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99.8% 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.
by tjalfi 9y ago
99.8% 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.
- mrleinad 9y agoAll argentineans are harmed. We're being plundered from our natural resources by the UK.
- int_19h 9y agoIf we're unwinding back almost 200 years to reach that conclusion, why not go 600? Have you appropriately compensated the native Argentinian tribes for the natural resources that you have plundered from them?
- mrleinad 9y agoWe're talking about modern countries, not prehistoric societies. Please try to keep up.
- int_19h 9y agoWe are? Do people in "prehistoric societies" (whatever that is supposed to mean) not have rights to territory, or to natural resources? In any case, I was definitely talking about people, not countries - this is clearly spelled out in the comment that started this thread. I don't care about countries. They only exist to serve the people, and any such rights they claim above and beyond that are illegitimate.
- mrleinad 9y agoWell, if I take all my friends to your house, kick you out of it, and we all vote it's ours, we can keep it then?