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 Post subject: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:31 pm 
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Falklands conflict MKII? The first pebbles of the avalanche? nothing drags the world from recession like a good old fashioned war
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned that if the British Empire decides to attack Argentina, Venezuela would come to help its sister nation, now that the territorial dispute that the South American country holds with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands has intensified.

The statements were triggered by the UK’s decision to send a warship to the Falkland Islands, and possibly a nuclear submarine.

Chavez believes the move is ridiculous and the UK should instead leave the islands, and obey United Nations resolutions that say both countries should negotiate.

The country members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America, ALBA, also support Argentina's claim on the Falklands. Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa and Chavez pledged to evaluate potential sanctions on Britain if the European nation continues to refuse to talk with Argentina.

The Falkland Islands, known in Spanish as Malvinas, were the scenario for the war that 30 years ago granted the UK power over the archipelago that also includes the South Georgia and South Sandwich islands, and which is located more than 12,000 kilometres away from Britain.

Venezuela's support for Argentina comes at a time when the region appears stronger and more united than before, with a common vision against neocolonialism and imperialism.

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Venezuela's support for Argentina comes at a time when the region appears stronger and more united than before, with a common vision against neocolonialism and imperialism.


Sure, I'll take your word for it, presstv.

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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I was under the impression that the Falklands like Gibraltar wanted to remain British protectorates?

Britian would only act in a defensive manor anyway. No one, is all that concerned about the threats of Chavez.

What's he going to do talk them out of the Falklands?

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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The highlighted part is the meat of the issue i'd imagne.

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to hand over the Falklands Islands to Argentina.
Mr Chavez said he supported Argentina's protests over planned drilling in the Falklands, where UK companies are planning to look for oil and gas in nearby offshore areas."

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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dimejinky99 wrote:
The highlighted part is the meat of the issue i'd imagne.

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to hand over the Falklands Islands to Argentina.
Mr Chavez said he supported Argentina's protests over planned drilling in the Falklands, where UK companies are planning to look for oil and gas in nearby offshore areas."



Ah, indeed.

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Electromatic wrote:
I was under the impression that the Falklands like Gibraltar wanted to remain British protectorates?


some article i read earlier on the story said that, though i don't know where they sourced that claim, but either way i haven't seen anything claiming the people wanting freedom and chafing under british repression.

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dkfan9 wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
I was under the impression that the Falklands like Gibraltar wanted to remain British protectorates?


some article i read earlier on the story said that, though i don't know where they sourced that claim, but either way i haven't seen anything claiming the people wanting freedom and chafing under british repression.


So the Falklands are populated by Canadians?


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simple schoolboy wrote:
dkfan9 wrote:
Electromatic wrote:
I was under the impression that the Falklands like Gibraltar wanted to remain British protectorates?


some article i read earlier on the story said that, though i don't know where they sourced that claim, but either way i haven't seen anything claiming the people wanting freedom and chafing under british repression.


So the Falklands are populated by Canadians?

They really like Pippa.


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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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im more worried about the new U.S. weapon which spreads cancer between all the south american leaders

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psychobain wrote:
im more worried about the new U.S. weapon which spreads cancer between all the south american leaders

seems a rational weapon to use

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don't attack me bro

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psychobain wrote:
im more worried about the new U.S. weapon which spreads cancer between all the south american leaders



Cancer is the name of an exotic dancer no?

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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dkfan9 wrote:
psychobain wrote:
im more worried about the new U.S. weapon which spreads cancer between all the south american leaders

seems a rational weapon to use


i agree, like that weapon that is perfect for killing middle-east children

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Electromatic wrote:
psychobain wrote:
im more worried about the new U.S. weapon which spreads cancer between all the south american leaders



Cancer is the name of an exotic dancer no?


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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Cameron hits back over Falklands
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Britain's prime minister David Cameron hit back at Argentina today over its plans to protest to the United Nations against British "militarisation" of the Falklands, saying islanders would have London's backing for as long as they wished to remain British.

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez accused Britain on Tuesday of "militarising the South Atlantic" and said she would complain to the United Nations, as tension rises before the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war this year."

"Argentina will find when she goes to the United Nations that it is an absolutely key part of the United Nations charter to support self-determination," Mr Cameron told a news conference after talks with Nordic and Baltic leaders in Stockholm.

"The people of the Falkland Islands want to maintain ... their connection to the United Kingdom."

As long as the people in the Falkland Islands want to maintain that status, we will make sure that they do and we will defend the Falkland Islands properly to make sure that is the case," he said in his first comments on Ms Fernandez's pledge.

Britain went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, called Las Malvinas in Argentina, in 1982. London has refused to start talks on sovereignty with Argentina unless the roughly 3,000 islanders want them.A war of words between the two governments has escalated in recent months.

Oil exploration by British companies off the islands has raised the stakes. Ms Fernandez condemned British plans to deploy one of its most advanced destroyers, HMS Dauntless, to the area. She also criticised the posting of Prince William, second in line to the British throne, to the islands as a military search-and-rescue pilot.

Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman will present the country's complaint to the UN Security Council's president tomorrow, a ministry statement said. Britain has denied militarizing the South Atlantic and says its "defensive posture" in the islands remains unchanged.

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Cameron hits back over Falklands
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing52.html

saying islanders would have London's backing for as long as they wished to remain British.


lol

most of them ARE british...guess what?

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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Living in a barn doesn't make you a horse. The people there are basically itinerants on Argentinian soil and should be removed. Coming as I do, from the POV that if you want to be British, Britain is over there, and looks like this
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Funnily enough, The Scots are about to devolve completely from the UK sometime this year following the results of a referendum. edit-the fuss now being the terms United Kingdom and Great Britain, will then be obsolete. And the English upper middle classes dont like it one bit.

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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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i agree...but

btw, there's a lot of oil there

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Did Britain retire her last aircraft carrier yet? If so, isn't Argentina in a pretty advantageous position to take the islands back?

I wonder how much the US policy to maintain what, 10, 11 carrier strike groups factored into the decision to downgrade the fleet air arm.


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 Post subject: Re: Chavez warns UK about attack on Argentina
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psychobain wrote:
i agree...but

btw, there's a lot of oil there


Not really. There is some oil there, but far from being high quality and very profitable.

And Venezuela is pretty much on the other side of South America, just some Chavez bravado.

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