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After beating England, Argentine football players waved a banner which said: "The Malvinas Islands (Falkland) belong to Argentina" (lemmy.zip)
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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Under the 25-year rule most govt docs are released at the National Archive and, counterintuitively, turns out Thatcher went above and beyond to prevent war, even offering to negotiate the future status of the islands. In their dictatorial vigour the Argentines declined to talk.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

.ml account

"I thought... something wildly misinformed, because capitalism!"

I'm utterly flabbergasted. FLABBERGASTED I SAY!

[–] yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/01/us-feared-falklands-war-documents?intcmp=122http

You do know the only reason Lemmy exists for you to freely speak on, is because of explicitly anticapitalist devs toiling to combat the gross shit for-profit digital platforms are doing? Just making sure.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

counterintuitively, turns out Thatcher went above and beyond to prevent war, even offering to negotiate the future status of the islands. In their dictatorial vigour the Argentines declined to talk.

It's incredible that if the dictatorship did nothing, they'd have the fucking islands by now. Same as china and Hong Kong, they didn't have to start installing puppets and be an asshole just yet, they could just have waited a bit more and the island would be 100% theirs with 0 controversy.