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Aneirin -> Argentinian threats over oil drilling (2/24/2010 4:37:47 AM)
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So with news reports that a British oil drilling company has moved a drilling rig to the waters around the Falkland isles, Argentina is starting to make threats again and are calling for other South American countries to blockade their waters against shipping. Now Argentina has long held a claim on the islands and did indeed invade them in 1982 which resulted in British forces going down there to sort them out, since the war, relations had become better, but now, just as a drilling rig is operating down there, the Argentine government has started making threats again, which has angered Falkland islanders ;
http://momento24.com/en/2010/02/18/falkland-islands-inhabitants-furious-at-argentinas-threats/
For a long time since the '82 war many have questioned the need to keep the Falklands as part of Britain and wondered if the cost was worth it, maintaining the islands which prior to 1982, they didn't bother with, the islands were an expense, as now there is a military prescence there. The discovery and production of oil down there will be good for the islanders and their economy and ultimately good for Britain's econmomic interests, whatever that is taken to mean these days, so the Falkands now have a use. But since the drilling rig took up a position down there, Argentina has again started making noises, could it be the '82 war is to be repeated again, are we heading for further conflict over seas ?
Oh yes, and on a side note, will the US be supporting Britain in this, our quest to secure oil, whereas if I remember correctly, the US would not get involved back in '82
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