Stanley

That's my image.

And Port Stanley being bobbed back in the early 80s when I was a young man.

So there's a lot more going on.

So tell us a bit about the whole commodity drive, oil, possibly gas deposits in the area and how that might play into his thinking.

This is Stanley, the Falcon Islands broadcasting station.

I've been instructed by the governor of the Falcon Islands to call you and ask you to repeat the message.

For the purpose of avoiding bloodshed and property damage among the population, we hope that you shall act prudently.

In their thousands, young conscripts arrived from Argentina.

The

first time I went into Port Stanley, I noticed that everything was English.

There was practically nothing there to remind me of Argentina.

I remember picking up a little nail and it had Made in England written on it.

La tensión entre el Reino Unido y Argentina no da tregua.

Para empezar, ¿qué estrategias han empleado los argentinos en este largo conflicto? Hablamos ayer en Buenos Aires con Nicolás Casece, periodista del diario La Nación y autor de Puerto Stanley, 1982, una novela sobre el asunto.

La Argentina ha tenido dos estrategias en su reclamo por la soberanía de Malvinas: el garrote y la zanahoria.

El garrote significa ejercer presión sobre Gran Bretaña y los malvinenses para obligarlos a sentarse en una mesa de negociaciones.

And they established sheep farming on the islands, built a provisioning port and later coal bunkering facilities, all part of the growth of global trade.

The islands became a crown dependency of the UK in 1840 and the capital was established in Port Stanley in 1845.

And the island's strategic value was demonstrated during the First World War, when the Royal Navy used the islands to resupply before they destroyed a German squadron that had been operating across the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

In 1965, the United Nations ruled that a sovereignty dispute existed between Britain and Argentina.

But I was sent out to the Falkland Islands.

The British Parliament sent three members of Parliament out of Port Stanley to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their liberation from Argentina.

In my 19 years as a Member of Parliament, I've never been... on such an overseas delegation.

These people are hardcore British and they want to remain British.

Except, of course, while Sir Keir Starmer took a few days to consider his options, the UK is very much there for him, as American Air Force bombing runs continue to originate from RAF Fairford and Lakenheath and head in the direction of Iran.

One could even argue that Ronald Reagan wasn't really there for us in 1982, because he was still trying to talk Margaret Thatcher into climbing down over the islands, even as British troops closed in on Port Stanley with some, but only limited amounts of U.S. military backing.

In Argentina itself, Trump's political soulmate, President Javier Millay, last night threatened sanctions on companies drilling for oil off the Falkland Islands.

The islanders

And I think even with all of this, this is kind of where Britain's systems began to really prove themselves because...

When you look at the whole system, the Royal Navy had delivered the army, the carriers had kept enough air cover in place, the logistics chain strained but it was intact and it kept feeding the battles, British infantry units, marines, and paratroopers began attacking the high ground around Port Stanley.

Mount London, and Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge.

All of those names seem, you know, kind of small on map, but in a war, they became basically a world of fear, mud, tracer fire, and hand-to-hand violence.

When you look at the whole system, the Royal Navy had delivered the army, the carriers had kept enough air cover in place, the logistics chain strained but it was intact and it kept feeding the battles.

British infantry units, marines, and paratroopers began attacking the high ground around Port Stanley.

Mount London, and Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge.

All of those names seem, you know, kind of small on map, but in a war, they became basically a world of fear, mud, tracer fire, and hand-to-hand violence.