EN DEBATE
"SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR"
The true purpose of UK to carry out the Falklands islands War in 1982 and the perpetual stillness of the Argentine government
By Dany Smith
For those who have studied a little British
political mentality knows that their governments do not take a step without a specific
goal. When in 1982 Argentina was launched to recover the Falkland Islands and
the surrounding archipelago in the South Atlantic, the armed forces of his
gracious majesty were in a critical budget level time and were on the table a
process by which the neoliberal administration Prime Minister Margaret Thacher
extolled the withdrawal of several naval units in its fleet. As they say
recurrently in Argentina "was coming budget cuts" so the chances of a
military campaign in another continent besides unthinkable seemed impossible
for the British military.
But the admiralty and even those closely
related to the political and royal elite were unaware of what was brewing in
Buenos Aires, it is very hard to believe. In contrast to this, according to
intelligence sources entrenched in the Argentina capital remitted reports of
intense movements in the States over the three forces and major military units
in the country. But despite this, London would not move a finger appearances
and not because he believed Argentines unable to start a military operation
like that then was on April 2. Quite the opposite, in Westminster and in the
Foreign Office waited patiently for the military government in Buenos Aires the
bait and if they did, would force him to do so.
What was the reason hiding up his sleeve
power instituted in London? Well, it was nothing more nor less than the
forecast to get in about twenty to thirty years of that date, major energy
resources under the subsoil of the islands and extensive continental shelf around
them and even getting as look control large water areas of the Patagonian
coast. To make matters worse, the British political timing could not be more
propitious. With the rising unpopularity of Thacher and the real possibility of
losing the elections were close, London juice its most dangerous card at the
cost of his own men.
But the cause was worth the
sacrifice. Studies prospecting companies "Shell" and "British
Petroleum" made in the late seventies threw the riches hidden deep in the
area were widely viable but to do so the possibility of unrestricted access was
necessary and guaranteed that allow work without interference from the
continent. For this purpose the projections were realistic and profits for
London would not be automatic nor easy to achieve. In calculations adjusted to
reality analysts that time, they noted that lucky and be able to obtain the
optimal political conditions for smooth movement, Britain could be exploiting
oil wells and gas in thirty years. In view of the events and the current
situation on the islands and surrounding waters predictions could not be more
accurate.
The circumstances of that time did London
and especially their oil companies were put to develop a plan that expand their
expectations of oil production amid a sharp fall in prices, driven by the OPEC
crisis in 1973 made it clear that the Western powers could become the
overnight, un served by the formation of cartels of producer countries. In
response, the British oil began to study new routes and new deposits that stay
away from those dangers for their own consumption.
Although the most important analysts of the
time, as the US Admiral Harry Train considered the oil route would remain the
Atlantic by the passage at the tip of Africa Cape of Good Hope, the British
came studying from mid decade of the sixties and seventies, the geological
composition of Patagonia and subsoil which extends to the Falklands with a view
to establishing mining potential in the region. For this purpose and under
various ruses, he entered the country and even cooperation with the Argentine
government of the time, undertook a detailed study of the quality and
characteristics of the Patagonian land without noticing Argentine appearances
-in their true intentions.
Obviously masquerading as purely
scientific activities and documentarians that kept the suspicions of the true
intentions that these studies sought, the British could go to obtain pieces of
valuable information constituted by work teams and even lonely explorers who
traveled the territories of the same Patagonia, its shores and they extended in
explorations in Malvinas and around their adjacent waters.
At the time of these informative pieces
that were collected under the full credulity of Argentines at the time, the
Foreign Office had reports predicted that Argentina, if realized its potential
wealth, would obtain the oil self-sufficiency by 1980 making capabilities
export approximately 50,000 to 80,000 million barrels, representing a mountain
of black gold undiscovered. Some British geologists as Bernard Grossling had
revealed in 1977 that oil production capacity which was silent on the soil of
Argentina continental shelf could reach 90,000 million barrels of oil, which
promised very good business for those venturing their exploitation.
These expectations had also been expressed
in the British academic field, especially by Professor Donald Griffiths who in
1975 claimed from his chair of geophysics at the University of Birmingham that
"the bank Burwood, south of the archipelago and east of the Island States,
could contain a sub oceanic deposit at least as rich as the North sea.
With
this background and which the Foreign Office was compiled with reports own
intelligence obtained in the field on the situation of Argentina, will step to
the next phase was to venture by sea with naval explorers should seek to gather
intelligence the situation in the south Atlantic and in turn, to start
generating an escalation of provocations that lead to Buenos Aires fall into
the trap. At that point, were at stake not only potential reservoirs beneath
the waters surrounding the Malvinas, Georgias and Sandwiches, but also in the
Magallanes area where the British had -and still pointing out- a strategic
ally, as Chile is.
The American newspaper "The Wall
Street Journal" in a "prophetic" article in the June 3, 1981
stated that Argentina could become a major exporter of oil, even more than some
of the OPEC members. "Undoubtedly this was an incentive both to London to
Buenos Aires, to avoid being wrest such spaces.
Argentine consecutive governments have not
sought any real remedy this scam may very properly classified theft in the
wild, facilitated by weak governments, corrupt politicians and the media who
play the tune that London puts on dance.
Currently the joint ventures that develop
in the face of Buenos Aires, between British companies and Rockhopper on the
islands have calculated that can increase their oil production to one billion
barrels of oil that not only justify buying companies "Falkland Oil &
Gas" but also all deaths that produced the 1982 war (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/05/20/falklands-rockhopper-announces-double-contingent-oil-reserves-over-300m-barrels/
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