by the US navy, on account of attacking and robbing American merchant ships- and ironically they call us British "pirates". As history has shown you're perfectly free to go to war and invade another country If you win then people may complain but rarely do much about it unless there's a vested interest in it for them like there was with Kuwait If you lose though then you do get punished In the case of the Falklands war General Galtieri, who was in charge of the country and ordered the war, was kicked out of office, went to trial and was punished with a jail term Source(s): Argentina was governed by a military dictatorship and after the war he was ousted from power and replaced by a democratic government. The other answers are correct and I agree with them. Good question though. If it happened again, as is the media hype, then I would say they would be severely reprimanded as Britain has stated on several occassions that the falkland people are free to determine what nationality they are. And they say British.