Argentina "invades Falklands" The british: "wait you can't do that." Argentina: "what you gonna do? Sail thousands of miles away from home and take the island back?"
Evan Wheeler on the empire as a whole perhaps, on Great Britain itself? The heartland of the empire, the most important part? Not yet and if it ever does it won't be by force of arms, whenever someone tries to destroy us and take our homeland we fight back and only get stronger for doing so
1IbramGaunt the empire has fallen because of the self centered viewpoint your country has chosen as a previous national interest. Like you said, the heartland is the most important part.
'What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realise that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget'. - Winston Churchill
The thing is that the British had already entered into negotiations with Argentina to sell the islands. But since the Argentine junta was unpopular, they thought that taking the island by force would distract the people from their social issues. Since the British had been willing to part with the islands, the Argentines didn't think they'd respond, underestimating how humiliating it would have been for the British to back down. Thatcher couldn't have avoided war, even if she wanted to.
@Bronze Spectre here in britian its soo overcast that setting foot off the isles is like leaving the womb. Oh my lord my eyes never knew the light outside was so powerful.
@@fabiospasiano9885 Argentina didn't kick anyone's ass lol, they invaded an island with almost no defences 😂 they didn't last long once an actual military force showed up.
@@fabiospasiano9885 Except wars are not football games and are not determined by a tallied score 🤦♂️ and you tell me to think before I type lol The Argentines had two major advantages in that they were already in much closer proximity to the islands (making it far easier to project power effectively), and in that they were the defending side by the time British forces arrived. As any idiot should know, it is generally much harder to take a fortified position than it is to defend it and typically results in the attacking side sustaining heavier casualties. Now imagine Argentina trying to invade the Falklands now that they are more adequately defended. Somehow I don't think that would turn out very well for them.
Fabio Spasiano Nearly 3 times as many argentines were killed than British, and they were DEFENDING, with AIR SUPPORT, and NAVAL SUPPORT. They didn’t even last a week, Argentina is weak and cowardly.
@@ramonmendoza8362 not your fault, you were under a terrible government who thought they could take on the fading British Empire, clearly they weren't smart enough to see how risky that move was, and sucks for them, and the people who lost their lives because they tried to jump the gun. We lost the US centuries ago, so we all win some and lose some.
@@OutspokenSeeker you are from UK? Yeah, in that time we were under that government of militarys, but as I learn in school... They invade us first and years later we tried to take back the islas malvinas(farklans) and a lot of kids of 18_20 have died
Thatcher mobilizing so much empire force is a good proof oil in the entrance of Antarctica should not be in the hands of 3rd wold countries sinking our modern T-42 HMS Sheffield destroyers in the hands of viet nam era A-4 Skyhawks dropping 500p bombs... Britainowns those islands for being the bully with the bigger gun, not by right,
Well, how did that one work out for the argies? The UK sent a single "Task Force" to address the war and wrapped up victory within two months. Thanks for playing...
Classical Music11, keep in mind, these were 16-18 year old kids who didn’t even know how to shoot with guns. they also had barley any food. of course they would surrender.
@@samjump9892 Argentina had air superiority for quite some time and the UK had to land troops on the island from another island. The USA would've had a harder time most likely
@Brütal Kush ∞ Brits took the land from Spain and Portugal. Edit: for the dipshits who don't know history, Google the Falklands Crisis of 1770. The Brits took the Falklands from Spain originally.
@ I mean compared to most animals sheeps don't have it too bad. They aren't factory farmed like chickens and cows. Still though, the much more important matter here was the war not the sheep. And this is comin' from a guy who loves animals.
“The Falkland Islands have just been invaded! I repeat, The Falklands have just been invaded! The disputed islands lie here, off the coast of Argentina.....” -Krusty The Clown
Chile served as a base for Britain. This and the Saltpeter War was why Chile is South America’s most hated country (at least by all its border neighbors)
The most stupid thing that my country did, our dictator did that just to distract our people from their missery, he wanted them to think that our country was great.. it was the last try for holding up his autoritarian regime. The thing that most hurt me is that 649 of our people got killed, most of them didn't even known what war was about, most of them were kids, my dad was one of them. In argentina we celebrate the Malvinas day to claim for out soberany over the islands, but I just only take that day to remeber those kids who were sent to the islands. I will never forget, when the war was over they took the wounded men and the remaining soldiers to Buenos Aires, but they took them in Buses with it windows covered in black. Most of then would comitte suicide because the mental issues that the war left on them. It was a war that shouldn't have happened
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Nice to see an argie that isnt brainwashed. Thanks.
@Thanks to you, it's true that most of our people feel hostility towards british people because of that war, and they don't even know the reasons and personal interests behined the war, here in Argentina we are blinded by nationalist propaganda that told us that the rest of the world are invasors and we are the only one who deserves to rule in south america, that causes a lot of violent conduct toward foreign people in our country... I guess foolish people are easy to cheat
Im a British National but I think we both agree that it was indeed a tragic waste of Argentinian and British lives. My brother was posted to the falklands as part of the R.A.F. a few years ago and he said it was very peaceful and quiet and that for him meant boring. He said they couldn’t operate on certain places because of active minefields left over from the Falklands war.
@@Mike-rd5cf yes there are still a lot of active mines, some places are dangerous there, I went to the Falklands 3 years ago and there are a lot of places that you can't go
@GamingTSC • No, he means Falklands. We claimed and named the islands before most south american nations existed. Falklanders had a referendum a few years ago and voted >98% to remain British so that's that.
@@colin-campbell it happened almost 40 years ago and the conflict was pretty tame in comparison to other cold war era engagements. get off your high horse
Argentina is the eighth biggest country in the world and Falkland Island is an expense for the government, you pay tax for penguins. Argentina does not need to defeat Great Britain, the English are being extinct as a people and culture, Argentina will remain Argentine, who is the real loser in history?
Yes I believe. 500,000 Britons depend on Food bank, there are more than 400 Food bank spread across the island. '' one in five Britons today are in relative or absolute poverty '' - The Trussell Trust. During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina overtook Canada and Australia in terms of total income and per capita income. At the beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was the 10th richest country in the world in terms of per capita. at that time, the expression "as rich as an Argentine" was common and frequently used by French aristocrats who tried to marry their daughters with Argentines.
Wow. They all really didn't think Britain would do anything about it. The entire world is like "Sucks to be them but that's the end of it." Meanwhile in Britain the country's like "So we're going to kick their arse yeah." "Oh, course, when are the boats setting off?"
Of course they thought that. Europe had spent that last few decades shitting on itself and giving up completely on all its colonies. And today, I bet you there are a few million, or even a few hundred million, "Brits" that would protest the government sending troops because muh imperialism.
I actually think those reports are what pushed Britain to do it. Reporters: "O Britain's not going to invade they are a bunch of sail shaggers." Britain: "Sail shaggers?! Damn, I guess we have to fight." If there is one thing the British won't stand for is being looked down upon. They will protect their tradition of turning their noses up at the world at any cost.
I'm Argentinian and even today there are a lot of Argentinian people who speaks in pain and broken pride and resentment about the islands when our government sells thousands of hectares for little money to companies from Europe and North America for different purposes in the south of the country. Some of the lands with natives inside who are later taken away by the new owners who places a fence and a flag, but then we cry for "islas Malvinas". Hypocrisy at its best.
Hi, I'm a Brit and the war was a great shame for both our countries, but your corrupt and dishonest government (at the time) caused it. Also, why do your Governments constantly bring up the Falkland Islands, to win elections? Best wishes from England
@@shaunmadden7324 National pride is a powerful tool that most governments around the world use to manipulate people for their purposes. Galtieri used the war as a distraction and he sent to war teenagers who didn't even know how to use a gun. When about to lose his power all his cards were loosing hands, winning an impossible war was his only possible hand to stay at the power. In other words he was an idiot who killed both Argentinians and British and destroyed the relationship between both countries for selfish purposes at the cost of many lives. Lesson. There is no merit on national pride, we don't choose were we are born. Some wars in history were probably needed, but most wars are just for the benefit of few people who sits at a safe distance while sending thousands to die mostly for money. No matter what they tell us, there is no honor in war.
Dean and the UK did it with about 20 or 25 fighters,without AEW , against the whole Argentine air force ,, they , the Brits fought the air war with radar pickets and air patrols.. but that's The , Royal Navy ..
Britain was helped by the US France and Chile, had better weapons and even asked the US if they could use Trident and go nuclear on continental Argentina when Margaret Thatcher thought Britain was losing the war.
Claire AwesomeSauce yes that's why Britain's gave up the islands (sarcasm). Look Britain isn't what it was but they presented this as if Britain had to give up cause it was so crippled. A few weeks later and Argentinean forces had surrendered and navy had already withdrawn. A few years later and the military junta collapsed.
cokpeotfg4 fcdck you aren't bankrupt as that guy says but you don't have the highest income. The average American or person from Luxembourg does in terms of wage PPP. Average Brit is number 15 at 42,000$ compared to American at 60,000. But you guys aren't bankrupt nor poor that guy is just trolling
+Vasting Lmao Look at GDP nominal per capita, not PPP. only losers use PPP, America GDP per capita is only $55,000. and 50 million Americans live in poverty according the the statistics 2017, Talking about the World's highest average income, UK is ranked number 2 behind Switzerland. s8.postimg.org/xb6htlo6d/4r4w3r5.jpg and London is the richest place in the world with highest GDP per capita at $162,200 money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/news/economy/london-rich-europe/
cokpeotfg4 fcdck well that's London. London isn't the entire U.K.. and what the fuck are you talking about? GDP per capita? Then you range from 25 according to the IMF, 21 to the world bank and 27 to the CIA. Your source is a shady ass link. Edit that source is so fucking retarded it doesn't even show Norway which way higher than the UK and the US. And so what if 50 million are in "poverty" (hint it's not poverty like you think) we still have the highest average income out of ANY large nation we're literally doing the best we possibly can it's fucking amazing that a country with 320 million people have an average income of 55k that's unheard of anywhere in the world
Falklands dispute exists: USA: "Whatever" "Falklands might be rich in offshore oil" USA: "As a guardian nation allow us to introduce some WiSdOm and ExPeRtiSe on this subject."
The US knew exactly what was in and around the Falklands/Malvinas as well as the British regarding Oil Reserves. They also had a mutual adversary in Argentina at the time. The US never provided any real public support to the British (in fact there was a ruse in place to project that the US wanted no part of it), but the US did provide an incredible amount of under-the-table assistance in the form of Satellite Imagery, Elint, Cryptography and a Submarine (Rumor has it Narwhal was the one) until the British Submarines HMS Spartan, HMS Splendid and HMS Conqueror came on station.
As Alexander Hague discovered and declared at the time "The British are perfectly reasonable people, until you try to kick them around" That was demonstrated very clearly within 10 weeks of the invasion.
I was in High School when this happened. We talked about it in my JROTC class and our Senior Instructor, a retired Colonel and WW2 vet, said: "Boys, if you think the Brits are going to just roll over and take this sitting down, you are sadly mistaken. They're going gather everything they can get their hands on, go down there and give the Argentinians a very hard lesson about British resolve."
Angela Kindness A lost conflict doesn’t mean the Brits just rolled over in the American Revolution. We pushed back and lost. Every country has losses. Take a look at Vietnam. As a British person it doesn’t annoy or humiliate me that we lost that war, I’m actually glad we did. Losing it was the right thing to happen, was immensely good for the world. Do you think Germans today wished the Nazis had won WW2 just so they could add another victory to the tally of German successes? No. Be prepared to lose bc it happens to everyone, and be proud when your losses are the right kind.
@@Cjnw Yes. George Washington defeated the British Empire singlehandedly. The world was astounded as _all of it_ watched from the sidelines while George Washington and his generals and admirals (many coincidentally having french names and commanding soldiers with similarly frenchish names) defeated the strongest empire in the world while that empire's powerful rivals nonsensically ignored a gleaming, golden opportunity. It's crazy how Washington was able to defeat an army and armada which only France and Spain had the strength to contend with. I suppose we'll all have to wonder forever how Britain lost to 13 colonies.
The British did not kick the Argentinians out of the Falklands 150 years ago. Aregintina was not even a country when the British took hold of it, it was Spain who controlled Argentine land at the time.
Britain discovered the island and colonized it in the 1600s, and it was entirely uninhabited at that point. No Spaniards, no Argentinians, nobody at all. Because of that fact, the Falklands aren’t even a colony. They are just as much a part of the U.K. as Scotland or Northern Ireland. They are 100% British.
@@a.morphous66 actually there was a french colony before that, then they sold it to the spanish. Later argentins colonised part of the islands after which brittain expelled them. It's just a google search away my dude
Al Gilmore well at first the US was far more sympathetic to the Argentine cause, this just shows that clearly, they came round to our side of it eventually though
La Dictadura argetina prestaba apoyo a los EE.UU. en AMérica Central, instruyendo a la CONTRA nicaragÜese. Por eso un sector del Departamento de Estado estaba a favor de la Argentina y otro (el más influyente) del Reino Unido.
"The Powers of the Big Powers isn't what it used to be" mmmm I wonder if he regretted saying that when the Islands were restored to British Sovereignty?
The very fact that a small power dares and successfully invades an island belonging to a Big Power says it all. 100 years earlier no other small or medium power would have dared to do that to Great Britain.
Actually Galtieri seems to have been pushed by the mob, after all...they went i a few months too soon! Also they thought we were not interested and at that time they were under the delusion America would be on their side.
TheNighthawk00 true but that's just the way the world works and Britain had weakened considerably in that hundred years, mostly due to economic and social issues but also due to the cost of two enormous world wars, and in particular the cost of the American lend-lease of equipment and supplies. If it wasn't for that war not only would we have continued weakening and lost not only the Falklands but likely ALL our overseas territories we'd have effectively become completely at the rest of the world's mercy militarily, so thank God for the haste and stupidity of the Argentine Military Junta, you in effect and completely inadvertantly, saved Britain!
TheNighthawk00 that war acted as a wake-up call, a slap in the face, a rallying cry and it was just what we needed at just the right time. Now Britain is strong enough to actually leave the European Union and go it's own way again and have a military capable of taking on that of anyone in the world save the US, it's strongest ally who unlike back then actually treats us with begrudging respect. None of that could have happened without the Falklands War
The sub commander never asked permission to fire. He fired under the discretion he had for "targets of opportunity". Whether the admiralty and Thatcher would have given permission is not yet known, but Thatcher very much supported the fait accompli once she knew.
Ik its a joke but we still own Hong Kong south sandwitch islands parts of Cyprus and British Indian Ocean territories. We don't own hong Kong but i love hong Kongers fighting for freedom like the whites!!!!
Jezza u are a fking ignorant!! 1. Chile helped England with this was by telling them locations of argies airplane ... why did Chile do that cuz argies were planing to attack the patagonia 2. Argentina had a an idiotic dictador... that some say the USA helped to put him on the power. 3. Young kida of age 16-20 figthed in that war..... and yh my english is trash
@@rodesnavel7419 Because nothing says winning like losing your entire navy and having your much larger military defeated by just a handful of commandos
@@JazzCity132 some years ago the system changed to a neural network. This system learns from your previous elections (and everyone's) to change your recommendations. If you are interested, there are some videos explaining it
What Margaret Thatcher said: "We will reclaim the Falkland Islands as British territory!" What Margaret Thatcher thought: *yo I'mma get unlimited penguin snuggles*
Argentine president: A glorius day for Argentina! We've finally managed to beat the imperialist power Great Britain and managed to secure the Falkla... What do you mean they've retaken it?
@@thecatalanman9743 2 meses y 12 dias duró, pedazo de ignorante. Y eso sin ampliar los que succedio 60 años antes cuando ellos empezaron los confictos.
Have to laugh at the comments of the media back then. Yeah we would just leave british citizens with an occupying force without any repercussions for that force. Sheer arrogance and disrespect from the US.
Yep. Agree Russia told Argentina we would never retaliate. America thought we wouldn't and proceeded with their Argentina plan. These guys need to study history. We are ALWAYS up for a fight. It's our default position. Even though we try very hard for peace. The day I knew we were going into kuwait was the day Saddam Hussein put British child hostages on TV. That was the point the UK/US meeting changed from, 'Now hold on a minute Yanks, let's think this through', to 'We' re going in with or without you, you coming? '
Andrew Taylor tbf the American media doesn’t know much about anything, especially war. They expect us and others to do nothing when an inferior aggressor attacks
The Americans really stuck it to the British. Almost joyful at what they thought wold be British humiliation. And not caring that 2000 British descended people would have to live under the Argentinian junta. Also it was really lying deceitful reporting in saying the British had expelled the Argentinians from the islands 150 years before. Argentina didn't exist back then, it was a Spanish colony and Britain and Spain had competing colonial claims to the islands. The British kicked out two, two, Spaniards. Hardly kicking out the Argentinians like we'd kicked out some native population. No Indians were living there. How can Argentina be claiming it "back". Their only claim is Spain's colonial claim. Pretty simplistic and deceitful reporting by the Americans. I guess it's true, there are no friends only interests.
Ingur Lund in the end the US supplied some weaponry to help with the invasion. I think the government just under estimated how much it meant to the UK at first
F. OPE nope they didn't, and wouldn't until well after the British had already settled them and established their own small town there. The mixed-bag of recently freed South American former colonies that would one day BECOME Argentina did hold sway over the islands briefly but this was actually overthrown by American- not British, North American pirates and in turn restored to the crown when the Royal Navy went down to sort out the mess
What gets me, even after all this time, is the smug superiority of these American reporters. Churchill said it best: "What kind of people do they think we are?" Well, they soon found out what kind. And so did the Argentine junta.
oh please Britain was America's bitch with all the money you guys owed us from the supplies we sold to you in order to push Germany away from entering Britain. that the reason why you guys lost most of your colonies
Britain lost its empire, and that was no bad thing, but it is good to have an American acknowledge the totally soulless self-interest of the United States, to rape the utmost profits from a war fought to preserve the democracy Americans like to lecture the rest of the world about, and in the process remorselessly to impoverish a friend.
@@MlokLik look children I found the Brain dead American, One day America will bow down to China and Europe and be broken apart for being a plaque on the world since its inception, you think that you will be able to roll over all of the New World in a matter of months , you keep Europe restrained with NATO, your president has the competence of Benito Mussolini and you try to destroy Russia's claims to its rightful land. Do everyone a favour and go back into isolation
Honestly it's Europe who's bowing down to the Middle east, not us bowing to China. Could give a fuck less about China. for me, they're should be our trading partners to dominate this shithole together. But since they don't wanna cope the earth we might aswell blow it to shit aswell am i right hahaha And where are YOU from? you seem inbred, mister =)
At the age of 19yrs I landed on the Falklands. At 57yrs I still re-live certain things that happened but I thought then and think now that we were right to defend ourselves and people depending on us. Stayed in the army until 1994 and saw more action but I still regard this as the last of the mud-thumper wars. Will never forget the day the white flag went up. As for the sun setting on the corner of the empire, typical American opinionated and incorrect reporting (most of their politicians were pro Argentina at the time). Have met one Argintinian who served there at the time, in the mid nineties, and we got on pretty well, as most soldiers do when the metal stops hitting the meat.
My grandfather also fought in the Falklands as a paratrooper. Based on my opinion (and research) it was one of those pointless wars that should have never resulted in deaths. Should state that I don't blame the soldiers for it.
@stairwaytoheaven321 I think that you might have a point about America's media - maybe still have the DNA of the War of independence in them. That said, President Reagan was such a friend to Britain. He gave British Sea Harriers unlimited sidewinder missiles, and was ready to loan an aircraft carrier - had one of Britain's been sunk.
I am not British , I am a French citizen of South Asian descent but I promise that this made me patriotic towards the British... No dear America, untill the day you will speak English, sun will always be shining in Britannica ! God bless the British (and teach them how to cook better food)
British food is pretty good Just cuz it's all similar doesn't make it bad Also, France is a culinary kitchen, britian is not so making that comparison is like comparing MacDonalds with a 4 star restaurant The first is okay and pretty good but the second one is a WAY better choice
m0ng just typing fast it's the internet I'm not handing in an essay ha I'm aware it's know I also know the difference between there their and they're, we, and we're.. my grammar is fine just don't feel like proof reading myself when writing a comment on RUclips haha .. I'm not arguing btw just saying :)
Klown On Islam The remaining Semite faction, (the Arabs) along with the Persians were miffed about not having a their revelation as had Judaism and Christianity. So they saw in Muhammad a saviour. He was an illiterate, depraved by adultery and seeking solace retired to seclusion on the mountain where he was supposedly handed the word of god by Gabriel. He was first taken seriously at the temple in Mecca, by its greedy guardians who viewed him as a threat to their pilgrimage business. Then by the Jews of Yathrib (Medina) who were more friendly as they had been professing the coming of a messiah, though later were disappointed in his claims. It eventually fell to the differing Arab (again unread) tribes to support him. The divine struggle through war, only took them as far as the Balkans and Med. Islam requires complete submission from its followers and non followers alike, yet nothing in its teachings could justify such arrogance. The history of Muhammad was set out 120 yrs after his death by one individual, the original text being lost. The exception being one recent discovery, carbon dating possibly placing it to around 20yrs after the prophet, though denied by Muslim academics. The schism between Shia and Sunni came before Islam had even developed a system as Muhammad left no heir apparent even though he was a prolific father, a general and politician. The caliphs arguing over who should take the mantle, provide evidence to the assumption that the faith is man made. As is the assertion that soon after Muhammad had died and many Sunnis had perished in the fighting, that anyone who could remember anything of the aural teachings were gathered together, as was any material that had fragments and sayings recorded on, to compile one complete document. Other's believe it was compiled later by the fourth caliph not the first, founder of Shiism. The majority of Sunnis regard another caliph who reigned from 644-656 to have compiled the definitive version from differing versions of the text, then destroying any other rival versions. This was an act of vanity outdoing what was done in Alexandria to censor the Christian Bible. Arabic text wasn't even standardised until the latter part of the 9th century. Then there's the Hadith, conveying the sayings of the companions of the prophet and actions of Muhammad, which is passed down aurally and must be supported by the testament of purportedly reliable witnesses, a told b who heard it from c, etc. Most of the Hadith has been shown to be taken from the gospels, bits of the Torah, Indian proverbs, Persian maxims, Greek philosophy, and even a nearly word for word reproduction of the Lord's Prayer, essentially rendering the Hadith plagiarism at best. This all makes it difficult for scholars to determine or even dispute what happened in Mohammed's time. Islam has been shown to be built on the backs of previous beliefs, religion, philosophy and doctrine. Allah himself is professed as being a monoglot as the only true revelation is in Arabic (although there is evidence that Aramaic and Syriac were also used in the first manuscripts, Semitic languages also employed throughout early Judaism and Christianity) therefore inaccessible to the uneducated, i.e. the masses, then later others that had no knowledge of Arabic. To have to learn another language to fully comprehend the revelation seems strange as it's supposed to be for all. Therefore interpretation since and currently has been controlled by the elite. Unlike the other monotheistic faiths, there has been no reformation in Islam and even suggestion of attempting to do so is met with dismissal, suppression or worse. Islam is considered to be a new faith, yet the final revelation and true word of god. The so called toleration of people of other faiths is present in Islam as with the other major religions. Although within the Hadith is the rule that other sins can be forgiven at Allah's discretion, whereas the sin of not following him is unforgivable, a rule Obviously borrowed from the Ten Commandments. The unrivalled honour for martyrdom is also deplorable, as it invites violence in the name of god. What is more likely that a man is chosen to be a transmitter by god to relay already existing revelations, or to utter some existing revelations and claim they are from god? Once again because of the supposed duty of the faithful to the scriptures (common among all religions), faith stymies the chance of free inquiry and the emancipation that it brings.
Yes, I also remember the US govt sending emissaries to talk Prime Minister Thatcher out of taking its territories back! Yeah, like if the same happened to USA, they wouldnt do similar, at the very least. I also remember our Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon of Nz, at the time sending two Royal Nz Navy Frigates to assist British forces, which took over their Atlantic patrols so Royal Navy could involve the bulk of their forces there. No other British commonwealth country or ally did so, by the way
You love sticking your nose around every corner of the world don't you, you don't give Ireland the six countries back you don't give Argentinia Falklands Spain Gibraltar and so much more just accept that your empire failed and your prime minister is an old twat btw, either*
@@theyoutubeguy1 salty? Lol. I think the only person that is salty here is you and the commenter butt hurt that the sun set on your shitty empire and trying to pathetically hold onto it, glad Ireland passed you in GDP Per capita
Reagan could have said this was a cold attack on NATO. His Secretary of State did try flyover diplomacy for a couple weeks however there was no solution before the UK forces were close enough to attack.
@@specialunit0428 No. First France set foot, then Spain set foot and then Argentina took it after they declared independence from Spain. And then Great Britain took it.
He did what just about every dictator does. Hitler invaded poland, Austria, and Czechaslavakia, Sadam invaded Kuwait, and Mussolini invaded Egypt and Greece.
We didn't expel settlers from the Falklands (and the settlers came from the area which LATER became Argentina), they left because they couldn't make things work on the islands. British settlers came later.
The US: "The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire" The Iron Lady: "Hold my tea dear, its time to teach the colonies a lesson" Disclaimer: I dont really like Margret Thatcher, but standing up for the people of the Falklands and Britains territorial rights is one of the most impressive things any British PM has done since Churchill. Not a Brit by the way.
@@harveycrook5365 the exclusion zone was a marker for commercial shipping any combatant ship under UN law cna be legally sunk during a time of conlifct
Fascinating view into the psyche of the Americans: 1: ‘Argentina recovered The Falklands’, Argentina never owned the islands and didn’t exist at the time. 2: Their extremely premature gloating at a close ally was shocking indeed. 3: finally, this look into their minds displays worrying lack of empathy or understanding of basic geopolitics, when Japan attacked Hawaii the USA went berserk (having ignored British warnings) yet seemed happy to take the Argentinian side. What with Obama and his ‘back of the queue’ crack, I think it may be time to re-assess exactly who our friends are.
who our friends are? the US only cares about the US. they are NOT and NEVER will be friends with anyone but themselves and they've proven that many times over
@@policero7371 US are members of NATO. Nobody in the NATO members nations (including Canada) is fool enough to believe US are there friend. We live in reality, not in our dreams.
So Argentina, invaded an Island. Turned Stanley into a filthy mess, used illegal scrapping methods to put Marines on South Georgia, took many losses against Royal Marine detachments on initial landings at South Georgia and Falklands despite major numeric and armour advantage subsequently censored from history, had help from the Soviet Union, South American states, France & Israel, the BBC (who gave away the British Paratroopers positions) and traitor Labour politician (who said the British were listening to Argentine codes), planted thousands upon thousands of landmines still plaguing the island, and couldn't be bothered to collect their own brave souls so the British had to ferry the Argentine POWs home!
Alan Patey they stabbed you in the back at Suez because you were strong at the time. You still had an empire in Africa, some of the Americas like belize, a bit of Asia and the Caribbean. You had only lost India nine years before. They did not stab you in the back in the Falklands because they thought you were week. All you had then was Belize, Bermuda and Hong Kong.
@@garrysutters1835 everyone thought the UK was weak, it had been in a state of embarrassment ever since Suez, where the US president literally forced the UK to ransom... and as for the colonial territories, he is correct, Hong Kong, some Caribbean islands, and pieces here and there elsewhere were still under British rule, New Zealand would actually become truly independent just after the Falkland Conflict. and as for Reagan, he might not have stabbed us in the back, but he certainly wasnt perfect... even in this video, the call between him and the leader of Argentina has the quote "i'll do anything i can to help"- he stabbed them in the back, and shows us he is just there for the interests of the USAs anti-communism crusade by making it seem they'll try to help Argentina. Take a look at his actions in the Bangladesh Independence war, where he purposely ignored Pakistani genocides and even offered weapons to Pakistan against Bangladesh, who had been ignored and then ruined by Pakistan.
That idiot didn't speak for all of us. I was 15 when that happened, and I knew the UK would not sit down and allow that. I told my older half brothers, "Just wait. The Brits will gather every man and ship they can find, and head South. They won't come back until the Falklands are theirs again." They laughed in my face. But that didn't last long! When that fleet sailed, they were shocked. They honestly thought the Brits would do nothing. Just like these dip💩 reporters. 🙄
@@smc1942 TBH, the fleet was pretty much every ship we had. Had we been facing a professional army with air support that had more than half a dozen exocets, we'd have lost.
@@daviddavies3637 ; I know it was no easy task. Max Hastings wrote an excellent book about it; which I read twenty odd years ago. Such is war! But it also comes down to the quality and spirit of those doing the fighting. Against that Junta, I'd bet on the UK every time. No offense to the good people of Argentina. Most of whom despised that regime too. They thought they could distract the people from their litany of failures with an illegal land grab. All they did was get a lot of good people killed. The Junta should have been hanged for Crimes Against Humanity. SMH.
For some reason, I always thought my dad fought in a 'war' that wasn't big or important because he always plays it down. But seeing this, it ade me so proud of him.
@@marcosrecio4062 Luckily for him he was 16 when he signed up for the Navy and didn't shoot at a single person. The only teenagers he saw die were the British ones that were on his ship.
“To protect the island’s 1,800 residents and 600,000 sheep”
@King Richard the Lionheart And tons of maritime resources
And the puffins
@@facupiri2988 It has been said in the video that the falklanders are from british descent
@King Richard the Lionheart Malvinas Argentinas
@King Richard the Lionheart Jajajaj = Hahahah
Ok bye, keep arguing.
Edit:
*SERIOUSLY, IF YOU SPEAK SPANISH IGNORE THIS COMMENT. I'M JUST TRANSLATING.*
I remember when this happened. I cried and vomited and crapped my pants when this came on the tv. I was 1 years old.
Why? lol
@@andre-li7qo he was 1 year old
Briranico pelotudo desde pequeño
@@facupiri2988 your mom is mine
Shidded and fardded
The Empire Strikes Back.
I've been scrolling for 15mins
And this is the best damned comment here
*Sips tea*
Good job
"The Empire" with USA, NATO, ONU, URSS and CHILE
@Atomic "The Empire" with USA, NATO, ONU, URSS and CHILE
Poli Cero your military is shit. Face it.
@Green Cloud fake news
Argentina "invades Falklands"
The british: "wait you can't do that."
Argentina: "what you gonna do? Sail thousands of miles away from home and take the island back?"
And being beaten up?
@@fabiospasiano9885 ?
The British won. They still own the Falklands as an overseas territory bruh
@@fabiospasiano9885 You really are a Spasiano.
Gooner Man ok boomer
Yeah it didnt work the first time so dont be expecting for another
American - The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire.
UK - Hold my beer.
Jonathan E
Argentina " I'm pretty sure if I steal this they won't do anything "
UK "Britannia rules the waves earrape"
The sun has set long ago my friend.
Massively underated comment. A little comic gem.
Evan Wheeler on the empire as a whole perhaps, on Great Britain itself? The heartland of the empire, the most important part? Not yet and if it ever does it won't be by force of arms, whenever someone tries to destroy us and take our homeland we fight back and only get stronger for doing so
1IbramGaunt the empire has fallen because of the self centered viewpoint your country has chosen as a previous national interest. Like you said, the heartland is the most important part.
"Britain's most viable and perhaps only option, is diplomacy"
*Laughs in anglo*
Rowan *Suddenly everyone with even a milliliter of Anglo blood starts laughing uncontrollably*
Rowan what's the point of a military if not offensive or defensive purposes?
Jacob Macaree exactly my boy
kabob 007 don’t know what you mean blud
'What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible that they do not realise that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget'. - Winston Churchill
The media actually thought that Britain would just let them take it.
Belarus-chan the British government will never give up its imperialism
The thing is that the British had already entered into negotiations with Argentina to sell the islands. But since the Argentine junta was unpopular, they thought that taking the island by force would distract the people from their social issues. Since the British had been willing to part with the islands, the Argentines didn't think they'd respond, underestimating how humiliating it would have been for the British to back down. Thatcher couldn't have avoided war, even if she wanted to.
Belarus-chan I love you and Lukashenko 💝❤️💜
Belarus-chan какая красивая Белоруссия, о какая красивая БелорусСИЯ!!
Красная Армия- Вперёд! Yeah, whatever he said! In Russian!
Reporter: "The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire."
Britain: Laughs at the sun's inability to set.
@Bronze Spectre here in britian its soo overcast that setting foot off the isles is like leaving the womb. Oh my lord my eyes never knew the light outside was so powerful.
This aged so poorly.
@@notarmchairhistorian7779 why lol nothing has happened since then
Didn’t the British empire end right after ww2 anyway
Reality check: The sun stays put. The earth moves up and down. Cheers 😅
The media: What will the UK do?
The UK: So anyways I started blasting
Thank God I had my pieces
Lol
So funy haha
I don't think one would have done it.
Best comment on here!
"Let them have the islands?"
"No"
"Okay here are some weapons"
Alaskafish that’s from that Falklands vid.
Theo There are a lot of Falklands vids.
Dat Fishe Boi alright smart arse. He said the same thing as the guy in a video called Falklands oversimplified. 🙄
Theo I know, it was a good video. I just like being a smartass.
Dat Fishe Boi haha fair enough
“Britain’s most viable and perhaps only weapon is diplomacy”
Britain: _observe_
Britain: We got them since the first half, but they kicked my ass meanwhile...
@@fabiospasiano9885 Argentina didn't kick anyone's ass lol, they invaded an island with almost no defences 😂 they didn't last long once an actual military force showed up.
Cabbage Boi lol, if you look at the victims of that war you can see that UK lost almost same men of Argentine, lol, think before write, lol
@@fabiospasiano9885 Except wars are not football games and are not determined by a tallied score 🤦♂️ and you tell me to think before I type lol
The Argentines had two major advantages in that they were already in much closer proximity to the islands (making it far easier to project power effectively), and in that they were the defending side by the time British forces arrived. As any idiot should know, it is generally much harder to take a fortified position than it is to defend it and typically results in the attacking side sustaining heavier casualties. Now imagine Argentina trying to invade the Falklands now that they are more adequately defended. Somehow I don't think that would turn out very well for them.
Fabio Spasiano Nearly 3 times as many argentines were killed than British, and they were DEFENDING, with AIR SUPPORT, and NAVAL SUPPORT. They didn’t even last a week, Argentina is weak and cowardly.
“Britain’s only viable weapon is diplomacy”
Britain: *diplomatic sea harriers*
diplomatic carrier
Diplomatic SAS
War is a form of diplomacy
@@Mjkhh r/whoooooosh
Keledran Von Sebottendorff I was adding to the joke you reddit loser
Argentina: the British won't do anything
Britain: Bravo 6 - going dark.
looooooool
COD
As argentinian I must say... Good bye, captain price
I just remember we lost :'c
@@ramonmendoza8362 not your fault, you were under a terrible government who thought they could take on the fading British Empire, clearly they weren't smart enough to see how risky that move was, and sucks for them, and the people who lost their lives because they tried to jump the gun. We lost the US centuries ago, so we all win some and lose some.
@@OutspokenSeeker you are from UK? Yeah, in that time we were under that government of militarys, but as I learn in school... They invade us first and years later we tried to take back the islas malvinas(farklans) and a lot of kids of 18_20 have died
"The sun has set on another part of the British Empire..."
Famous last words.
British "Empire"
@@jrelvas4676 that doesn't remove the fact that britain lost its empire
@@ledesmagabriel7104 You guys do realise that the Sun still never sets on the British Empire?
@@policero7371 lol
@@north1275 it set already many years ago thanks to nazi Germany
"Hello. I am Argentina and this is Jackass".
lol
Comment of the week
Dude, I Made a comic that said just that
Fat Argentina are you really the fat Argentina from 9gag?
Keima Karatsugi
Indeed comrade
Reporter: "Britain's most viable - and perhaps only - weapon is diplomacy."
Margaret Thatcher: *laughs in Empire*
Seriously, what were they thinking with Thatcher and Reagan in power?
Thatcher mobilizing so much empire force is a good proof oil in the entrance of Antarctica should not be in the hands of 3rd wold countries sinking our modern T-42 HMS Sheffield destroyers in the hands of viet nam era A-4 Skyhawks dropping 500p bombs... Britainowns those islands for being the bully with the bigger gun, not by right,
@@misterasterisco5217
Pathetic argument - We had the might and the right. Falkland Islands are older than Argentina.
"The sun has set..." Wow, that was premature.
MDFlorida it's common for his kind.
Premature everything...
;)
+Ravage Gonza What's that supposed to mean?
m0ng sex joke
The sun sets only to rise again
The night was short
God bless those 600 000 sheep
Sayno 2badblow and even more penguins, don't forget the penguins lol
Now if only we could arm the sheep and penguins!
sanyo, yeah, and the gas, oil and fish stocks.
C439672-D what so we could establish the Shaun-Pingu
Imperium lol
Sayno 2badblow Brave, brave sheep...
"The sun has set on another part of the British empire"
"Their only weapon is diplomacy"
**ques grandstand theme**
Someone has to make this.
done
Master Brew!!!
nah, english eccentric for life
first i need to make it
“Britain’s strongest weapon is diplomacy.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
[cut to underwater footage of a nuclear submarine with "HMS Diplomacy" emblazoned on the side]
@@Treblaine knowing the fact what was the name of British ships sent to America during war of independence... I wouldn't be surprised.
YOU HAVE REASON, DUPLOMACY IS THE WAY
british colonisers rocking up to countries like ‘excuse me sire may i take your land?’
@hmm mm now China is flooding Britain with white coke
Well, how did that one work out for the argies? The UK sent a single "Task Force" to address the war and wrapped up victory within two months. Thanks for playing...
Classical Music11, keep in mind, these were 16-18 year old kids who didn’t even know how to shoot with guns. they also had barley any food. of course they would surrender.
2 months?! Lmmfao,did they have to finish their tea and brush those fucked up teeth before they went to war? US would have wrapped it up in 2 days
@@samjump9892 Argentina had air superiority for quite some time and the UK had to land troops on the island from another island. The USA would've had a harder time most likely
@Brütal Kush ∞ Brits took the land from Spain and Portugal.
Edit: for the dipshits who don't know history, Google the Falklands Crisis of 1770. The Brits took the Falklands from Spain originally.
@Brütal Kush ∞ which nation do you think I'm from lol
Diplomatically. LOL. Didn’t know Maggie very well
She needed a war to revive her approval rating.
yeah same as Galtieri (and all the military dictatorship of that time in ARG). Anyway.. Thanks Brits for giving the decisive blow to that bloody Junta
Daniel Rodriguez Are you Argentine?
@@tomh4754 Yes, he is.
@@2x2leax No, he is. He is another marxist globalist.
“To protect the Island’s 1800 residents”
Eh no big deal
“And more than 600,000 sheep”
*Now You Have Gone Too Far*
To protect them so they can pack them all together without space and exploiting them like the son of a bitch of @1:46 does. :/
Lau taro found the vegan
@ I mean compared to most animals sheeps don't have it too bad. They aren't factory farmed like chickens and cows. Still though, the much more important matter here was the war not the sheep. And this is comin' from a guy who loves animals.
The Welsh have entered the chat
Welsh soldiers got really angry there
“The Falkland Islands have just been invaded! I repeat, The Falklands have just been invaded! The disputed islands lie here, off the coast of Argentina.....”
-Krusty The Clown
Lol watching that vid caused this one to show up in my feed.
@@StNick119 same
StNick119 that’s the comment I was looking for. Heading to another video now
Simpsons reference
Argentina: they can’t stop us with a whole ocean in the wa-
Britain: *rule Britannia Britannia rules the waves*
funny
Cerra el orto, los chilenos los ayudaron
¿Who would win? Some Argentina bois vs *tHE ROYAL NAVY*
@@relojitosuizo8460 Are you talking to me?
Chile served as a base for Britain. This and the Saltpeter War was why Chile is South America’s most hated country (at least by all its border neighbors)
The most stupid thing that my country did, our dictator did that just to distract our people from their missery, he wanted them to think that our country was great.. it was the last try for holding up his autoritarian regime. The thing that most hurt me is that 649 of our people got killed, most of them didn't even known what war was about, most of them were kids, my dad was one of them. In argentina we celebrate the Malvinas day to claim for out soberany over the islands, but I just only take that day to remeber those kids who were sent to the islands. I will never forget, when the war was over they took the wounded men and the remaining soldiers to Buenos Aires, but they took them in Buses with it windows covered in black. Most of then would comitte suicide because the mental issues that the war left on them. It was a war that shouldn't have happened
Nice to see an argie that isnt brainwashed. Thanks.
@Thanks to you, it's true that most of our people feel hostility towards british people because of that war, and they don't even know the reasons and personal interests behined the war, here in Argentina we are blinded by nationalist propaganda that told us that the rest of the world are invasors and we are the only one who deserves to rule in south america, that causes a lot of violent conduct toward foreign people in our country... I guess foolish people are easy to cheat
Im a British National but I think we both agree that it was indeed a tragic waste of Argentinian and British lives. My brother was posted to the falklands as part of the R.A.F. a few years ago and he said it was very peaceful and quiet and that for him meant boring. He said they couldn’t operate on certain places because of active minefields left over from the Falklands war.
@@Mike-rd5cf yes there are still a lot of active mines, some places are dangerous there, I went to the Falklands 3 years ago and there are a lot of places that you can't go
@GamingTSC • No, he means Falklands. We claimed and named the islands before most south american nations existed. Falklanders had a referendum a few years ago and voted >98% to remain British so that's that.
"The sun has set on another part of the british empire"
Wrong.
Fummy
Congrats. You lost India, but at least you've still got a pair of islands in the middle of fridged nowhere smaller than Connecticut.
Sun still hasn't set though. Somewhere in British territory is always in sunlight.
if Rhode Island is a state, why you being so picky?
Fummy i love the 51st state...
_"Not this time"_
America: Let’s all just try to calm down..
Britain: “See that ship?”
“Yes, captain.”
“I don’t want to.”
“Understood, sir.”
you deserved my like, very cool
Always funny to make light of people dying unnecessarily. Real classy stuff.
@@colin-campbell it happened almost 40 years ago and the conflict was pretty tame in comparison to other cold war era engagements. get off your high horse
@@colin-campbell oof, discovering humour for the first?
Correctly: "Understood, ma'am"
As an argie, I have to say, you definitely nailed it, thousands of miles traveled and the empire strikes back headline, it was pretty epic
Thank you. Be happy and stay safe.
that was like one of the last great navy battles
@@bigmanforce for now...
@@georgethompson1460 I hope it was the last great navy battle lol
A reasonable Argie? My respect to you.
Argentina: "We have finally taken over the Falklands"
Also Argentina: " Why do I hear boss music? "
Argentina is the eighth biggest country in the world and Falkland Island is an expense for the government, you pay tax for penguins. Argentina does not need to defeat Great Britain, the English are being extinct as a people and culture, Argentina will remain Argentine, who is the real loser in history?
@@dicitencellovoyais7914 With 4 times the GDP of Argentina I think the UK can manage to pay for some penguins and sheep
'' UK has 14 million people living in poverty '' - www.bbc.com/news/uk-48354692
@@dicitencellovoyais7914 poverty in the UK is not what you think it is compared to the rest of the world lol
Yes I believe. 500,000 Britons depend on Food bank, there are more than 400 Food bank spread across the island. '' one in five Britons today are in relative or absolute poverty '' - The Trussell Trust. During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina overtook Canada and Australia in terms of total income and per capita income. At the beginning of the 20th century, Argentina was the 10th richest country in the world in terms of per capita. at that time, the expression "as rich as an Argentine" was common and frequently used by French aristocrats who tried to marry their daughters with Argentines.
Wow. They all really didn't think Britain would do anything about it. The entire world is like "Sucks to be them but that's the end of it." Meanwhile in Britain the country's like "So we're going to kick their arse yeah." "Oh, course, when are the boats setting off?"
Of course they thought that. Europe had spent that last few decades shitting on itself and giving up completely on all its colonies. And today, I bet you there are a few million, or even a few hundred million, "Brits" that would protest the government sending troops because muh imperialism.
Lazy Spark they probably saw that India took back Goa etc, and thought the end of imperialism
What do you mean 'few hundred million "Brits"'?
A few hundred Million? Even though the population of the Uk is is 65.64 million?
I actually think those reports are what pushed Britain to do it.
Reporters: "O Britain's not going to invade they are a bunch of sail shaggers."
Britain: "Sail shaggers?! Damn, I guess we have to fight."
If there is one thing the British won't stand for is being looked down upon. They will protect their tradition of turning their noses up at the world at any cost.
I'm Argentinian and even today there are a lot of Argentinian people who speaks in pain and broken pride and resentment about the islands when our government sells thousands of hectares for little money to companies from Europe and North America for different purposes in the south of the country. Some of the lands with natives inside who are later taken away by the new owners who places a fence and a flag, but then we cry for "islas Malvinas". Hypocrisy at its best.
They want to "recover the islands" but don't even want to live there
Hi, I'm a Brit and the war was a great shame for both our countries, but your corrupt and dishonest government (at the time) caused it. Also, why do your Governments constantly bring up the Falkland Islands, to win elections? Best wishes from England
@@shaunmadden7324 National pride is a powerful tool that most governments around the world use to manipulate people for their purposes. Galtieri used the war as a distraction and he sent to war teenagers who didn't even know how to use a gun. When about to lose his power all his cards were loosing hands, winning an impossible war was his only possible hand to stay at the power. In other words he was an idiot who killed both Argentinians and British and destroyed the relationship between both countries for selfish purposes at the cost of many lives.
Lesson. There is no merit on national pride, we don't choose were we are born. Some wars in history were probably needed, but most wars are just for the benefit of few people who sits at a safe distance while sending thousands to die mostly for money. No matter what they tell us, there is no honor in war.
@@CalaTec well said my friend
@David Josephus Daniel Nuntius I mean in terms of lives lost
‘the sun has set on another corner of the British Empire’
*ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT*
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS ¿ BRITISH EMPIRE ? JAJAJAJ LOL
@@policero7371 Loser 😂
Yeah this was 1980's
Poli Cero you laugh? Wow Argentina LOL
@@депрессивныйстудент NO. There is no Queen for us.
How many people get recommended this after watching that one Simpsons clip?
hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The disputed islands lie here, off the coast of Argentina.
Yep 👍
Guilty as charged.
What clip?
I remember watching this broadcast with my parents during dinner and my dad saying that England was going to kick Argentina's ass.
They did.
@@scavamberidk3050 Because we were forced to fight by a bunch of assheads dictators
*UK (not England)
🇬🇧
ScavaMber Idk pretty much England is the country, Scotland, Wales and northern Ireland are also countries but together we are the UK or Great Britain
@@yougothere6000 UK with CHILE, USA, NATO, ONU, GURKHAS and USSR
When you realized the april fools joke isnt a joke
"The power of the big powers is not what it used to be"
UK: Sends one task force half way across the globe and defeats a nation on its own doorstep..
Dean and the UK did it with about 20 or 25 fighters,without AEW , against the whole Argentine air force ,, they , the Brits fought the air war with radar pickets and air patrols.. but that's The , Royal Navy ..
but argentina sent inexperienced troops with 15-20 years, not the whole armie nor the entire airforce
Joaquin Margenat Well in that case, Argentina are fucking stupid regardless if the UK was involved or not.
@@ben.x war was declared by the leader of the junta, a well known drunk old fuck so yeah, it was a stupid war overall.
Britain was helped by the US France and Chile, had better weapons and even asked the US if they could use Trident and go nuclear on continental Argentina when Margaret Thatcher thought Britain was losing the war.
"The powers of the Great powers are not what they used to be"
*RULE BRITANNIA*
Bloody Good Lad !
Yes but it was still far more then enough to beat the crap out of upstart Argentina.
American reporter "It would appear the sun has set on another corner of the British Empire"
The British "Hold my tea"
Not every Brit drinks fucking tea..Beer for me
Britons*
no "hold my lagar"
@@actionflixhub1253 it's a stereotype get over it
Argentina: “The Argentines will stay put”
UK: “Nice ship you got there... be a shame if... somefin’ ‘appened to it.”
You perfectly captured the British way of speaking, congratulations
@@connor4435 I did 😋
*Louis Antoine de Bougainville (for France):* _Tu aurais du me couper la tête._
@@connor4435 Well i'm not sure anyone outside of the ring of the Bow bells would agree with ya 🤣
Back when British politicians weren't spineless
Politicians are always spineless. The most they ever risk losing is a reelection and even that risk is enough to make them bend over.
They mostly were except for Maggie.
Are you saying if Argentina invaded the Falklands tomorrow British politicians would sit by? Unlikely
No they’d probably argue for years over what is the right thing to do and then nothing will come of it
All thanks to EU corruption and such :)
damn american media was quick to belittle the brits
not really belittling but ok
Claire AwesomeSauce yes that's why Britain's gave up the islands (sarcasm). Look Britain isn't what it was but they presented this as if Britain had to give up cause it was so crippled. A few weeks later and Argentinean forces had surrendered and navy had already withdrawn. A few years later and the military junta collapsed.
cokpeotfg4 fcdck you aren't bankrupt as that guy says but you don't have the highest income. The average American or person from Luxembourg does in terms of wage PPP. Average Brit is number 15 at 42,000$ compared to American at 60,000. But you guys aren't bankrupt nor poor that guy is just trolling
+Vasting Lmao Look at GDP nominal per capita, not PPP. only losers use PPP, America GDP per capita is only $55,000. and 50 million Americans live in poverty according the the statistics 2017, Talking about the World's highest average income, UK is ranked number 2 behind Switzerland. s8.postimg.org/xb6htlo6d/4r4w3r5.jpg and London is the richest place in the world with highest GDP per capita at $162,200 money.cnn.com/2016/02/26/news/economy/london-rich-europe/
cokpeotfg4 fcdck well that's London. London isn't the entire U.K.. and what the fuck are you talking about? GDP per capita? Then you range from 25 according to the IMF, 21 to the world bank and 27 to the CIA. Your source is a shady ass link.
Edit that source is so fucking retarded it doesn't even show Norway which way higher than the UK and the US. And so what if 50 million are in "poverty" (hint it's not poverty like you think) we still have the highest average income out of ANY large nation we're literally doing the best we possibly can it's fucking amazing that a country with 320 million people have an average income of 55k that's unheard of anywhere in the world
Falklands dispute exists:
USA: "Whatever"
"Falklands might be rich in offshore oil"
USA: "As a guardian nation allow us to introduce some WiSdOm and ExPeRtiSe on this subject."
Allow us to introduce ourselves
The US never did go to war though
Chess-Playing Skeleton that is the joke, if there was oil that they could have taken they might have helped
@@redornament3248 wooosh
The US knew exactly what was in and around the Falklands/Malvinas as well as the British regarding Oil Reserves. They also had a mutual adversary in Argentina at the time. The US never provided any real public support to the British (in fact there was a ruse in place to project that the US wanted no part of it), but the US did provide an incredible amount of under-the-table assistance in the form of Satellite Imagery, Elint, Cryptography and a Submarine (Rumor has it Narwhal was the one) until the British Submarines HMS Spartan, HMS Splendid and HMS Conqueror came on station.
RUclips recommendations are very odd. I would never have searched for this, and yet I enjoyed it greatly.
As Alexander Hague discovered and declared at the time "The British are perfectly reasonable people, until you try to kick them around" That was demonstrated very clearly within 10 weeks of the invasion.
I was in High School when this happened. We talked about it in my JROTC class and our Senior Instructor, a retired Colonel and WW2 vet, said: "Boys, if you think the Brits are going to just roll over and take this sitting down, you are sadly mistaken. They're going gather everything they can get their hands on, go down there and give the Argentinians a very hard lesson about British resolve."
Yet lost USA to Americans from 1776-83
Angela Kindness A lost conflict doesn’t mean the Brits just rolled over in the American Revolution. We pushed back and lost. Every country has losses. Take a look at Vietnam. As a British person it doesn’t annoy or humiliate me that we lost that war, I’m actually glad we did. Losing it was the right thing to happen, was immensely good for the world. Do you think Germans today wished the Nazis had won WW2 just so they could add another victory to the tally of German successes? No. Be prepared to lose bc it happens to everyone, and be proud when your losses are the right kind.
Angela Kindness I have a feeling that you’re trolling
@@Cjnw Yes. George Washington defeated the British Empire singlehandedly. The world was astounded as _all of it_ watched from the sidelines while George Washington and his generals and admirals (many coincidentally having french names and commanding soldiers with similarly frenchish names) defeated the strongest empire in the world while that empire's powerful rivals nonsensically ignored a gleaming, golden opportunity. It's crazy how Washington was able to defeat an army and armada which only France and Spain had the strength to contend with. I suppose we'll all have to wonder forever how Britain lost to 13 colonies.
@@Xanthas1453 cant forget the prussian? mercanaries that helped us as well
USA:“The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire”
UK:Oh Really?!
The news guys only did that so they can hype up Britain when they showed up lol😂😂😂😂
"Holy shit they're here!!!"
Not USA. Our media. I remember this (highschool) and figured Argentina had a butt kicking coming.
@@martynspeck they sure had one their navy still hasn't recovered
Nobody:
Mexican kid's microphone in a video game: 1:16
Los mexicanos hablan español y ese audio está en inglés ignorante
@@Alejo-hy2df Estoy haciendo referencia a la calidad del micrófono. Justo como el meme.
GG Dayne 35 Dont forget their parents shouting at them in the same room for some fucking reason.
@@alexanderthegreat445 and a random dog barking
GG Dayne 35 That too
The British did not kick the Argentinians out of the Falklands 150 years ago. Aregintina was not even a country when the British took hold of it, it was Spain who controlled Argentine land at the time.
yes they did the argentine confederation controled malvinas and had settlers there before britain invaded them
Britain discovered the island and colonized it in the 1600s, and it was entirely uninhabited at that point. No Spaniards, no Argentinians, nobody at all. Because of that fact, the Falklands aren’t even a colony. They are just as much a part of the U.K. as Scotland or Northern Ireland. They are 100% British.
well they were at the middle of the war, argentine almost conquered the hold mainland but the spanish still were trying to save their empire
Malvinas argentinas
@@a.morphous66 actually there was a french colony before that, then they sold it to the spanish. Later argentins colonised part of the islands after which brittain expelled them. It's just a google search away my dude
Interesting. Quite a gloating tone from ABC.
Al Gilmore well at first the US was far more sympathetic to the Argentine cause, this just shows that clearly, they came round to our side of it eventually though
1IbramGaunt Why was the US sympathetic to Argentina?
Adrian234 it was more apathy I think. They didn't see it as a big deal
because the junta was put in power by the CIA.
La Dictadura argetina prestaba apoyo a los EE.UU. en AMérica Central, instruyendo a la CONTRA nicaragÜese. Por eso un sector del Departamento de Estado estaba a favor de la Argentina y otro (el más influyente) del Reino Unido.
"The Powers of the Big Powers isn't what it used to be" mmmm I wonder if he regretted saying that when the Islands were restored to British Sovereignty?
...you took the words out my mouth!!!
The very fact that a small power dares and successfully invades an island belonging to a Big Power says it all. 100 years earlier no other small or medium power would have dared to do that to Great Britain.
Actually Galtieri seems to have been pushed by the mob, after all...they went i a few months too soon! Also they thought we were not interested and at that time they were under the delusion America would be on their side.
TheNighthawk00 true but that's just the way the world works and Britain had weakened considerably in that hundred years, mostly due to economic and social issues but also due to the cost of two enormous world wars, and in particular the cost of the American lend-lease of equipment and supplies. If it wasn't for that war not only would we have continued weakening and lost not only the Falklands but likely ALL our overseas territories we'd have effectively become completely at the rest of the world's mercy militarily, so thank God for the haste and stupidity of the Argentine Military Junta, you in effect and completely inadvertantly, saved Britain!
TheNighthawk00 that war acted as a wake-up call, a slap in the face, a rallying cry and it was just what we needed at just the right time. Now Britain is strong enough to actually leave the European Union and go it's own way again and have a military capable of taking on that of anyone in the world save the US, it's strongest ally who unlike back then actually treats us with begrudging respect. None of that could have happened without the Falklands War
I mindlessly clicked on this and was convinced I got recommended one of those older Onion classics until halfway through.
American media: “The Brits won’t do anything, blah blah...”
British nuclear submarine: “Target in sight... permission to fire?”
@@Pipyboy nobody says the opposite
@@Pipyboy nobody said it had nuclear missiles
The sub commander never asked permission to fire. He fired under the discretion he had for "targets of opportunity". Whether the admiralty and Thatcher would have given permission is not yet known, but Thatcher very much supported the fait accompli once she knew.
@@Pipyboy that still makes it a nuclear submarine
Davey England lol
"The sun has set on another part of the British empire..."
Meanwhile in Britain.
"GET THE LADS! WE GOT A LONG TRIP AHEAD OF US"
“ *LADS ON TOUR, BOYS! LADS ON TOUR!!* “
Basically the comments are
60% British Empire memes
15% Butthurt Argies
15% Reasonable Argentinians
10% Other countries liking the Brits
The Eternal Anglo Count me as 10% liking the Brits 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸
You forgot the ones bashing the U.S. and The British
Dodgers Fan fuck Britain we the US owns everything 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪💪💪
@@gabenewell3955 woah its the real vladmir gandhi
You forgot the arrogant brits
"The sun has set on another part of the brit-"
Britain: *No*
Ik its a joke but we still own Hong Kong south sandwitch islands parts of Cyprus and British Indian Ocean territories. We don't own hong Kong but i love hong Kongers fighting for freedom like the whites!!!!
random unknown person wtf does like the whites mean? The same whites that suppressed independence movements from former colonies
Nice trying to steal the comment, its literally right above yours lol
@@schematic2684 I fucking knew another dude thought to make that comment, its such a common punchline lol
We had street parties after this victory. A guy in our street was a Royal Marine and we were so proud of him.
Who would win:
- A small British Task Force
- The entire Argie Army, Navy, and Airforce
Jezza u are a fking ignorant!!
1. Chile helped England with this was by telling them locations of argies airplane ... why did Chile do that cuz argies were planing to attack the patagonia
2. Argentina had a an idiotic dictador... that some say the USA helped to put him on the power.
3. Young kida of age 16-20 figthed in that war..... and yh my english is trash
Jezza you think you actually won? Ok
@@isnitjustkit I am sorry but who holds the Falkland islands these days?
That's right, the UK, meaning the UK won the war.
@@isnitjustkit ehh. They kinda did..
@@rodesnavel7419 Because nothing says winning like losing your entire navy and having your much larger military defeated by just a handful of commandos
Thumbs up if RUclips algorithm randomly recommended you to watch this in 2019
My thumbs are up, but I can't show you because you can't see me putting them up.
RUclips doesn't have an algorithm
@@gonzalo807 What???
@@JazzCity132 some years ago the system changed to a neural network. This system learns from your previous elections (and everyone's) to change your recommendations. If you are interested, there are some videos explaining it
@@JazzCity132 and it doesn't work that bad, because it made you click this vid😂😂
Argentina: "What you gonna do, beat us with 18 planes that can fly backwards?"
Argentina had those too
@@thecleitom9497 lol no
R.A.F: thats an understatment
Brits: "Yes"
@@thecleitom9497 no the argies didn't have vtol i don't think even russia had vtol by that point.
"As international incidents go, it's hard to get too worked up about this one..."
How wrong they were...
Jonathan Williams no shit it wasn't everybody else's terroritory
Then britian was like fuck that shit
ARG: takes Falklands
GBR: so you have chosen death
*FRA:* _Tu aurais du me couper la tête. (You should have gone for the head.)_
@@revinhatol Spain: *Yoinked Paris*
@@ls200076 Portugal: I told you, you would die for that.
*Chile* : con que me ibas a invadir, no argentina?
revin hatol
Salut
What Margaret Thatcher said: "We will reclaim the Falkland Islands as British territory!"
What Margaret Thatcher thought: *yo I'mma get unlimited penguin snuggles*
Argentine president:
A glorius day for Argentina! We've finally managed to beat the imperialist power Great Britain and managed to secure the Falkla... What do you mean they've retaken it?
Argentine dictator*
Sos un pelotudo mal, mandaron pendejos de 18 años y ustedes con todo el apoyo internacional se demoraron meses
Facu Piri callate nabo
Facu Piri re qur la guerra duró un mes. Cero en historia.
@@thecatalanman9743 2 meses y 12 dias duró, pedazo de ignorante. Y eso sin ampliar los que succedio 60 años antes cuando ellos empezaron los confictos.
“The sun has set on another part of the British empire”
Thatcher: hold my beer...
Well said!
Tea
Any UK prime minister would have been able to win the war. It was a stupid invasion from Argentina, it was never going to win.
The God-King true, but not every prime minister would even have gone to war for that island
RUclips Channel If it was a defensive war then any UK pm would have gone to war. It would have been politically suicide to not.
Have to laugh at the comments of the media back then. Yeah we would just leave british citizens with an occupying force without any repercussions for that force. Sheer arrogance and disrespect from the US.
To be fair, I think the US know us a bit better these days. Back then, they didn't really know us that well.
from the leftist fake news media*
Andrew Taylor 1947.
Yep. Agree Russia told Argentina we would never retaliate. America thought we wouldn't and proceeded with their Argentina plan.
These guys need to study history. We are ALWAYS up for a fight. It's our default position. Even though we try very hard for peace.
The day I knew we were going into kuwait was the day Saddam Hussein put British child hostages on TV.
That was the point the UK/US meeting changed from, 'Now hold on a minute Yanks, let's think this through', to 'We' re going in with or without you, you coming? '
Andrew Taylor tbf the American media doesn’t know much about anything, especially war. They expect us and others to do nothing when an inferior aggressor attacks
"Britain's most valuable and perhaps only weapon is diplomacy"
Britain: *So anyway I started blasting*
The Americans really stuck it to the British. Almost joyful at what they thought wold be British humiliation. And not caring that 2000 British descended people would have to live under the Argentinian junta.
Also it was really lying deceitful reporting in saying the British had expelled the Argentinians from the islands 150 years before. Argentina didn't exist back then, it was a Spanish colony and Britain and Spain had competing colonial claims to the islands. The British kicked out two, two, Spaniards. Hardly kicking out the Argentinians like we'd kicked out some native population. No Indians were living there. How can Argentina be claiming it "back". Their only claim is Spain's colonial claim.
Pretty simplistic and deceitful reporting by the Americans. I guess it's true, there are no friends only interests.
Ingur Lund in the end the US supplied some weaponry to help with the invasion. I think the government just under estimated how much it meant to the UK at first
Argentina did exist back then though
F. OPE nope they didn't, and wouldn't until well after the British had already settled them and established their own small town there. The mixed-bag of recently freed South American former colonies that would one day BECOME Argentina did hold sway over the islands briefly but this was actually overthrown by American- not British, North American pirates and in turn restored to the crown when the Royal Navy went down to sort out the mess
Argentina declared independence from Spain in 1816, the British reclaimed the islands in 1833.
You expect Americans to have a firm grasp on history - another country's history at that?
What gets me, even after all this time, is the smug superiority of these American reporters. Churchill said it best: "What kind of people do they think we are?" Well, they soon found out what kind. And so did the Argentine junta.
oh please Britain was America's bitch with all the money you guys owed us from the supplies we sold to you in order to push Germany away from entering Britain. that the reason why you guys lost most of your colonies
Britain lost its empire, and that was no bad thing, but it is good to have an American acknowledge the totally soulless self-interest of the United States, to rape the utmost profits from a war fought to preserve the democracy Americans like to lecture the rest of the world about, and in the process remorselessly to impoverish a friend.
@@MlokLik look children I found the Brain dead American,
One day America will bow down to China and Europe and be broken apart for being a plaque on the world since its inception, you think that you will be able to roll over all of the New World in a matter of months , you keep Europe restrained with NATO, your president has the competence of Benito Mussolini and you try to destroy Russia's claims to its rightful land.
Do everyone a favour and go back into isolation
Honestly it's Europe who's bowing down to the Middle east, not us bowing to China. Could give a fuck less about China. for me, they're should be our trading partners to dominate this shithole together. But since they don't wanna cope the earth we might aswell blow it to shit aswell am i right hahaha
And where are YOU from? you seem inbred, mister =)
Then you'd be nuked in return, and there would be no winner.
At the age of 19yrs I landed on the Falklands. At 57yrs I still re-live certain things that happened but I thought then and think now that we were right to defend ourselves and people depending on us. Stayed in the army until 1994 and saw more action but I still regard this as the last of the mud-thumper wars. Will never forget the day the white flag went up. As for the sun setting on the corner of the empire, typical American opinionated and incorrect reporting (most of their politicians were pro Argentina at the time). Have met one Argintinian who served there at the time, in the mid nineties, and we got on pretty well, as most soldiers do when the metal stops hitting the meat.
My grandfather also fought in the Falklands as a paratrooper.
Based on my opinion (and research) it was one of those pointless wars that should have never resulted in deaths. Should state that I don't blame the soldiers for it.
@stairwaytoheaven321
I think that you might have a point about America's media - maybe still have the DNA of the War of independence in them. That said, President Reagan was such a friend to Britain. He gave British Sea Harriers unlimited sidewinder missiles, and was ready to loan an aircraft carrier - had one of Britain's been sunk.
Americans were with you, even if our media wasnt. They hated Reagan and Thatcher, they were just better at hiding it back then.
I did a school project on this two YEARS ago, and yet I still get videos like this in my recommended all the time lol
Argentina : *invades Falklands*
Britain: looks like your going to the shadow realm Jimbo
What would happen if Nigel Farage talked to the UN Security Council lmao
But people do.
the EU didn't take him seriously, see how that turned out.
Well considering he's failed Seven times to become an MP he probably wouldn't be taken seriously.
loss of all class and respect for us
He'd put 'em in their fucking place.
I am not British , I am a French citizen of South Asian descent but I promise that this made me patriotic towards the British... No dear America, untill the day you will speak English, sun will always be shining in Britannica !
God bless the British (and teach them how to cook better food)
manhoosnick Noah fence but Italian food is better than French food
We love you to French laad
Darth Cookie well then learn from Italiams but learn, please.
James Palmer bless you Sir
British food is pretty good
Just cuz it's all similar doesn't make it bad
Also, France is a culinary kitchen, britian is not so making that comparison is like comparing MacDonalds with a 4 star restaurant
The first is okay and pretty good but the second one is a WAY better choice
The British empire at this time, like an old boxer in retirement who has to fight one last fight no one thinks he can win
So Britain is a bit like Rocky.
I love how people think the british are too polite and reserved and weak .. those people don't no their history .. I'm proud to be british
No means to shit on you, but if you're British, at least just know that it's "know" not "no".
m0ng just typing fast it's the internet I'm not handing in an essay ha I'm aware it's know I also know the difference between there their and they're, we, and we're.. my grammar is fine just don't feel like proof reading myself when writing a comment on RUclips haha .. I'm not arguing btw just saying :)
John Rockett and you don't know grammar
Klown u gay
Klown
On Islam
The remaining Semite faction, (the Arabs) along with the Persians were miffed about not having a their revelation as had Judaism and Christianity. So they saw in Muhammad a saviour. He was an illiterate, depraved by adultery and seeking solace retired to seclusion on the mountain where he was supposedly handed the word of god by Gabriel. He was first taken seriously at the temple in Mecca, by its greedy guardians who viewed him as a threat to their pilgrimage business. Then by the Jews of Yathrib (Medina) who were more friendly as they had been professing the coming of a messiah, though later were disappointed in his claims. It eventually fell to the differing Arab (again unread) tribes to support him. The divine struggle through war, only took them as far as the Balkans and Med. Islam requires complete submission from its followers and non followers alike, yet nothing in its teachings could justify such arrogance.
The history of Muhammad was set out 120 yrs after his death by one individual, the original text being lost. The exception being one recent discovery, carbon dating possibly placing it to around 20yrs after the prophet, though denied by Muslim academics.
The schism between Shia and Sunni came before Islam had even developed a system as Muhammad left no heir apparent even though he was a prolific father, a general and politician. The caliphs arguing over who should take the mantle, provide evidence to the assumption that the faith is man made. As is the assertion that soon after Muhammad had died and many Sunnis had perished in the fighting, that anyone who could remember anything of the aural teachings were gathered together, as was any material that had fragments and sayings recorded on, to compile one complete document. Other's believe it was compiled later by the fourth caliph not the first, founder of Shiism. The majority of Sunnis regard another caliph who reigned from 644-656 to have compiled the definitive version from differing versions of the text, then destroying any other rival versions. This was an act of vanity outdoing what was done in Alexandria to censor the Christian Bible. Arabic text wasn't even standardised until the latter part of the 9th century. Then there's the Hadith, conveying the sayings of the companions of the prophet and actions of Muhammad, which is passed down aurally and must be supported by the testament of purportedly reliable witnesses, a told b who heard it from c, etc. Most of the Hadith has been shown to be taken from the gospels, bits of the Torah, Indian proverbs, Persian maxims, Greek philosophy, and even a nearly word for word reproduction of the Lord's Prayer, essentially rendering the Hadith plagiarism at best.
This all makes it difficult for scholars to determine or even dispute what happened in Mohammed's time.
Islam has been shown to be built on the backs of previous beliefs, religion, philosophy and doctrine. Allah himself is professed as being a monoglot as the only true revelation is in Arabic (although there is evidence that Aramaic and Syriac were also used in the first manuscripts, Semitic languages also employed throughout early Judaism and Christianity) therefore inaccessible to the uneducated, i.e. the masses, then later others that had no knowledge of Arabic. To have to learn another language to fully comprehend the revelation seems strange as it's supposed to be for all. Therefore interpretation since and currently has been controlled by the elite. Unlike the other monotheistic faiths, there has been no reformation in Islam and even suggestion of attempting to do so is met with dismissal, suppression or worse.
Islam is considered to be a new faith, yet the final revelation and true word of god.
The so called toleration of people of other faiths is present in Islam as with the other major religions. Although within the Hadith is the rule that other sins can be forgiven at Allah's discretion, whereas the sin of not following him is unforgivable, a rule Obviously borrowed from the Ten Commandments.
The unrivalled honour for martyrdom is also deplorable, as it invites violence in the name of god.
What is more likely that a man is chosen to be a transmitter by god to relay already existing revelations, or to utter some existing revelations and claim they are from god?
Once again because of the supposed duty of the faithful to the scriptures (common among all religions), faith stymies the chance of free inquiry and the emancipation that it brings.
"The sun has set on another corner of the brithis empire"
uk: laughs in Britania
Yes, I also remember the US govt sending emissaries to talk Prime Minister Thatcher out of taking its territories back! Yeah, like if the same happened to USA, they wouldnt do similar, at the very least. I also remember our Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon of Nz, at the time sending two Royal Nz Navy Frigates to assist British forces, which took over their Atlantic patrols so Royal Navy could involve the bulk of their forces there. No other British commonwealth country or ally did so, by the way
thank you new zealand
Yes it was the HMNZS Waikato and Canterbury and assisted with the Armilla patrol in the Persian gulf
Actually never knew that until now. Thanks New Zealand.
Yea so much for NATO .
So NZ is a lap bitch entirely to the British will innit?
Argentina: oh my god I can't believe I just did that I'm so random
Charles Berthiaume I’m not like the OTHER girls...
Galtieri: "I'm not like the other dictators."
Lol
Omg argentina you did not🤪
The Spanish are not having Gibraltar back eather.
Tbh we probably should give it back but also why would we give up one of the most vital straits?
You love sticking your nose around every corner of the world don't you, you don't give Ireland the six countries back you don't give Argentinia Falklands Spain Gibraltar and so much more just accept that your empire failed and your prime minister is an old twat btw, either*
@@waveonyoutube856 Ooooo.... someone's salty.
@@theyoutubeguy1 salty? Lol. I think the only person that is salty here is you and the commenter butt hurt that the sun set on your shitty empire and trying to pathetically hold onto it, glad Ireland passed you in GDP Per capita
waveonyoutube you do sounds pretty salty...
Britain's most viable and perhaps only option, is diplomacy
*Laughs in Royal Marine Commando*
comedy
"Aggressive negotiations"
I wonder if any of those ABC reporters were given the choice of custard or cream with their slice of cold humble pie?
Reagan could have said this was a cold attack on NATO. His Secretary of State did try flyover diplomacy for a couple weeks however there was no solution before the UK forces were close enough to attack.
Is that a question?
Newscaster: "The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire"
Britain: "Hold my tea"
"Expelled Argentina from the islands 150 years ago"
Not sure that is historically accurate...
It is.
No mate they expelled france and spain like in the 1700s
@@Jommm Wrong
@@nachoalvarez7171 Check your history lol.
@@specialunit0428 No. First France set foot, then Spain set foot and then Argentina took it after they declared independence from Spain. And then Great Britain took it.
He did what just about every dictator does.
Hitler invaded poland, Austria, and Czechaslavakia, Sadam invaded Kuwait, and Mussolini invaded Egypt and Greece.
@SlypherSpoons "low IQ brown people" wow
Well Sadam basically invaded Kuwait due to the USA
SlypherSpoons “low IQ brown people” are smarter than you’ll ever be
We didn't expel settlers from the Falklands (and the settlers came from the area which LATER became Argentina), they left because they couldn't make things work on the islands. British settlers came later.
gavsky23 the first settlers were british
“Britain’s most viable and perhaps only weapon is diplomacy”
Thatcher: Cowabunga it is
The US: "The sun has set on another corner of the British Empire"
The Iron Lady: "Hold my tea dear, its time to teach the colonies a lesson"
Disclaimer: I dont really like Margret Thatcher, but standing up for the people of the Falklands and Britains territorial rights is one of the most impressive things any British PM has done since Churchill. Not a Brit by the way.
@@harveycrook5365 Argentina had no aircraft carrier
@@6372-s4k sorry not an aircraft carrier, a light cruiser. I was mistaken.
@@harveycrook5365 b-but it was slightly outside the red line! We werent trying to be smartasses!
@@harveycrook5365 the exclusion zone was a marker for commercial shipping any combatant ship under UN law cna be legally sunk during a time of conlifct
How wrong they were... 😂😂
Robert Whitfield Yep
Poli Cero yes, the war was a complete wash out lmao
One stupidest wars ever
Country who's military hasn't fought a war in over 100 years vs world conquering, Nazi destroying, absolute unit of a country
@@cueball6969 I like how you called the British military an "absolute unit"
Legend 😂😂
@@cueball6969 You didnt do shit to nazis, the Russians did.
“It appears the sun has set on anoth-“
*RULE, BRITANNIA! BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES!*
not anymore
Argentina-*invades the falklands*
Also Argentina-"Britain won't do anything its fine*
Britain-" I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move"
Fascinating view into the psyche of the Americans:
1: ‘Argentina recovered The Falklands’, Argentina never owned the islands and didn’t exist at the time.
2: Their extremely premature gloating at a close ally was shocking indeed.
3: finally, this look into their minds displays worrying lack of empathy or understanding of basic geopolitics, when Japan attacked Hawaii the USA went berserk (having ignored British warnings) yet seemed happy to take the Argentinian side. What with Obama and his ‘back of the queue’ crack, I think it may be time to re-assess exactly who our friends are.
who our friends are? the US only cares about the US. they are NOT and NEVER will be friends with anyone but themselves and they've proven that many times over
@@andyv4585 So true.
"States have no friends, they only have interests." De Gaulle
@@himlingpatrice Americans are friends of Argentina, they expelled the pirates from his land like us. De Gaulle another coward
@@policero7371 US are members of NATO. Nobody in the NATO members nations (including Canada) is fool enough to believe US are there friend.
We live in reality, not in our dreams.
Andy V give me an example of why you can say that about the US but not Britain.
Argentines after seizing islands: "Well, that was easy!
Wait... why do I hear boss music playing?"
**Sabaton starts playing in the background**
**Argentinians remember the Ottomans and the last time boss music by Sabaton was played.**
UK: *appears but dies instantly*
@@fabiospasiano9885 What? Britain won the war.
@@fabiospasiano9885 you again what can't you understand that Argentina lost the war
So Argentina, invaded an Island. Turned Stanley into a filthy mess, used illegal scrapping methods to put Marines on South Georgia, took many losses against Royal Marine detachments on initial landings at South Georgia and Falklands despite major numeric and armour advantage subsequently censored from history, had help from the Soviet Union, South American states, France & Israel, the BBC (who gave away the British Paratroopers positions) and traitor Labour politician (who said the British were listening to Argentine codes), planted thousands upon thousands of landmines still plaguing the island, and couldn't be bothered to collect their own brave souls so the British had to ferry the Argentine POWs home!
At least Reagan didn't stab us in the back like the yanks did at Suez.
Alan Patey they stabbed you in the back at Suez because you were strong at the time. You still had an empire in Africa, some of the Americas like belize, a bit of Asia and the Caribbean. You had only lost India nine years before. They did not stab you in the back in the Falklands because they thought you were week. All you had then was Belize, Bermuda and Hong Kong.
@@alexmidence274 where the fuck did you learn this drivel... oh wait it's your opinion which has nothing to back it up 🤦♂️
@@garrysutters1835 everyone thought the UK was weak, it had been in a state of embarrassment ever since Suez, where the US president literally forced the UK to ransom... and as for the colonial territories, he is correct, Hong Kong, some Caribbean islands, and pieces here and there elsewhere were still under British rule, New Zealand would actually become truly independent just after the Falkland Conflict. and as for Reagan, he might not have stabbed us in the back, but he certainly wasnt perfect... even in this video, the call between him and the leader of Argentina has the quote "i'll do anything i can to help"- he stabbed them in the back, and shows us he is just there for the interests of the USAs anti-communism crusade by making it seem they'll try to help Argentina. Take a look at his actions in the Bangladesh Independence war, where he purposely ignored Pakistani genocides and even offered weapons to Pakistan against Bangladesh, who had been ignored and then ruined by Pakistan.
Alan Patey you were wrong to do what you did in the size
Alan Patey *suez
NO ONE TAKES OUR SHEEP 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Never seen this before. Thanks for sharing the gleeful attitude of some in the US at that time. So much for the "special relationship".
That idiot didn't speak for all of us. I was 15 when that happened, and I knew the UK would not sit down and allow that. I told my older half brothers, "Just wait. The Brits will gather every man and ship they can find, and head South. They won't come back until the Falklands are theirs again."
They laughed in my face. But that didn't last long! When that fleet sailed, they were shocked. They honestly thought the Brits would do nothing.
Just like these dip💩 reporters. 🙄
@@smc1942 TBH, the fleet was pretty much every ship we had. Had we been facing a professional army with air support that had more than half a dozen exocets, we'd have lost.
@@daviddavies3637 ;
I know it was no easy task. Max Hastings wrote an excellent book about it; which I read twenty odd years ago. Such is war! But it also comes down to the quality and spirit of those doing the fighting. Against that Junta, I'd bet on the UK every time.
No offense to the good people of Argentina. Most of whom despised that regime too. They thought they could distract the people from their litany of failures with an illegal land grab. All they did was get a lot of good people killed. The Junta should have been hanged for Crimes Against Humanity. SMH.
Argentina: **invades the Falklands**
United Kingdom: *OMAE WA MOU, SHINDEIRU*
Argentina: *NANI?!*
*Louis Antoine de Bougainville (for France):* _Tu aurais du me couper la tête. 頭を狙うべきだったな_
For some reason, I always thought my dad fought in a 'war' that wasn't big or important because he always plays it down. But seeing this, it ade me so proud of him.
Killing starving teenagers sure must be something you want to forget about
@@marcosrecio4062 Luckily for him he was 16 when he signed up for the Navy and didn't shoot at a single person. The only teenagers he saw die were the British ones that were on his ship.
To this day I couldn't be more glad we went over there and took them back. 🇬🇧