DON'T CRY FOR THEM! Americans React To "The Falklands - MiniWars 1 | OVERSIMPLIFIED"

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[@davidbirchall832]

The Falklanders are British Citizens. We defend British Citizens

[@MrNifts]

Exactly! US that's how you win war on your own something you have never done! haha just jesting

[@jacquilewis8203]

Well said David!

[@angelabushby1891]

Don't like the cartoon ones,there are plenty of videos on the Falklands.

[@agus_pax8796]

And we don't care about the people, they're an implanted population on foreign soil. We only care about the land that's been stolen by your country. Just like you've stolen land all over the world

[@hewitt7615]

@@MrNiftshuh ?

[@McKamikazeHighlander]

Britain are not obsessed. It's just that they are British territory and the people living there were British citizens being held at gunpoint by a military dictator's troops. It would be like someone invading Hawaii. And as WWII showed, 1 attack was all the US needed to justify going to war. Kind of insulting that the American government wanted us to let this slide. Also, the US didn't "fund" the war but they did help. Which is to be expected from a NATO ally

[@christofferknight8567]

Unfortunately please check the hawaian flag, the Americans commercially took it

[@miketaylor803]

@@christofferknight8567 annexed in 1899?

[@patrickholt2270]

At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii was a colony rather than a state, in the same relation to mainland USA as Puerto Rico still is stuck in, as in taxation without representation, having to endure the diktat of Washington-appointed governors, and white supremacy against the non-Anglo native people. It got statehood to back-up FDR's claim that the USA had been attacked.

[@stephenblacker1208]

Falklands didn't come under Nato, southern hemisphere.

[@themoderntemplar1567]

It was a territory of a NATO member nation.

[@purpledahlia1969]

There were also nearly 3,000 British inhabitants of the islands, plus there was no such country as Argentina when the islands were British.

[@usernamesreprise4068]

Their whole argument revolves around their "Pope" (an italian living in the middle of Italy) once looked at a map and decided how HE could carve up half the world in THEIR own favour and so "gave" half of it to Spain and the other half to France - big of him ! all purely to gain wealth for themselves with a delicious side dish of it pissing off the accursed British "Anglican" pagans and heathens gradely of course - totally and deliberately ignoring OUR territorial rights to uninhabited lands WE had discovered and laid claim to, pursuant to international law in the form that existed back then, whether we colonised it or not was actually irrelevant - they were claimed and were now part of the British Empire. They belonged to Britain end of story, - all this occuring while Spain ( and through them the vatican)was busy getting richer and richer plundering the South American continent and years before Argentina as a Country even EXISTED..... just because you are closer to somewhere than anyone else DOESNT give you automatic sanctity and autonomy over it - especially somewhere four hundred miles away !, although having said that, the Argentinians ARE Latins.......nuff sed...never the sharpest knives in the box to start with. the prospective oil that was mentioned was actually only discovered recently in Antartica four hundred miles even further to the south east, and which means yes in modern day society, him who is closest claims dibs, and why WE arent ever going to be giving up OUR ownership of the Falklands. even if it DOES make the Argies and the yanks a bit salty.

[@richardj9016]

Yea Argentina invented sometime in the 1820’s

[@garyford3533]

1982 did not know about oil

[@imaginehavingpfp5779]

Argentina declared its independence in 1816, wth do you mean

[@javiermartinmehdi1914]

Argentina declaro su independencia en 1816 a partir de 1820 tomo posecion de las Islas en 1825 Gran Breyaña RECONOCIO LA INDEPENDENCIA Argentina y no hizo NINGUNA RECLAMACION DE LA SOBERANIA DE LAS MISMAS asi hadta q en 1833 sin preveer aviso y provicaciin alguna mandaron un buque de guerra ( la fragata Clio) y 1ero expulssaon x la fuerza a los habitantes ARGENTINOS de las Islas y tomaron Posecion de las Islas y Argentina apartir de ese mismo momento COMENZL LA RECLAMACION DE LAS MISMAS ESA ES LA PURA Y CLARA VERDAD...

[@Reg1973]

The Falklands is an amazing place. I was stationed there in the early 90s, and it really is like someone carved out a chunk of England and dragged it into the Atlantic. The islanders are British. They read British newspapers, and watch British TV, their whole culture is British.

[@blackcountryme]

An Argentine reporter went there, she was shocked, as a young woman she had studied in the UK, she said it was an English village.

[@Shoomer1988]

@@blackcountryme The Argentine soldiers had the same experience. They had been lied to, told that the people living on the islands wanted to be under Argentina - and they were there to liberate them. They were shocked to find it was basically an extension of Britain.

[@daveopenshaw7177]

Of course it’s ‘British’ because we moved all Brits over there, and they took the culture. it’s not as if they were all South Americans who suddenly got Anglicised because we are so great.

[@daveopenshaw7177]

Because they want to stay British doesn’t have any sway about who actually owns it, It’s 8000 miles away it isn’t ours and never was. ‘Well they want to stay there so that’s democracy’ WE COLONISED IT!! ffs 😂

[@robocop3961]

But the most important question is - how many pubs are there?

[@colinwelsh2874]

I was watching a documentary about it a while back. President Reagan said to Margaret Thatcher "they're a bunch of islands thousands of miles away. Just let them go". Thatcher replied "my dear Ronnie, what if those islands thousands of miles away were Hawaii?"

[@pegaz6529]

There's a saying I've heard here in the UK quite often. "As long as the Falkland's citizens see's themselves as British, the British will not give up the Islands." In the UN, they've even "suggested" giving the islands to Argentina and that quote has been their reply.

[@mana3735]

We can't give the Falklands BACK to Argentina, as they never owned them.

[@DropdudeJohn]

The UN has never suggested giving the islands to Argentina, plus you can't give back something to somebody if they never owned them in the first place

[@pegaz6529]

@@DropdudeJohn They told Britain to go back to negotiations with Argentina. If we already own it and they say that, then they're telling us to either give the islands over to Argentina or give up something else.

[@rltlounge8678]

yeah, cant really give something back to someone who never owned it

[@davidstewart2]

Why would they say give it back, it was never there island.

[@paulhanson5164]

It was 1982 and the reason for our "obsession" was that about 2,000 British citizens lived on the islands having started to colonise the uninhabited islands almost 200 years earlier. We weren't about to abandon those people to their fate under what was a brutal regime in Argentina where about 30,000 Argentinians went missing under that military dictatorship. Fun fact, that Argentinian ship we sunk started life as the USS Phoenix, it survived Pearl Harbour and then we sank it.

[@DK-cy5mt]

The islanders are British, regard themselves as British, and wish to remain British. Argentina won't take their claim to international arbitration as they know it has no basis and they'll lose

[@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE]

Of course they are brittish, you put them there. You can have your citizens back, Argentina can have the islands.

[@DK-cy5mt]

@@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE well, you can't, Argentina has no claim

[@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE]

@DK-cy5mt the claims of the Spanish empire in the Rio de la Plata are the claims of Argentina. In perpetuity. Until it is restored. The malvinas are Argentinian. Belize is Guatemalan. The esequibo Venezuelan. Gibraltar is spanish and California and Texas Mexican. I know Anglo Saxons are used to do whatever the fuck they want. Get used to other people doing it too, you are not the world's only superpower anymore.

[@samsativa245]

Why were the Americans 'obsessed' with Pearl Harbour and Hawaii... Why didn't they just let japan have it? It's not even near America, it's just a tiny island, right? In fact, Hawaii even has the Union Jack on its flag lol ;)

[@gtaylor331]

Well said!!!!!

[@bobbybigboyyes]

Couldn't have put it better myself!!

[@janolaful]

Pearl Harbour was the only reason usa got involved in the war charles Lindbergh was anti war even blame the uk It would be better for us and for every nation that the war in Europe end without conclusive victory.” Besides, Lindbergh thought, Britain shared the blame with Germany for starting the war. “There is not as much difference in philosophy as we have been led to believe,” he said . Wish he was alive now I would ask him a few questions . Anyone remember what happened to the ship Sir Galahad was bombed and set on fire by Argentine Skyhawk and Simon weston.

[@bobbybigboyyes]

@@janolaful Lindbergh talked crap! Britain did NOT start the war, the Germans did when they invaded Poland! And what has the Falkland War got to do with WWII ?

[@startrack3898]

@@bobbybigboyyes you're prime minister (Winston Churchill) want the US to join in WW2 but US the disagree cuz they really don't care about your shitty European wars the reason why the US join in WW2 because of the attack in pearl harbor

[@thebolsta]

Without the extensive help from the French navy, the U.S might not have had it so good in the war of independence. Also, on a plus side, the French put so much money into helping the U.S that they went bankrupt, triggering the French revolution and changing the face of Europe for the better.

[@MrEsphoenix]

That, and if Britain hadn't decided the Caribbean was more valuable, pulling out most of their forces from America and leaving some reservists to keep order. It wasn't really a victory, it was more suing for peace against an enemy that wasn't really all that interested in fighting. American history really does like to exaggerate the truth. Worth remembering next time someone says Western nations don't use propaganda to alter history.

[@herytik4027]

The spainish and the Dutch chipped in. It wasn’t as profitable as the Caribbean but the furs and tobacco made it a good investment for the (then) future. We lost. We did win the majority of battles on land and sea, and broke the French. There is a good documentary on American plans to go to War with the British Empire up to the 1920s.😊

[@ianjones9498]

@@MrEsphoenix did em a right mischief in 1818

[@Markus117d]

Given that the original video stated that Britain was to busy to deal with things because as they put it "some colonists got a bit rowdy" And because of Napoleon. The Napoleonic Wars were (1803-1815), Which means the video was probably talking about the war of 1812. Rather than the war of independence, But it's not exactly very clear lol...

[@B-A-L]

Why do you think the Yanks saved France all by itself during WW2 when it bothered to turn up and also why do you think the Yanks bailed the French out in Viet Nam too?

[@ned_1963]

Colonel H Jones was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his action of storming an Argentinian machine gun post single handed! The Argentinian commander personally nominated him for it, which speaks volumes. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@barbaradyson6951]

which he shouldn't have done. He also caused the death of his 2 IC. His job was to organise not lead from the front;

[@usernamesreprise4068]

@@barbaradyson6951 his "job" was to lead his men in what ever capacity it took to achieve that, dont you dare try to tarnish the memory of such a brave and selfless man.

[@dangermouse9348]

The irony of the Argentinians starting a war to make themselves more popular cannot be ignored. Given that it made Thatcher much more popular, and probably won her the next General Election. The General Belgrano used to be an American ship, the USS Phoenix and actually survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. Also became the first and afaik only, ship to be sunk by a nuclear submarine.

[@josephturner7569]

My last boat. Not there though.

[@herytik4027]

What you done with Penfold?

[@dangermouse9348]

@@herytik4027 Put him on a wheel so he can make me green energy.

[@eksiarvamus]

In what way are the British "obsessed" with the islands? Why is Argentina obsessed rather? No Argentinian lives there, the islands are overwhelmingly British and have been for a long time.

[@nosceteipsum-mw7nj]

Illegally taken by the PIRATES IN 1833

[@leighclifton8335]

My farther was born in the Falklands as was my Grandfather and I have many cousins there. I wouldn’t call wanting one’s family to be safe an obsession

[@generaladvance5812]

The Belgrano wasn't controversial. The exclusion zone was that any ship found inside it would be sunk. Nobody said anything about Argentine ships being safe outside of it.

[@fuzzlewit9]

Absolutely, when two countries are at war then they're at war! You don't draw a circle on a map and say "we're at war just there"!

[@gr3yh4wk1]

Wasn't it the only time in history a nuclear powered submarine sank a ship in a time of war? Not 100% sure...

[@generaladvance5812]

@@gr3yh4wk1 It was the only time, you're right.

[@philiprice7875]

you do know "ships move" and can change course within a minute so outside or not in any war it is a legit target

[@edwardhuggins84]

​@@generaladvance5812 plus only the second time since WW2 a submarine as sunk a ship in anger, the other was PNS Hangor sinking INS Khukri in 1971

[@anthonywatson7735]

You might want to check out 'Operation Black Buck' where vulcan bombers flew down to bomb the single runway on the islands. Also there's a video worth checking out about Vulcans 'Nuking' the USA twice, if you haven't already done so. (Don't worry they were both NORAD air defence exercises back in the '50s or '60s)

[@alexfarman4580]

I was going to say pretty much the same thing one of the vulcans even landed in new York the US were ultimately humiliated.

[@rubberyowen1469]

@@alexfarman4580 They were also humiliated on 9/11 by a handful of terrorist airline hijackers. Where were the best defence systems in the World including the USAF? Nowhere to be seen.

[@themoderntemplar1567]

Unless... Wait for it... It's as if some people in powerful places had prior knowledge. Nah, the U.S government wouldn't do that to its own people, would they?...

[@cireenasimcox1081]

Even Americans themselves admit their education is woeful, and they are taught nothing about the world outside of the USA. So I will NEVER understand why, when they're trying to find out about history & geography and have the entire Internet at their fingertips, quite a few choose to watch silly & inaccurate American cartoons instead? So now what was their take-away from this? We were 'obsessed' by the oil? Seriously guys - what a slap in the face!

[@cctvmanbob]

I remember it well .. too well ! I was on HMS Fearless in "bomb alley" , San Carlos . I was very sad , always the same .. Those that start it are never the ones who have to fight it. However , I sighned on the dotted line and with others did what we needed to do .. I went back there several times over the years and still think it was the right thing to have done ,even tho I lost several shipmates ..

[@user-py8ns9wk6v]

Thank you for what you did for the Islands, my thoughts go out to the lads that didn't come back.

[@chrisaskin6144]

The Falklands are British and have been settled by Britons from many generations ago. These people identify themselves as solely British and as such have declared their unending allegiance to the UK. Until such time as the islanders (or presumably the majority of them) no longer wish to remain British, then their sovereignty will be guaranteed. It has very little to do with oil, it's over 40 years since the war, and no obvious attempts have been made to exploit the oil resources.

[@silverknight4886]

One senior Argentinian military officer said after the war "We pulled the lions tail and it bit our head off"

[@Jenjenilou]

We aren't obsessed with the islands. The people who live there are British. They want to be British. They don't want to be Argentinian. Isn't that straightforward enough? Would the USA abandon an island full of Americans?

[@LAGoodz]

Obsessed? You could ask the same about Hawaii or Guam amongst plenty of others. All Thousands of miles from the US mainland.

[@philburkin9651]

What would you do if Russia invaded Alaska just because it was close to them and was theirs a couple of hundred years ago? The Argentine people and conscripts in particular were told they'd be going to liberate the Latino, Spanish speaking islanders from British oppression. When they got there they basically found a load of English speaking gingers that didn't want them there 😁.

[@vlofvl]

Always makes me laugh when Americans say they kicked the British asses, We had far more important matters to deal with than the Americans and the overwhelming major`it’s of Great Britain’s forces were engaged in wars across Europe. That said the Americans still needed a massive amount of help from Englands old enemy France and without that help America would have lost.

[@glastonbury4304]

They forget 1812-14 , but that's America for you, fake news and fox news and insular self absorbed history classes!! 😂

[@edwardherron3881]

Interesting you say you kicked our butt In fact the Revolutionary War was a civil war One of the American generals was born just down the road from me here in Kent Great channel by the way 👍

[@nigelw7626]

Quite correct, if you went back in time and interviewed soldiers fighting for the U.S or the 13 Colonies the majority would have the same accents as the soldiers of Britain and the U.S loyalists would have. Basically first or second generation British colonisers fighting against British (obviously discounting native American, Hessian, dutch and french etc).

[@teamtommo6401]

Also with the help of the French and Spanish.

[@martinlance3235]

Don't mention the war of 1812 and the burning of the Whitehouse.. most Americans still think it was a US victory..

[@Chris-mf1rm]

@@teamtommo6401 massive help by the Spanish and French. Think the Dutch leant a hand too. It was the risk of losing the sugar growing islands in the Caribbean that caused the British real concern - they were much more valuable in cash terms in the 1780s.

[@Johno477]

The war was in 1982 not 1987.

[@herytik4027]

Oil and gas were known about but couldn’t be extracted. Ps pay attention lads, you have been told that penguins are essential to making Guinness

[@ElandBee]

Argentina made a big mistake thinking the British would just let them take over the Falklands. They never expected a task force to travel so far, more fool them.

[@lextex3280]

I remember the Falklands conflict very well, a friend of the family who lived across the road from me, was in the Falklands conflict. Everyone who knew him was in our road the day he left, to wish him luck. Thankfully he came home.

[@themoderntemplar1567]

Had the same experience with a neighbour who was in the Paras.🇬🇧

[@thatsthat2612]

Thankfully so did my brother

[@Miss_Beehaven]

My brother was stationed on HMS Intrepid & a lot of the survivors from HMS Galahad were brought aboard. He does not speak about it a lot

[@natasharivera1684]

My dad had been on-board HMS Galahad, and had gone ashore with the rest of his Rapier Battery to set up the air defence when the Argentinian planes came in. If the Argentinian attack had happened 15 mins later, the Navy ships would have been under the protection of the Rapier SAM system.

[@jay71512]

I bet he doesn't! Just make sure you let him know most sensible britishpeople respect his efforts greatly! 👍👍

[@neilgayleard3842]

It's simple. Don't pick a fight with Britain.

[@andrewburton7727]

Obsessed? What would the US do if Hawaii was invaded? The people who are Falklanders wanted to remain British, they have the highest GDP in South America, why would they want to be a part of a failing nation like Argentina? Their football team can chant, but which country has 100% inflation?!

[@mrsiborg]

In answer to your question "Why did the British fight for it", ask yourselves this, if it was an American island what would America do.

[@trevorelliott6221]

This wasn't a war about oil lads , nobody knew about the oil in 82, nope, as Al has pointed out this was a war about Penguins, couldn't stop the production of Guiness just because Galtieri had a few problems back home!

[@chipsthedog1]

There's a great bit in The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 & 3 quarters. Basically Adrian is the only one up early in the morning when he sees on the news that Argentina had invaded the Falkland isles so he goes upstairs and wakes his parents to tell them and the Dad jumps out of bed swearing, rushing to get dressed and runs downstairs cursing the whole way only to come back a couple of minutes later swearing at Adrian because he thought the Falklands were in Scotland! Obviously I have not done it justice but in the book it was so funny

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

There was a lot of disinformation in that. The first ship to be hit was the Atlantic conveyor a supply ship that was hit hundreds of miles, outside the exclusion zone by the Argentines air force Also, America did not give Britain any weapons or any help whatsoever they wouldn’t allow us to use their bases to refuel our aircraft or ships. They kept negotiating, but all they kept doing, was saying, if Britain gives them the islands to Argentina, everything will be fine. The Americans forgot that we’re the only country that is stood by them every time they’ve needed us when they wanted to bomb Syria not one European country would allow them to use their air bases. We did. And that scenario has popped up quite a few times over the years where Europe have said no we’ve helped At the time, there was a lot of bitterness with America that they didn’t help us but even since then, we’ve always had America is back which is why there’s a lot of despondency about Biden, taking Europe’s side over everything against Britain just because the idiot still thinks he’s Irish He is now snubbed a royal family by not coming to the coronation But next time America needs help, they know where be there. You can see why we were a little upset in 81, where America wouldn’t stand by us

[@glastonbury4304]

Mike Smith , I was in the RAF...you do realise the American joint base on Ascension supplied us , plus Reagan had said if we lost an aircraft carrier we could borrow one of there's, but would man it ourselves...then of course the American sidewinder missiles we had bought before the Falklands was stepped up and supplied faster than they'd usually of been...

[@beverlytaff4914]

Just ask yourselves if you'd like to be occupied by a facist dictatorship who threw political prisoners out of helicopters. When the British marines re-occupied South Georgia, they actually caught the Argentine captain and his squad of soldiers who had murdered the Swedish girls by throwing them out of the helicopter back in Argentina. The British lieutenant who captured those murderers was hard put to keep his men from killing those Argentines there and then. The Swedish government tried to get the British government to extradite the criminals to Sweden after the battle was over but they were technically prisoners of war and they had to be repatriated back to Argentina.

[@genaromicol7347]

The people that you're talking about were terrorists who planted bombs, even in kindergartens

[@MrEsphoenix]

You should look up a video on operation black buck. It was a bit of a last hoorah for the Vulcan bomber, flying them well beyond their maximum range to bomb the only airstrip on the Falkland Islands, to both cripple the Argentinean airpower, forcing them to fly in from Argentina, and as more of a subtle threat by showing that Argentina was in fact within range of Britain's nuclear bombers. It's an interesting story where pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, and it almost got America into trouble, but I won't spoil why.

[@jeanneale9257]

Great suggestion

[@riverraven7359]

Shame that things designed to drop nukes aren't too accurate with iron bombs.

[@MrEsphoenix]

@@riverraven7359 It's more just that dumb bombs dropped from high alt are inaccurate. Not much you can do about that as they're at the mercy of the elements. It's why guided bombs and cluster munitions took over from them. But they achieved what they set out to do.

[@TheCornishCockney]

Reagan kept well out of it. Maggie just said “good,we’ll do it ourselves” The allies are only allies when the Americans want us in one of their wars,but when it’s us that asks for help….. Anyway,weapons provided by the US were mainly low ordnance stuff,a few missiles and the use of satellite images. The Falklands war was entirely a British operation. The Argies got their arses handed to them in double quick time right on their front doorstep. We have a fair bit of experience of this kind of thing over the centuries,so it was like a midget taking on Mike Tyson for us. And don’t forget,the UN and other world bodies didn’t support our action either,except Australia whose Prime Minister immediately said he stood with us and offered their own armed forces to join with us,again,Thatcher said thank you very much but we’ve got it this.

[@Yandarval]

The British have also no forgotten American involvement in Suez in '56. We just need a PM to say FU to the Americans when they want to somewhere next time. The Falklands has been the third times the US has knifed the UK in the back in the 20th century.

[@Bob10009]

It was 1982 not 1987. I remember watching it on the news every evening. Britain defending its territory is no different to the US defending Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico or Alaska.

[@johnruddick686]

My uncle was a captain in 40 commando during the invasion. Unfortunately he is no longer with us although he did survive the conflict. He was a real quality bloke.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

The exocet missiles that sunk the british ships were french. The french also provided engineering support to Argentina for the missiles during the war.

[@leedavies4589]

and MI5 did a superb job of stopping more being sent

[@bobbyboko6317]

Ask the Falklanders why

[@sirteabag8652]

The one country that doesn't get a shout out in this video that also helped the UK is Chile. Because the Leader of Argentina, Leopoldo Gualtieri wanted to invade Chile at some point and take their islands but he wasn't sure on what the UN would do if he did. So if he could take the Falklands and get away with it he would of had Chile in his cross hairs next. so Chile let the UK set up radar towers along the border of Argentina and used some of their islands as UAV bases witch gave the Royal air force the ability to fight an air force 3 times their size. and when we lost the HMS Sheffield, it was due to the fact a radar tower being used in Chile broke down and left a blind spot for a few hours.

[@danpearce4547]

Fun fact, the Argie cruiser General Belgrano that was sunk had originally been U.S, and survived Pearl Harbo(u)r!

[@edwardhuggins84]

The USS phoenix a Brooklyn-class cruiser

[@floatswithgoats8807]

It would be a bit like Mexico telling Texans, "Texas is ours, you're all Mexican now". Had a friend who was on one of the ships that was destroyed, left the navy shortly after the war. Didn't say much but said it was the trapped feeling he couldn't handle ever again; ship on fire, sea on fire, things exploding, friends dying all around you and nowhere to go.

[@fernandonavarro3839]

Unlike the Malvinas (Falkland), Texas was part of Mexico when the US invaded it. The same for California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and parts of Colorado & Wyoming. So it's not the same case, please don't compare it. An interesting book about this is "Forget the Alamo", please read it before releasing uninformed posts.

[@Rainex-my7jd]

The Islanders are British that's why the UK fought for the Falklands !! Wouldn't US do the same ?

[@mlee6050]

We should of just sent Clarkson jk

[@jakecross4628]

The US would have done the same. However Britain was wrong to fight the Falklands War.

[@benkaveney5499]

Jake cross, go to hell. You're so wrong

[@blurkid33]

@@jakecross4628 The islanders are British. They don’t want to be part of Argentina.

[@pipercharms7374]

@@jakecross4628 How? The people on the island were british.

[@mosthaunted2]

It was 1982 it happened, not 1987 👍

[@DB-stuff]

Yup as others pointed out it's down to the population of the Falklands want

[@jonathanparry7824]

Britain will always protect oversees territory because if we don’t then anyone else eyeing up territory might se it as an opportunity

[@markdavidge5807]

And you saying you kicked are asses 😂 we set your white house ablaze and made you sue for peace,and you won a battle at the end but the war was already over # Al murray😂😂

[@B-A-L]

Funny how Hollywood never makes any movies about the War of 1812.

[@mikeymikeFType]

My cousin was in 4 2 commando. He didn’t care to talk about it when he got home.

[@grrfy]

4 2 All the way.

[@Wonega]

The Islands belong to the people who were born and raised there. Under the 2009 Constitution, the islands have full internal self-government; the UK is responsible for foreign affairs, retaining the power "to protect UK interests and to ensure the overall good governance of the territory". The UK has many overseas territories around the world, which they can use for military logistics, that's what they gain. It's not really about oil. You could have the biggest military in the world, but if you don't have overseas bases then your sphere of influence is small.

[@Thenerdywalrus]

Now you know the basics of the Falklands, take a look at the role the Vulcan bomber played in the defence of them and the bomber itself. A very charismatic aircraft, the Vulcan howl send shivers down my spine. Imagine if that was the last thing you heard before getting vaporised

[@blackcountryme]

Operation black buck

[@leedavies4589]

the Vulcan howl is iconic ..we hear it on videos i was lucky enough to see her do its last airshow at Woodford her home ..that memory is inbedded into my brain

[@derektaylor6389]

it was british soverign territory and they invaded so they got their arses kicked

[@TheCornishCockney]

*Also,check out the Royal Navy homecoming from the south Atlantic to Portsmouth. Very emotional.

[@annephillips8494]

A Colleague of mine was on the Sir Galahad when it was bombed He saw his friend killed by a Metal Door just feet away, while he was unhurt physically.He admitted to having Survivor Guilt.He had hilarious stories about his time Guarding Buckingham Palace as a Welsh Guard. I have seen him twice on TV since.Great guy. Love you Mike.🙏🌹🎆

[@ulvsbane]

Now when you have watched this, taek a look at "Operation Black Buck" about the bombing of the airfireld at Port Stanley. It's really more interesting than it might sound when they had to in-flight refuel the planes used for the in-flight refueling of the in-flight refuling planes refuing the bombers from the UK. Or something like that.

[@anthonywatson7735]

Not 'something like that'. Pretty much that!

[@ronniehazlehurst1429]

Comment section a little bit more Spicy than usual! You might have Stirred up a hornet's nest with this one lads!

[@garchompy_1561]

as part of the "logistics of travelling that far", the Vulcan bomber is pretty much the prime example of it. Flew all the way there from britain with in-air refuelling, bombed the islands, flew all the way back. Also just an amazing aircraft as a whole, would reccommend, good fly-by sounds

[@alisonrodger3360]

We saw the Vulcan at its last Ayr air show (😁) so damn impressive, beautiful noise.

[@mikespike007]

they flew the sortie from Ascension island

[@spursgog835]

You didn’t kick our butt, your leader (and first President) was a British trained officer. Also you couldn’t have done it without massive help from France and Spain. In fact France went bankrupt supporting the revolution and this led to their own.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

You've used so much oil, the U.S. wants to invade the plate ~Gordon Ramsey

[@Rob_Reed]

Hi fellas you are my faves. Something you must watch. You know the Flashheart character you love from Blackadder? He had a show called Bottom which was insane. Seriously fucking hilarious. Look up Bottom Ultraviolence which is a short clip selection. You've never seen anything like it.

[@sammic7492]

They're British citizens and we will defend and protect our citizens no matter where they are, besides Thatcher wasn't one to let Argentina just take them, they picked the wrong person to try and push around.

[@philiprice7875]

was on a ship that took a radar station down to islands just after fighting the skipper came down with a chart and said we are going to anchor for maybe six months here, we looked at the sea chart and found the point of interest nearby "dismal swamp" with "abandoned whaling station" and "disused sealing plant" for a bit of variety, nearest tree was 100 miles away. boy it took years of therapy to recover after that thank god for beer and vodka

[@garymcatear822]

The Argies didn't even know the Falklands existed until Britain claimed it.

[@JH-ty3ic]

Hawaii, what's so important about an island in the middle of nowhere? The US went to war with Japan over Hawaii.

[@derekdelboytrotter8881]

Well that's easy, its a port for the US navy, that's the only reason.

[@wasp6594]

One reason we hold on to the Falklands is because of its close proximity to Antarctica. There is a lot of potential conflict over the continent, especially with China wanting to exploit mineral resources. And, the Falkland islanders are British.

[@petersone6172]

Why is the US obsessed with the Aleutian Islands?

[@kellydelf]

Word is we were ready to give up the islands in time and discussions had begun but the Argentinians invaded. How rude . They had to be slapped down. .

[@riverraven7359]

There were some practical considerations before we found oil, mostly to do with the navy. Having islands dotted all over the world under our control was great for resupply in the age of sail and made a good spot for a coaling / oiling station once we moved to engines. As well as that having bases in the southern hemisphere had scientific value for oceanographic surveys, south pole exploration and of course, taxing the hell out of merchant shipping. It might look bleak on its own but consider the strategic position on the South American shipping lanes before the Panama canal was built and the fact South African shipping is also in raiding range.

[@kevinnorton7759]

It was 1982

[@blackcountryme]

yes it was, I was about 10 years old, watching on TV,!

[@mike___davidson]

It wasnt an oil thing at the time, it hadn't been found then. It was the principle of British Citizens and territory being invaded, can't let that go unanswered. The side effect was it proving that NATO assurances aren't worth the paper they're printed on. "An attack on one is an attack on all" turned out to be a lie, UK territory being taken should have led to a NATO force being deployed. Instead, everybody looked the other way and pretended nothing had happened. NATO can not be considered a deterrent force when they don't step up, as Argentina assumed they wouldn't. The UK will, I am sure, be there when other NATO members are attacked though. BTW, love the channel...

[@johndoherty8425]

Nothing to do with NATO, the Falklands are outside the geographical area covered by NATO.

[@JonsTunes]

It was definitely principal and the islands provide a good forward base for access to other parts of the globe. Imagine what the USA would do if someone like Japan took over Hawaii...🤔😉

[@oliverreedslovechild]

@11.24 " back in 1987 "! Errm, it was even more olden days than that, it was in 1982!

[@Beefy5039]

Believe me, oil is of secondary importance, the Falkland islands are British Sovereign territory. Like Hawaii is to the US. 99% of islanders identify as Brits.. You want a recommendation? Find a real documentary on the Falklands war

[@billydonaldson6483]

The islands were a major staging post for the Royal Navy during two world wars, they are also close to the hotly contested Antarctic region.

[@hennywortman228]

Maybe a nice followup, how they used the Avro Vulcan in this war. That whas a verry impressive thing

[@alexfarman4580]

Not to mention the Victors role aswell

[@hennywortman228]

@@alexfarman4580 As feulplane, yes👍

[@jodu626]

same obsession with pearl harbour perhaps ?

[@anthonywatson7735]

Or Guam?

[@1889jonny]

1982... It's dead simple, taking something by force, against the will of the people that live there, is illegal by international law. AND Thatchers government was at that time very unpopular... Win a war, win votes! The outcome of the Falklands conflict was much more of a close run thing than most people think, check out more videos on it, if it interests you.

[@lewistravel1]

Look up operation black buck ! Fantastic typically British operation.

[@cornishbluebird]

What it didn't explain was the fact we sent planes from the UK all the way down to the Falklands to bomb the air fields, as we had no bombers on the carriers. You should look into how we sent Vulcan Bombers down and back.. it took a calculator, a ruler and a pencil to work out the logistics of how it could be done.

[@strangelyjamesly4078]

The Falklands give the UK a "claim" on rights in Antarctica. Although no such rights exist at the moment, who knows what will happen in years or decades to come.

[@777petew]

The British did fight on principle. They battered Argentina in that war. The alternative at the time was to show the Soviets that western democracies were weak, and would allow a tin-pot dictatorship to walk all over them. Argentina never owned the Falklands. The peace-loving islanders did. Plus the Argies largely behaved like filthy animals while they were there. Would you want your neighbourhood taken over by that?

[@genaromicol7347]

that a lie nigga, stop lying

[@simonbutler6037]

Why? Here's why. Hey Spencer, can I have your t-shirt? No. Why not, it's only a shirt? Yeah, but it's my shirt and the (alleged) wildlife that lives in it all want to be Spencer's wildlife, don't you guys? You bet Spencer! You rock Spence! See, mine!

[@mrh678]

Definitely look up Operation Black Buck. Such detailed planning in one bombing run over thousands of miles using the V force bomber fleet which was due for retirement.

[@ThePalaeontologist]

It is a matter of self-determination, not obsession. The Falklands are British.

[@miketriggs2156]

I think you will find we beat ourselves in the American rebellion as before it you were British. As well as fighting a bunch of tax avoiding coffee drinkers we had numerous other more important wars going on as usual. For example we were fighting the foul and most foreign French and far more importantly fighting in India (who had tea!) to name but two.

[@gutinstinct4067]

The British Faulklanders , udes radio's to keep the ships up to date about where the defences were in Port Stanley , and became ' spotters ' for artillery.

[@kevinmatthews2620]

one of them being the most famous Mr Bob Mcleod, who broke the news of the invasion to a BBC Radio 4 presenter @ the BBC Amateur Radio Club , he (bob) liased with a friend of his in Scotland via Amateur radio the positions of the Argie scum before us Brits arrived to retake the islands, for the record the Falkland Islands is 7,900 miles from the UK, and i have spoken to Bob Mcleod via amateur radio myself, check your facts before making clickbait claims ,British before argentina was even a country nuff said

[@2opler]

A consequence of the British victory was that the Argentines managed to kick out their vile military Junta. A goverment that had murdered and `vanished` hundreds of their own young people for politcal opposition. Unintended but fortunate.

[@genaromicol7347]

since that year argentina its more shithole. Democracy is not something to celebrate

[@MsKestrela]

I was an American kid, daughter of a diplomat, living in Uruguay when the war broke out. I went to a British school there, so it was a BIG deal. My boyfriend was from the Falklands, so it was even more personal for me. As a precaution, we went to school in armed convoys, for fear of retaliation by sympathizers for Uruguay's neighbors.

[@petrinadendy6395]

It was used for another kind of oil before - Whale oil.

[@blackcountryme]

That's what started the trouble at the time, Argentine scrap merchants putting up a flag on South Georgia, shooting deer (protected species down there)

[@Shoomer1988]

It's was 1982 guys.

[@pingunoot9286]

The oil was only recently discovered there before that oil wasn’t considered being in that location

[@Lee-70ish]

Galtiari wanted to deflect from his domestic mess and being a general he came up with the Falklands as a way to make himself popular. In the end it was a tiny conflict compared to other wars and proved to be a disaster for his regime

[@atiminthailand4531]

Check out the bombing raid the Brits did using a combination of nearly decommissioned vulcan bombers and tons of refuelling planes. It was a logistical nightmare.

[@dtyne67]

I was a young teen at the time. Thatch had an election coming, which she won in a landside - in no small part down to the jingoism the war generated. Also, even back then, we knew all the flag waving was just a show. The potential oil fields were known of even back in the 80s & were the main reason behind the war.

[@barbaradyson6951]

my husband had just left the british army and i was working with polo horses our best friend was an Argentina people couldn't understand us but pedro had nothing to do with the war.

[@stephentolputt4047]

Love the videos! You two need to look into "Operation Black Buck". The RAF's very epic (but pointless) contribution to the Falklands war!

[@gr3yh4wk1]

Not pointless, it was great for morale. Not so great in effectiveness granted. It also showed the Argentinians that they were in-fact in range of British nuclear bombers.

[@Shoomer1988]

The thing is Artentina didn't even exist when the British took the island. Their claim is nonsense.