@Walter Hinteler,
Be it the intervention in Venezuela, the threats against Greenland, the war against Iran, the blockade of Cuba, or the dispute with the EU and NATO: the list of wars and conflicts triggered by US President Donald Trump this year is long, and 2026 isn’t even halfway through.
Another crisis could be on the horizon. It concerns the Falkland Islands, over which Argentina and the UK went to war in 1982.
The reason for this is an internal memo from Washington.
The letter did not specify any concrete measures, nor have any been taken to date. The underlying message, however, is that it is not a foregone conclusion that the Falkland Islands must belong to the United Kingdom.
If the US were to withdraw its support for Britain’s claims to the Falklands, this would demonstrate the extent to which the country is turning away from its traditional foreign policy – towards a policy that is more or less (more more than less) directly subservient to Trump’s interests.
Falklands is a pressure point for the UK – and the US knows it
According to Ed Arnold of the British think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in the above quoted BBC report "we could well see a situation in which Argentina pushes for intervention at the United Nations and the US either supports this or, at the very least, does not actively block it."
So, rather than involving soldiers, the dispute over the Falklands could be resolved through a series of negotiations. (But hopefully without those notorious American “negotiators”!)