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Regarding trust in the local currency, yes. That's why, like or not, currency restrictions will have to last for decades. Regarding trust in banks, no, it doesn't have to be that way at all. As people age and younger people begin to enter the job market, the idea that puting your money in a...

And this explains why it will take up to 2050 for the problem to solve itself due demographic changes

Truth, but they may cause a bit of a panic and divert Allied resources to protect their shores

I'm not sure if the auto industry is currently shrinking - overall, there is a bit of industrial growth compared to 2019. In any case, the auto industry will be firing workers worldwide because of the transition to electric vehicles for the simple reason that pure electric vehicles have less...

Toyota successfully manufactures and exports SUVs from Argentina. A few kilometers away, other automakers (cof, cof, Fiat) only know to show up crying in media because the dollar is too low (no matter what's the actual price of the US dollar). But we should also remember Toyota doesn't...

The Roland, IIRC, couldn't fire to targets above 6,000 meters. So the next Black Bucks would have a Vulcan flying above that height. Had the Argentine Navy realized earlier that they would be putting the fleet at port, they may have left a Type 42 destroyer harbored at Stanley, and that destroy...

The attack on HMS Argonaut damaged its radar, and that was done by a single light attack/trainer. I think rather than trying to sink the ship or set it on fire, rockets are better suited to destroy the electronics and weapons above deck. If the ship floats, but no longer has its radar, its gun...

One Argentine Aermacchi MB-339 jet trainer attacked HMS Argonaut with rockets (causing light damage) and lived to tell the tale. So it was doable, but probably entailing a different set of risks than bombs

There is simply not enough to plan a good defense. In such a rush, all that can be accomplished is fixing the torpedoes (maybe), choosing to use unguided rockets to attack ships, send mountain troops to the islands (and they'll still have the same poor logistics planning), and maybe sending...

Pull a Red Storm Rising and assault from a seemingly innocent civilian cargo ship. It's a risky political move and likely to reduce whatever diplomatic support the Argentine government was expecting to get, so I don't think it would be attempted without hindsight. Even if the Junta rightly...

The relationships between Argentina and both the USSR and China were actually good, because diplomacy can be weird like that. That said, they are not going to war for Argentina, although it's in their interests to have the UK bleed as much as possible

Technically, British citizenship wasn't given to the islanders until after the war

Yes, I remember just that. He wanted to rule for twenty years. He couldn't accomplish four.

There is no precedent for that in Argentina. All dictatorships since Rosas were rather short lived. I don't think they'll negotiate or get anything other than an amnesty and to keep nice, cushy pensions. They may even try to run for office (Ongania tried in 1995!), but they wouldn't really get...

Absent the economic crisis, I'd agree. But with the economy as it was at that point (and as it was going to be through the rest of the decade), the dictatorship was going to fall no matter what. Nationalist fervor doesn't trump no money in your pockets. It would be a different democratic...

In retrospect, we know it would wait until '83 because that's when they handed over power (and by December '83, that is) even after the defeat in the war. They may have not believed that, though. But depending on Exocet shipments, they don't have to delay that much, specially if the invasion...

The Argentine dictatorship was arming the country a lot during their time, so yes, it would be missed. It's not really that much more, and it can be assumed it's being bought to use against Chile - or maybe Brazil regarding extending the range of the Air Force. Keep in mind this is the time in...

Oh, he wouldn't. But between potential infighting in Germany and the Western Allies, Stalin gets time for the USSR to lick it's (major) wounds while his enemies kill each other

It's not. It's that, per forum rules, evolutionary PODs go in ASB. That's really mostly because of threads like "WI dinosaurs didn't go extinct", "WI humans didn't evolve", "WI neanderthals survived", "WI an ebola outbreak happens in Belgium when the Germans invade in 1940", etc