THE MILEI AND THE FALKLANDS

Why will the latest talks between Buenos Aires and London over the South Atlantic islands go nowhere?

 

By Sir Charlattam

The great dissociation between reality and what governments present to public opinion can be seen in the current United Nations summit, which is taking place in the midst of expanding armed conflicts, brutal violations of human rights in all their dimensions and an obscene ratification by the governments that carry out these situations to continue committing them without fear of any legal consequences.

As has been very clear for some time now, the United Nations is a forum of deaf people with no use for the purposes for which it was created.

Argentina, as part of this forum and with a problem of occupation of its South Atlantic islands, also suffers from this dissociation between reality and political pretensions, which is not new. After Menem's useless and highly damaging policy of surrender, which has continued to the present day, the current government's approach to the issue offers nothing better. Thus, after the meeting between the Argentine foreign minister Diana Mondino and the British foreign minister David Lammy, we once again sense that the “Casa Rosada” will once again remain under the shadow of whatever is decided in the Foreign Office in London.

What was discussed between the two representatives is nothing more than a return to the FORADORI-DUNCAN agreement of the Macri era, a step backwards in Argentina's claims and the ratification of the British agenda for the South Atlantic and Antarctica.  We are once again seeing the repetition of boring and unsubstantial talks on this situation under the guidelines that only benefit London and its Kelper´s employees. In this way they are trying to satisfy the Argentinians with limited and well-monitored visits to the islands under conditions that are nothing short of humiliating.

In reality nothing different was to be expected with the Mileis. When David Cameron visited Mount Pleasant complex for the purpose of reviewing the state of GCHQ's electronic intelligence facilities and the garrison's military capabilities, the Milei government did nothing and if it did, no one in London knew about it. This is an openly Anglophile government with the added bonus of undeniable and highly questionable alignment with Israel and all that goes with it.

As I said, the British rulers are driving the agenda and the Argentine foreign ministry is merely following it. In that agenda they raise points of treatment to make the Argentinians believe that they are important for the resumption of talks, but how conducive are these points to Argentina's claim to sovereignty?

Perhaps the clearest of these points is the recognition and identification of Argentine combatants at the Darwin cemetery - which, beyond humanitarian interest-, is an attempt to manipulate the sensibilities of the Argentine collective as part of a psychological war and counter-propaganda that never ended. In this, the capital's Anglophilia, which reverberates through the media, did much to that end, even making the then British ambassador Mark Kent a star of the show.

But while playing with these smokescreens, British politicians and NATO rearmed the South Atlantic, going against the grain of those tearful manipulations.

It is the eternal British habit of creating the impression that they are giving something away when in fact they are taking it away. Both ‘opponents’ and Anglophile governments like the present one fall for the same deception. I sincerely wonder what their opinion is of the naval movements to the islands that are increasing every year?  In reality in London they know very well that Argentina poses no danger whatsoever and their politicians are a bunch of faint-hearted fuddy-duddies that you can fix with a few shillings.

Those same politicians sell their constituents an unreality that, in the case of the Falkland Islands, is as hazy as Britain's role in Ukraine, the Middle East and the China Sea. It is certainly not ignorance or inability. Surely they can at least read and should be informed of how the fascists in Kiev have been arming, sending mercenaries to support Israel in Gaza and now northern Palestine and Royal Navy ships to the Red Sea to support the massacres Netanyahu and his people are carrying out.

Although British politicians have for some time been able to conceal the deaths they have caused, this should not have prospered with the incident of the ‘San Juan’ submarine, which was sunk in the South Atlantic in 2017, when all reports pointed to the involvement of the Royal Navy with the complicity of the Chilean Navy. If it came to nothing, it was thanks to the Argentine government and its foreign ministry, which did not dare to ask Downing Street for explanations.

Today the circumstances for Argentina to be able to negotiate something are much more complicated but not impossible to try. Milei does not see that the war never ended, but only changed, leaving firearms for intelligence, although with the reforms to the AFI (converted into a British station), they imply a total domination of MI6 over Buenos Aires. But the problem is not only the government of Javier Milei and his sister (the boss), but the lack of realism of Argentines in trying to understand where they stand on this issue and where Britain stands today.

Keir Starmer's government is not very different from the last Conservatives we have had such as Theresa May, the idiot Boris Johnson or the banker Sunak. Not at all, it is worse and in Buenos Aires they should be aware of it and take note. Starmer is the most conservative of libertarians and that is already clear both from the gifts to his wife and his authorisation to continue aiding the Kiev regime by providing long-range missiles and increasing the budget for more weapons in that war, all to spite the Russian Federation.

And as far as the South Atlantic islands are concerned, I would not take lightly rumours of Starmer's possible plans to set up detention camps for anti-immigration agitators in UK offshore locations and in particular in the Falklands. Surely the MI5 boys -working out of the embassy in Buenos Aires- have already done all the canvassing on the ground to report on the desirability of the project. With the Milei government and its obtuse foreign minister the Argentines should be even more worried because, with their complacent policy, it would not be surprising if (under the umbrella of security against terrorism) they are allowed to install this kind of site somewhere remote in the vast Patagonia, i.e. on the continent and under their very noses.

But beyond that, Argentines should be aware that the Falklands are a growing centre of strategic military operations, run by London but under NATO operational control.