Thatcher's government also required the assistance of a third-world military dictatorship to recover a group of near-uninhabitable rocks in the south Atlantic f

Thatcher's government also required the assistance of a third-world military dictatorship to recover a group of near-uninhabitable rocks in the south Atlantic from another third-world dictatorship, in part because they had severely cut military spending. "British people still believe in loyalty to their friends." (https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/06/pinochet.chile https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/06/pinochet.chile)