I am afraid all the replies so far ignore the essential point: Only the British leader of that time had the balls to do it.
Like Maggie or not, she was in a class of her own.
Not a chance in hell that the French, German or whatever other European head of state would launch a re-conquest task force to the other side of the world. Waaaayyy not enough balls in the leader, or in the parliament.
AFAICS, in a hypothetical similar situation only the Serbs would do it, assuming that they’d ever have the military means.
Of course they’d murder so many civilians on the way that they’d force the world to stop them, but they’d have the will. None of the others would. Probably not even Russia today.
That is a question nobody can answer. Apart from France no other country had large overseas interests, so neither had a navy designed for such a job. And in the german case I would find it very strange to have a amphibious battle group with a carrier, when you had the Red Army right on your doorstep.
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