We would need to know how the United States got the Falklands in the first place.Would the U.S. have used diplomacy and try to appease the Argentineans?
Would the U.S. have used diplomacy and try to appease the Argentineans?
Perhaps it was traded to the US during WW2 or after as part-payment for USD loans?We would need to know how the United States got the Falklands in the first place.
I think you are probably right, so much so that is pretty much ASB to imagine the Argentine Junta invading a US possession!I would guess the US response would have been harsher than the British was. The US had a lot more naval assets they could send and wouldn't tolerate the military junta invading and occupying US territory.
We would need to know how the United States got the Falklands in the first place.
Didn't stop them from invading the Falklands in the first place. From what i understand, it was a desparate move by a junta trying to survive. I have no doubt if they thought the U.S. wouldn't react, they would have gone ahead with it. Alexander Haig flew around trying to negotiate over the Islands with various proposals to decide the status at a later date.Seems unlikely that an American client state would invade territory belonging to their patron / one of two super powers.
Seems unlikely that an American client state would invade territory belonging to their patron / one of two super powers.
Thatcher was a true hard case. Reagan was the U.S. President at the time, and had a killer rep, but Thatcher made him look like a cub scout.Britain hadn't fought a war since 1945?
Here's a quick search, even the Argentine armed forces would have heard about some of these:
Even that list ignores small disagreements such as the Corfu channel incident and many minor rucks in Asia, Africa and Belize...
- Malayan Emergency 1948–1960
- Korean War 1950–1953
- Mau Mau Uprising 1952–1960
- Cypriot Independence 1955–1959
- Suez Crisis 1956–1957
- Brunei Revolt 1962–1966
- Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation 1962-1966
- Dhofar Rebellion 1962–1975
- Aden Emergency 1963
- Operation Banner 1969 and still ongoing in 1982
regarding Thatcher, the Russians had dubbed her the iron lady as far back as 1976.
not exactly... Grenada had already been under a Soviet allied government without the US planning to invade them; Grenada wasn't a real threat to the US status quo. What changed was when the coup happened and the place was mostly a chaotic mess with no one really in charge... then the US took action, mainly because it was a golden opportunity to poke the USSR in the eye...You're talking about invading American territory and attacking the United States' citizens and assets... during the Reagan administration. Aka the same administration that gave such little fucks about international law that they invaded Grenada without hesitating because it threatened their status quo;