Donald Trump’s fuelling of Falklands tensions is a dangerous ploy

Steel helmets abandoned by Argentine armed forces who surrendered at Goose Green to British Falklands Task Force troops (Image: PA)

The Argentine president’s forceful speech about recovering the “Malvinas” had Washington’s hallmark all over it, writes Foreign Editor David Pratt

EARLY in 1983, roughly eight months after the war ended, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges made a now-famous – some say infamous – observation.