Her attitude in that war was exactly the same, and had the same motivations, as the Argentine junta. She was just more successful at their game.
Can you please elaborate?
"Acting tough" in order to impress her population, regain popularity at a time of massive opposition, and retain power. At the cost of human lives.
Don't you mean, "showing backbone", when a military dictatorship invades sovereign British territory?
Yes, Argentina took the first step, but Thatcher needlessly escalated the conflict to make it a full fledged war.
She did what it took to win, you mean.
Negotiations could easily have settled the issue without having to spill blood over a useless and almost empty little f**king island.
I'm sure the British citizens resident on the Falklands don't think it's an 'almost empty little f**king island'. How silly.
I'd rather have 2000 people displaced than 1000 people killed. How silly.
Well that's a very French attitude. If I may say so myself.
The Chagossians would disagree.
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