Argentine President Javier Milei, has declared that the Falklands “illegal foreign occupation” and that his country needs to take them back from the UK.
But 44 years after Britain defeated Argentina in the Falklands War, could another invasion be on the cards?
And with Britain’s military much more depleted today than in the 80s, could they even retake the islands?
On this episode of the Fourcast Indicators, Matt Frei and Mark Urban speak to Chris Sabatini, the Director of the Latin America Programme at Chatham House.
He says that the presence of oil near the islands, as well as his tanking popularity at home, has pushed President Milei into putting the archipelago back into the spotlight.