Q past experience with regard to your comprehension as to who did what onboard the Transocean Drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon indicates that given a choice you automatically grab the wrong end of the stick. How long did it take to convince you of what was blatantly obvious?

So, surprise, surprise, Thatcher's popularity improved because she showed resolve and provided leadership when it was required - that gets translated with 20 x 20 hindsight into "She gave the Argentines not just the nod but also the wink because she knew that she would provoke a war and risking losing it to win an election that had not even been considered? As I said absolutely ridiculous.

Nothing to do with HMS Endurance, and I knew Nick Barker, her Captain, personally. The architect behind the 1982 invasion of the Falklands started to lay his plans years before when he served as Naval Attache in 1975, his name was Jorge Anaya

""A basic assunmption underlying the conflict was that the British were, in the opinion of the war's main architect, Admiral Jorge Anaya, unworthy heirs to a glorious heritage, the men mainly maricones...to call a man a maricón does not question his heterosexuality; but it definitely impugns his physical and moral courage. Anaya was Naval Attaché in London from January 1975 to January 1976...He returned to Argentina, making no attempt to conceal his contempt for all things British.")"

(Source: Bicheno, Hugh (2006). Razor's Edge. London: Phoenix. p. 25. ISBN 9780753821862.)