I would've expected him to be in favour of it. Skinheads are usually up for responding when British soil gets attacked. I didn't pick up any reason for his opposition.
I was thinking that he might see the Argentines as White and the war as one between White brothers, but then the neo-Nazis in Britain always supported the Northern Irish Loyalists against the Republicans, and both sides are definitely White.
The skinheads are anti-imperialists, simple as that.
Maggie weakened the defences of the Falklands in the first place - think there was a naval taskforce moved, which signalled to the argentine junta that we weren't prepared to defend the Islands. A lot of people thought maggie went to war because she was going to lose the election the following year (she was massively behind in the polls) and that because there were only a few thousand people there and it is so far away that an alternative should have been found. That's why Combo was against the war.
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Not necessarily inconsistent. Although rank-and-file, mainstream conservative politicians are generally hawkish, the far-right fringe has often been less supportive of overseas wars. Here in the States, most Republicans are hawkish but guys like Pat Buchanan (independent right-wing politician), Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance), and David Duke (KKK and Stormfront) voiced opposition to the Iraq War and US government policies in the Middle East at a time when even a lot of Democrats, moderates, and liberals were supportive. I imagine it could be the same in the UK. The character Combo, like many right wing fascists here in the US, probably sees the war as a waste of lives of working-class white men and believes the real battle is at home against the hoards of immigrants, foreigners, minorities.
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Duke left the KKK a long time ago.
As for Stormfront, he indeed posts there, but that's not his site.
Perhaps as a far right extremist, he sympathised with the Argentinian junta.
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