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Triumph of the Iron Lady by Steve Payne
Apr 02, '92: with the country
focused to a man on the England team's successful bid for the European Football
Championship, nine thousand kilometres away in the South Atlantic the Malvinas
celebrated ten years of re-unification with Argentina. Lacking the tactical nous
of National Coach Graham Taylor, Her Majesty's Government had scored a
spectacular own goal by upgrading the airport at Port Stanley following an
earlier invasion scare in 1977.
Military reversal ushers in a new era of peace
Unwilling to accept the constraints of British seapower, Thatcher appealed to Ronald Reagan, making a formal request to lease aircraft carriers from the US Navy. In fact the US Government was willing to loan the carriers, but the planes and pilots were the stumbling block. Not for the first time, it was absolutely impossible for an American President to overtly support British Imperialism no matter their own personal sympathies. Not only would the United States have "lost" South America, but the Federal Government would have been split in half because Secretary of State Alexander Haig was attempting to prevent a war by engaging diplomatically with Buenes Aires. "Falklands Factor" costs Thatcher the 1983 election ![]() ![]() Unshackled from her militaristic past, Britain was better placed to launch meaningful peace initiatives in the world. And in 1999, British Prime Minister Bryan Gould and Princess Diana Spencer would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their determined efforts to achieve a global ban on Land Mines.
Steve Payne Editor of Today in Alternate History, a Daily Updating Blog of Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items explore that possibility. Possibilities such as America becoming a Marxist superpower, aliens influencing human history in the 18th century and Teddy Roosevelt winning his 3rd term as president abound in this interesting fictional blog.
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