in-laws were republicans (boomers) and switched to democrat during 2016 cycle.
It was the last straw for this anon.
wish it were not true. It is.
Just as the anon said…brainwashing.
Died-in-the-wool defense contractor family, Lockgreed. Totally turned off by all the supposed hero's of GOP past being on the warpath against POTUS from the start.
They totally drank the kool-aid late in life.
no you are not
back again CRT
Maybe. Always wondered why Juan Fangio(5x F1 champ from 50's) made it a point to obtain a Malvinas driver's license. Always struck me as odd why he would even need to do that.
It has always been an issue between the two cty's
See this for another Fangio 'thing'
https://www.autoblog.com/2017/02/23/cuban-rebels-kidnapped-fangio-history/
Since this was not exactly a small issue back in the 80's.
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_falklands.html
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Causes
The Falkland Islands are a desolate and cold group of islands in the South Atlantic, 400 miles off the South American mainland. The two main islands are about the same area as Wales in the UK and in 1982 had a population of 1,820 people and 400,000 sheep - hardly a place that would expect an invasion or a war of liberation in response.
Before 1816 the island had a chequered past and were often left unguarded and uninhabited. After 1816 when Argentina won its independence from Spain they laid claim to the islands. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars Britain was determined to reassert its imperial claims and this included the Falklands. Pride was also at stake after the failure of a British expedition to Argentina during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1833 a British Naval force evicted the Argentineans and it was this act of aggression that they wished to avenge in 1982.
Under international law the Argentineans had no case, despite the original British aggression the Island had been settled and inhabited by the British continuously since 1833 with most of the islanders descended from the Scottish settlers brought there by the Falkland Islands Company to raise sheep. If such a claim as the Argentinean one was honoured then it would open an immense can of worms for many countries throughout the world. The British also pointed out that the UN charter gave small nations the right of National Self Determination and the islanders definitely wanted to remain British. Yet with such a seemingly worthless piece of territory at stake with a population equal to a large block of flats it seemed to the Argentineans that the British would offer no physical resistance especially with the distances involved and a population of 100,000 British Ex pats living on the Argentine mainland.
The Argentines had been taught since school that the British had stolen the islands and the country had not suffered the horrors of war as seen in the two world wars. It is also clear that if the Junta had not invaded the Falklands it would have gone to war elsewhere. The British didn't take such childish claims seriously while for the Argentineans it was a passionate, national cause. Caught up in a wave of patriotism the Argentinean government and people were about to pay a heavy price. Not expecting any British military response the Argentineans invaded on 2 April 1982 (Spring). If they had waited for 2 months it would have been too late for any British counter attack, but then the Argentineans hadn't even considered such an event.
I like these solutions and placements better
Total gentleman. Met him with Dan Gurney at LS during historics many years ago. Must have been late 80's.
The Merc connections though….different lens now.
'muh brah!!!!'