The Islands That Belonged to Everyone and No One - April 2, 1982

On April 2, 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, and almost nothing about the story is as clean as we remember it. A military junta drowning in the crimes of its Dirty War exploited a 150-year-old legitimate grievance as a political lifeline, while a British prime minister who desperately needed a win found one, and 900 men died over islands most people in either country couldn't find on a map. With the United States having just conducted military operations in Venezuela and launched strikes on Iran in the weeks this episode airs, the Falklands doesn't feel like history at all; it feels like a mirror.