Spanish intervention in Falklands War.

I found this article.

One of the Argentinian admirals who sent his country to war with Britain over the Falkland islands has admitted that he dispatched a team of saboteurs to sink a Royal Navy ship in Gibraltar.

Admiral Jorge Anaya, a former military junta member who commanded the Argentinian navy at the time of the war, said he expressly ordered the mission. It was foiled by Spanish police hours before the team planned to attach limpet mines to a British ship.

What if Anaya's plot had succeeded and a RN ship blew up in Gibraltar with evidence pointing towards Spain?
 
Didn't many in Spain and Italy sided with Argentina during the Falklands crisis, no doubt due to sentimental and cultural ties with Argentina?
 
Ok paussible or impossible scenario Maggie thatcher declares war in retaliation on both Spain and Argentina the junta sends more soldiers to Falklands and prepares air defences in buenos Aries while Spain prepares air and costal defences as well as moving there army to the border with Gibraltar the British send around 25,000 men to Gibraltar and 15,000 to falklands both argentina and Spain get there nuts kicked and are forced to pay war reparations
 
Spain was at the time in accession talks with the EEC about joining. I suspect they wouldnt have wanted them derailed.
 
The Spanish government isn't mad enough to authorise something like this, so at most they'd get cooperation from various Spaniards operating in a private capacity. If any of them were government officials (police, military, etc.) they'd be prosecuted and some compensation paid, otherwise the effect on UK-Spanish relations would be pretty trivial.
 

James G

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Ok paussible or impossible scenario Maggie thatcher declares war in retaliation on both Spain and Argentina the junta sends more soldiers to Falklands and prepares air defences in buenos Aries while Spain prepares air and costal defences as well as moving there army to the border with Gibraltar the British send around 25,000 men to Gibraltar and 15,000 to falklands both argentina and Spain get there nuts kicked and are forced to pay war reparations

Not plausible.
 
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