Trump Wants to Take Over the Falkland-Malvinas Islands

The Falkland Islands are off the coast of Argentina, which refers to them as the Malvinas Islands. They were stolen from Argentina by the crooks of the colonial British Empire, whose descendants refuse to hand them back to Argentina. Margaret Thatcher, the former extremist right-wing prime minister of England went to war with Argentina to recover the Falkland Islands when Argentina seized them back in the early 1980s.

But now that Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, like all other democracies, refused to help the insane old geezer Donald Dumb in his Zionist-prodded war on Iran, the US is threatening to seize the Falkland Islands from Britain as punishment. When you have a mindless idiot at the helm in the superpower of our time, no one should be surprised if Keir Starmer pulls a Margaret-Thatcher war against the US to recover the islands, if the US decides to take them over. And that is a problem between the "special" allies that the the US and the UK keep bragging about.
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Sovereignty of Falklands rests with the UK, Britain tells the US
Reuters
Fri, April 24, 2026 


The coast of the West Falkland, of the Falkland Islands, is seen from an airplane May 20, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer walks outside 10 Downing Street after pressure intensified over his handling of the appointment of Peter Mandelson, who failed a security vetting process, as Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., on the day of Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, April 22, 2026. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo


LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - The sovereignty of the Falkland Islands rests with Britain, a spokesperson for Prime Minister ‌Keir Starmer said on Friday after an internal Pentagon ‌email suggested reviewing the U.S. position on the Falklands as punishment for Britain's ​stance on the Iran war.

"We could not be clearer about the UK's position on the Falkland Islands. It is long standing, it is unchanged," the spokesperson told reporters.

"Sovereignty rests with the UK ‌and the islands' right ⁠to self-determination is paramount. It's been our consistent position and will remain the case," the spokesperson ⁠said, adding that Britain had expressed that position "clearly and consistently to successive U.S. administrations".

The Pentagon email outlined options for the United States ​to punish ​NATO allies it believes failed ​to support U.S. operations ‌in the war with Iran, including considering reassessing U.S. diplomatic support for longstanding European "imperial possessions," such as the Falkland Islands near Argentina.

Britain and Argentina fought a brief war in 1982 over the islands after Argentina made a failed bid to take them. ‌Some 650 Argentine and 255 British ​service personnel died before Argentina surrendered.

Asked ​if Starmer thought this ​was an attempt by the U.S. to put ‌pressure on him to join the ​Iran war, ​his spokesperson said: "He has spoken about that and he has also spoken about how that pressure does not affect ​him, and he will ‌always act in the national interest, and that will ​always remain the case."

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper and Andrew ​MacAskill; editing by William James)