Comment on UK responds to Argentina new president’s pledge to ‘get back’ Falkland Islands
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months agoIs the islands were uninhabited there might actually be a good point, but they’re not uninhabited. The land is already under the sovereignty of another country and countries don’t get to control other countries just because they need them how would that work?
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Sorry my friend, you’re the second person that’s come to that conclusion from my comment, so I’ve obviously written it like a muppet.
I agree wholeheartedly with you, it wouldn’t work and any form of annexation would be unwise to say the least.
My point is that having an island sat that close to your own borders under the ownership of another country would always prove to be a lightning rod for nationalists or rabble-rousers, which is what the Argentine (Argentinian? I’m not sure) government has been seemily using to deflect from their own failings for years.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
It’s not “just off the coast of Argentina” it’s nowhere near Argentina, it’s like Australia claiming they own New Zealand.