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[–] 158 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Funny how Argentina never thinks to ask the people who actually live there.

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  • [–] 76 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They might answer the wrong way you see...

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It’s hilarious how one sided that is. Kim Jong Un style numbers.

    And it makes complete sense. Falkland islands isn’t a colony. It was uninhabited before the british got there. It’s literally a freezing windy collection of hills in the middle of nowhere a few dozen british shepherds decided to populate and now rely on mainland UK for loads of stuff. So there’s no reason to say no.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It has nothing to do with the people. Politicians and oligarchs wave a flag, as they do in any other country, to stir up the masses, but the whole thing is about fishing rights.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    The fishing is bad there.

    Oil has been discovered in the territorial waters, but this was long after the war and is as yet unexploited.

    Basically, it’s a rallying point that successive corrupt and failing Argentine governments have deployed in an attempt to distract from domestic failings. That’s its value.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Asking the people that currently leave there is not always the correct course of action though.

    You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Except in this case there was nobody living on the island, so the “natives” are all of European descent and overwhelmingly (like 90+%) want to stay part of the UK.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, that happens when you kick out the existing argentinian/spanish settlement (I don't remember if it was before/after independence) and bring your own British settlers, as I explained before.

    Idk what European descent has to do with anything. Many Argentinians are of European descent.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

    That's virtually all of human history.

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