Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion » united kingdom http://irregulartimes.com/diaries In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins. Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:02:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A New Falklands War? http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2010/02/a-new-falklands-war/ http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2010/02/a-new-falklands-war/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:49:37 +0000 International News Fan http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/?p=1463 Back in the 1980s, the United Kingdom went to war against Argentina in the Falkland Islands. Both nations claimed ownership of the islands, which are used to farm sheep and to drill oil. Hint: It wasn’t for the sheep that the British pushed their claim of ownership of the Falklands. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was even drawing up plans to drop nuclear bombs on Argentina in order to win the conflict.

A generation later, the United Kingdom is starting the escalation toward war again by moving an offshore drilling rig into the waters around the Falklands, with the intention to drill there starting today.

For more news from the Falkland Islands, visit:

- Falkland News Network
- Penguin News

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