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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Are the Falkland Islands Trump's pot to stir
Date: 09/07/26 11:32 AM
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theguardian.com - Trump argentina falklands UK

Donald Trump has long embraced vengeance. “I am your retribution,” he declared to an admiring audience at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as he commenced his march back to the White House.

It is unlikely Argentina, and far-flung holdovers of the former British empire, were on the US president’s mind at the time.

But the tide of international events in the past three and a half years have turned Trump’s vindictive mindset to the advantage of Javier Milei, the boisterous rightwing Argentinian president.

Trump’s notorious fixation with payback was almost entirely the trigger for Milei’s televised address to his fellow Argentinians on Thursday, as he stated his intention to reopen his country’s claim to a set of windswept islands in the south Atlantic – known to Britain as the Falklands, and to Argentina as the Malvinas.

Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.
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The centuries-old dispute over the islands’ sovereignty has lain dormant since 1982, when the two countries fought a brief, but bloody, conflict that began after Argentina’s ruling military dictatorship invaded the territory.

Britain reclaimed it after troops in a naval taskforce dispatched by the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher – ironically lionized by Milei as a political exemplar and inspiration – stormed the territory and eventually forced Argentina’s surrender.


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