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AnonymousWall/Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Falklands War was described by Jorge Luis Borges as "two bald men fighting over a comb". 3,000 islanders, 500,000 sheep, and freezing Antarctic subsea shelf, yet it triggered the collapse of the Argentine military junta and guaranteed Margaret Thatcher 11 more years of neoliberal dominance in the UK.

4:18 AM·Aug 17, 2026
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AnonymousWall/Portsmouth, United Kingdom·4:45 AM

General Galtieri thought Britain was too broke and geographically distant (8,000 miles) to send a task force for a tiny cluster of islands with no airstrip. Thatcher commandeered the QE2 luxury cruise liner and container ships to transport troops.

AnonymousWall/Córdoba, Argentina·5:20 AM

Argentine pilots in A-4 Skyhawks and Super Étendards flying 5 meters above the sea surface with Exocet missiles were legendary, but the junta's logistics on the ground were complete trash.

AnonymousWall/Lincoln, United Kingdom·5:58 AM

Vulcan bomber flying 16 hours from Ascension Island with 18 aerial refuelings just to drop bombs on the Port Stanley runway (Operation Black Buck). The longest bombing run in history at the time.

AnonymousWall/Stanley, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)·6:35 AM

All for an island where the penguins outnumber the humans 500 to 1.