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[00:02:57] Would you come to the aid
[00:02:58] of the UK? You weren't there? "help me, your country was not
[00:03:02] there to help
[00:03:03] a me. President Trump turns his back on
[00:03:05] in Britain as Argentina's leader nicknamed the madman, vows to take the
[00:03:11] of Falklands. The Falkland
[00:03:15] Islands belong to Britain, 13,000 kilometers away, but
[00:03:18] sit just 500
[00:03:20] kilome off the coast of Argentina. But it's a long way
[00:03:23] away. They fought over these islands before. If there's another
[00:03:27] war, Britain may be standing alone." 'you weren't there
[00:03:30] of to help me, you weren't there to help me, but it just shows you how angry
[00:03:34] Donald Trump still is
[00:03:35] of with Britain for not helping with the Iran war, but
[00:03:38] of would he really dump Britain for Argentina if there was another conflict?
[00:03:42] we'll ask our panel in all three countries
[00:03:44] a in just moment, but first here's the context: the Falkland islands
[00:03:48] have
[00:03:48] of been British territory for nearly 200 years, just under
[00:03:52] 4,000 people live here, they're
[00:03:54] of British, and in their last referendum in 2013,
[00:03:58] 99.8%
[00:03:59] of them voted to remain
[00:04:01] so. Argentina, on the
[00:04:05] other hand, argues it inherited the islands from Spain when it
[00:04:08] gained independence in
[00:04:11] of 1816. They call the Falklands Las Malvinas, as you'll know,
[00:04:15] if you watch the World Cup. In April, 1982,
[00:04:19] Argentina, led by General Leopoldo Galtieri, the head
[00:04:23] of a military juntter invaded the islands. Many
[00:04:27] thought Britain would back down as the islands were so... far away, but prime
[00:04:31] minister Margaret Thatcher
[00:04:32] me shocked them with her resolve. We knew what we
[00:04:35] of had to do, sending an expeditionary force to retake
[00:04:39] of the islands. US president Ronald Reagan offered thatcher no
[00:04:42] support at first, only mediation, but when that failed, he
[00:04:46] quietly, but decisively backed Britain. distant
[00:04:49] islands in the South Atlantic, young men are
[00:04:53] fighting for Britain. Britain won the war in
[00:04:57] 10 weeks days later, was forced out of
[00:05:01] power, angry crowds to the streets and demonstrated outside the
[00:05:05] presidential palace. one year later
[00:05:09] one reelection, 649,
[00:05:12] 'thinians and 255 British
[00:05:15] servicemen were killed. my mates The was
[00:05:18] of about death the worst thing
[00:05:20] that happened to me. The injuries are just injuries really and they
[00:05:23] they go on forever. Well, let's bring in our guests now, and today we
[00:05:27] have the British Falkland's war veteran Simon Weston, the
[00:05:31] former Pentagon official David
[00:05:33] De Roche, and the Argentinian political consultant Dr. Juan
[00:05:36] Iramen. Welcome to the program everyone, if
[00:05:38] I could start with you, Simon, we saw you at the end of that report there.'
[00:05:42] uh morning the loss of your friends, what's your
[00:05:46] reaction to President Trump and what he said about the
[00:05:49] Falklands? um, Mr. Trump is just having
[00:05:53] a little bit of a hissy fit, really, he wanted to get
[00:05:57] everybody from Europe to join him attack in
[00:06:00] Iran, um, but we're all members of NATO,
[00:06:04] and when you join NATO, you're not an aggressor, you're a
[00:06:08] defender, um, so really it was nothing to do with us, that was his
[00:06:11] choice. um, whatever his reasons were, I don't think that
[00:06:15] has anything to do with the Falkland, so really in this conversation, I
[00:06:19] don't think what he said is is relevant at all, um, but
[00:06:23] you know, look, the Falklands by default, because it's a it's
[00:06:26] a country of its own, but it's under British sovereignty, it made that
[00:06:30] choice, uh, but they they by default then become
[00:06:34] members of NATO, so if we do decide to enact the
[00:06:38] articles the association of NATO, then um, whether
[00:06:42] Mr. Trump likes it or not, the Americans are obligated to
[00:06:45] come, we went to
[00:06:46] their after 9/11, I i think David actually will dispute that,
[00:06:50] but before we get to David's point, Simon, did you have a
[00:06:54] gut reaction against what against what Trump said given the
[00:06:58] sacrifices made by British servicemen during the the the
[00:07:01] war? uh, no, not at all,
[00:07:05] Mr. Trump will say what Mr. Trump's going to say, he always does, always
[00:07:09] has, um, like it allowed it, he will say what he's feels
[00:07:12] like um, but if he doesn't want to get involved and doesn't
[00:07:15] want to come to our aid, um, but like I say, the all the
[00:07:19] countries that were asked to join them after 9/11, we joined them, we went to
[00:07:23] Iraq, Afghanistan, we went all those places, lost many
[00:07:27] people, um,
[00:07:29] you know, it it may show that, some people can be fair weather friends,
[00:07:33] but uh, you know, it's it's going to be what he wants to do, but he's only got another
[00:07:37] two years left in office, um, and I don't very much whether Mr.
[00:07:41] Malay will have an armful. to be able to threatens anyway? no,
[00:07:44] that's really interesting, so in other words, you're you're framing him as someone who is
[00:07:48] ungrateful for Britain's steadfastness during the whole war on
[00:07:51] terror. um, David, um, just want to ask you quickly
[00:07:55] about Simon's point about being in NATO and how
[00:07:58] it would oblige America to support Britain in the event
[00:08:02] of of invasion in Falklands, you don't think that's true, do
[00:08:05] you? no, no, there's um, this
[00:08:09] has always been, I mean, first off, he's right, uh, Trump is having a hissy
[00:08:13] fit, but he he because that's his style, but he can he can both have
[00:08:17] fit and draw a solid tradition, so the NATO area of
[00:08:20] operations was specifically defined to um focus
[00:08:24] on Europe, it excludes uh uh
[00:08:28] territories overseas, so for example uh if say
[00:08:31] Brazil were to invade uh French Guiana uh that
[00:08:35] would not be a NATO issue, the French tried to get NATO to intervene
[00:08:39] in um Algeria during their war there and was
[00:08:42] not similarly the Spanish uh colonies on Morocco
[00:08:46] suits and not covered and uh if say
[00:08:50] there was an action in Guam in the United States NATO would not respond to that
[00:08:54] either so there are elements that are excluded from it and uh
[00:08:57] I think the Falklands is is not part of NATO that's why you didn't
[00:09:01] really have an active support from Ronald Reagan right you didn't have an
[00:09:05] active and public support from Ronald Reagan uh but he did give quite
[00:09:09] a lot of um help logistically behind the scenes. "are
[00:09:13] you saying that um Trump would or would not in the event of a
[00:09:17] war come to the Britain's aid in the similar
[00:09:19] way? remains to be seen. I mean,
[00:09:23] predicting, predicting what Trump will do is a big question.
[00:09:26] um, you know, the, I'm sure that
[00:09:30] the the main thing the United States did was provide intelligence support, that
[00:09:34] is active, although, um, again, there is a
[00:09:37] certain, the British have step back from the
[00:09:40] Caribbean intelligence." because Trump was blowing
[00:09:43] up
[00:09:44] uh uh boats that he says are trafficking narcotics, so that might be somewhat
[00:09:48] curtailed. I'm sure that the main one was the use of ascension
[00:09:52] island, and I'm I, I would be very, very
[00:09:55] surprised if uh that had not been negotiated in
[00:09:59] 1985, you know, after the Falkland wars to
[00:10:03] allow Britain more access there, but
[00:10:06] you know, this, I mean, look past the Histrionics, which is
[00:10:09] hard, but uh uh, the... bigger question
[00:10:13] is um Trump wants uh America's partners to
[00:10:17] be self-reliant, which means they have capacity for NATO missions, but also
[00:10:21] capacity for their own missions, and I think if if you want to be very...
[00:10:25] charitable to Trump, that's probably
[00:10:26] the bigger point he's trying to make uh the personal of course is always
[00:10:30] policy
[00:10:31] with him, so exactly disassociate that a great point
[00:10:34] David, let's let's move to that Juan iramain, the personal very
[00:10:38] important, he's not just doing this to punish Britain, embarrass Britain,
[00:10:42] he's also genuinely friends with Javier, what is
[00:10:46] the basis of that friendship? It's interesting, I
[00:10:49] think Miley when when he was in his own
[00:10:53] political campaign was trying to find friends around the world is not
[00:10:57] easy and and trump was kind of a model in that
[00:11:01] sense because of his positioning to the right
[00:11:04] wing, so miley was trying to position himself this
[00:11:08] way, trump became a good friend in
[00:11:12] that sense and matches with something
[00:11:15] that is in Trump's agenda to, which is
[00:11:19] the the donro doctrine, remember this idea
[00:11:22] of America? for the Americans in
[00:11:26] many ways or all the focus on the on the backyard
[00:11:30] that is uh Latin America too, of course Canada
[00:11:34] too, North America, Central America
[00:11:36] and and Latin America, so it makes sense for both
[00:11:39] agendas to to have this level of partnership
[00:11:43] or or closeness, right? well, I think that's the base the
[00:11:47] friendship. there's much talk here in the UK about whether or not Britain could
[00:11:51] win another Falkland's war. have a listen to Britain's official history.
[00:11:55] and then we'll pick up off the back, if the Falklands war took place today, I
[00:11:59] think Argentina would face a problem that they didn't face in
[00:12:03] 1982, they were able to invade
[00:12:06] because the there was a tiny
[00:12:08] garrison on the island,
[00:12:12] 60 marines, there were no war ships
[00:12:15] in place, just survey
[00:12:18] ship, and so they were able to occupy the islands quite
[00:12:22] easily, they would have much bigger problem now. because there is a full
[00:12:26] garison based in Mount Pleasant in the Falklands, so they would
[00:12:30] face immediate opposition, the aircraft there, and there's also a proper
[00:12:34] runway so that as long as the UK got
[00:12:37] notice uh that that invasion force of
[00:12:41] some sort was its way, they'd be able to send
[00:12:44] reinforcements, so it'd be actually quite tricky, the only way they
[00:12:48] could do it would have to be with some sort of
[00:12:52] surprise in which they could take out the runway as much as possible the
[00:12:55] garrison. David, as a former pentagon
[00:12:59] official, what's your thinking here? is Britain a better or worse
[00:13:02] position to defend itself? yeah, they're
[00:13:06] a better position to defend it against initial Argentine
[00:13:10] attack, so um, the Falklands were essentially
[00:13:13] undefended, and Argentina,
[00:13:17] landed there without any significant
[00:13:21] resistance, now that would be much much harder, but if...
[00:13:25] Argentina were to somehow take the islands initially,
[00:13:28] and there's there's there's fighter jets there now there, but if they were
[00:13:32] to take it, I think Britain would be challenged primarily because
[00:13:36] the uh two generations deterioration of
[00:13:40] funding and manpower uh, and particularly the loss of both
[00:13:43] lift and a strategic bomber capability in the British armed forces,
[00:13:47] so it would be harder for Argentina to take, but it would
[00:13:51] also be harder for Britain to take back, that's interesting, Simon, your response.
[00:13:56] "he's right, you mean it, it's the problem is Argentina because
[00:14:00] the military junter that they had back in 82, um, the
[00:14:04] civilian uh, the civilian government decided to
[00:14:08] disband and dismantle most of what the Argentinians had, so
[00:14:11] they they've got to build up an armed force that's going to be credible, their
[00:14:15] navy is largely where the British left it in 82 at the bottom
[00:14:19] the sea, they've only got really obsolete
[00:14:23] um naval vessels. now uh they have taken
[00:14:26] delivery of about 20 or 30 uh jets
[00:14:30] which are surplus to Denmark or Sweden or somewhere
[00:14:34] um but at the end the day they've got to get those
[00:14:38] jets to the Falklands could they travel 400 miles
[00:14:42] fight and then get back again um with all the
[00:14:46] latest warning systems that exist and the fact that we've got a
[00:14:49] very up to date ship that floats around the Falklands
[00:14:53] and plus we have four very up to date fighter
[00:14:57] aircraft, so there is huge difference to what it was
[00:15:01] in 82, we had 70 marines, they landed with a force of about
[00:15:05] 10 or 15 thousand people, um, but they don't have
[00:15:09] that capability at the moment, in two, three, four, five years time
[00:15:13] they could do, but then again fortunes will have changed here because
[00:15:17] politics moves on very quickly, and in three years time we'll have another
[00:15:21] election, so that's right, and and talking of politics, Simon, back in 1980
[00:15:25] the prime minister was Margaret thatcher, known as the iron lady, she took a big
[00:15:28] risk, do you think the British government today has the
[00:15:32] political will to defend the
[00:15:34] islands?
[00:15:37] I don't think... is too many people have the the backbone that Baroness
[00:15:40] Statcher had um and certainly she made
[00:15:44] more of our GDP available to the armed forces, we had five or
[00:15:48] just over 5% back then, um, now it's been
[00:15:52] wowfully diminished, but there's governments that seem
[00:15:56] to think that we have what they call a peace dividend and I've argued against
[00:16:00] this continuously, there is no such thing as a peace dividend bause a war can
[00:16:04] happen so very very quickly as we've seen,
[00:16:07] so i think that there needs to be somebody very
[00:16:10] strong in parliament, yeah, people in the
[00:16:14] labour party, i know people in labor party you've said to me, it's not on
[00:16:18] the table, they will defend the falklands to the end degree, so
[00:16:22] we'll see, see if that's true,
[00:16:24] you know, politicians are not always what they say they are, doesn't it
[00:16:28] worry that this is the government that gave away the chegos
[00:16:30] islands, oh absolutely, how
[00:16:34] what what an economic wonderful plan that was to give. away the
[00:16:37] chigos islands and then pay for
[00:16:39] the fact that we gave it away and the americans are paying now um
[00:16:43] mauricius like what an earth is that about that's like buying
[00:16:47] a car and giving it away to somebody simon thank you still paying for it
[00:16:51] simon thank you very much one it remain um president meley is now
[00:16:54] speeding up construction of naval base in the province nearest to the
[00:16:58] islands how far is he willing to go - to get
[00:17:02] them well first first let me say something about the the previous thing
[00:17:06] which is i think is unthinkable any kind of
[00:17:10] attack of Argentina to the islands, it's
[00:17:13] totally impossible, it's there is no social support for
[00:17:17] something like that, there is no, there are no military capacities for
[00:17:21] that, there is there is nothing like that in the agenda
[00:17:25] the president, so the president is very
[00:17:29] vocal and very histonic is - historionic as Trump
[00:17:33] would say, but he never mentioned something
[00:17:37] even close to military actions or something
[00:17:40] like that just just to make the first point because otherwise we can start thinking although there is a
[00:17:44] chance at least you know could could be something like that and and
[00:17:48] there is no chance for that and and talking about the
[00:17:51] base the military base in in in the
[00:17:54] province of fuego that that was a project that
[00:17:58] started years ago and and now the president is doing
[00:18:02] is
[00:18:04] through a presidential creed
[00:18:08] is providing more funding to accelerate the construction,
[00:18:12] it's nothing more like than that. i think
[00:18:16] reasons
[00:18:16] to to keep in mind there is that it's very close to the
[00:18:19] Antarctica, the treaty about the Antarctica is
[00:18:23] gonna end in the next few years. so
[00:18:27] the Argentine position there is is critical too,
[00:18:30] and and and there is a you know strategic
[00:18:34] connection between the Atlantic and the Pacific they are so...
[00:18:39] "the reason the fact that we have now this
[00:18:43] special relationship with the US is giving us like an
[00:18:46] extra reason to accelerate the construction
[00:18:50] - but it was something that was in in in the plans and then was
[00:18:54] under contraction in the past in the last few years understood so you're
[00:18:58] saying Malay does want to see the Falkland islands become part of
[00:19:01] Argentina but he wants a diplomatic solution not a military one in which case
[00:19:05] let's take a look ' the history the Falkland islands and how
[00:19:09] it ended up in British hands.
[00:19:13] How did these islands in the far south the Atlantic
[00:19:17] Ocean become part of a country over 12,000 km
[00:19:21] away? Well, it's classic tale of colonial
[00:19:23] rivalries. The first recorded landing the Falklands
[00:19:27] was by an English captain in 1690 who
[00:19:31] named the uninhabited islands in honor of his ship sponsor,
[00:19:35] the Vicount Falkland. However, it was the French that
[00:19:39] formed the first permanent settlement over a century
[00:19:42] later. Not to be outdone, the British were close behind with their
[00:19:46] own settlement. Just year later, France sold
[00:19:50] its outpost to Spain, but the Brits soon withdrew from
[00:19:54] the area, needing to focus military resources for the brewing
[00:19:57] American Revolution. When Spain withdrew a few decades later
[00:20:01] to focus on their own rebellious American colonies, the islands were
[00:20:05] once again left unockup. Step
[00:20:09] in newly independent Argentina who took control the
[00:20:13] islands 500 kilometers to their east as one their first
[00:20:17] act as a sovereign nation only for the Americans to
[00:20:21] soon show up and destroy the Argentinian settlement due
[00:20:25] to a dispute over some seals. So the islands
[00:20:28] spent just 11 years under Argentinian
[00:20:31] control. In 1833 Britain
[00:20:35] returned for good. It expelled. the remaining Argentinian
[00:20:38] officers, planting the Union flag and developing a
[00:20:42] British crown colony. For almost 200
[00:20:46] years the Falklands have been occupied and administered by
[00:20:50] a population who regard themselves as British,
[00:20:54] but despite that only a handful of countries, including
[00:20:57] France, Canada, Australia and Turkia officially
[00:21:01] recognize British sovereignty. Sam Weston,
[00:21:05] given the history and the geographical location the Falkland
[00:21:08] islands, explain your argument for them belonging to
[00:21:12] Britain. Um, geography means nothing, and
[00:21:15] 400 miles from somebody's coast does not give them the...
[00:21:20] right to claim anything, other than that we could still be claiming the
[00:21:24] Republic of Ireland, we could be claiming any part of France if we wanted
[00:21:27] to, when we we won wars there, so it doesn't,
[00:21:31] I don't think geography means anything at all, but history certainly does, and
[00:21:35] when Argentina has never occupied the place, what's the point?
[00:21:39] Argentina wasn't a country when we went there, it didn't have a parliament, didn't
[00:21:43] have a president, didn't even have national flag, um, was known as the
[00:21:47] nation of states, so I i think that... "before you go down
[00:21:51] the road, history has to be looked at probably, but I don't think geography
[00:21:55] is of any relevance at all. Dr.
[00:21:58] Juan, man, well, of course we have different position, and
[00:22:01] and just just I'm gonna let you know what we, we
[00:22:05] what all Argentine learn at school when we are
[00:22:09] kids, what we say is, we we had our independence
[00:22:13] in 1816, and just after that what
[00:22:17] happened was that the argent the..." country was
[00:22:20] organizing itself and and that's why we didn't have the
[00:22:24] capacity to be in all the points of our
[00:22:28] geography at that time, so when the UK took the
[00:22:31] islands, the Argentines were not able
[00:22:35] to to to defend the place at that time,
[00:22:39] because we were a civil war at that
[00:22:42] time that ended in
[00:22:45] 1880, so many, many years later, so the...
[00:22:50] so that's the reason why we didn't claim at that time we were not able to
[00:22:54] defend
[00:22:54] a place, but but it was heritance
[00:22:58] from the from the spanish lands
[00:23:01] or or or kingdom at that time, and that's a way in
[00:23:04] which we learn our our history, and and it's interesting when
[00:23:08] we talk about that, we said argentine, argentina is
[00:23:12] very polarized society, very very
[00:23:15] polarized, and we agree in two points, only two
[00:23:18] points, and that's it,
[00:23:22] so it's the only two points in which we we are pretty much in the
[00:23:26] same page, we think we are right in this point, but again
[00:23:30] we always think that there is a there is
[00:23:34] claim that it's going to be always diplomatic and
[00:23:38] never ever will make sense to do anything
[00:23:42] in terms of of of
[00:23:43] you know violence
[00:23:44] or or military action, dr juan, David and
[00:23:48] Simon Weston, thank you. very much for your analysis today, really appreciate that. well,
[00:23:52] let's get different perspective now, and James Granger grew up in
[00:23:56] Britain, but for the last 15 years he has called Argentina, his
[00:23:59] home, and he's now editor in chief at the only English language
[00:24:03] paper in Argentina, the Buenezaris Times and James joins
[00:24:07] us now. uh, James, given what Malay has just said over the last couple
[00:24:11] of days, I think is getting a little tense in your
[00:24:13] newsroom? uh, well, maybe not
[00:24:17] specifically in my news room, shall we say? I mean, 'I would say
[00:24:21] that definitely, you know, it's fair to say tensions of rising, this is definitely
[00:24:25] one of those moments that you get every few years where the kind of Malvina's debate, the
[00:24:29] Falkland's debate picks up a little bit more, but you know a day-to-day
[00:24:32] level, I would say I I really have no problems at all, and
[00:24:36] um, you know, for the most part Argentines are kind of anglefars to be honest with you, yes, and
[00:24:40] in fact, Malay is said to have picture of Margaret thatcher in his
[00:24:44] office, is that true? Indeed, I, well, so so
[00:24:48] I am told, I haven't been.' able to go in there, let's say my media company has run
[00:24:51] into some problems with Mr. Malay and his administration, but
[00:24:55] uh, he is definitely an angle, he has spoke on multiple occasions in
[00:24:59] the past about his admiration for Margaret Thatter and everything she
[00:25:02] did in Britain during her time in office, and no much more so than Mc
[00:25:06] Jagger, he's a huge fan of Jagger, and uh, Boris Johnson, the last time that
[00:25:10] he was in Buenos Aires, promised to uh broker a meeting between the two,
[00:25:14] if Milet went to London, which was a trip that was uh, scheduled
[00:25:18] to play take place this year. "we're now hearing that that's probably likely to be
[00:25:22] cancelled uh, let ask you about Mile's real motivation, you sort of alluded to some
[00:25:26] difficulties between your mediar organization and Malay, so I imagine you
[00:25:30] suspect he has less than pure intentions when he
[00:25:33] brings up the Falkland Islands or last
[00:25:36] malvinus, well I think it's you know it's
[00:25:40] something that is
[00:25:41] you know - the sovereignty claim is something that every Argentine
[00:25:45] believes
[00:25:45] in uh, it's something that's really essential
[00:25:47] to their national identity, I I
[00:25:49] like I like to say
[00:25:49] that there's you now three types of things that unify the argentines, one is
[00:25:53] barbecue, the the great famous asal, the other is the national
[00:25:57] team, the selection, and the third is the malvinus,
[00:26:01] every time i get a bus in is there is a sign
[00:26:04] saying las malvinas son argentinas it is a law that it must
[00:26:08] be proclaimed on public transport and you know it's really something that
[00:26:12] unifies the country uh so I think when Milet touches that
[00:26:15] issue uh he knows that he is something that is able
[00:26:19] to unify the country and it's something that previous presidents have done in the past as
[00:26:23] well Cristina Fernandezna was was famous for making similar kind
[00:26:27] of interventions and he needs to boost his popularity doesn't he's got an
[00:26:31] election coming up next year and at the beginning of this year he his
[00:26:35] popularity rating was around 60%, it's now say between 31 and
[00:26:38] 38%, so has this given him a little boost in the
[00:26:42] polls? mean, we'll have to wait and
[00:26:45] see, i would, you know, it's difficult to say whether it will give him
[00:26:49] a boost in the polls, but his his popularity is definitely flagging, you know, mean we're
[00:26:52] going through some, the economy is a much more stable position,
[00:26:56] inflation is much more, much more stable than it was previously, though it's still
[00:27:00] persistent, and i think ' "you know, there are certain things
[00:27:04] you could say about the economy, perhaps it's going, it's a kind of two-stream economy, mining and
[00:27:08] energy, these types of things doing very well, whereas you
[00:27:11] know in industry, commerce, these things are down, so uh, in that
[00:27:15] moment, year out from the election, it's it's not a bad
[00:27:19] topic for him to hit, I think politically speaking, but the most important thing here is
[00:27:23] the is the Trump comment, it gave him the opportunity to seas on the issue,
[00:27:26] and um, and he can, like he is at the moment, he's trying to paint
[00:27:30] this as as a real victory. his diplomacy and as newspaper
[00:27:34] man do
[00:27:34] you find this story sells well for
[00:27:36] you? mean sure there's always
[00:27:40] traffic
[00:27:40] no doubt uh you know how much you have to say online when you look at
[00:27:44] social media these days his bots or not you know who knows but it's definitely something
[00:27:48] that's you know always interesting to the reader for sure and i think
[00:27:52] we are able to offer
[00:27:53] you know kind of unique insight you the fact that we're in the english
[00:27:57] language as well and how do you
[00:28:01] gain people's trust? out there is somebody who's you know born in
[00:28:04] Britain, clearly has a British accent, um, still have has ties to
[00:28:08] Britain, how have you gained their trust there
[00:28:11] as a newspaper
[00:28:11] editor? I
[00:28:15] mean, I mean that's a difficult question, maybe it's for somebody else to answer, but I
[00:28:19] think I've always tried to be transparent and up front in the way in which we do things, you
[00:28:22] know, when I first arrived in Argentina, people were really eager to speak English to
[00:28:26] a party, they wanted to practice, and like I said, they are really, they are
[00:28:30] real anglefars,
[00:28:31] you know, I mean the... British music here does amazing, I mean the football, the Premier
[00:28:35] League, these types of things, and really there are so many things that we have in in
[00:28:39] common really, I I always focus on that uh, and and I
[00:28:43] think people are always going to be open to to meeting someone that's new, and don't
[00:28:47] forget this as as so many other countries in the world is a country that
[00:28:50] is, kind of founded on immigration, and so I think people were always ready
[00:28:54] to open their arms and invite you to an Asado, family dinner
[00:28:58] and you pick your brains a bit, see what you think, well that sounds great uh James.
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