Yeah, perhaps you would feel differently if you were a Falkland Islander and looking down the barrel of a repeat of the last invasion by a brutal military dictatorship. Perhaps you would have withheld this facile rubbish and your roll of the eyes if it was your village which they had shot people in and were obviously wanting to do again. Pretty easy to sell someone else up the river, huh?
Are you familiar with the history of the Falklands and their people? Mexico has a much better claim to the land the USA is on, than Argentina has to the Falklands. The whole shebang started about the same time, but unlike the USA, there was not actually any native American living there. That is,
unlike both the USA and Argentina, no natives had to be slaughtered in their millions for the nasty “imperialist”, “colonialist power” Falkland Islanders to live in their homes - what a complete joke for either to use those precise terms to describe the continued peaceful life on the Falkland Islands by the only people who have ever lived there.. No genocide, no butchery of all neighbours, just a bit of scrub (that nobody else claimed or lived on) in the middle of the sea farmed and a bit of dodgy weather endured.
Perhaps you are American - if so maybe somebody should do a map with arrows showing you how close Mexico is to the USA and you would move out of your house out of decency. “
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In all seriousness though, proximity is not a reason for a territorial claim on a land and people that pre-date your country’s existence - certainly not against the votes and wishes of the first and only population to live there.
I suggest you look into the history of the Falklands and the situation as it now stands rather than such a map. When you have read the Argentine state versions, go and look at some differing opinions (especially those contrary views from Argentina) and note what the Argentinian state omits that firmly establishes the opposite of what they are saying in each instance. The reason much of the international community, and even the academic community in Argentina itself consider Argentina’s claim to the land of the Falklands nonsense is that it in fact is. It is widely viewed as a political scratching-post to draw attention away from internal problems.
Further: contrary to what you seem to be saying, there is
no interest in “empire” to be whipped up in Britain now, it is not a big expansionist military power now and the primary/only reason to prevent Argentina from invading and occupying, is that Britain has a responsibility to protect the first and only population of the place from being killed and displaced by an invading military force from a country with a proven expansionist record itself, that has begun to exist since it was claimed and settled.
Wilful, fashionable endorsement of the scapegoating of the Falkland Islanders by the Argentinian government to mask its internal problems
is going to get innocent human beings killed at the point where the Argentinian government feels it has enough international support to bring down its military fist and start killing innocents in the Falklands again.
I would take care before you lend your voice to that particular hubbub, and see people dead for a bit of scrub in the middle of the sea that has only ever been wanted by the people living on it for about 320 years, that a country born in 1810 now decides it has always owned.
Luckily, Britain, the USA, the Falklanders and some other bits of the international community do not agree with Argentina and Sean Penn that a war would be preferable to
referenda among the Falkland Islanders and peace.
I pray it stays that way, and so should you.
I hope God does too.
