Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian

Nine time No.1 Best Selling Military Historian, Author and #Falklands War specialist. Occasional TV Historian. Dog Lover & Rescuer. All books on link below:

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

For everyone following my retelling of the build-up to the Falklands invasion, please remember I have two books on the subject: The First Casualty and its companion Pictorial History, both available on Amazon 😊

https://t.co/78Y6hKmyaA

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@Lautaro_Chile Argentina has no jurisdiction here. It isn't imposing some law (which it cannot legally impose) it is bullying and trying to make Chile back down. If Chile backs down now, Argentina will always treat it like a vassal state. Send the ship and give it air cover.

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@Lautaro_Chile Argentina has no jurisdiction there whatsoever. They seem to think they can invent a law and it becomes everybody else's law too. Again, as I've said before, if Chile backs down now, it will always be a vassal state to Argentina. It cannot back down.

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@bea_johanssen I hadn't. He's as caustic but correct as he always seems to be in his writings though. He's certainly not wrong.

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An interesting new article on Operation Impi, a final plan to take out the Argentine Exocet threat. Great article although very much overblown with press hype. In real terms they were literally trying to find anything for the SBS to still do by this time.

https://t.co/oFN512dcN2

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@rogerlorton Lots of missions were left on the planning table which were past their use by date. I applaud Mariano for his work, but think the press tried to sex it up a bit with an idea that it was still a thing by then. I'd heard of it, but not more than that.

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@Adrudiaz2022 That's all in the files. It's not been a secret ever. I've covered it in two books. Almost all files were declassified in 2012. Very few remain. When will Argentina fully declassify its files? At least ours have a release date on them 😉

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@chileliberal Don't worry, even my friends asked me if I was John Stanley... It's a pseudonym. I know someone who does know who it is, but he's keeping it a secret.

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@GermanHanacek @chileliberal I think you're mistaken. Chile looks after its own interests, and the days of Argentina treating Chile as a vassal state are over. Only Argentina is being aggressive here. Nobody else is talking about weapons. You're all whipped up because a sad political nutcase is shouting.

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@AuthLMMountford Well, we knew they had no more Exocets and the war was about over, so I think like Kettledrum, it was one of those plans left on the planning table which people vaguely shuffled towards until it was obvious it wasn't needed.

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@AztecaEl 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I truly love Mexico 🤣🤣🤣

[Raúl Márquez Garza @AztecaEl]

Argentina es oficialmente el país más inclusivo del mundo, al tener al primer presidente con retraso mental.

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@chileliberal Just to be clear, yes they are, and no, I'm not the author of the book! Everyone thought it was me 🤣

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@ellobofedozen @gord_eu Argentina was nothing to do with that. They wrapped Top Gear when the three presenters left together, and new presenters failed to deliver. That's irrelevant: Argentina attacked Top Gear out of politicised hatred, and shot itself in the foot.

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Let's take a minute to remember why Jeremy Clarkson may not like Argentina, shall we? 🤔

https://t.co/8e3j8ukxyc

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@ellobofedozen @gord_eu The point in question was the thuggish way in which Argentina, due to fabricated politicising of a non-event, attacked a TV production team trying to make their country look good... It isn't over an outburst which you don't attempt to understand. There's no correlation.

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@DH63821451 @JeremyClarkson @F1 Neither FIFA nor Egypt are anything to do with Britain... I don't think you are keeping up with the conversation here.

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

Referencing one's own experience as a humourous note of self-satire and everyone is going into meltdown?? Argentina needs to grow a sense of humour and cope.

@JeremyClarkson @F1

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😭 Jeremy Clarkson on Franco Colapinto’s grid penalty at the United States GP:

“Franco’s got a grid penalty… for being Argentinian… probably. Well, I’d give him one for that.”

Clarkson is never beating the allegations. 💀

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@DH63821451 @JeremyClarkson @F1 Do you understand that Switzerland is not in Britain? Also it's a bit of an obscure reference... I hardly see how this is in any way relevant?

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@archer_rs I certainly wouldn't want to live there. Nice people, nice enough place, but no thanks.

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@elmostrador

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

@bustos91412 @JeremyClarkson @F1 Because you don't have a sense of humour.