The Empire Never Died
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/22/the-empire-never-died/
Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark Curtis Declassified U.K. There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire — the largest…
#Politics #Africa #Australia #CivilRights #Colonialism #Commentary #Cyprus #HumanRights #Israel #Kenya #Palestine #UnitedKingdon #WarCrimes #Bp #BritishAntarcticTerritory(bat) #BritishCommonwealth #CarolineElkins #ChagosIslands #Commonwe #CorporateTaxHavenIndex #Decolonization #EastIndiaCompany #FalklandsWar #Gibraltar #JasonHickel #MarkCurtis #Mauritius #MikeDavis #RafAkrotiri #ShellOil #SpecialCommitteeOnDecolonisation #TaxJusticeNetwork(tjn)

How Israel Misled UK During Falklands War
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/07/how-israel-misled-uk-during-falklands-war/
Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain about supplying Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s, John McEvoy reports. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Britain suspected Israel had bugged its embassy in Tel Aviv Foreign Office launched propaganda…
#Politics #Argentina #History #Israel #Military #UnitedKingdon #ArmsSales #FalklandsWar #Falklands/malvinas #JacoboTimerman #JohnMcevoy #LosDesaparecidos #PrimeMinisterMargaretThatcher

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident ✧

A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for aircraft supplyin...

#FalklandsWar #ArmyAirCorps #FalklandIslands #BritishArmy #EastFalkland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_British_Army_Gazelle_friendly_fire_incident

Bonkers long thread so I hope you will stay with me and engage. I'd like to take stock of what is probably the most unnecessary potential for conflict since the #FalklandsWar. I'm talking about the attempt by the Trump administration to annex Greenland.
#Denmark #NATO #Greenland #Trump #Vance #MetteFrederiksen #JensFrederikNielsen

At 04:00 UK time #OnThisDay in 1982 Argentinian marines and special forces landed at Lake Point, south of Stanley, starting the #FalklandsWar.

https://russellphillips.uk/books/a-damn-close-run-thing-a-brief-history-of-the-falklands-war/

#histodons #MilitaryHistory #Falklands #FalklandIslands
@histodons @militaryhistory

Britain & Pinochet’s Escape From Justice
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/06/britain-pinochets-escape-from-justice/
Declassified files from 25 years ago show how the U.K. government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain, John McEvoy reports. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Margaret Thatcher made a secret deal with Pinochet during the 1980s, files…
#Politics #Argentina #Chile #Commentary #France #HumanRights #Spain #Torture #UnitedKingdon #AugustoPinochet #FalklandsWar #JackStraw #JohnMcevoy #MargaretThatcher #PrimeMinisterTonyBlair

Some interesting satellite pictures of the #FalklandsWar where declassified recently, mostly KH-9 Hexagon. I uploaded the most interesting crops to Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RFA_Sir_Tristram_and_RFA_Sir_Galahad_after_the_Argentine_air_attack_-_KH-9_image.png

Brothers in Arms - one of my fave #AntiWar songs from #DireStraits.

It's about bonds between soldiers on both sides of trenches during the #FalklandsWar.
#MarkKnopfler wrote the song in 1982, when the war happened. Falklands War was a conflict between #Argentina & #UnitedKingdom over islands off the coast of Argentina that each country claims rights to.

A new version of the song was released in 2007 by Knopfler in order to raise money to bring #veterans of the war back to the #Falklands as a way to treat their #PTSD.

Knopfler is one of my fave top 5 guitarists of all time He is a brilliant songwriter too.

Music video (with animation)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk

Mark Knopfler (live in Berlin, 2007)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRJT2ebvAk

Turn 12 and the Brits are barely out of San Carlos. Gales have really decimated my schedule. I'm going to lose the #FalklandsWar.

Dassault Etendard IVM Seen here on the flight deck of the former USS Intrepid (now a museum), the New York skyline forms a spectacular backdrop to the this display example of the French maritime strike aircraft. Noteworthy for its use by the Argentine Navy during the Falklands War with Great Britain, the Etendard could carry an Exocet anti-ship missile. #NewYork #Intrepid #USSIntrepid #museum #GreatBritain #FalklandIslands #FalklandsWar #maritimestrike #Exocet #antiship #missile #French #DassaultIVM #Etendard #NYC #aircraftcarrier #aircraft #USNavy #NYskyline #Argentina #ArgentineNavy #aviation #navalwarfare #avgeek

For #ThrowbackThursday here's a shot from 1982 when my family - like so many other families in #Portsmouth - headed down to #Southsea to see off the task force setting sail for the #Falklands following the invasion by Argentina. That is the aircraft carrier #HMSHermes in shot as our family was friends with another, the father of which ran the boiler rooms aboard.

Looking for a guest historian/author with for an episode on the #FalklandsWar.

Anyone remember sweeties with blue and white stripes called "Chew Chew Argentinas". Then the #FalklandsWar happened and suddenly they were called "Chew Chew Colas"