Right, so this was the view from a seat at the United Nations, from the position of Javier Milei, President of Argentina, who a day before had begun to wave flags, threaten legal action, and strut about the United Nations like a rooster on borrowed time. He had been making his moves for the past three days at the United Nations, and in his zeal to create an uproar he had managed to trip himself up, because to Milei’s disappointment and despite his best efforts, the nonsense he was kicking off over the Falkland Islands versus we here in the UK went nowhere fast and all over a certain oil project we’ve got going on there at that.

Whatever your feelings about drilling for oil, the project still trundles along, stubborn as a mule, ignoring the chainsaw-wielding chumps televised tantrum.

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