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# ![@RDPHistory Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1625540048186753029.png) @RDPHistory Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian

Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian posts on X about argentina, mexico, return to, greece the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1252 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[argentina](/topic/argentina) #1105, [mexico](/topic/mexico) 0.08%, [return to](/topic/return-to) 0.08%, [greece](/topic/greece) 0.08%, [miguel](/topic/miguel) 0.08%, [nicaragua](/topic/nicaragua) 0.08%, [france](/topic/france) 0.08%, [italy](/topic/italy) 0.08%, [spain](/topic/spain) 0.08%, [up the](/topic/up-the) XXXX%

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"September 11th 1982: The IMF determines on some tough conditions for economic bail-out with Mexico the top of their list and Argentina which is about $X billion in arrears on its foreign debts is running second. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1966006264984383503) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-11T05:09Z 19.3K followers, 2258 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 19.3K followers, 1637 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 19.3K followers, 1053 engagements


"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 19.3K followers, 1119 engagements


"2) "The problem is not credit" says Alden Winship "Tom" Clausen President of the World Bank "but creditworthiness" and although Argentina has opened talks on emergency credits Labour Unions in Argentina state that they will demonstrate against any austerity measures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1966007333978345923) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-11T05:14Z 19.3K followers, 1640 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, 1612 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 19.3K followers, XX engagements


"September 20th 1982: Finally a funny story from the Penguin News of a supposed "priority shipment" sent from Stanley to Ascension by long-range Hercules which when unwrapped proved to be a bleached cow's skull. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1970204276103278693) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-22T19:11Z 19.3K followers, 3504 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 19.3K followers, 7511 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 19.3K followers, 1785 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 19.3K followers, XX 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 19.3K followers, XX 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 19.3K followers, 12.8K 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 19.3K followers, 2226 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 19.3K followers, XX 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 19.3K followers, XX 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 19.3K followers, 1730 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 19.3K followers, 1347 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 19.3K followers, XX engagements


"2) General Thorne soon receives a sharp rebuke from the CO at Ascension for his pilots having their time wasted and Thorne replies that the intended cargo was Falklands beef for CO Ascension and blames pilfering. Some wiseacre then replied: "Suggest Oxo cubes as alternative" 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1970205021200396554) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-09-22T19:14Z 19.3K followers, 1638 engagements


"@FacundoDRod @UPU_UN I'll see your 1927 Postal Union complaint and raise you the first Falkland Islands postage stamps from 1878. As ever you're late to the party again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1977666792891023483) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-13T09:24Z 19.3K followers, XX 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 19.3K followers, 4044 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 19.3K followers, XXX engagements


"October 6th 1982: Angola's Foreign Minister accuses the USA of "Paranoia" over ideas of Cuban Mercenaries fighting there despite their being around 15000 of them. the Cold War of which the Falklands was just another proxy is being fought everywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1975127409931485672) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-06T09:14Z 19.3K followers, 1756 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


"@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 19.3K 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 19.3K followers, 1294 engagements


"October 10th 1982: The NYT reports on the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Falklands heroes Sergeant Ian McKay (3 Para) & Lt. Colonel H Jones (2 Para) for gallantry at Mt Longdon and Goose Green respectively. A good few others deserved it too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1976934078894293375) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-11T08:53Z 19.3K followers, 17.1K engagements


"June 14th 1982: During the ceasefire a number of Argentine troops determine to get their own back in some way. Here official photographer Paul Haley catches Argentine soldier Carlos Bustos emptying the load from a fuel lorry into the harbour. Paul quickly calls for the RMPs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1933813953127477495) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-06-14T09:09Z 19.3K followers, 5186 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 19.3K followers, 2656 engagements


"June 8th 1982: The Daggers drop their bombs and though one of them is damaged by an exploding Seacat she is hit: one bomb hits the flight deck detonating a depth charge one goes straight through the funnel. The remaining two bombs destroy her Limbo depth charge mortar. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1931794203870179798) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-06-08T19:23Z 19.3K followers, 8389 engagements


"Operation Cape Sword begins in the Falklands with the Rifles practicing facing Argentine incursions to Stanley and Wireless Ridge. It will run till October 14th. Argentina is unhappy about it 🤣🤣🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1975243838710292813) [@RDPHistory](/creator/x/RDPHistory) 2025-10-06T16:56Z 19.3K followers, 20K 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 19.3K followers, 2696 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 19.3K followers, XXX 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 19.3K followers, 1562 engagements