UK will send a nuclear submarine to put pressure and use it's diplomatic channels, remember trade works both ways.
and if it does not get their in time ? UK at war with entire south america ? NATO did not intervene in the last falklands war and if another occurs it won't again. The UK barely won the last Falklands war and Argentina would have won it made mistake going in to early the fact is oil was found and now Argentina thirst is growing, I fore if another falklands war comes Argentina and Venezuela + mercs.
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Britain 'could not defend Falklands'
13 June 2011
A shrinking navy and lack of US support mean that Britain would be unable to prevent Argentina from invading the Falkland Islands and claiming them as their own, the Admiral who commanded British naval forces during the Falklands War has warned.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward said that Britain was over-committed and could not rely on the US to support the defence of the islands as it did in 1982.
Instead the US would support an "accommodation" in order to create stability in the area, Woodward wrote.
He also pointed out that the Royal Navy was significantly reduced and no longer had carrier strike capability.
"We can no longer rely on the Pentagon to support us in helping the islanders in their wish to remain essentially British sovereign territory," he wrote.
"Significantly the islands are already being called the Malvinas by the US. This tells us all too clearly which way the wind is blowing."
"With our land and air forces already over-committed in Afghanistan and Libya, with the defence budget still shrinking, our submarine force more than halved, our destroyer and frigate force halved, our carrier force more than halved in terms of deck availability and completely discarded in terms of fixed wing assets – the answer appears to be that we can do precisely nothing other than accede to US pressure," Admiral Woodward concluded.
There are currently over a thousand troops, four Typhoon fast jets and a frigate stationed in and around the Falkland Islands.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "Claims that the Falkland Islands could be taken without a fight are completely without substance. The current garrison in the Falkland Islands is much larger in scale and has a greater capability than in 1982 and this together with our ability to reinforce rapidly by air has been maintained. "