Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian

@RDPHistory

Nine time No.1 Best Selling Military Historian, Author and #Falklands War specialist. Occasional TV Historian. Dog Lover & Rescuer. All books on link below:

Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Şubat 2023

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·5d

So I promised everyone a few announcements about this year, and I've made a video to tell you all about what's coming up and why... Your comments are always appreciated, and hopefully the videos will get better 🤗 youtu.be/EtHrNByWJ_8?si…

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @wilsongrahams @AbiLivermann @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg You actually don't know a single thing about History, do you? You're literally repeating lines taught to you in school 🤣

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @wilsongrahams @AbiLivermann @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Come on man! friendship? with the UK in 1825? you should be ashamed of supporting colonizing empires, India, France, South Africa, Rodhesia, thats not something to be proud of but ashamed and i wont insult you in any way, i said it, you are welcome here, send you my regards.

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Ale Resnik 🇦🇷🇺🇸/acc@AleResnik·1d

Malvinas (Falklands) are Argentina's territory. It's time to reverse US policy to support Argentina's claim. @jacobhelberg

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Argentina is sending naval units to assist the U.S. in safeguarding international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The UK has refused. In 1982 President Reagan came to the aid of then PM Margaret Thatcher who was defending the UK colony in the Falkland Islands, claimed by Argentina which refers to them as the Malvinas Islands. In light of the UK’s cowardly refusal to support the US in the Persian Gulf conflict, I think it only appropriate for the Trump Administration to consider reversing US policy on the Falklands and support the Argentinian claim.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Well every single Argentine Falkland Islander has opted for UK Sovereignty at every opportunity, from 1833-2013 so I guess you're wrong as usual.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg let me send argertinians there, wich is something i wont do or support because i dont support colonialism, and ask them if they: are you Argentinian or UK?!, you know pretty well that population was implanted there.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Not selling people is smart... Making yourself look like a banana republic because you want to own people is stupid... But that's what your fascist government does daily.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg and i said it, be smart, stop being an enemy of a 50 millon people state just because of some greedy idea of mantaining a claim of a tiny island on the other side of the world, stop debating with me, think about projects with argentina.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg You're confusing nationality with Sovereignty... Because your fascist government taught you to.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg if i send germans there they will say they are germans, i know, man, its just an international claim, whatever they say i will aid them if they need something.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Unfortunately you believe in a race of people who don't exist. Falkland Islanders know exactly what they are, and neither they nor their country has ever belonged to Argentina. Get past it.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg We believe Malvinians are argentinian since i can remember, with different goverments, socialists or right wing, we still believe the same, all argentinians, its not because of a goverment but because its a national cause since forever.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg And they are free to choose...and they chose. It isn't for you or Argentina to decide on their rights. And your fascist government won't talk to them because it can't look them in the eye.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg i already explained to you, those people living in malvinas are free to trade, to commerce, to stay living there, they will not have military and i dont know why im debating with you, an UK citizens if they are "self determined", i should be talking to them.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Are you actually twelve years old???

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg and i say it again, why there is a UK Antartic claim on maps if those islands are not UK?! but self claimed as you say, men, i know, i said it, just be smart, take argentina as an ally, is not worth it defending a claim over 2000 people living there.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Great... respect their democracy. 99.8% of Falkland Islanders voted for continued UK Sovereignty. Respect the UN Charter and their democracy and your problems are over.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg and i said it, i respect them as i respect any UK immigrant here on argentina, of course, they will say they are UK citizens, its fine, same way if i send germans there, they will say they are germans, but i care about them, i repeat it, to me, they deserve to be respected

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg Only Argentina considers them "second class citizens" which is a term wholly invented by your fascist government.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·5h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg and i wont take them as Second Class citizens like france or Uk does with "overseas" citizens, no, to me, they will be full argentinians (if they want), i will not give them a second class flag, no, they are equal to me, or they can still be UK citizens, thats fine, i said it.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg You literally want a colony. You just don't know that because your fascist masters didn't tell you that bit. It's laughable.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·5h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg no, i dont take them as a colony with a secundary flag, i dont colonize, i dont want them expelled, i dont want to change their lenguage, you dont argentina or how we are, they are free to live here or there, i accept them. I wont do the same UK did to Canada.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @wilsongrahams @AbiLivermann @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg What do you suggest? Argentina usurped our land, broke the 1825 Treaty of Friendship, ignored all letters of protest... Should we have printed tee shirts, started a social media campaign??? You are genuinely low intelligence here.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·5h

@RDPHistory @wilsongrahams @AbiLivermann @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg YEAH! you sended a ship to "have a conversation"..let me send a 7 ships there to "have a conversation", men, you dont need to support what UK did while being an empire, India, Canada, UK attacked Argentina too, you are modern, the shemafull imperial time ended with WW1.

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·4h

@s_baruj @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg You have zero grasp of any reality in the Falklands, don't you? You don't know this country or its people... You learned to repeat what they told you. It's childish.

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Santiago Alberto Baruj Politics@s_baruj·4h

@RDPHistory @ant1969salford @AleResnik @SusanaMNKD @jacobhelberg No one is attacking, no ships had been sended there in 50 years, no missiles, we are not Iran, there is no conflict, we are not a belligerant country, im sorry about what a Dictatorship did at the time, but nothing happened there exept UK sending ships and trops constantly.

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@RedDawnUkraine Hermes was going to be sold to India!

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Kilgore Fella@RedDawnUkraine·7h

@RDPHistory September? So many more RN ships would have been decommissioned or past the point of recovery by then. Invincible would have been on its way to Australia as an RAN ship and Ark Royal not ready. Only Hermes’ left?

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March 19th 1982: On holiday on a beach in Montevideo, Admiral Jose Lombardo, the man responsible for planning the Falklands invasion, set for September, realises that he has been sidestepped by the launch of Op. Alpha early, and runs back up the beach to return to Buenos Aires...

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@RedDawnUkraine No, that was 35-A.

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Kilgore Fella@RedDawnUkraine·7h

@RDPHistory Was this the Learjet later downed over west Falkland?

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March 19th 1982: An Argentine Learjet fitted with camera pods makes its third pass of the day over the Falklands, before landing and letting off the new head of LADE, Vicecomodoro Gamin, and then accelerates at full speed to take off again without stopping... 1/2

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·6h

@catephores Well yes and no... Certain people launched Alpha despite it being cancelled. They weren't helping the junta. In fact, they ideally wanted the junta to fall.

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Nick Catephores (Νίκος Κατηφόρης) 🔶️🌍@catephores·6h

@RDPHistory There were political considerations in going early with Alpha. The Junta was mismanaging the economy, the population demonstrating. The Junta feared they might lose power within weeks if they could not do something decisive to turn around the public.

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@NorthWalesMatt Actually it was, yes! 🤣

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NorthWalesMatt@NorthWalesMatt·8h

@RDPHistory Wasn’t that the famous line from Battle of the River Plate when the Cumberland arrived ?

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March 19th 1982: As Argentina goes into action in the South Atlantic, Exercise Springtrain gathers at Gibraltar with a ready made fleet. Argentina's timing is going badly wrong...

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@YankyGirltoo @louhawkins62 Certainly! Drop me a message 😊

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Karen Bowen-Nielsen@YankyGirltoo·1d

@RDPHistory @louhawkins62 I could rather fancy one … #pickme 😁

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Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian@RDPHistory·1d

Just found the very last of the original First Casualty tee-shirts as worn by me and the guys from the book. There were only fifty in existence... Mainly medium and large I think, but I'll be selling them as memorabilia if anyone's interested?