Wednesday 18 July 2012

Falklands War. False Flag?

I have been a staunch critic of ex PM Margaret Thatcher ever since she came to power. I have been thinking about the stance she took in the lead up to the Falklands war. At the time she was a very unpopular PM due to recession and high unemployment. With one year till the next general election at which she was almost certain to lose, the Falklands crisis came at a very opportune time for her. The Argentinian government at that time was in a state of crisis. General Galtieri was also a very unpopular leader or should I say dictator. I stumbled onto a website called  www.kirkbytimes.co.uk in which it puts forward very convincing arguments that suggest Thatcher and Galtieri, together arranged the crisis that led to war. They both used the crisis to whip up the respective populations to a patriotic frenzy. It succeeded, but Galtieri underestimated the deviousness of Thatcher. I am not sure that Galtieri actually wanted outright war. I think he was expecting a negotiated settlement but Thatcher on the other hand was sure that British forces were superior to the young Argentinian conscripts who were sacrificed by Galtieri. She was right, but only just. At the end, British supplies were running out and the Argentinian Air Force were capable of halting any resupply of the British forces. Thatchers gamble worked. The Argentinian troops surrendered just in time.
My point is that it shows that politicians have no qualms about sacrificing human lives to further their personal political aims. The next year, Thatcher won a huge victory in the election. Nothing changed, public industries were sold off on the cheap, unemployment continued to rise and riots broke out in many UK cities. The public had been conned, AGAIN.
There is no concrete evidence that Thatcher and Galtieri colluded, but, the information in the site I mentioned is compelling.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I hadnt thought about this until I just watched BBC's The 80's with Dominic Sandbrook