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I don't think it was, she was playing Mitterand on emotions, which most french guys have way too many and are easily controlled by them (I see it every single e
by saiya-jin 8y ago
I don't think it was, she was playing Mitterand on emotions, which most french guys have way too many and are easily controlled by them (I see it every single effin' day around me in many ways).
If she would go nuclear on Argentina due to that skirmish and few marines dying in regular acts of war (however sad it is, this is business-as-usual during war), she would have alienated UK to every single country in the world, destroying it on many levels. And also go down in history as one of the most horrible rulers in history of mankind.
Not something any power-and-approval-hungry sociopath (sorry, 'leader of the nation') wants to leave behind.
- toyg 8y ago> emotions, which most french guys have way too many Gross generalization.
- pjc50 8y agoOh, the nuclear threat was in retrospect almost certainly a bluff, what I was more questioning was whether the conversation happened, and whether Mitterand did in fact hand over any kind of remote disarm codes for Exocet missiles.
- dmurray 8y ago> she would have alienated UK to every single country in the world, destroying it on many levels. That really isn't realistic. Some allies might have been unhappy with Thatcher for normalising the use of nuclear weapons, and might even have openly criticised the UK. But France, the US, the Commonwealth nations would not just desert an important ally: how would that benefit them? They would have retconned the story and we'd all believe now that Galtieri was the next Hitler and would have subjugated the whole hemisphere if not for Thatcher's brave initiative.