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pastro243 on 21 February 2010
Pyro as Bill said:
NJ5 said:
60 billion barrels of oil I heard... for that amount, I'm pretty sure the UK will wage war if necessary.

60Bln barrels doesn't mean shit compared to 3000 Brits.

 

 

Argentina should have it made very clear to them that if British soil is attacked again then Argentinian soil will be attacked in response. Maybe their leaders will be less likely to sabre rattle if the homeland was at threat. Perhaps Chile would like a little extra living room.


Our actual goverment would not accept that and probably just try to make argentina not do anything, there isnt a good image here on when we "betrayed" Argentina in their last fight with the British, only some adherents of Pinochet and antiargentinians here, which arent a mayority, liked the move and are proud of it, but intelligent people arent.

But, our new elected President is on the side that supported Pinochet, even though he says he isnt, but many people in his goverment did, so maybe then we could turn our backs on Argentina.

Anyway, to get territory from Argentina at this point would unbalance us, and it doesnt seem viable and we would surely turn it back in a few years, the only things we have with argentina now are some water deposits in which its not clear who is the owner, but that will surely not lead to a war anytime soon.

Anyway, people are talking about the region like if it was Iraq or something like that. A war would only bring bad things so I hope nothing will happen, and thats what it seems likely.



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halogamer1989 on 21 February 2010

Reading over this, I just had to mention that the US would really not be there in any major form if it hit the fan again. DEVGRU and MARSOC would likely be there but the ops would be covert. Unless of course it spills over into Chile.



gurglesletch on 21 February 2010
FootballFan said:
gurglesletch said:
FootballFan said:
gurglesletch said:
FootballFan said:
MrBubbles said:
argentina is a bitch country of spanish colonials that doesnt have any navy that can actually enforce their threats and has no logical claim on the islands.
i hope they start shit again and you guys give them hell.


If that did happen USA would be dragged into it.

US wasn't during the first incident.


Ye but since then US/UK bonds have developed somewhat. And considering we have sacraficed nearly 300 troops in Afganistan/Iraq over 8 years in your war we would expect US forces to be in support of the British.

Uh huh. So your saying that there were no bonds after WW2 and during the cold war? And somehow now they are stronger currently than they were during that time period?  

Obviously there were bonds. However i think that the relationship has turned into more of an alliance now than ever. I mean Britain is virtually an allie of Israel now lol

So it wasn't an alliance at all before the current day? The US isin't going to get involved in The UK's affairs against a country that is not even First world.




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SciFiBoy on 21 February 2010
gurglesletch said:
FootballFan said:
gurglesletch said:

Uh huh. So your saying that there were no bonds after WW2 and during the cold war? And somehow now they are stronger currently than they were during that time period?  

Obviously there were bonds. However i think that the relationship has turned into more of an alliance now than ever. I mean Britain is virtually an allie of Israel now lol

So it wasn't an alliance at all before the current day? The US isin't going to get involved in The UK's affairs against a country that is not even First world.

if only that was true the other way around, sadly our government lets the americans shit all over us and follows them into pointless wars in the middle east

OT: the Argentinians will probably back down when they realise that we wont.



Kasz216 on 23 February 2010

Interestingly it looks like the the America's council is backing up Argentina.

Well the new one that kicked out the US and Canada.



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SciFiBoy on 23 February 2010
Kasz216 said:
Interestingly it looks like the the America's council is backing up Argentina.

Well the new one that kicked out the US and Canada.

what does that mean though?

international law as I understand it says the Falklands are part of the UK and the waters also



FaRmLaNd on 23 February 2010

The British probably have the second strongest fleet in the world. This conflict would just be a huge waste of resources for Argentina.

They're lucky it isn't the Empire era anymore. Britain would have her way with Argentina if it was.

I hope no conflict springs from this however.



Kasz216 on 23 February 2010
SciFiBoy said:
Kasz216 said:
Interestingly it looks like the the America's council is backing up Argentina.

Well the new one that kicked out the US and Canada.

what does that mean though?

international law as I understand it says the Falklands are part of the UK and the waters also

It means that they see the Falklands as Argentina's i'd imagine if they're backing up Argentina's claims.

The UK has more then just Argentina it has to deal with if Argentina tries to pull anythng.   Pretty much everything Mexico and south of mexico.


Though, it's likely only going to be economic at worst... argentina has vowed to not attack.

Even if violence did break out the UK could take the entire central and south american regions.



SciFiBoy on 23 February 2010
Kasz216 said:
SciFiBoy said:
Kasz216 said:
Interestingly it looks like the the America's council is backing up Argentina.

Well the new one that kicked out the US and Canada.

what does that mean though?

international law as I understand it says the Falklands are part of the UK and the waters also

It means that they see the Falklands as Argentina's i'd imagine if they're backing up Argentina's claims.

The UK has more then just Argentina it has to deal with if Argentina tries to pull anythng.   Pretty much everything Mexico and south of mexico.


Though, it's likely only going to be economic at worst... argentina has vowed to not attack.

Even if violence did break out the UK could take the entire central and south american regions.

I think we should ignore them and drill anyway, what are they gonna do? we have the islanders and the law on our side.



megaman79 on 23 February 2010
SciFiBoy said:
Kasz216 said:
Interestingly it looks like the the America's council is backing up Argentina.

Well the new one that kicked out the US and Canada.

what does that mean though?

international law as I understand it says the Falklands are part of the UK and the waters also

It means America gets more oil through Argentina, than through Britain.



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