Without official status from the legislative body, but with the impetus of the Cordoban deputy Juan Fernando Brügge , the act will bring to light an internal debt of the Argentine Armed Forces, which the United Kingdom's diplomacy will capitalize on, to soften its image as an usurping power.

Thus, the slogan #NotEverythingHappenedInTheMalvinas will once again echo through the halls of the National Congress this Monday, March 30. However, this time the demands of the soldiers who operated on the Patagonian coast during the 1982 war will have an unprecedented element: the firsthand testimony of a British veteran—identified in similar actions as Petty Officer Edward Denmark—who will come to "validate" the dangers experienced by Argentinians on the mainland.

An event with a veneer of officialdom

The event does not represent an institutional position of the National Congress or the Chamber of Deputies as a whole. It is an initiative spearheaded by Congressman Juan Fernando Brügge (Hacemos por Córdoba). By using the Annex's meeting rooms, the aim is to lend an air of formality to a debate that the Argentine State, through its three branches of government, has failed to resolve in over four decades.

The "Trojan Horse" of British Humanism

The British veteran's involvement cannot be interpreted simply as an act of "gentlemanly reconciliation." The history of diplomacy from the Foreign Office and its intelligence services demonstrates a surgical skill for exploiting the social fissures of nations with which it has sovereignty disputes.

By "recognizing" the mainland soldiers—a task that the Argentine State itself has postponed or denied for 40 years—the British narrative achieves two simultaneous objectives:

1.   To present themselves as "more just" than the Argentine military and political leaders themselves, projecting an image of humanism that seeks to "romanticize" the war and, by extension, dilute the nature of the colonial occupation.

2.   To deepen the internal divide between the war veterans who fought in the archipelago and those who served on the mainland. Validating one side of the conflict over the other is a classic divisive tactic used to weaken the domestic front of the sovereignty claim.

Internal debt as an open flank

The presence of British testimonies and documents proving operations like Mikado and Plum Duff on the Patagonian coast is undeniable. The fact that the Argentine state continues to ignore these events—while the Navy and Air Force have applied disparate criteria for recognizing their personnel—leaves a void of identity and justice that, 44 years after the start of the war, is now filled by Argentina's historical enemy.

The route of Operation Mikado and the agreed points for the SAS to land, first in Argentina and as a secondary option in Chile.

Monday's event will not only bring to light a silenced history; it also exposes the fragility of a State policy on the Malvinas that, by not resolving its own contradictions, allows yesterday's enemy to become today's "moral judge".