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The people living in the Falklands want the islands. While some countries look at land like the Falklands, or Ukraine, or Taiwan, or Greenland, and think "That
by ta1243 2y ago
The people living in the Falklands want the islands.
While some countries look at land like the Falklands, or Ukraine, or Taiwan, or Greenland, and think "That's Mine", Britain doesn't do that (any more), and instead says "it's upto you"
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- mytailorisrich 2y agoThe inhabitants of the Falklands are British settlers. It is quite easy to let people choose when you know that the choice they will make matches what you want. That being said, if Argentina had not invaded then no-one in Britain would care one way or the other (government could have handed the Islands to Argentina in whatever deal and most people in the UK would just have shrugged it off). It has become a point of principle and pride since the invasion to tell "the Argies" that they can stuff it.
- GJim 2y ago[flagged]
- mytailorisrich 2y ago[flagged]
- jajko 2y agowaving around with guidelines while insulting entire nations... some people really have their own universe in their minds
- mytailorisrich 2y ago[flagged]
- Symbiote 2y agoScotland has a referendum which didn't have a certain result before it was announced.
- renewiltord 2y agoThat and the fact that we can’t have Argentina colonizing a place while the indigenous people are still on it.
- artyom 2y agoThis is data provided by the UK government itself: the Falklands have a little above 3500 people, with about half of it being military and government personnel, and the rest being their families. So calling them "people living there", or "settlers" or "inhabitants" or "a democracy" is nothing short of disingenuous.
- StefanBatory 2y agoArgentinians are "settlers" too, when you think of it. I think, that according to your line of logic, they should all leave Argentine and leave it to native people. Maybe they can move to Falklands, then. Because it was empty and had no natives...
- artyom 2y agoYou proved my point. Argentina is full of people, as a multicultural country, including descendants of its natives (as long as you call "natives" to the first group of people ever that settled in a territory). A planted and subsidized military operation half the world away doesn't magically become "a society" b/c they look like that on the surface.
- ta1243 2y agoThe people living in the Falklands are descendents of the first gorup of people to settle that territory. After Argentina did a Russia and decided they wanted the people who had lived there for generations to leave, the UK added a military presence.
- artyom 2y agoI'd love to get a credible historical source saying that the conflict for that territory started around 1982 and before that there were just UK nationals casually settling there because... the weather was nice? I'll be waiting here.
- DiggyJohnson 2y ago