But we're keeping them anyway sorry 🐸

by smashing_velocity

20 comments
  1. You have many rocks scattered around the oceans Barry. Seems you upsetting PIGS and co with your colonialism

  2. Not Spain though there’s enough hassle with Gibraltar as it is.

    You’re also never getting it back, may I suggest a siesta too ease your troubles.

  3. I think that as a gesture of goodwill to everyone’s favourite South American haven for Nazis we should let them have Pitcairn Island. Have fun with that.

  4. The mental gymnastics they have been deploying to maintain their fantasy of a legitimate claim to the islands is nothing short of impressive 😆

  5. Hey what if we own them, I mean if you can’t decide

  6. To be really fair, if you look at a map, it looks logical for Argentina to own the islands. And I couldn’t care either way *in principle*.

    But the amount of butthurt and drama over it, make it an easy opinion to have: it’s clearly UK clay.

  7. Reasons Flaklands is British: people living there agree, most of the world agrees, it makes sense

    Reason to give Flaklands to Argentina: makes Barry mad

    I think it all overwhelmingly tell us to make Las Malvinas Argentina again!

  8. “the islands are ours” is classic argentinian in case of “the country is going to shit (again) and we need something to distract the population ” break glass stuff.

  9. Barry’s nationalism over the Falklands is the most annoying in the world, except for Argentina’s nationalism over the malvinas.

    Spanish nationalism over Gibraltar is a distant third place.

  10. What would have happened if Argentina somehow won the Falkland war?

  11. Arg has minerals, great landscapes, the best land for agriculture in the planet and an ethically homogeneous population. Away from world’s shenanigans but close enough to the US (for trade). They should have been what Australia is today

  12. Barry gave away Chagos for free. Actually, scratch that: Barry *paid* another country to take Chagos from him. A country that had no claim whatsoever to it other that at one point he took a bunch of people from that country to work at Chagos.

    It’s only a matter of time until Barry also gives up Falklands due to:

    – muh colonizer past
    – muh Thatcherite heritage
    – muh military costs

    Argentina can wait. The world will take revenge against Barry for his crimes. [Never forget HIM!](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mbkt1y/til_the_falkland_islands_used_to_have_a_native/)

  13. their claim is not that tho, their claim is Uti Possidetis Juris (aka, they inherited it from Spain). We simply left the islands in 1811, then the whole Argentina independence thing in 1816 and they claimed the islands in 1830, then the UK slip in 3 years later and took control and Argentina was like “yo wtf this my rock” and the UK was like “nuh uh, my warships say otherwise”.

    Basically, the isalnds were kinda being administered between the UK and Spain, Spain took whole control but then abandoned them, then Argentina independence, then, they claimed the islands and put a governor there and all the stuff and then the UK took advantage and said they never respected Spains original sovereignty over the islands so it was rightfully theirs because we left

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