Well, I guess. Depends on your definition of "colony". Not like all of those islands were settled by Greeks to begin with.
Well, I guess. Depends on your definition of "colony". Not like all of those islands were settled by Greeks to begin with.
Let's be real here..
Many who know of the Falkland Wars, of the early 80's, know any attempts again, by Argentina would be futile..
A. Argentina was run by a dictator, who made a rash decision, that cost him, and his supporters, their dictatorship, as weakly held together as it was.
B. They were utterly defeated, and would be again, undeniably.
C. I don't believe Argentina can do more than just spew threats, and keep on about a war they lose thirty years ago. It's over. They had their chance, as poorly misconceived as it was, and they lost. End of the story.
D. I am a proud supporter of the British, the UK in general, and the Falkland Islanders.
I'm sure the ancient peoples loved the Greeks showing up on their shores and proclaiming to own everything their ships could reach.
Pfft, if we're gonna go back 200 something years for the Falklands, I call thousands of years ago for Greeks fair game.
Or do you think its okay to stamp out the beautiful creatures of antiquity for some empires of city-states?
Remember that their fleet only stayed out until the Belgrano was sunk, at which point they retired to port. How are they going to get to the islands given it's current defenses, the atrophy of their fleet, the continuing deficit in air capabilities from a war that happened thirty years ago, and the threat of a nuclear submarine sitting off their coast?
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but the insinuation in your statement strikes more of trying to stir up a reaction from certain members than a legitimate appraisal of the current situation. Just the way I see it.
Right, but the people on those islands were Greek, they weren't Hellenized or didn't replace any other residents.
In any case, to say that Greece was a major coloniser would be somewhat wrong, considering there was no Greek state and that the colonies that were founded were only culturally tied with the Greek mainland, rather than actually belonging to an actual Greek city, with few exceptions.
In any case, I don't think you'll find many Greeks asking for Marseilles back.
I'm simply saying that underestimating the Argentinians cost the British once already, I don't think there should be much room for it.
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I think you need to use a dictionary, stat!
Power projection (or force projection) is a term used in military and political science to refer to the capacity of a state to conduct expeditionary warfare, i.e. to intimidate other nations and implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof, in an area distant from its own territory
Its over 1000 miles from the falklands to Argentina not to mention if it starts a full time war with the UK it might want to attack them to and that counts as force projection.
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I'm saying they didn't and they were a joke in 1982, a failure and their invasion proved that.
Are you in the habit of answering questions with questions? Of assuming positions on anothers behalf when questioned? Because to me it betrays an incredibly weak antagonistic position with no foundational knowledge strength.
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But you said they didn't have it and they don't need it? The linguistic dispute is that you clearly don't even know what YOU want to say.
To a certain extent I'm guilty of that, in 1982 of course they had limited force projection as they do now, its pathetic and clearly not enough to prosecute a war but yes they have a small amount which your flippant nonsensical posting goaded me into saying they had none in 1982 which was quite literally just me posting derogatory nonsense based on their craplustre performance then.
But any nation that wants to be any kind of power beyond coastal defence needs force projection otherwise it has no power to do so.
Last edited by DimeBagHo; February 13, 2013 at 11:04 PM. Reason: Off topic (personal)
So, Argentina, besides having a small amount of force projection (is there a scale?), still launched an attack against a group of islands many miles away, even if they belonged to a nation which once had a large level of force projection. I mean, are you going to suggest that some conflicts are brought about even if the odds of winning aren't good? How dare those people offend your dictionary definition of warfare.
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