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The British should be able to bill the Argentinian Government for the mine removal.
by hayd 9y ago
The British should be able to bill the Argentinian Government for the mine removal.
- glibgil 9y agoYou can send anyone a bill for anything
- jackweirdy 9y agoOften they'll pay it without looking :) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/email_scammers_hit_businesses_5bn/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/email_scammers_hit_...
- Taniwha 9y agoAh, the "Trump Fallacy"
- norgie 9y agoThis doesn't seem to compare. Argentina did lay the mines.
- Taniwha 9y agoyes but they're not going to pay to remove them any more than Mexico is going to pay to build a wall, no matter how often some blowhard shouts it at clueless crowds
- throwanem 9y agoAnd then lost the war, yes. The trouble is that reparations, to be credibly imposed, must be backed by the threat of renewed hostilities, compared with which simply paying the weregild looks preferable; without such a threat, or at least the reasonable prospect of some meaningfully opprobrious consequence, the party nominally responsible for paying reparations has little enough reason to do other than simply ignore them. I doubt the UK is about to invade Argentina over the issue, or the UN to vote for sanctions.
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- mrleinad 9y agoHow about returning the islands they stole, instead? We're happy to clean the mines ourselves. It's not like they're anywhere close to London, are they?
- bulutsuzku 9y agoBritish still seem to believe they are legit in the Islands. It is actually an occupation since 1833.
- tjalfi 9y ago99.8% of residents voted to remain a UK Overseas Territory in 2013[0]. If that's an occupation then it has pretty overwhelming popular support. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum,_2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_r...
- fmmseptiembre 9y agoWhat could be expected? Most local population on Malvinas these days is of British origin.
- int_19h 9y agoMost local population on Falklands has been of British origin since, what, 1840? Ultimately, the important part is that there are no living people, whether on the islands or elsewhere, who are harmed by British control of the island, and there are plenty of living people who would be harmed by it being ceded to Argentine.
- throwanem 9y agoReally, the important part is that Argentina lost the war. But I get that people need to blow off steam about that sort of thing from time to time - there's something humiliating in losing a fight you started, especially when your opponent, basically just for the hell of it, sinks the severely superannuated secondhand light cruiser that's the pride of your nation's adorable little pocket navy. Why take it seriously? The result that matters is in. All the rest is just woofing.
- emondi 9y agoArgentina paid, and we will keep on paying. Don't worry.
- bulutsuzku 9y agoIt is "Argentine" government, not "Argentinian"
- iso-8859-1 9y agoYou should get this deleted then: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Argentinian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Argentinian
- kobeya 9y agoThat's a different word (read the definition).
- vivekd 9y agoAnd admit to Argentinian sovereignty over the Islands? No way! 10s of millions is a small price to pay to assert British sovereignty over the Islands.
- avar 9y agoMaking an invading force pay reparations isn't admitting their sovereignty. By that argument Germany has bought & paid for much of Europe via WWII reparations.