• FundMECFS@quokk.au
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          14 days ago

          It’s hilarious how one sided that is. Kim Jong Un style numbers.

          And it makes complete sense. Falkland islands isn’t a colony. It was uninhabited before the british got there. It’s literally a freezing windy collection of hills in the middle of nowhere a few dozen british shepherds decided to populate and now rely on mainland UK for loads of stuff. So there’s no reason to say no.

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      14 days ago

      It has nothing to do with the people. Politicians and oligarchs wave a flag, as they do in any other country, to stir up the masses, but the whole thing is about fishing rights.

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        14 days ago

        The fishing is bad there.

        Oil has been discovered in the territorial waters, but this was long after the war and is as yet unexploited.

        Basically, it’s a rallying point that successive corrupt and failing Argentine governments have deployed in an attempt to distract from domestic failings. That’s its value.