Argentine President Javier Milei escalates tensions with Britain over the Falkland Islands, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and welcoming President Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. could reconsider its neutral stance on the islands’ sovereignty. ↧ Argentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump c... Over four decades later, the conflict with the United Kingdom that killed 649 Argentine troops, 255 British service members and three islanders, remains a sore point in Argentina.