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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

counterintuitively, turns out Thatcher went above and beyond to prevent war, even offering to negotiate the future status of the islands. In their dictatorial vigour the Argentines declined to talk.

It's incredible that if the dictatorship did nothing, they'd have the fucking islands by now. Same as china and Hong Kong, they didn't have to start installing puppets and be an asshole just yet, they could just have waited a bit more and the island would be 100% theirs with 0 controversy.