Well, 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 Margare

Well, 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.