishment “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei is leading in the polls and likely to win Argentina’s presidency come October.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inArgentina