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2015-03-25 Britain

Britain to spend 280mn pounds on renewing ~~Malvinas~~ Falklands defenses

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Argentina is engaged in the gratuitous military harassment of a nation that could turn Argentina into radioactive ash.

Why doesn't deterrence work for a nuclear UK when it is working for a nuclear Pakistam, a less nuclear North Korea and a pre-nuclear Iran?

If non-nuclear, rational Argentina isn't deterred today, will a nuclear and irrational Iran be deterred tomorrow?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-03-25 06:54|| 2015-03-25 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Argentina views the UK as a wimpy state that would never, ever consider using nukes to preserve control of the Mal-Falklands-vinas, and they're probably correct.

Iran would have to be blind, irrational and stupid to view Israel in that way.

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-25 08:01|| 2015-03-25 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The Brits have no choice. They'll get absolutely no assistance from the Champ regime this time around. If fact, I would not put it past the regime to goad the Argies on.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-25 08:08|| 2015-03-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 No nukes, but all bets are off next go around regarding tomahawk strikes on the Argentine mainland. There are enough missiles in the UK inventory to keep most of the Argentine population in the dark for an indefinite period.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-25 08:53|| 2015-03-25 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Falklands a tripwire and staging area against Iran's hegemony in the Western hemisphere and against Argentina's ambitions for a nuke program?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-03-25 09:30|| 2015-03-25 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Offshore oil?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-03-25 10:58|| 2015-03-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Sheep and toothfish fishing licenses.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-25 11:07|| 2015-03-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 More Vlad = Russia + LatAm News this AM ...

* GROONG > RUSSIA INTERESTED IN LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS' INTEGRATION WID EEU: FM LAVROV.

CELAC, UNASUR, Pacific Alliance, + MERCUSOR Blocs.

ARISE, OWG BRIC GIRL PAULA, ARISE, but FTLG stop kicking Daddy's coconut trees!

lol.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > RUSSIAN OFFICIAL PROPOSES 12,000-KILOMETER INTERCONTINENTAL HIGHWAY.

Ostensib to connect London + Moscow wid Alaska.

* SAME > SPEAKER OF RUSSIA'S UPPER HOUSE WANTS A "SILICON VALLEY" IN CRIMEA.

Reminds me of a famous scene from IIRC ROGER "JAMES BOND 007" MOORE'S "LIVING DAYLIGHTS" MOVIE, where a Top Soviet Party Boss teases a fellow Soviet Apparatchik = "ON THE CONTRARY, ... WHERE WOULD RUSSIAN/SOVIET RESEARCH-N-DEVELOPMENT BE WIDOUT IT[California's Silicon Valley]"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-25 22:52|| 2015-03-25 22:52|| Front Page Top

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