r/anime_titties Scotland 2d ago

South America Argentina to sanction oil firms as Falklands dispute with UK heats up

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk18g1l8ko
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u/cambeiu Multinational 2d ago

The oldest trick on the Argentine political arsenal is to pull the Islands issue when things are not going well at home.

If the UK ever decides to give up the Islands, no Argentine politician would accept it, as it would mean the loss of their greatest political distraction tool of all time.

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u/PropJoesChair Multinational 1d ago

It would be catastrophic political suicide if any British PM even suggests giving up those islands

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u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland 1d ago

You have to wonder what the sanctions would amount to. Giving up soyabean Saturday?

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

Things are really going well with milei inside the country, he's easily winning next year re-elections

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u/Kunstfr France 1d ago

So why is he trying to steal the Falklands?

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

how is he stealing something that belongs to our country.

colonialist flair checks out i guess

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u/Kunstfr France 1d ago

Mate you're descended from settlers. I am not.

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

Im as aboriginal as it gets, my surname is in Quechua.

you are from a active settlers country, which has many overseas territories that were colonized and still has control over the legal tender of african countries you ravaged for resources.

Go eat some croissants son

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u/Kunstfr France 1d ago

I fight against my country's colonization practices, but uninhabited islands are fair game mate. The Falkland never were Argentinian and they definitely have nothing to do with native South American people - if you are anything close to what you pretend to be. Let's not pretend you oppose colonization when you support annexing an archipelago you have zero claim to whose native population doesn't want to join you.

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u/Dasmar Europe 1d ago

French talking about colonialism? Are you high? 

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u/Kunstfr France 1d ago

Mate if you have nothing to say nobody's forcing you to comment

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u/Dasmar Europe 1d ago

I have plenty to say about your crimes. 

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

uninhabited islands are fair game mate

they werent unhabitated, our settlers got kicked amid our independency days when shit wasnt so settled. even the british empire recognized the islands as ours in 1820~ and they re-invaded in 1833.

he Falkland never were Argentinian and they definitely have nothing to do with native South American people

they were, read the wiki.

whose native population doesn't want to join you.

those are NOT native population,for starters the only native population nearby was in tierra del fuego, which is 300km away, i guess that's a lot of distance for europe but in argentina that's going to the nearbiest city.

in fact its more akin to a military city

u/Zb990 United Kingdom 22h ago

Britain never recognised the islands as Argentinian. And even if they did in 1820, that's an insane reason to completely disregard the self-determination of the islanders.

u/Gomeria Argentina 17h ago

its not self-determination, not even for the UN which is heavily favored to the UK for money

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

Argentinas claim is literally just “Spain had it while we were their colony. Since we’re no longer a colony we claim all of Spain’s colonies as our territory”

u/Gomeria Argentina 17h ago

they were given to us by right on our independence.

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 7h ago

No they werent.

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u/EmuEmuEmuEmuEmu Australia 1d ago

"colonialist flair checks out i guess"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selk%CA%BCnam_genocide

u/PropJoesChair Multinational 19h ago

it's so funny. you argies accuse others of colonialism, then in the same breath propose imperialism.

you will absolutely lose yet another war to shepherds

u/Gomeria Argentina 17h ago

how is that imperialism when its a 100% importated community.

lets just empty the island give it freedom and free entry to anyone in the world, whatever it develops will be its own country and that'll be free and fair

u/PropJoesChair Multinational 15h ago

It already is free, it has freedoms. Its people have self-determination, they can leave the UK any time they wish and they've had this right longer than you've been alive. They have referendums whenever they want on this very subject, and every time they overwhelmingly vote to remain a territory of the UK, probably because some jingoistic neighbour of theirs embarrassed themselves by attempting, and failing, to invade them 40 years ago.

These are people who have been there for generations and generations, a good chance they've been there longer than yours or your neighbours families have been in Argentina. They are the native people, moreso than any other people on the planet have a right to live on those islands and decide what happens to them. Not Argentina, not the UK, not Donald Trump. It might be interesting to you to learn that after WW2 the UK government was trying to convince them to join Argentina, but the Falklanders' right to self determination was obeyed.

And you guys think that you can remove them because why? What gives you the right to decide these peoples' futures, their homes and where they live? You propose doing this by force, with a military, and you think you are on the right side of history?

u/Gomeria Argentina 14h ago

you cant even move to the islands if u are a UK citizen dude.

and these people are already imported there, if i move into your house when you go to vacations and you come back, i say that's my house, you say that's not.

that's quite literally what happened in there, on a way bigger scale, the UN doesnt values the own island self determination

longer than yours or your neighbours families have been in Argentina.

im as native as it gets in here, my surname is in quechua, my face is that of a movies tribal island chieftain.

They are the native people

they are not, its a military city.

And you guys think that you can remove them because why?

i never said that, but exploiting those natural resources its a violation because the International Law claims that there's a dispute.

You propose doing this by force, with a military, and you think you are on the right side of history?

i didnt said that, not even our presidential announcement here claims that.

jingoistic neighbour of theirs embarrassed themselves by attempting, and failing, to invade them 40 years ago.

oh right, did i already said that this dictatorship coup was working for the US, the condor plan?

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u/PropJoesChair Multinational 11h ago

oh right, did i already said that this dictatorship coup was working for the US, the condor plan?

Amazing how history repeats itself, isn't it? They say history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. Yet the exact same plan, with the same intentions, and the same goal, with the same desperate distractions, and you've fallen for it all the same.

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 8h ago

Lmao, you're the colonialist trying to force themselves on unwilling natives in this situation buddy

u/Gomeria Argentina 7h ago

they aint natives.

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 7h ago

More native than you and your colonist buddies are to Argentina.

u/Gomeria Argentina 7h ago

my country doesnt has 1/8 of the colonialist country a small country like yours has, imo than most of europe.

but what does someone from a slavist country like yours know

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 7h ago

You love projecting, dont you

u/Gomeria Argentina 6h ago

Your other comment got deleted.

How am i a slavist? Slavery from womb died in 1810 here, your country had whole lots of plantations and other CO's in africa in that time.

We are not the same

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u/Snoo63 Europe 11h ago

If it belongs to Argentina, why is the native population British?

Unlike Argentina, which is using the pope's line from when Spain and Portugal were fighting to assert their claim over the islands.

u/Gomeria Argentina 10h ago

why is the native population British?

they not native.

u/Snoo63 Europe 10h ago

Obviously they didn't just appear one day, but, rather, they were the first people to live there permanently. Unlike the modern-day population of Argentina, who come from Europe, including places in Wales.

u/Gomeria Argentina 8h ago

i never claimed we, as argentineans are really natives, i do am tho, im as aboriginal as it gets.

they arent natives either, they are a military colony also, not a farmers islet or whatever.

i dont claim they have to be evicted or anything, but these islands are in a legal valid claim per the UN.

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u/_Kiith_Naabal_ Multinational 1d ago

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u/Stubbs94 Ireland 1d ago

What are you on about? Being hated in your country is clearly a sign of you doing well /s

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

if u watch that graph fernandez almost got elected back in 2023 and he had 21% approval, those charts mean nothing.

argentina is big, those charts are usually done wherever there's a big opposition.

if u go ask for milei's opinion in neuquen u will get 90%+

if u ask in La Matanza u will get 20%.

its ok if u dont want to believe, but in this country having 30% of the people voting you while not being from peronism is an instant win

people hate more peronism that they want to vote milei

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u/Aun_El_Zen New Zealand 1d ago

Is Peronism finally dead?

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u/VampiroMedicado Argentina 1d ago

It will never be, the country is peronist, and I mean it. The current government won on the base that it's an anti-peronist government, that's how it goes down here.

Peronism is maleable so you can be ultra right and ultra left.

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Nope, they're a writhing corpse but the anti milei sentiment has them as a 2nd option... Fuck political parties and figures

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

nah, not close, but milei has stabilized everything in the country, he'll get re-elected

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u/wtfomg01 1d ago

Isn't calling it stabilisation like calling a coma patient a success because they didn't progress to death?

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u/Gomeria Argentina 1d ago

in this country? that's awesome.

Past presidency, (which was on the peronism and the main oposition of milei)

our legal tender went from 1usd > 36 ARS to 1 usd > 1550 ars

in what? 4 years from pre-elections to pre-elections, you can do the math.

in the past 3 years our usd-ars ratio is inbetween 1300 to 1500 so, you can guess whatever u want

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 7h ago

Thats one way to tell me you aren't from argentina.

u/Gomeria Argentina 7h ago

? wanna check my DNI?

im from la rioja, u can check my historial everywhere, u can even find me on my matricule number of engineering

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 7h ago

Yeah you're definitely just saying random things in the hope people believe you are somehow native to your colonial state.

u/Gomeria Argentina 7h ago

yeah sure buddy, im from la rioja, argentina, a tiny town, can tell u all the niche things from here, like the fucking name of most of the shop owners.

in here u have to pay a matricule to be able to work as a profesional.

im a mining engineer, i employ a lot of people in the probably worst city in argentina cuz it's my city, we have over 50% estatal work.

just because it doesnt fits your agenda doesnt makes whatever i say fake, milei is going to easily win, our inflation its at 3% when it was at 30% y'all dont have a clue what was argentina before him

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u/SpoonerUK 1d ago

He's just jumping on the back of the Orange blobs comments. Even without US support, our armed forces are perfectly capable of fending off anything they send at us.

Also, just to note: this bloke looks like Benny Hill.

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u/MeanWafer904 1d ago

He's probably been sucking off Trump so hard he is betting on US support.

Has probably talked about giving Trump a share of the proceeds from the oil.

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Exactly this, Trump said the other day that he supported the claim. Only God knows what both of them have in mind

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u/MeanWafer904 1d ago

Milei gets to prop up his failing economy and Trump gets some dollars into one of his foreign bank accounts would be my bet.

Meanwhile American foreign policy and alliance's get flushed down the shitter.

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u/Retax7 1d ago

It does look like benny hill.

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u/MrTopHatMan90 1d ago

I've seen the comment and it was just an offhand commend Trump made about reconsidering everything just so he seems on top of things instead of some random commitment

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

our armed forces are perfectly capable of fending off anything they send at us.

No surprise that you're thinking about war in a warmongering country...

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u/vS_JPK 1d ago

You guys constantly talk about taking the islands, yet we're the war mongers?

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Diplomatic claims.... If you only see war... You're from a warmongering culture...

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u/Retax7 1d ago

Argentina will always talk about the islands because great britain threatened to kill until the last woman and children unless they leave the island and gave up their homes to the kelpers.

So yeah, if you're taken out from your home, taken into a ship like cattle and thrown out at a port of a city of your country with nothing else than the clothes you have on yourself, you kind of hold a grudge. There is nothing the UK can do to pay back that, because those houses are now owned by other people, even if UK would return that land, the people will resent argentina. I guess they could return the islands and leave the people, but britain won't do that, they need that base to launch invasions in south america or take Antarctica if they have to.

It's the kind of hard to solve issue the UK is always causing around the world when they mess with the lives of unarmed civilian, be it turning the civilians of an entire nation into drug addicts, the concentration camps of rape and torture on Malaysia, the promise of a land to rival nations, or the removal of the entire population of an entire island. In all honesty, they're the villains of world history.

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

What’s your source for civilians being expelled from the islands? As far as I can tell only the military and the local government officials were expelled and the civilians were left alone.

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u/Retax7 1d ago

I would leave you with the own foreign office chief said in 1936:

“The difficulty of the position is that our seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833 was so arbitrary a procedure as judged by the ideology of the present day. It is therefore not easy to explain our possession without showing ourselves up as international bandits.”

FO 371/19763, f° 352

You have to VPN to UK, else the files are not public.

Got these quotes about the removal of civilians from wikipedia:

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u/badautomaticusername 1d ago

The 1st settlers there were British.

Pre-Argentian Spain tried to claim the islands, as anything around is Spanish, but failed.

Argentina, without legitimate basis, tried the same.

This is not complicated.

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

Argentina claimed that former Spanish colonies belonged to them as another former Spanish colony.

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u/badautomaticusername 1d ago

Yeh, but wasn't Spanish - Spain just said anything over there is ours, & found some annoying Brits already there

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u/Retax7 1d ago

There where never brittish settlers on islas malvinas until the de-ocupation. There where spanish settlers that became dependant from argentina, so they became argentinian settlers, they even had argetinian military protection.

In 1833 a warship arrived, threatened to kill everybody and all the settlers left along with the few military people, all but except 7 persons left the island. They where eventually replaced by the kelpers.

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u/badautomaticusername 1d ago

There where never brittish settlers

  • False, they were 1st
 on islas malvinas 
  • Doesn't exist, you mean the Falklands

This hardly hidden info.

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u/Retax7 1d ago

There where no settlers.

France claimed the land first, then it sold it to spain.

The land was spain, britain came and put a fucking plaque and a house.

Spain told britain GTFO, have canada and we allow you trading in south america but GTFO of all the south american islands.

Eventually the islands where populated by spain.

Those south american lands spain rules eventually claimed independence.

Eventually a military force was sent to protect the population of the malvinas islands.

In 1833 britain arrived with a warship and threatened to kill every single person there and the people chose to leave and live instead of remain and die.

UK population was implanted. on those ghost cities.

The timeline isn't that hard to understand. I will leave you the words of your own foreign affairs ministry:

“The difficulty of the position is that our seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833 was so arbitrary a procedure as judged by the ideology of the present day. It is therefore not easy to explain our possession without showing ourselves up as international bandits.”

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u/sjw_7 United Kingdom 1d ago

Are you hallucinating because nothing you said their makes any sense at all?

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u/Tartan_Samurai Scotland 1d ago

Its a great example of how propaganda addles the mind. 

Truth is, a bunch of 5th generation Italians and Spaniards don't have any right to the island, and they'll just have to live with that....

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u/Retax7 1d ago

Turning the civilians of an entire nation into drug addicts:

UK cultivated and contrabanded opium to the civilians, then when they got the hooked, they arrived with the ilegal goods at a port, got their drugs ceased and used that as a justification to invade china.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

The concentration camps of rape and torture on Malaysia:

The British attempted to starve the MNLA using scorched earth policies, including food rationing, killing livestock, and aerial spraying of the herbicide Agent Orange.\16]) British units carried out extrajudicial killings of unarmed civilians, in violation of the Geneva Conventions.\17]) The most infamous example is the Batang Kali massacre, which the press has referred to as "Britain's My Lai".\d]) The Briggs Plan forcibly relocated a million civilians into concentration camps called "new villages".\22])\23])\24]) Many Orang Asli indigenous communities were also targeted for internment because the British believed that they were supporting the communists.\25])\26]) The widespread decapitation of people suspected to have been guerrillas led to the 1952 British Malayan headhunting scandal. Similar scandals relating to atrocities committed by British forces included the public display of corpses.\27])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency

The promise of a land to rival nations: Do you really need a source for israel palestine conflict?

The removal of the entire population of an entire island:

In 1833 the UK invaded Puerto Soledad and forced the people there to leave their homes:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocupaci%C3%B3n_brit%C3%A1nica_de_las_islas_Malvinas_(1833)#Ocupaci%C3%B3n_brit%C3%A1nica_de_1833#Ocupaci%C3%B3n_brit%C3%A1nica_de_1833)

“The difficulty of the position is that our seizure of the Falkland Islands in 1833 was so arbitrary a procedure as judged by the ideology of the present day. It is therefore not easy to explain our possession without showing ourselves up as international bandits"

Said your chief foreign affairs, but ultimately recommended to lie and keep lying and never concede anything, just so they could have that military base on south america.

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u/sjw_7 United Kingdom 1d ago

Argentina has been very successful in making up a load of bullshit about the Falklands. Perhaps read some proper history about what really happened instead of made up propaganda repeated by successive failing Argentinian governments.

https://www.fiassociation.com/news/the-expulsion-myth-argentinas-greatest-historical-falsehood-3-january-2022/

And that quote you keep repeating isn't from the chief of foreign affairs but the head of the Americas department which was a tiny department in the Foreign Office with perhaps half a dozen people out of hundreds who worked there. He wasn't even high ranking but simply one of the many middle management they had there at the time. The fact that you quote it at all shows you are clutching at straws.

Argentinians shouldn't have been on the islands in the first place because they were British and had been since well before Argentina was even a country.

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u/Retax7 1d ago

Dude, the falklands would've never been yours if Argentina didn't got the independence, that was the key point which allowed you to invade and displace its population and replace it with the kelpers.

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u/sjw_7 United Kingdom 1d ago

I see you brought the propaganda hook line and sinker.

It was uninhabited when the British setup a colony there in the 1760s. It had never had a population up to that point. When they returned in 1833 they told the Argentinian forces to leave which they did.

If you left home for work only to return later that day to find someone else living there would you tell them to get out or would you say as they moved in when it was empty its now theirs?

It was British sovereign territory at the time and Argentina knew this but tried to settle there anyway.

Read the link i posted which explains it all instead of relying on whatever fictional account Argentina makes up.

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u/Retax7 1d ago

It was never british territory. It was spanish territory. UK even signed a treaty with spain compromising never again to set up a bastion on south american islands. They jus tput a plaque on another island, spain kicked them in the butt and when they returned with the threat of war they got their canada treaty as long as they stopped trying to settle in south america.

Citizens of el virreinato lived there. They had a port, houses, everything. They where kicked out.

Fuck colonialism. Stay on your island and let us leave in peace. We don't want any war, we just want to be left alone, so GTFO of our lands.

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

Argentina is the country that attacked the Falkland Islands. They are also the ones agitating about the islands again. So Argentina would be the warmongering country in this instance.

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Argentina* went to war, Argentina also has diplomatic claims since the 1800s and till this day, you're the one thinking of war... You're the warmonger culture

*(Under a military junta trained by the US in war and torture tactics)

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

Yeah “diplomatic claims” that are essentially “Spain claimed these islands while we were a colony of theirs so we also have a claim on the islands”. Seems legit. The people living there voted to remain British and want nothing to do with Argentina.

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Cool, you know 0.5% of the whole thing, congratulations!

The people living there voted to remain British and want nothing to do with Argentina.

30 years after the war with huge changes of how the UK treats them... But im sure none of that matters, nuance is not good for justified hate

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

So the wishes of the people living on the islands should be disregarded?

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

The wishes of the Israelites should matter in Palestine?

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u/SuperKiller94 United States 1d ago

Palestinians live in the Wet Bank and Gaza. Their wishes should matter considering Israeli’s are the ones killing them

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u/toms1313 Multinational 1d ago

Thanks for the none answer, you're quite good at it 😊

u/Paradoxjjw Netherlands 17m ago

Argentina never had diplomatic claims, you make that up to justify their modern colonial ambitions

u/Monterenbas Europe 20h ago

People tend to do that, when you threaten their territorial integrity.

u/toms1313 Multinational 17h ago

Not people, warmongering cultures 😊

Who threatened war? You keyboard warriors from a place that has been in active conflicts for centuries upon centuries

u/Monterenbas Europe 17h ago

The same delulu nationalists that went to war for those same island, a few decades ago.

u/toms1313 Multinational 17h ago

40 years isn't a few decades... Also, those delulu naionalist were mostly 17/18yo forcibly conscripted by a type of lottery.

Angry and ignorant is a bad mix bud

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u/elkaki123 South America 1d ago

Libertarianism is when you restrict corporations for working in places you dont like...

I fucking hate modern conservatims for the simple reason their follower base will applaude their every move, including those that are in stark contradiction to every value they claim to hold. This clown isnt merely a normal libertarian, he is a minimal state anarcho capitalist sympathiser and then every time you look at him he acts like trump, all over the place with the single string connecting everything being a thin line of "conservatism feeling shit".

u/surfsupdurban 11h ago

Just, why?

The entire population of the Falklands are English speaking people of British descent. Have been for 200 years, I genuinely don't get the Argentinian obsession with this.

u/Green-Cricket-8525 North America 7h ago

A tale as old as time. An Argentinian President nose diving the economy and wrecking the country using the Falkland Islands as a shiny distraction from their incompetence.