the Argentinian claim being the anti-colonialism one
“The British didn’t colonize The Falklands, it was an empty island, but also the Argentinians are the real colonists because they wanted sovereignty over a neighboring island which was the rightful possession of a country on the far end of another hemisphere” is a level of mental gymnastics Olympic Athletes would marvel at.
this was supposed to be some kind of justification
It’s soccer hooligans holding up posterboard covered in sharpie and y’all act like you just survived Verdun.
It can’t be both a traffic stop and a home.
The dispute is over whether it should be a military base of a foreign power
No, it was about the Argentinian claim being the anti-colonialism one somehow, and this was supposed to be some kind of justification for that claim.
“The British didn’t colonize The Falklands, it was an empty island, but also the Argentinians are the real colonists because they wanted sovereignty over a neighboring island which was the rightful possession of a country on the far end of another hemisphere” is a level of mental gymnastics Olympic Athletes would marvel at.
It’s soccer hooligans holding up posterboard covered in sharpie and y’all act like you just survived Verdun.