"THE MALVINAS WERE, ARE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ARGENTINE,” Milei said in Spanish on X on Friday, using the Argentine name for the islands.
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The Falkland Islands are a small group of islands some 300 miles east of Argentina, with a population of around 3,600.
Milei’s renewed push for Argentine control of the islands comes after it emerged that the United States is considering a review of its support for the U.K.’s historic claim to the islands.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said on Friday that the Falklands’ “sovereignty rests with the U.K.” and that “the islanders' right to self-determination is paramount.”
That position has support across the aisle in Britain. Kemi Badenoch, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, said, “The Falklands are British. Full stop.”
The State Department currently recognizes the U.K.’s sovereignty over the islands, but Trump’s relationship with London has soured in recent months.
Trump has expressed his frustration with NATO allies publicly over their refusal to join the Iran War, warning them of a “very bad” future if they did not help him open the Strait of Hormuz. When Europe called for resistance and declined to send warships to the Strait, he called NATO “useless.”
Trump’s words prompted a response from Starmer, who said he was “fed up” with people in the U.K. struggling to pay for gas and energy bills ever since the war sparked a worldwide energy crisis, raising prices across the world.
Argentina and the U.K. fought a war over the islands
The competing claims to the island date back hundreds of years, to a period when the British Empire stretched across the world.
Eventually, the British expelled Argentina from the islands in 1833 and established the Falklands as an official colony.
Galtieri saw his chance when Argentine scrap metal workers occupied and raised the Argentinian flag at an abandoned whaling station on the British territory of South Georgia, a small island east of the Falklands. When they refused British orders to leave, Argentina sent warships ostensibly to protect the workers. The U.K. sent its own naval vessel in response.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government then sent its own naval task force to recapture them.
After a 74-day conflict, Argentina eventually surrendered to British forces. Some 900 people died in the war, including 649 Argentines, 255 British troops and three civilian islanders.
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