Falkland Islands

I mean, Malta is absolutely furious when Britain rejects it, for example.

Malta wants to be part of Britain the same way that Malta is, or Falkland Islands, or whatever, or the Channel Islands.

And we go, no.

We can't afford it.

But this attitude of just defence no longer matters anymore.

we're going to reduce spending, we're going to cut the armed forces, cut the Royal Navy down to the bare bones to the extent that it's questionable whether we could ever mount a task force again as we did in 1982, although we have operations there in the Falkland Islands to defend the Falkland Islands.

britain is diminished because of liberal left-wing governments including tory governments that allowed this mess i supported conservatism and i was tired of sitting in a party that no longer believed in that and did all the opposite things that i joined the party to do in the first place under margaret thatcher and that is why vast numbers of people who have always voted conservative on things like defense on things like law and order on things like immigration and europe that's why so many are now voting for Nigel Farage.

But

This is absurd.

Can you imagine if Argentina had invaded the Falklands with Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham in power? I mean, they might have given Argentina Wales and Northern Ireland along with the islands.

It's just insane.

The truth is, Britain... which is the sixth largest economy in the world and supposedly our most dependable partner, is in some ways now our most dependent partner other than Canada in that they now have twice as many admirals as warships.

And I went with Gunner's Dream off of the final cut from 1983.

I think at this point in the countdown, there have been a few times that we've talked about Roger Waters' anti-war views, which we know were shaped greatly by the loss of his father during World War II, and then further intensified watching England throw away a lot of what his father died for when they waged war in the Falklands about 40 years later.

While this has been explored in various points on the wall and more directly through the final cut, one thing we haven't really seen is what the world looks like in a scenario where these authoritarian regimes no longer impose their will over the general populace.

The Gunner's Dream is a song that aims to do just that.

Not even the Argentinian Junta was willing to cross the Holy However, once General Gautieri assumed the presidency, he turned his eyes to another territorial dispute to try and reverse his regime's sagging fortunes.

300 miles to the east of the Argentinian coast lie the Falkland Islands, which have been a British territory since 1833.

Argentina, which refers to the islands as Las Malvinas, claimed that they had inherited sovereignty of the islands from the Spanish after independence, a claim the British have rejected ever since.

Decades of negotiations had failed to resolve the dispute, largely because the people who lived on the Falklands overwhelmingly wished to remain British subjects.

Gautieri believed that a quick military strike would resolve the situation in Argentina's favor.

His belief was that the British would not risk war over some small, strategically unimportant islands almost 8,000 miles from the British mainland.

On April 2, 1892, Argentina launched Operation Rosario, invading the Falkland Islands and quickly overcoming the small British garrison stationed there.

At home, large crowds cheered General Gauthier and the Junta for their victory, even people who had been opposed to their domestic policies.

the equivalent of Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs.

And the first thing, one of the first things he did was approve developing oil and gas fields off the Falkland Islands by Argentina.

So that was okay.

So then the new energy minister last week gave approval for the Jackdaw natural gas field that was actually approved under the previous Conservative government, and it was immediately litigated by Greenpeace.

But instead, we're doing everything we can to serve and uphold Israel's completely insane operations, which include at this point Israel.

telling Israeli diplomats to support Argentine push for Falklands.

So Netanyahu has basically thrown his hat in the ring over the Falkland Island controversy, which didn't exist before Israel decided they needed a diplomatic leverage point against the U.K. and took over Argentina through their president, Javier Malay.

At the same time, they're screaming and crying about Britain not wanting to buy products from the terrorist settlers in Israel.

Other people would be deploying to Cyprus.

We had this relationship with the 5th Airborne Brigade, where ever since the Falklands Islands conflict, there had been this recognition that the scimitars from the Blues and Royals that were used out there Actually, we're a bit of a game changer.

And so we were formally attached to 5th Airborne Brigade.

And that brought about a professionalization, I think, that was a bit of a shock to our cavalry regiment.