They had an agreement to share the oil gas stuff until
Nestor tore it up. The Falklanders have every right to extract the oil if they want. Just like
Uruguay,
Brazil and
Argentina are doing in their waters.
The Militarization campaign is a joke,
they have 4 euro fighters and 1 big ship that are only there for defence. In the case of war it wouldn't matter the location of the nuclear sub. It could launch the missiles anywhere if needed. As Pauper said a nuclear sub is very different from a nuclear armed sub.
Brazil has a nuclear sub in the works.
Argentina wants to refit a
35 year old rust bucket to make a nuclear sub.
The South Atlantic around the Falklands is very heavily managed and from 1990 - 2005 they were co-operating in managing the fish populations when again Nestor decided it would be politically benificial for him to raise the nationalistic shite about the Falklands again. Currently The Falklands waters are managed and
Argentina's are a mess.
You desperately need to look more into the history of the Falklands. Nobody had their property stripped or were expelled in 1833.
How are the
current Falklanders, many of whom can trace their family history to the islands further back than a lot of the Italians, Spaniards, Germans etc who came and populated Argentina, less entitled to control their future than the Brits who created Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc?
Timmerman ran away when he had the opportunity to talk to the Foreign Secretary in the UK. He refused to talk to the elected officials of the Falkland Islands. Do they not get Human Rights like the rest of the world? Should their future be decided by others?
In the early 2000's Blair tried to decide the future of Gibraltar without consulting the locals. Their politicians were quite unhappy and quickly held a referendum to scupper any deal being done behind their backs.
The 60s/70s were a different era. People's rights have changed a little (maybe not for the poor people of Ukraine at the moment.) The UK was in talks with Argentina, if they hadn't invaded there are all possibilities that some sort of agreement would have been done, ignoring the wishes of the local population.
What happened in Diego Garcia was wrong but 2 wrongs do not make a right. Throwing off the Falklanders from their land would be just as bad.
If Argentina had as strong a claim on the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands as they constantly claim to have. They would take it to the International Courts but they don't because their claim is weak and its much more valuable as a cheap nationalistic tool for whichever government wants to try and hide whatever self inflicted problem is affecting them at the time.
The certainly know where the ICJ is....
