How the Queen Helped Secure Reagan’s Support in the Falklands | Smithsonian Channel
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- With the Falklands War at a critical stage, inviting the US President to visit Windsor Palace on a formal state visit was a calculated risk aimed at securing his support. It worked-Reagan soon pledged his support.
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I read in a book on Reagan that the President told the Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger to give “Maggie” anything that she needed to win the war. This support included ships if the British Aircraft Carrier was sunk or damaged.
Reagan is hesitating on the matter but when his government reminded him that the UK is a NATO member that was the deciding factor and gave the support they needed.
02:16 Maggie's eyes. Her complete demeanor. Was it because Reagan moved her or was it because he quoted her verbatim in a previous, private meeting? Those words sound like HER speechwriters words?
Richard Ayoade is payment enough for our continued support and friendship with the United Kingdom.
May Allah bless the Queen of England and give her long lasting.
One could very well argue that Allah has already granted all of that!
May she live not much longer
@@Jeffrey-od9uk 🤣🤣🤣
@@Jeffrey-od9uk Granted!
Lol too late... She is actually burning. And Malvinas should be brought to where they belong 🇦🇷
Too bad they didn’t add this into The Crown
Funny. The prime Minister of Australlia tells a different story in his memoirs. One that makes a whole lot more sense than: "Ronald Regan had a great day at a castle".
Which Prime Minister?
@@nintendo2000 Malcolm Fraser wrote in his memoirs that he was attending a meeting with then vice president George Bush. Before the meeting Bush and Fraser had a chat in which Bush told Fraser that the United States was not going to show support for Great Britain on the Falklands situation. Fraser then pointed out that if one NATO country didn't support another in the "Attack against one nation is an attack against all nations" clause, that the treaty would become worthless. Bush excused himself from the conversation to make a phone call. The meeting took place 10 minutes later and in the meeting Bush said that the Untied States would support Great Britain.
@@Davivd2 In geopolitics, it is known for being the southern limitation on the mutual defense obligation of NATO, as member states of NATO are not obligated to come to the defence of territory south of the Tropic of Cancer. that's from the wiki. Not reliable I know but I didn't feel like reading through article 5 to find that sentence.
@@pigpig1938 That wouldn't apply here. The Falklands are indeed south of the Tropic of Cancer, but they are the territory of Great Britain. So the attack on the Falklands, was an attack on Great Britain. Therefore the attack would be against a NATO member north of the Tropic of Cancer. Even if the US had pulled out on a technicality, it would have made the treaty look weak and left other territories of NATO members more susceptible to attacks.
@@Davivd2 the treaty was not meant to defend European colonies. If the UK wanted to attempt to invoke Article 5, they could have but it probably would have seen larger pushback and the UK would have to drag in other nations to again defend a colony when its own homeland was not being threatened.
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Too bad Ronnie Ray-gun didn't hold right wing Central & South American governments to the same standard that "armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed and the people must participate in the business of government." Tell that to The Disappeared.
As it was this visit was just optics. It had no effect on the outcome of the war.
Are you talking about the CIA
No shock Imperial nations side together.
He mentions it as rock so far away, yet that’s not what it is to Argentinian’s. Shows the disdain US and UK shows towards nations it views as less than themselves
@Anthony M Brazil would hold more claim than Britain. But nice try coming in here with a false flag argument to distract from imperial greed. About what I expected out of the comments on a video bootlicking royals
@Anthony M the fact that anyone would think Britain has more right to anything other than 'the rock' they call home is mind numbing
@@Jeffrey-od9uk going by your logic surely america needs to give back all their territory to the natives?
your actually trolling if you think USA will side on Argentina against UK 😂
Why not respect the wishes of the people who live on “that rock”? Forcing them to live under Argentinian rule against their will is more like imperialism
Imperialists siding with imperialists, imagine my shock