We can’t know, but I suspect Galtieri (Argentine president, some responsibility for death squads) would have lost power had he waited. Malvinas were useful to

We can’t know, but I suspect Galtieri (Argentine president, some responsibility for death squads) would have lost power had he waited. Malvinas were useful to him as a diversionary external crisis given all the problems at home and international pressure creating opportunity for his opposition or successor(s).