Nine time No.1 Best Selling Military Historian, Author and #Falklands War specialist. Occasional TV Historian. Dog Lover & Rescuer. All books on link below:
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For everyone following my retelling of the build-up to the Falklands invasion, please remember I have two books on the subject: The First Casualty and its companion Pictorial History, both available on Amazon 😊
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Let's take a minute to remember why Jeremy Clarkson may not like Argentina, shall we? 🤔
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Referencing one's own experience as a humourous note of self-satire and everyone is going into meltdown?? Argentina needs to grow a sense of humour and cope.
@JeremyClarkson @F1
Israel now officially DENIES supporting Argentina 🤣🤣🤣
“The report is false. There has been no change in our position on this matter.” And they validated the tweet from the Israeli ambassador Alex Gandler: “I categorically deny this claim. No such directive exists.”
Well done team Falklands and their Chilean hosts...
... Meanwhile, Argentina woke up in 1833 like it does every morning.
Falkland 🇫🇰hockey players are on the move ✈️. They are off to Iquique in #Chile🇨🇱 for a series of matches. We shall be rooting for them back home here but win or lose, new friendships will be made, experience gained and horizons broadened. Here's hoping that they all have a great time. 🏒Photo credit: Archie Paice
Another crazy day of writing and research today. There is SO MUVH new stuff even now on the Falklands War, and with several new projects running concurrently, it's already overflowing from a series of scribbled note pads. Totally exciting stuff though!
Rockhopper share price was up 22.72% last week on the week before, and suddenly nobody is celebrating any more! 🤣🤣🤣
Hopefully coming to some islands in the South Atlantic... They would certainly be very useful in scope and versatility.
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October 25th is not only the anniversary of the battle of Balaclava, but also of that great British victory at Agincourt... a very good day to be British! ❤
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October 25th is the anniversary of the battle of Balaclava and the most famous cavalry charge in history, when Harry Flashman and the boys gave the Russians a good spanking... Or something like that 🙄
From a Uruguayan page, a new idea for Halloween... Come dressed as an Argentine! The inference being that they are so starved they are like the living dead 🤣🤣🤣
#VivaUruguay
Argentina now freezes its own Falklands sanctions bill because the USA doesn't support them like they thought it would. Another embarrassment for their Neo-Colonialist strategy, which sways from failure to failure and shows the holes in this proclaimed "national cause".
EL OFICIALISMO CONGELA LA LEY MALVINAS
Lectura rápida
El proyecto quedará congelado no solo por la falta de consenso con los aliados sino, sobre todo, por las recientes presiones de Estados Unidos para que se frenen las sanciones a las empresas que operen en las islas.
Presiones de Washington
Estados Unidos advirtió que el proyecto podría desalentar inversiones en la Argentina si avanza con sanciones a empresas norteamericanas. El subsecretario del Departamento de Estado, Christopher Landau, reiteró ese planteo en una conferencia de prensa junto a Quirno.
Sin acuerdo con los aliados
El proyecto no consiguió consenso después de cuatro plenarios de comisiones. La última convocatoria fue suspendida y reprogramada para el martes, pero su realización está en duda. El oficialismo admite que será muy difícil avanzar y concentrará sus esfuerzos en el Presupuesto y la Reforma Electoral.
Reclamos a Quirno
El peronismo quiere que el canciller informe sobre el avance y la implementación del régimen de sanciones a empresas que operen en Malvinas. También pide que intervenga ante Chile para frenar la salida de un buque hacia las islas, prevista para el 10 de noviembre.
(+) en Clarín: clar.in/3WHqg8c
Properly back to full time writing as of yesterday... A LOT to get done, but when the cup-a-soups come out, it means it's writing season. Tons of fascinating new history coming out already. It's going to be a busy winter. Stay tuned!
Javier Milei goes to Spain to get support and literally nobody meets with him and leaves him looking lonely and friendless... The wheels have really fallen off this sad act now.
A fascinating piece of history from July 1983 in which an Argentine terrorist group tried to threaten Brazil over letting British planes land on their way to the Falklands, also claiming several bomb attacks on British schools in Buenos Aires... Translation attached.
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October 22nd 1982: Defence Secretary John Nott visits the Falklands to inspect the garrison there and pays his respects to the fallen.
