"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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"Rod Speed" wrote:

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She was heading for a huge election defeat until she manufactured
the Falklands War.

*shrug* takes two to tango.

It would have been cheaper to give every inhabitant a million pounds
and ask them to relocated to a Scottish island, which, at the time,
is where most people in Britain probably thought the Falklands were.

If you discount the military and mineral implications, I guess so.

And if you feel that ethnic cleansing is OK.

It wouldnt have been ethnic cleansing, some would have chosen to
stay just like some did when HongKong was handed back to China.

Difference is that HK was full of Chinese. No Argentinians living on the
Falklands, and never have been.

Irrelevant to whether some would have chosen to stay.

Plenty had their kids educated in Argy schools etc so they
would likely have chosen to stay under new ownership, just
like happened with HongKong.