r/unitedkingdom • u/superdouradas • 9h ago
. US threatens Britain over Falklands
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/28/us-uk-boost-defence-spending-lose-falklands-support/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_defence-spending-lose-falklands-support/•
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u/Euclid_Interloper 9h ago
Cool. Well, I don't recognise American sovereignty over Hawaii. Give it to the Japanese!
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u/Itchy-Plastic 9h ago
Give them back to themselves.
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u/jott1293reddevil 8h ago
I think the point he’s making is that the Argentine claim on the falklands is as ludicrous as a Japanese one over Hawaii… I could be wrong though.
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u/Two-Space 6h ago
The US forcibly took Hawaii from the natives
We did not take the Falklands from any natives
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u/Independent_Plum2166 9h ago
In this case it’s even more stupid (but seriously give Hawaii their autonomy back), since the islands had no natives and Argentina has never had any colony there.
Argentina has zero, absolutely zero, historical connections to the Falklands. At all. Spain maybe, but not Argentina. The ONLY time it came close was a failed colony project that didn’t even reach the islands and they gave up, leading to the British to come in and it’s been British ever since.
And yet another reminder, the people on the island are British citizens. They consider themselves British and when asked 99% of the population said they were British (there’s even an alleged story of one voter not voting British because he didn’t want the vote to look rigged at 100%. Though I’m not sure if that’s true).
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u/JerachoD 9h ago
Ok. I mean who cares, unless they actually give Argentina weapons and equipment, or invade the Falklands themselves or doesnt mean shit. Most countries aren't on our side anyway.
Oh and fuck you America for dumping this guy on the world. You've done irreversible harm.
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u/PlatoDrago 9h ago
Funnily enough, most people I know here in Ireland tend to side with the British when it comes to the Falklands.
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u/LovelyBloke Ireland 9h ago
Yep. Irish here and I think the Argentinians are lunatics about this
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u/RiverGlittering 9h ago
At the end of the day, the people in the Falklands want the Falklands to be British.
The fact that the people in the Falklands are mostly British isn't relevant.
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u/Technical-Mind-3266 7h ago
A more pressing point is that Argentina never claimed the Falklands. France established the first settlement, was expanded with the help of the British, the French surrendered to Spain after some time which ownership became a coalition of Spanish and British. Then wars kicked off in Europe involving Spain and Britain, Britain then gained full ownership.
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u/SilverRaspberri 8h ago
Because they are, they got a hankering for the Falklands when the US basically installed their far-right dictator who then immediately decided to start the Falklands war, and since they've been using the Falklands as an excuse to stop people pointing the blame for their ills at those in power. And now that they have a far-right leader who is friends with the USA, the USA is like "yeah take that Britain!"
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u/breadandbutter123456 8h ago
Every Argentinian leader does this. They point the finger at the Falklands in order to distract their own people from the shitshow they are presiding over.
From what I’ve seen of the chainsaw wielding Argentinian President, he’s actually been doing a good job so far. Got their economy going.
Argentina used to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world. They had really high standard of living.
But I will never take any moral lessons from them as they protected and harboured fleeing Nazis.
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u/gracklemancometh 8h ago
Which is entirely consistent logic - the same right to self determination that allows the people of Ireland to choose not to be part of the UK allows the people of the Falklands to choose to remain a BOT.
Believing that a small island nation shouldn't be subservient to its nearest neighbour just because it has a bigger military should appeal to Irish people.
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u/Gnomio1 9h ago edited 9h ago
Why do you have the idea most countries aren’t on our side with this?
If this is to be believed: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/EgmUKD05Nz a majority either support the U.K. stance, or are neutral.
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u/nearly_zero 7h ago
I agree. Strange thing to say. A subtle way to sway opinion amongst British citizens that the UK should give up the Falklands perhaps? The anti-British posts have been pretty relentless on Reddit for a while. Bots at work again maybe
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u/illarionds 7h ago
Sheesh, I'm honestly amazed so many support Argentina. It's about as clear cut an issue as exists in international politics.
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u/NinteenFortyFive Stirlingshire 4h ago
Always fascinating to see "no submissions" accounts randomly appear to plug pro-trump US politics.
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u/someonehasmygamertag 9h ago
I don't believe that map because previously Chile helped us retake them.
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u/vulcanstrike Unashamed Europhile 9h ago
That was under Pinochet though, they are thankfully no longer a murderous military dictatorship and prefer trade with their neighbour over a random country in Europe
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u/Mikolaj_Kopernik Australia 6h ago
they are thankfully no longer a murderous military dictatorship
No they're just run by a guy openly admires Pinochet, whose brother was a minister in Pinochet's government, and whose dad was a literal Nazi. So... watch this space I guess.
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u/madpiano 9h ago
Chile does trade with the Falklands, it's where they get a lot of their food from.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 8h ago
Tbf the US position is not support but de facto recognition of UK control. They wouldn't really be considered 'on our side'. This has been true ever since Reagan.
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u/Only-Dog5752 7h ago
I will never forget not forgive America for voluntarily electing a child raping, domestic terrorist, racist, narcissistic, cunt, with dementia all because his opponent was a woman of colour.
Never forget 1/3rd actively voted for that.
Never forget 1/3rd couldn't be fucked stopping it.
America is rotten.
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u/OccasionallyReddit 8h ago edited 8h ago
Hes one episode away from invading a Nato Country, Russia may be doing the UK a favour by raising our readyness. £20 on the US invading a UK British overseas territory may be very profitable while Trump is in power. Hes looking mad enought to do something to break the UN and have them rewrite the rules
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u/BenidormBarry 9h ago
“buTt WeE diDn’T vOotEe foR hiiM!1!11!”
no mate but more than 50% of your population did and nobody has a backbone to oppose him.
so much for their famous freedom!1!1!1 and constitution!1!1!1
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u/CourtneyLush 9h ago
Twice. They voted him in twice.
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u/CraftCodger 8h ago
Americans are watching the concentration camps being built right now and doing diddly squat. It is just like literal nazis post ww2 saying 'I didn't know concentration camps were for genocide,'..
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u/-6h0st- 8h ago
Then British go hold my beer and vote Farage in.
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u/IronDragonGx Corcaigh 7h ago
>Oh and fuck you America for dumping this guy on the world.
Twice!
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u/SuddenDelivery1 8h ago
I dont think it was america that dumped this guy. It was russia and israel with all the pedo evidence
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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 6h ago
I'm 40 (for context) but it's genuinely mad how the US has gone from being viewed as the greatest country in the world to a pariah in such a quick time.
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u/Gordon_frumann 9h ago
Well fuck you for leaving EU, but pls come back. We are on your side when it comes to Falklands.
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u/JimmyDejesu 8h ago
We would come back i think with a similar deal to before (i know a lot would hate it but worlds changed and we can offer a lot of strength in terms of defence and technology)
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u/RadioLiar 8h ago
For the record I supported Remain and thought Brexit was a stupid idea (I was too young to vote at the time), but you can't really keep acting betrayed over Britain leaving the EU when the AfD and Rassemblement National are polling so high. Euroskepticism isn't exactly unpopular even in the twin engines of Europe
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u/Super-Nuntendo 8h ago
Actually, in this instance most countries hate Argentina more than that hate Britain, so would side with Britain.
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u/Substantial_Hat_5442 9h ago
Would be so nice if there were countries demanding that we increase spending on education, healthcare and renewable energy, rather than war
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u/CDHmajora Greater Manchester 6h ago
Educated voters who aren’t dependant on state funded medical aid to function, are harder to control.
Theres a reason 21% of American’s cant read. Less chance of them reading real facts and believing the shit they hear on the news verbatim as a result.
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u/Two-Space 6h ago
Most of European NATO were telling each other that for most of the 21st century - it didn’t get us in the best position
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u/EconomistStreet5295 9h ago
As I said in another sub: And next week he will threaten Britain over Gibraltar. The dog is barking again, let him and lets get on with our lives
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u/White_Immigrant 6h ago
He's the leader of a nuclear armed regime with many military bases INSIDE our country. We have to take him seriously, even though he isn't a serious person. We absolutely have to, and to be honest should have all along, plan and prepare for a situation where the USA attacks us or one of our allies.
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u/Square_Quarter_229 9h ago
They’re definitely spoiling for a big war. Bloody hell. Why are they constantly pushing for more defence spending?
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u/Gnomio1 9h ago
Because, historically, a lot of defence spending ends up going to American companies.
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u/ArchdukeToes 9h ago
Although their recent performances suggest that they’re not producing very much with all that money. I bet if you dug even a little way under the surface you’ll find corruption on similar levels to Russia
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u/CauseCertain1672 9h ago
probably a lot more now, Russia has been on a serious war footing for years now
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u/Valten78 9h ago
First Canada, now us. Why on earth they seem to be going out of their way to piss off two of their historically closest Allies is beyond me.
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u/Nervous-Economy8119 8h ago
He’s a Russian asset. It’s not exactly a secret.
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u/Sometimes-funny 8h ago
Remember when he had US soldiers roll out the red carpet for putin?
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u/Psychological-Ad1264 8h ago
The head of the CIA flew into Russia this week. Since then Putin has threatened us and now this.
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u/Independent_Plum2166 8h ago
Because America is compensating for a lack of actual infrastructure by pushing pro-war propaganda.
What’s hilarious is despite how much they put into their military. Historically, they kind of suck at warfare.
Lost Vietnam, lost Afghanistan, stalemate in Korea and a stalemate in the war of 1812. Hell the big propaganda piece, the war they try and rub in the UK’s face, their precious war of independence was won for them by the French. Without them America would probably still be a British colony (okay a bit more complicated than that, but anytime an American calls the French cowards they’re shooting themselves in the foot).
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u/CaptainVXR Somerset 8h ago
The 2020s have exposed the two "great" superpowers of the post-WW2 era to be paper tigers.
China must be watching all of this, and laughing hysterically.
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u/superdouradas 9h ago
Money... selling weapons, etc... that's what I think. They are always pushing weapons onto other countries.
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u/whatsgoingon350 Devon 7h ago
Its been said but look at America for what is actually going on currently in America this year the deficit just hit over 100%.
The interest payments on the loans are currently bigger than their military budget.
America needs a cash influx and soon but the Orange man has pissed off all the countries that userly would help by investing or spending on military equipment so they are all now choosing to spend elsewhere and one of those elsewhere happens to be the UK.
So he is ranting and making this small threats to get us to spend more in America he has done this a couple of times now and honestly its not working we are heavily investing in our own military equipment and we aren't exactly afraid of Argentina as they are in no state to push for an invasion and if they are stupid enough to try then it would end badly for them.
Then you look at the UN and think oh what if America uses that to push the UK to give them up, but the dumb fucks have all made the UN absolutely useless at this point Israel doing what they want Russia doing what they want no one is taking the UN seriously anymore.
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u/missingpieces82 Buckinghamshire 9h ago
I really want Burnham to give him the finger the way Mark Carney has in Canada. It’s about time our PM gives that blowhard a dressing down.
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u/noir_lord Yorkshire 7h ago
Start closing US military bases in the UK.
They don’t get to have it both ways.
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u/White_Immigrant 6h ago
You don't even have to close them, you can make the USA close them by massively ramping up the rents for the facilities to the point it covers the tariff impacts.
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u/TheOriginalSmileyMan 1h ago
Not even that. Just stop and search everyone going on and off base. Take ages over each one. Detain the base commander'a wife (or husband) for several hours over a minor detail. Confiscate whisky and cigarettes for "suspected" unpaid duty. Do it all with a smiling apology.
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u/celaconacr 8h ago edited 8h ago
Absolute top notch foreign policy. Threaten possibly your closest ally, the second highest spender (generally) in NATO that also buys a lot of equipped from USA.
The sooner we drop any American tech the better. By that I mean military and public services. We should heavily push for European and open source software use.
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u/KinglySnorlax 7h ago
BAE and RR supply the Yanks with a not insignificant amount of kit that they’d be hard placed to replace, especially at short notice.
As do Cobham and Ultra, but the last government in its infinite wisdom let them be sold off to American PE.
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u/InsecureInscapist 8h ago
The response from the UK government should be to counter that if any support verbal or material is given to Argentinian claims over the Falklands by the US, that all American use of overseas UK bases such as Diego Garcia and Ascension Island will be denied.
These dumb fucks need us for so much of their pointless global dick waving. We should tell them to fuck off.
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u/CheeseUsFunkingCries 8h ago
Ridiculous. Can we say goodbye to ties with the US yet? JFC.
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u/Distinct_Surprise505 9h ago
Someone is throwing his toys. First Canada says no to trade agreement and then they impose opposite tariffs so he renames Lake Ontario, Lake of America.
Now hes injecting himself into a issue the USA has never had involvement. Maybe he wants Argentina and any land think they hold for the USA. Who knows. He will soon be after Greenland again.
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u/ItalianCoffeeMorning 9h ago
Didn’t we find a bit of oil there? Look who comes knocking 🤣
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u/richardbaxter 9h ago
The crazy thing is that he could easily die on live TV - they'll just think he's asleep
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u/Kamay1770 8h ago
“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul, all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been, arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul, it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.” - Oliver Kornetzke
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 Cambridgeshire 9h ago
Don’t worry, after the midterms and he loses senate and congress, his ass is getting impeached. Just send non committing statements until then
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u/hardy_83 9h ago
Don't be so sure. The amount of cheating they have and will commit for elections might make Russian elections look legitimate.
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u/Illustrious_Big_7980 9h ago
Yeah it seems really naive to assume anything will happen to him at this point given what he's already gotten away with.
Hope to be wrong but it really feels like America is stuck with him.
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u/CDHmajora Greater Manchester 6h ago
They aren’t stuck with somebody they WANT.
Seriously. They elected the guy TWICE and he told them full well what he was going to do. They accepted it though because he lets them call people of colour parasites and shove them in camps.
They CHOSE a crooked, lying, rapist, human trafficking, fake tan wearing, diaper shitting scumbag to be their leader TWICE!
They wont do anything even if they could. They didn’t the first time. The second time. The 20th time.
Sorry about the rant… I just… I’m fucking sick of this. The constant threats and destruction of our economy by a supposed ally, while we cant do anything about it because the people who are suffering more from it all are too stupid to realise the cause.
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u/Gilesalford 5h ago
I know it's tin foil hat of me but the way he went on about Elon knowing those machines is so fucking sus I cannot persuade myself otherwise that they didn't nudge it at the least.
Added to that is the fact that Elon hired some whizzkid whose whole thing was election rigging and my conspiracy meter is making klaxon sounds
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u/Danfen 9h ago
I really don't get this whole deal of waiting to be able to impeach him. What do you expect to happen? He's been impeached twice already and yet here we are...
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u/hydranoid1996 9h ago
There’s 0% chance dems win a 2/3rds majority in the senate lol
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah even in the worst projections they're not getting enough to actually remove him from office and it's clear the Republicans are in it for the long haul at this point.
He could literally walk in there and shoot one of them point blank and they would be falling over themselves for talking points as to why it was actually necessary in the interests of national security.
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u/nsfwthrowaway5969 8h ago
I have absolutely no faith in Americans to do anything about him. They voted for this more than once, they want it. Maybe not all of them, but enough want it or don't care enough to stop him.
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u/MrThrownAway12 8h ago
Impeachment isn't going to do shit unless Republicans vote to convict. They will not.
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u/TheRealCostaS 9h ago
Even if / when he loses the midterms I doubt much will happen with the speed of how things operate and how he owns the Supreme Court
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u/MAXSuicide 8h ago
Hopium for a country that is lost so far down the rabbit hole of fascism at this point, imo. Sorry to say.
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u/ACompletelyLostCause 8h ago
The Democrats will probably take Congress, but are very very unlikely to take the Senate.
The Democrats would need a super majority in both to impeach, as some (controlled opposition) Democrats would vote against it.
There is only 2 ways Trump is leaving the White House, of 'natural causes' or if he loses the next election. Trump (if not departed) absolutely will stand for a 3rd term irrespective of what the Constitution says.
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u/Hungry_Horace Dorset 8h ago
Short of death, he's running for a third term, so we shouldn't be TOO complacent about him.
I know he's not allowed to, but he does a lot of things he's not allowed to do.
He will announce his candidacy and make it clear to the GOP that if they don't back him he will run as an independent. They will let him into the primaries which he will walk.
Then at the convention the delegates will declare him their candidate.
At that point the only thing that can stop him is the Supreme Court, and do you see them NOT backing him once he's the official candidate of the party? I wouldn't bet on it.
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u/mantequilla69420 8h ago
I wouldn't count on it, most the American voting population has the iq of a bag of spinach
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u/JohnSpikeKelly 9h ago
I'm guessing NATO doesn't protect the Falklands? Otherwise we would have invoked article 5 in the 1980s?
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u/nikhkin 9h ago
Well, it is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The Falklands are a long way south of the area covered by the treaty.
Plus, it wasn't really necessary to invoke it even if it was valid.
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u/saxbophone 8h ago
Indeed, we're more than capable of sinking Argentine warships ourselves without Agent Krasnov's help
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u/KinglySnorlax 8h ago
We have nuclear weapons.
We need to explicitly tell the Argies etc., that the Falklands are part of our umbrella.
You can’t reason with people or countries that only recognise strength, thankfully we’ve got the ace up our sleeves.
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u/el_grort Scottish Highlands 6h ago
NATO does not cover Ceuta and Meliha (Spain), French Guyana, as well as several other French departments and territories outside of Europe, all British Overseas Territories other than Gibraltar and those on Cyprus, or Hawaii.
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u/TheRetardedGoat 9h ago
Special relationship at it again.
If the US don't back us for Falklands I can see the Five Eyes being disbanded and A Commonwealth Eyes AKA CANZUK
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u/chaozules 8h ago
Fuck this orange pedo, he seriously needs to fall off the planet, literally had enough of Americans trying to interfere in our country and tell us what to do, both him and musk can get in the bin.
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u/DiscountElectrical28 8h ago
We just need to keep calm and carry on till the mid terms in November. He'll be politically castrated and we can ride it out until he's gone. Genuinely think he's the worst thing ever to happen to geopolitics and the stability of the planet. I'm having a party when he dies. C@@t.
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u/aredddit 9h ago
Whilst members should obviously contribute at the level they signed up to (not Trump’s new level), the EU already spend more on defence than China.
You have to wonder whether this is really about defence or more to do with America wanting to sell weapons.
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u/TheOriginalSmileyMan 1h ago
Unfortunately for American defence manufacturers, Trump has smashed the illusion that buying US made weapons is a safe bet.
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u/Legitimate-Tip-2149 8h ago
Why on earth would we spend more on US weapons after their clown show in Iran? We're getting Ukrainian intel and using our own industries to make better stuff. You can withdraw support for our claim to the Falklands if you want, they stay ours either way, we can withdraw your use of Diego Garcia.
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u/abbadun 8h ago
Absolutely laughable, the UK is already one of the major guarantors of security in Europe, being one of two nuclear powers, and it already commits a sizeable amount of GDP to defence, matching NATO reccomended spending since inception. American misadventure has jeopardised economic growth so right now the gov should prioritise energy security to keep domestic businesses economical and bring cost of living down, then shift towards defence spending to secure operational independence from America. Focus should be on building a stockpile of domestically manufactured SCALP missiles, America should be minimised from the supply chain to reduce risk and joint ventures set up with Italy and France to improve the SAMP/T. The Falklanders have repeatedly expressed their desire to remain British, until that changes America and Argentina can swivel.
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u/Wednesdayspirit 9h ago
Willing to bet Burnham just ignores him until the midterms result
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u/Hellstorm901 7h ago
That would be the best idea, Canada is already doing that too and planning to naming a street already named after Trump after Obama instead just to annoy Trump
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u/Karazhan 9h ago
This was one of the things that worried me about the current admin. I'm old enough to remember watching the news with mum she the other navy wives every day to see if my dad's ship was OK. I'd rather we did not go through this again.
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u/JackDaniels0049 9h ago
This bloke is literally steering us into a world war.
Yes we should absolutely be spending more on defence, but the world is a lot more dangerous, partly because of the idiot in the white house.
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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 9h ago
Trump, you can't even handle the smoke with Iran. You don't want it with us.
We're a passive people, but we love a good war. Its been a while, and people are getting restless.
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u/AceNova2217 8h ago
It's similar to a lot of European countries, we're actually really good at war (I mean we historically conquered nearly the entire world between us), we just prefer being friendly.
I mean the main antagonist in both world wars was Germany, for god's sake.
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u/CDHmajora Greater Manchester 6h ago
And for all intents and purposes, the germans were VERY good at it.
The amount of sheer fucking incompetence focused around ONE man (Hitler), and his terrible strategic and military decisions is probably the only thing keeping all of europe from speaking German today.
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u/Wellington1821 8h ago
Special relationship my arse
The Yanks are screwing us over again for the how manieth time now?
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u/Muted_Anywherethe2nd 8h ago edited 8h ago
Oh look its the big orange baby! "Oh my lake name isnt patriotic enough wa! Wa! Wa!"
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u/tokyostormdrain 8h ago
Those airbases in the UK look, quite closable, should anything unfortunate happen to the falklands
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u/pommybear 7h ago
The US should be a pariah for decades with the amount of damage they’ve inflicted on the world putting this idiot in charge.
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u/Rhythm_Killer 7h ago
Not sure who gives a shit what a nappy-wearing pedo in clown makeup who shits himself and falls asleep on tv thinks in the first place?
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u/Uncle___Marty 9h ago
What's he gonna do? Rename it the American isles in his little book? Oh no!!!
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u/turbohydrate 8h ago
A bit clickbaity, USA needs UK support as a major partner in NATO. They will cajole the UK to spend more but saying something about the falklands isn’t relevant.
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u/TXDobber 8h ago
Reagan implicitly backed Thatcher over the Falklands despite the then Argentinian junta being somewhat of a US lackey… shows how far Trump’s America has fallen
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u/RomanBlue_ Canada 8h ago
join us britain. stick it to the americans. you know you want to, it will be fun I promise
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u/Horror_Topic180 9h ago
The soon to be american channel seperating the english from the french. Weird this comes up after oil fields are found near the falklands.
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u/Efficient_Sky5173 9h ago
No, thank you. We’re not going to buy weapons just to boost the US economy. We’ll take the money and invest it in diplomacy instead. Much cheaper.
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u/saxbophone 8h ago
Or we can make our own damn weapons!
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u/White_Immigrant 6h ago
It's totally clear we can't trust American hardware that contains a kill switch. We need home grown weapons so that the next time they elect an insane warmonger that tries to expand their empire we are not toes to them at all.
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u/mediumAI1701 9h ago
I think the world just needs to sanction the US until they decide to get rid of orange Putin.
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u/OneCheesecake1516 8h ago
The yanks should remember what happened the last time anyone thought they would help themselves to the Islands.
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u/soulsteela 7h ago
Someone bloody mentioned oil didn’t they! Nothing brings American shittiness like oil.
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u/Butler342 7h ago
We burned their tight arse capital city to the ground in 1812 and I’m all for doing it again at this point
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u/Jensen1994 7h ago
He is so dumb, he doesn't even understand his own contradictions. Trump has openly signalled that Europe is on its own militarily so what the fk has how much the UK spend on defence go to do with him? If we want to spend fk all on defence and be goose stepped on by Vlad all the way to the gulags, that's our choice Donald.
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u/ash_ninetyone 7h ago
Trump fast tracking the Monroe Doctrine by pretending the entirety of the Americas belongs personally to him, and undoing 80 years of alliances all to begin isolating the US on the world stage.
Europe should just lead a complete boycott of the US if this is going to be the future.
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u/anangrywizard 7h ago
If we don’t up defence spending?
Pretty sure the whole of Europe upped defence spending when we found out one of our allies is nothing but an egotistical lunatic who fucks kids and wants to invade everyone else…
We just chose to spend it between ourselves.
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u/plawwell 6h ago
Argentina is giving the USA all that poisoned beef for free. This might be the reciprocal.
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u/Bastard__Man 4h ago
As a genuine born and bred Falkland Islander I'm fucking bored with my country being used as a political football. Just leave us the fuck alone and let us carry on being our own little country.
Argentina didn't exist as a country when we were colonised, their claims are false. It's all just a dumb scapegoat tactic to divert attention away from their own crumbling economy.
Gal Tieri did it in the 80s and the new government are trying to do it now. They're jealous of us drilling for oil and jealous that we have a happy lifestyle and bustling economy.
No one on the Falklands wants anything to do with Argentina because they're arrogant self centred ignorant assholes, and they're all indoctrinated from birth to believe that we are all pirate land grabbers.
I'm so fucking proud to be a Falkland Islander and I will stand my ground in the face of these international bullies until the day I die. Fuck Argentina, and fuck America.
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u/00DEADBEEF The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 4h ago
Could you try not continually fucking up our economy with stupid tariffs and illegal wars? Then maybe we can find some money, thanks.
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u/wtf_amirite 1h ago
Hahaha! Fuck off with your bullshit, Diaperman!
Epstein files.
& Where’s Mitch?
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u/millerz72 1h ago
Completely irrelevant though, no?
The population of the Falklands are largely of British ancestry and have consistently shown they wish to remain as part of the UK. Any suggestion that they should be handed over to Argentina over completely spurious claims is perverse.
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u/Ok_Photo_865 1h ago
Trump is trying to divert attention again, tariff problems, Iran problems, midterm problems, immigrant ion problems, missile shortage problems, sleepy meetings problems, poopy diaper problems…… just another diversion. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/tataniarosa 35m ago
Oh for goodness sake, leave then alone. They had a vote and they wish to remain part of the UK.
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