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I've always believed that the only reason why Thatcher took Britain to war over the Falklands was because it made an ideal staging post. Staging post for what I wasn't sure, but this situation would seem to be more than a good enough reason for it.
Of course, I could be wrong and that whole war was really over which government a load of sheep farmers would pay tax to...