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[@RDPHistory](/creator/twitter/RDPHistory)
"October 16th 1982: In the UN Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Reverend Miguel D'Escotto Brockmann accuses the USA of playing East-West politics by financing covert destabilising activities in Central America. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979238149185274110) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T17:28Z 19.4K followers, 1357 engagements


"October 18th 1982: The Central American countries - Guatemala El Salvador Nicaragua Honduras and Costa Rica - ask for an additional $XXX million in Foreign Aid from the USA knowing Reagan cannot say no to shore up a failing regional bank:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979573666707902556) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T15:41Z 19.4K followers, 1393 engagements


"October 18th 1982: In Parliament the subject of the XXX wounded men and types of wounds received in the Falklands War is raised. Peter Blaker gives a full list of everything from lost legs to sprains. it is all in the link below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979582611296288800) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T16:17Z 19.4K followers, 19K engagements


"2) He continues in recounting his attempts to interview Galtieri his laughing off of the constant Argentine claims to have sunk HMS Invincible yet again and his ways of winding them up. 2/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979601751360856466) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:33Z 19.4K followers, 1528 engagements


"@MartinSzerman @rogerlorton @FacundoDRod Argentina claimed eleven times from 1833-1849 which is not "every year" as you claim. Furthermore from January 1849 until December 1946 Argentina issued not one Formal Diplomatic Protest to the UK over the Falklands proving they absolutely had given up the claim for XX years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979429653388329366) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T06:09Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"3) ". The Assembly established further that finding a solution to the dispute was the only way to bring to an end the colonial situation in the Malvinas and ruled out the applicability of the right of self-determination to this particular special case." None of this is true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979571851673137518) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T15:34Z 19.4K followers, 1096 engagements


"2) Yes we have Phantoms now. so send up your entire Air Force if you want: we'll wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979603410249748820) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:40Z 19.4K followers, 9618 engagements


"cartoon Rick here and that's a VERY busy October 18th done. A day of some huge revelations certainly for me and perhaps none as much as the fact that Argentina had scripted its invasion story long before the invasion happened. More power to "The First Casualty" just a bit 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979603996856967562) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:42Z 19.4K followers, 2013 engagements


"October 13th 1982: At the UN it is determined that the global economic slump and not wars is the real issue of the day: the near collapse of Mexico's economy plus Brazil Argentina Bolivia and more and crushing US Tariffs is seen as the main fault"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977651815949942860) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-13T08:25Z 19.4K followers, 1599 engagements


"October 17th 1982: Venezuela demands that the USA step in and back them in the Essequibo dispute with Guyana. they have resurrected this old trope in the last few years. Ironically my sources say to expect a US attack on Venezuela this weekend 😉"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979244430230991349) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T17:53Z 19.4K followers, 2239 engagements


"2) It reads: "The General Assembly expressly recognised that there was a dispute concerning sovereignty over the territory and that there were only two parties to the dispute: the Governments of Argentina and of the United Kingdom." 2/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979571641739829686) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T15:33Z 19.4K followers, 1147 engagements


"October 18th 1982: In Parliament it is revealed that Seacat launchers can be adapted to fire the deadly Sea Wolf and have done so in trials but that more work is needed to adapt the guidance system: a huge "what if" of naval weapons design right here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979580631571898412) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T16:09Z 19.4K followers, 3672 engagements


"October 18th 1982: The Penguin News highlights the work of XX Gurkha Independent Field Squadron in the Falklands with one of their officers explaining what they have been doing since they arrived in Stanley on August 12th and how the "Little Men from Nepal" are finding it there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979594041227698584) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:02Z 19.4K followers, 1732 engagements


"October 18th 1982: BBC News Correspondent for LATAM Harold Briley writes an account in the Penguin news of Argentina before during and after the invasion of the Falklands. An interesting note: they published their account of the invasion FOUR DAYS before it happened. 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979601347872710943) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:31Z 19.4K followers, 3044 engagements


"October 18th 1982: An RAF Phantom and two Harriers are alerted by early warning radar of the approach of an Argentine aircraft towards the XXX mile protected zone. The enemy aircraft alters course back to Argentina as the British jets approach having tested the defences. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979603061585641933) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:38Z 19.4K followers, 55.7K engagements


"October 19th 1982: The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano reports that a three-man investigative team have cleared the Vatican Bank of any wrongdoing in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979815685875245500) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T07:43Z 19.4K followers, 2065 engagements


"2) October 19th 1966: Argentina launches an amphibious raid against Cow Bay in East Falkland with a Buzo Tactico squad on board the submarine ARA Santiago del Estero. I told this in The First Casualty but it was only finally admitted to five years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979819469280281083) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T07:58Z 19.4K followers, 1846 engagements


"September 24th 1982: At the UN the Fourth Committee on Decolonisation states that it is prepared to hear from individuals and petitioners regarding the Falklands' question: A decision to have the question of the Falkland Islands considered in plenary meeting was." 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1971968844278509983) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-27T16:03Z 19.4K followers, 4046 engagements


"September 24th 1982: RMAS Typhoon returns to the UK from the Falklands war: an ocean-going tug and auxiliary ship which had been the very first task force vessel to depart and which saw more service than her small stature might suggest mostly on South Georgia. This is her OTD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1971975525968347476) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-27T16:29Z 19.4K followers, 2701 engagements


"October 1st 1982: As if to prove the post below the leftist government of Nicaragua reports killing and capturing XXX rebels with kit supplied by the CIA. The juntas and the rebels in South and Central America are all pawns in a game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1974188562133496045) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-03T19:03Z 19.4K followers, 1441 engagements


"October 1st 1982: MV Norland leaves Ascension again bound for the Falklands. She is now the official taxi service for the Falkland Islands and this time she comes with all berths occupied as returning islanders join military personnel and technical experts headed south. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1974191002555723827) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-03T19:13Z 19.4K followers, 7515 engagements


"October 6th 1982: In Washington DC Assistant US Secretary of State Thomas Enders informs Argentina's Ambassador Lucio Garcia del Solar that the US has serious problems with the text of Argentina's proposed UN resolution on the Falkland Islands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1975485473524162610) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-07T08:56Z 19.4K followers, 1358 engagements


"@FacundoDRod So the same Argentina which recognised South Georgia South Sandwich South Orkney South Shetland and Graham's Land as British in 1909 complained in 1908 that the Falklands were British Pull the other one 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977667315291529650) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-13T09:26Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"October 14th 1982: The new leftist Bolivian Government immediately re-establishes ties with Communist-led Nicaragua: if anyone is in any doubt that the East vs West war was the ultimate cause of the Falklands War the evidence keeps coming time and again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1978927136766357737) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-16T20:52Z 19.3K followers, 1675 engagements


"@MartinSzerman @rogerlorton @FacundoDRod It wasn't "odd" at all actually. Ruda did such a job of baffling everyone that the British attendees realised they'd come completely under-prepared. Yet try it again and you'd get laughed out of the room which is exactly why Argentina won't go to the ICJ to repeat those lies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1978940546237210724) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 19.3K followers, XX engagements


"@MartinSzerman @rogerlorton @FacundoDRod How can Falklands Islanders in the Falkland Islands be referred to as a "minority" Are you that thick NO Hispanic population was "expelled" which is proven fact. Decolonisation refers to "COUNTRIES and PEOPLES" which is both. tough cheese. hard egg. etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1978941042524078563) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-16T21:48Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"@FacundoDRod So it incorporated the islands of the same name. named as the Islas de los Estados. Not the Falklands. Argentina has never owned the Falklands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1978944684190822412) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-16T22:02Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"October 15th 1982: The NYT looks at American options now that France Italy and soon Spain all go Socialist making all of southern Europe "Red". It is hoped that the Spanish Socialists removed from their own Communist party may prove to be reasonable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979219399622992220) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T16:14Z 19.4K followers, 1919 engagements


"2) And Greece actually so that's the entire Mediterranean basin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979222591807148207) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T16:26Z 19.4K followers, 1170 engagements


"September 28th 1982: A two man shooting team from the Falklands attends the Commonwealth Games in Australia. Because of the war they admit they are ill-prepared: "The Argentines confiscated our rifles burned our targets and mined our shooting ranges":"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1972364135204868606) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-28T18:13Z 19.4K followers, 2659 engagements


"October 8th 1982: US Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger reveals Soviet attempts to steal new technology this year including a new radio frequency scanner which US Intelligence replaced with sandbags and traced on a flight to Mexico"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1976746461585953083) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-10T20:27Z 19.4K followers, 2441 engagements


"October 12th 1982: US Electronics Corporation Westinghouse reports a hike in profits. they were curious beneficiaries of the Falklands War when the UK flogged them the homologated cut-out switch designed by the Argentines in the war. 1/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977333007007744191) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-12T11:18Z 19.4K followers, 12.9K engagements


"@AdrDwn101 It cut the transmissions remotely so that a SHRIKE or HARM related missile couldn't target it or or the crew. The Argentines lashed it up in the Falklands and we perfected it and flogged the idea to Westinghouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977478463390200070) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-12T20:56Z 19.4K followers, XXX engagements


"October 16th 1982: In El-Salvador the American-led counterattack on Communist-backed rebels hits fierce resistance. Government forces admit XX killed XX wounded against an estimated XX rebels killed despite outnumbering them seven to one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979232176236372453) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T17:04Z 19.4K followers, 1475 engagements


"2) In 1985 he is suspended as a priest by the Vatican but he goes on to become President of the UN General Assembly in 2008 and is reinstated to the priesthood by Pope Francis in 2014"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979238728955473925) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T17:31Z 19.4K followers, XXX engagements


"October 11th 1982: The Penguin News publishes a heartfelt letter of thanks to a Falklands family from a Welsh Guardsman who was due to leave the Army a week before the QE2 sailed. Again the stories of an "ungrateful" population are seen to be wholly untrue press rubbish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977096311439868150) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-11T19:37Z 19.4K followers, 2247 engagements


"@MartinSzerman @FacundoDRod Henry VIII died in 1547 so 1602 was not before that time. Early 1600s maps also show a large area known as "Austra" or one called Patagonia. no Argentina. Plus th4ese are names not a country: Britain was so called in the 1st Century BC but existed politically from 1707"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977644906337501402) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-13T07:57Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"@MartinSzerman @rogerlorton @FacundoDRod All paid for by the Argentine Government. individual people cannot act without the direction of the Government in place. A shrug and "It's nothing to do with me guv" doesn't cut it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1978943662869364866) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-16T21:58Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"October 17th 1982: HMS Danae HMS Apollo and RFA Olwen return to Devonport from the Falklands. Many ships are still out there or have returned again such as HMS Glasgow and HMS Penelope amongst others but slowly the threat level from Argentina has reduced over time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979255254114763196) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-17T18:36Z 19.4K followers, 3355 engagements


"@RedBaronSpandau Karma For what How is this anything to do with karma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979428312154861884) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T06:04Z 19.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@jmrosas1845 So from the statement: "We have no doubt about their right to self determination" you have somehow gleaned that it is clear that the right to self determination doesn't exist - It is in the UN Charter which Argentina signed just as we did and in multiple UN Resolutions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979428946337800419) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T06:06Z 19.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@FacundoDRod @UKSimonT Complete tripe: he was not removed for criticising it at all but because he had expressed opinion prior to it so that he was not seen as impartial: you lie like a cheap watch. You also neglect to mention that Argentina was offered to send an international observer and refused"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979431224574623906) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T06:15Z 19.4K followers, XX engagements


"2) You'd think the old "Let's back a military Junta" plan would have shown its frailties by now huh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979575193409368287) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T15:47Z 19.4K followers, XXX engagements


"October 18th 1982: In Parliament Tam Dalyell asks Peter Blaker how long it will take to clear the Argentine land mines. Blaker gives no estimate as many minefields have not been properly marked or recorded and many contain other unexploded ordnance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979581656836055226) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T16:13Z 19.4K followers, 1473 engagements


"October 18th 1982: Sir John Biggs-Davison MP Conservative for Epping Forest and former Chairman of the Falkland Islands Parliamentary Group writes in the Penguin news candidly addressing the FCO's attempts to sell them out and expressing his complete support for the Islanders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979595977062277585) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:10Z 19.4K followers, 1479 engagements


"3) Finally he gives his full support to the Falkland Islanders themselves. HOWEVER let's go back to point 1: if Argentina wrote their invasion story four days BEFORE it happened I think I am justified in calling a whole swathe of their history complete lies made to fit a case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979602476975476918) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-18T17:36Z 19.4K followers, 1278 engagements


"They manage to evade the relevant questions answer questions which aren't even questions and produce a five-point rebuttal without publishing their findings. It is a tissue of lies which covers up the fact that the Vatican was underwriting dodgy arms deals for dummy companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979816139875385833) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T07:45Z 19.4K followers, 1293 engagements


"October 19th 1982: The Argentine National Rugby Union team sets out for Europe for a series of friendly matches against France and Spain. they are timidly reaching out as a nation but only to friendly countries since the war. The tournament itself sees them getting stuffed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979817679679811813) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T07:51Z 19.4K followers, 1934 engagements


"Cartoon Rick here and October 19th 1982 was a very quiet day as far as goes anything to do with the Falklands or the war and geopolitics surrounding it. however in the thread below are two OTD stories which are VERY relevant; from 1966 and 1989 respectively. 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979818279364645317) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T07:53Z 19.4K followers, 2781 engagements


"3) October 19th 1982: Argentina finally sits down with the UK and declares hostilities at an end over the Falklands over seven years after the war ended. The Madrid Accords and Sovereignty Umbrella Agreement come into effect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1979821113330000017) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T08:05Z 19.4K followers, 1655 engagements


"Incidentally regarding the Argentine Cow Bay raid of 1966 I decided to spend my evening putting together as much as is known and probably will ever be known about this fascinating operation. I hope you enjoy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1980051849576329559) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-19T23:22Z 19.4K followers, 3189 engagements