- President Javier Milei used a Thursday televised address to unveil tougher sanctions on companies developing the Sea Lion oil project near the Falklands.
- Trump's underlying comment, made Monday in the Oval Office, was limited to saying he reviews "every position." He never endorsed Argentina's claim over Britain's.
- UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting dismissed the speech as Argentine domestic politics and called Britain's hold on the islands "unshakeable."
Buenos Aires — Argentine President Javier Milei stood before television cameras Thursday night and revived his country's constitutional claim to the islands it calls Las Malvinas, framing nine words spoken by Donald Trump in the Oval Office as evidence that Washington is abandoning decades of neutrality over the British-held archipelago. What Trump actually said, and how a viral figure about a FIFA fine has been misreported along the way, turns out to matter as much as the speech itself.
