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Except if they think there is a significant likelihood they will lose, which would guarantee the downfall of the regime. The Argentinian junta thought the UK wo
by fmajid 4y ago
Except if they think there is a significant likelihood they will lose, which would guarantee the downfall of the regime. The Argentinian junta thought the UK would be unable to respond to their invasion of the Falklands (and if they had waited a couple more years, they may well have been right), but I doubt China dismisses the US out of hand, specially after the sobering experience of Russia in Ukraine.
- selimthegrim 4y ago>The Argentinian junta thought the UK would be unable to respond to their invasion of the Falklands (and if they had waited a couple more years, they may well have been right) Because of elections or ships and planes being retired?
- Kon-Peki 4y agoWell, sure, it took quite a while for the British Navy to get there - they didn’t have ships or planes nearby. But the UK economy wasn’t doing well and Margaret Thatcher was very unpopular especially with the working class. I doubt many British people cared that much about the Falklands and wouldn’t have minded if they had let it go. But I think an awful lot of the British, and even Americans and Europeans, were completely shocked that Thatcher would not, under any circumstance, tolerate an invasion of British territory - even unwanted territory! Had the Argentinians waited a few more years, the British may have just given the islands to them.
- trilbyglens 4y agoI believe there was literally a plan in the works to do just that.
- fmajid 4y agoAircraft carriers that were in the process of being sold off, like HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible.