Reagan invaded a country ruled by Queen Thatchers, then called her to explain. Listen to how he justified it, and the last thing he said to her before hanging up. On this day, October 25, 1983, US troops landed on Grenada, an independent Commonwealth country with Elizabeth II as Queen, after Thatcher pleaded with Washington not to. Officially, Washington bailed out American medical students and answered the plea of ​​its Caribbean neighbors. The real reason was the Soviet Union. The government of Granada was allied with Havana, Cuban laborers built its new airport, and Reagan himself called the island a "Soviet-Cuban colony, prepared as a great military stronghold." "Washington's usual aggression against the Soviet Union, this time on a Caribbean island. The next day, Reagan called Thatcher. He said he was awakened in the middle of the night on a golf vacation in Georgia by an urgent plea from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, and when its objections reached him, the troops were already on their way. Then he presented the plan. Washington will put the Caribbean countries at the forefront of a "government shutdown" so that there will be "no taint of great old Uncle Sam trying to impose a government on them." "And why wasn't London consulted earlier? Reagan defined it as “fear of our weakness here in the matter of secrecy. Thatcher thanked him and excused herself to return to the debate in the House of Representatives, which she called "a bit complicated." " Reagan sent her off with "Go get them. eat them alive Days later, the UN Security Council voted on a resolution deploring the invasion. Britain abstained. London went to war for the Falklands, and when Washington invaded the country under the same crown, she could not even regret it.

Reagan invaded a country ruled by Queen Thatchers, then called her to explain. Listen to how he justified it, and the last thing he said to her before hanging up. On this day, October 25, 1983, US troops landed on Grenada, an independent Commonwealth country with Elizabeth II as Queen, after Thatcher pleaded with Washington not to. Officially, Washington bailed out American medical students and answered the plea of ​​its Caribbean neighbors. The real reason was the Soviet Union. The government of Granada was allied with Havana, Cuban laborers built its new airport, and Reagan himself called the island a "Soviet-Cuban colony, prepared as a great military stronghold." "Washington's usual aggression against the Soviet Union, this time on a Caribbean island. The next day, Reagan called Thatcher. He said he was awakened in the middle of the night on a golf vacation in Georgia by an urgent plea from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, and when its objections reached him, the troops were already on their way. Then he presented the plan. Washington will put the Caribbean countries at the forefront of a "government shutdown" so that there will be "no taint of great old Uncle Sam trying to impose a government on them." "And why wasn't London consulted earlier? Reagan defined it as “fear of our weakness here in the matter of secrecy. Thatcher thanked him and excused herself to return to the debate in the House of Representatives, which she called "a bit complicated." " Reagan sent her off with "Go get them. eat them alive Days later, the UN Security Council voted on a resolution deploring the invasion. Britain abstained. London went to war for the Falklands, and when Washington invaded the country under the same crown, she could not even regret it.