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The United Kingdom is one of the Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council. It is an official Nuclear country and boasted (and still does) one of the ten largest economies on the planet. If Britain had not responded to the Argentina’s blatant and unprovoked seizure of the Falkland Islands this would have represented a monumental loss of prestige and standing as a world power, not seen since the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956.
The United Kingdom is one of the Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council. It is an official Nuclear country and boasted (and still does) one of the ten largest economies on the planet. If Britain had not responded to the Argentina’s blatant and unprovoked seizure of the Falkland Islands this would have represented a monumental loss of prestige and standing as a world power, not seen since the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956.
While the war certainly bolstered the government of Margaret Thatcher it allowed for Britain to reassert its standing as a vital player in NATO and a key nation in the Cold War .
Failure to act in 1982 would have doomed Britain to second rate status as a geopolitical entity. It also would have likely placed other British dependencies around the globe at the risk of foreign invasion.
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