Remember that time a non-nuclear state attacked a nuclear power and nothing fricking happened?
Yeah nukes only exist on paper.
Remember that time a non-nuclear state attacked a nuclear power and nothing fricking happened?
Yeah nukes only exist on paper.
Not how deterrence works. If it was an instant "I win" button that current nuke powers could use to bully any non nuke powers into getting whatever they want, you would have total global proliferation overnight.
What’s the point of using nukes on a bunch of 16 year old conscripts when you can just send Royal Marines to slap the shit out of them and they I’ll run away?
>nothing fricking happened?
Besides Argentina getting its ass kicked, yeah. But I guess that's practically nothing given how much of a foregone conclusion that was when no other great power stepped in on her behalf.
>total global proliferation overnight
>but muh nooks
That's because the British aren't buttholes.
Nuclear weapons are for deterrence against other nuclear powers, not for killing third-worlders.
>That's because the British aren't buttholes.
The British are buttholes. They have always been buttholes.
They didn't use nukes because there was no tangible benefit to doing so and would have cost them a significant amount of political capital at home and abroad.
You might as well ask why they didn't bomb school buses in a terror campaign.
>no tangible benefit to doing so and would have cost them a significant amount of political capital at home and abroad.
Well exactly. Which makes bongs not-arseholes. Unlike Russwana, which is doing exactly that.
>You might as well ask why they didn't bomb school buses in a terror campaign
Because Argentina was too poor to have schools, let alone buses for them?
kek none of you defended Argentina against my calling them third-worlders
Exactly the response I expected, too. 🙂
Because they are third worlders? Did you think they were first or 2nd worlders? Do you even know what it means to be third world? Here is a hint. It doesn't mean poor shithole even though that is what a majority of them are.
oooh someone is salty for being a loser.
Why use nukes when you can just as well win without them?
>That's because the British aren't buttholes.
I mean they are, but at least they aren't nuclear buttholes.
>That's because the British aren't buttholes.
citation needed
>not for killing third worlders.
They should be though.
>why is a weapon of last resort not used as the first resort?
Man the West cannot stop winning.
>Armenia gets bombed from Azerbaijan
>Russians immediately refuse to assist and tell them to frick off.
Conversely
>Couple of Islands of absolutely no value get invaded
>Uk sends a carrier and fricking fights
West>Alles
anglosphere literally too powerful
>be Reagan
>say "Yeah we're staying out of this conflict, guys! We're neutral in this!"
>Meet up with the Brits and exchange intelligence daily while you laugh at Argies getting owned
[laughs in NATO]
I hate Vatniks to but this has to be one of the cringest pictures I’ve ever seen.
>of no value
The waters are full of oil.
That's a environmental disaster! What is happening to all the penguins, are they ok?
Why do you think they're black?
They're dressed for fancy parties?
They're being towed outside of the environment
into another environment?
Weren't those found after the war?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/declassified-files-reveal-british-interest-in-falkland-islands-oil
>In 1975, an energy department official wrote: “Our ministers are very interested in the possibility of exploiting offshore oil around the Falkland Islands.”
>Britain protested again in 1981 when Argentina auctioned more exploration licences. A Foreign Office official wrote: “We must maintain that any oil in the Falkland Islands continental shelf is British, without specifying whether we mean HMG or Falkland Islands have the right to exploit it. The important point is that it is ours not Argentine.”
How is South America not the West? They're Catholics who speak romance languages.
Why does the island belong to the British when it's so close to Argentina? Why did Reagan allow the British to do whatever they want in the Americas despite the existence of the Monroe Doctrine.
T.Seething Argie
Nah, just legit questions.
Because they owned it for a 100 years and before then it was owned by the Spanish and French. This is like claiming Mexico should claim Puerto Rico because their close to each other and used to be controlled by Spain
>This is like claiming Mexico should claim Puerto Rico because their close to each other and used to be controlled by Spain
It makes sense, tbh and the US wouldn't be losing anything.
Puerto Rico wouldn't be happy about losing out on American gibs, and they've even been making noise about statehood, so it's very apt comparison right down to the locals hating it.
>They've been making noise about statehood.
No they haven't. They have rejected statehood multiple times. There are a few homosexuals pushing for statehood and doing everything including removing "remain a territory" from public voting options.
I never said it was going to happen since it's up to Washington and not them, but you're quite flatly wrong about them rejecting it. There has been multiple referendums on the topic, with the most recent in 2020 being a quite simple
>Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State?
53% yes, 47% no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_statehood_movement#2020_referendum
The 2020 referendum was boycotted specifically because there was no "remain a territory" option, moron. Less than 10% turnout
>Puerto Rico population
>3.194 million
>votes
>655,505 yes
>592,671 no
That would be 30% turnout of the entire population, not all of who're of voting age, and puts them right around the turnout rate of the US in a midterm election. You know that you're anonymous here, right? You can just stop posting, and no one will know you're moronic the next time you open your mouth unless you say something equally as stupid then.
Not responding to water hispanics sorry.
i can excuse moronicness. what i can't excuse is confident moronicness
why doesn't Puerto Rico want to become a territory? iirc rich expats from USA messes up PR's local economy. Plus, wouldn't they get seats in Congress if they become a state? They'd still get gibs from the government since a bunch of states get federal funds.
They'd get more gibs but also pay more in taxes and have to live up to a bunch of US regulations from my vague memories, but I could be wrong. They also would have to find some way to convince the Republicans and Democrats that letting them in won't change the balance of power, or try it when the government is being run by a singular party and pander to them.
>it's so close to Argentina
!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting geofact:
When Argentina first made the claim on the Falkvinas, its southern border was further away from the islands than the US is from Bermuda.
The F belongs to A no more than Japan belongs to China.
why does northern Argentina belongs to Argentina when it's so close to Brazil?
>Why did Reagan allow the British to do whatever they want in the Americas
1. The people living on the island didn't want to be under Argentina's rule. Go figure.
2. S P E C I A L R E L A T I O N S H I P
The US should have been the one to slap Argentina. The British had no reason to do a military operation in the America's and Reagan was a fricking cuck who should have been assassinated for allowing the British to operate in the Americas, showing weakness of the United States.
>The US should have been the one to slap Argentina.
No that's weird. Why should American troops enforce an island's right to remain a British territory when Thatcher is willing to spend the cash (and buy from the US, btw) to do it herself? Weird.
The US would step in to break it up if things got out of hand, but Britannia is a capable nation, she can take care of her own business and foot her own bill in blood and treasure.
Why would the USA give a shit about one of it's foreign airstrips fricking over Argentina.
Underrated
>it’s so close to me so therefore it belongs to me
>Why does the island belong to the British
Because they can defend it.
Simple as
Argentina belongs to Chile
The same reason for BIOT
It doesn't belong to Argentina.
Nobody was going to cause WW3 over the fricking Falklands and Britain showed it didn’t have to use them anyways from how quickly they slapped Argentina. Using nukes on Argentina would be a complete and total waste when the British goal was only securing Malvinas back and it became apparent that Argentina was in no shape for a prolonged conflict anyways.
They were a British territory for long before all of that and specifically voted to continue being a British territory because anyone with a brain could see how much of a shithole Argentina was right from their house.
Based Exocet missiles killed lot of britcucks and destroyed more ships than argies lost.
Who controls the island right now?
Falkland Islanders, protected by British forces. (Because F'ers are Brits of course)
So the k/d ratio isn't what decides the winner?
Didnt the Argentroonys get trounced?
Yes.
Argie are you okay? Are you okay argie?
Most US nuclear weapons would not work either way, nuclear readiness overall is fairly limited
https://www.c-span.org/video/?519954-1/hearing-nuclear-readiness-amid-russia-ukraine-war
bruh.
>Most US nuclear weapons would not work either way
That's not what your link says, you dollar store glavset wiener.
You know I was going to make fun of you for suggesting that the reasonable reaction to the Falklands war was to nuke Argentina into dust
But that actually sounds like a really interesting alt-history scenario, so I'll let it slide
The only reason the bongs did not nuke beunos nachos was that the Argies were CIA lapdogs and had to kept alive against commie neighbours.
Remember that time Hiroshima and Nagasaki existed and the USAAC was just like "nah"
Because only mongoloid savages threaten muh nooks over a territorial dispute.
The nuclear power threatened nuclear usage, genuinely considered the use and won conventionally (nullifying the need to use them)
They also didn't call NATO in
Reminder that Argentina won politically.
>Argentinian and British dictators go to war over some Islands in order to win popular support
>Argentina loses, Argentinian dictator loses popular support and is ousted, Argentinian people thrive
>Britain wins, British dictator gains popular support and is reelected, British people suffer
inb4 I get called brown or an Argie; I'm a white American. Thatcher kindly provided the world a public unisex bathroom in her death.
>UK
Gdp $2.7T (6th)
Life expectancy 81.5 years
Minimum wage $1800 per month
>Argentina
Gdp $383bn (57th)
Life expectancy 76.6 years
Minimum wage $370 per month
You should step outside you fricking mongoloid.
Irrelevant to losing the chains of your dictatorship vs having to live under it for longer.
>Ohhh but THIS dictatorship had a higher GDPppp
Then give up your guns and knives if you own any and start licking boots, gay.
Lmao get off /misc/ you daft incel.
>Hating tyranny and Thatcher is /misc/
Hello tourist. Fresh off the fricking boat, it seems?
>Tyranny and Th-thatcher
>/k/ weapons board
Gtfo you dumb c**t
>Fighting tyranny
>Not /k/
Frick off newbie albion
Imagine being a Brit and caring about a United States President that much.
>Continues to post /misc/ tripe
Still no signs of anything weapon related? Did Thatcher bully you personally or something? Kinda cringe your angry at a lady that's been dead for 9 years lol
Where's the '/misc/ tripe,' newbie? It's clear you've never fricking browsed /k/ before.
>Thatcher
>Muh Tyranny
>Cringe IRA song
Thats all /misc/ bro, Thatcher was pretty based and inspired the most kino of that era not that you would know because you were too busy on ancestory DNA crying because you got 75% Mexican when you wanted Irish and German genes.
I'm american, but yeah it does make more sense that Brits care about who the US President is because america is more important to the average brit than britain is to the average american. They are our client state
Pretty sure he didn't, but you have obsessed over a British one for the last few posts?
Imagine being american and caring about a british prime minister that much
Why should the bongs use nukes?
The Argie junta fell for the classic
>a quick successful war will fix all our internal issuess
>Nuking a county you could btfo with just your Navy in a few weeks
Why would you do that?