Argentina vs. Prince William: Falklands 2.0?
By Michael J.W. Stickings
Via twitter:
Cristina Kirchner says Argentina will protest against Britain's "militarisation of the South Atlantic" at the UN.
-- Jon Swaine (@jonswaine)
By sending in the inbred, overhyped, media-saturating king-to-be of a silly, scandal-ridden "royal" family undeserving even of purely symbolic rule, the future head of a ridiculous, retrograde institution that deserves nothing short of abolition (at least here in Canada*)?
Really? It's not some grand militarization of the region, as the lovely Kirchner suggests, but obviously Britain wants a strong military presence on the Falklands to thwart another Argentine attempt to take the islands. (I get that Argentina claims them as their own, referring to them as the Islas Malvinas, but they're obviously British and have been for a long, long time.)
*Yes, I'm a republican. Emphasis on the small 'r'.
Via twitter:
Cristina Kirchner says Argentina will protest against Britain's "militarisation of the South Atlantic" at the UN.
-- Jon Swaine (@jonswaine)
By sending in the inbred, overhyped, media-saturating king-to-be of a silly, scandal-ridden "royal" family undeserving even of purely symbolic rule, the future head of a ridiculous, retrograde institution that deserves nothing short of abolition (at least here in Canada*)?
Really? It's not some grand militarization of the region, as the lovely Kirchner suggests, but obviously Britain wants a strong military presence on the Falklands to thwart another Argentine attempt to take the islands. (I get that Argentina claims them as their own, referring to them as the Islas Malvinas, but they're obviously British and have been for a long, long time.)
*Yes, I'm a republican. Emphasis on the small 'r'.
Labels: Argentina, United Kingdom
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