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Better they expend their border-dispute resources over these barren islands than the inhabited ones.

• tfgg 11y ago
  In a way, isn't that just it? They're still 'fighting' over them because they're actually not that important? If they were important, the fight would be over much more quickly.
  • meric 11y ago
    Like Crimea.
  • jandrese 11y ago
    These fights give politicians something to do and more importantly, get people to rally around a nationalistic cause. We have always been at war with Europa.