As for talk of an American failure to recognise the result of the Falklands referendum, if a Loyalist area of one of the 13 Colonies had
held a referendum in 1776 and resolved to stay British, then they would not
have recognised that, either.
There is no more reason to expect the United
States to support an old European imperial power over this than to expect any
old European colonial power, no matter how Latin or Catholic or whatever, to
support Argentina. France and Portugal gave us invaluable support in 1982.
Well, of course. America, er, didn't... Well, of course not.
Latin America now matters vastly more to American
foreign policy than anywhere in Europe does, and now matters in American
domestic elections in a way which Britain, in particular, simply never has
done, except from time to time, and by no means only in the distant past by
American standards, as a bogeyman.
Driving out British influence from the Americas
was the whole point all the way back at the time of the Declaration of
Independence. Extended from the hemisphere to the globe, there has never been a
break in American pursuit of that one overriding objective, to which any and
everything else has been subordinated as and when necessary. Nor will there ever be.
Will all British Citizens living on the Falkland
Islands, including the Saint Helenians working there, get to vote in the
referendum? If so, then even if it had not been in the bag before, then it
certainly is now. God Save The Queen.
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