Erik !saAqdaazn2 joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 2 hours later[^][v]#1,455,438
The US is using their support over Argentina as some kind of leverage and wouldn't mind seeing Argentina retake it so they can use the oil money to pay back their debts. Won't work though because Argentina has pretty much disarmed since the war innthe 80s
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,446
As if an island could float. I understand it if you need some more unsinkable aircraft carriers, but it’s South America. Nothing interesting happens in South America. I live in the Americas and the first and last time South America was in the news here is when Trump replaced that socialist dictator in Venezuela with another socialist dictator.
> You Brits really care about that uninhabited floating wasteland in the South Atlantic? > > You people are strange. I don’t understand the British.
Brits once upon a time, raped and pillaged planet earth. Included US, as we now know it. Falklands represent UK of the past.
So for no good reason they hang onto Falklands.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc replied with this 2 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,454
@1,455,452 (D)
I get that the British did the whole empire thing. What I don’t understand is why they want the Falklands. If I made a list of places that are worth conquering, the Falklands wouldn’t be on it. Why does Argentina want the Falklands? Only like 3,000 people live there. It’s barely even worth having a war over, more people would die fighting over it than even live there in the first place.
Anonymous D replied with this 2 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,456
@previous (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)
Google says: Argentina wants the Falkland Islands—called Islas Malvinas in Argentina—because it claims historical inheritance from Spain, views the 1833 British takeover as illegal, and sees economic and strategic value in the area.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc replied with this 2 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,457
Even the whole thing with Ireland is kind of strange to me. The UK has more than 60 million people. A couple hundred years ago, Ireland had 8 million people but the British caused so much starvation which killed a million people made a few million leave, today Ireland only has 5 million people. So the UK is 12 times larger than Ireland by population but somehow they think they need Northern Ireland for some reason. Not even all of Ireland just the northern bit. The Falklands is a thousand times smaller than Ireland, it’s like, I don’t know, I just feel like we should care about stuff that actually matters.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 2 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,458
Honestly I find it annoying how people on the right in the west want to hold onto the idea of empire and celebrate tiny victories like they mean anything. It’s like, the extent to which modern western countries have empires so goddamn pathetic and insignificant. Yet people will say things like "oh explain why black people didn’t have huge empires Europeans must be better." It’s like, well yeah you had the largest empires but you also lost the largest empires so it cancels out.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc triple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,459
Like honestly, the UK at some point is probably going to have to give up Northern Ireland. I highly doubt it will still be part of the UK in the year 2100, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people in the UK probably know it. They’re just holding onto the idea of empire, even if there is no empire.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quadruple-posted this 2 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,460
And I should stop yapping about this, but they say "special relationship" like anybody in the US ever says that. Nobody in the US ever says it on the left or the right, it’s just the UK that says it. It actually interesting though, most white Americans aren’t ethnically British but we all speak English. Which is also kinda silly when Nazi types start talking about America’s "Anglo Saxon heritage" or racists try and connect the success of the United States to some racial British thing, but if you look at the numbers, British Americans and African Americans actually make up about the same percentage of the population.
Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 2 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,466
@1,455,453 (D)
Syntax is that you? I remember when you pretended to be a poster from the falklands but it was a dead give away when you claim you wanted to be free free free.
@1,455,445 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)
Shut up you fucking nigger
Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,467
I'm not surprised. Donald is merrily burning all kinds of bridges with his allies, why not this one? I don't think it'll change much, though, I'm not too worried.
Green !pDif3ODBl. (OP) replied with this 2 weeks ago, 13 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,471
@1,455,453 (D)
That's only the Welsh. @1,455,469 (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
Yes. @1,455,467 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
The Falklands belong to us. We'll never surrender them.
Doc !mjoQJhzjwM joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 6 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,455,472
@1,455,459 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)
They can’t help themselves. It’s that “manifest destiny” delusion all over again. Cumskins have a tough time learning that land grabbing isnt like it was 300 years ago and if they want the Falklands they either pay Argentina or duke it out. Either way the U.S will come in and take it anyways.
> I get that the British did the whole empire thing. What I don’t understand is why they want the Falklands. If I made a list of places that are worth conquering, the Falklands wouldn’t be on it. Why does Argentina want the Falklands? Only like 3,000 people live there. It’s barely even worth having a war over, more people would die fighting over it than even live there in the first place.
For the actual war, a crumbling military dictatorship thought it could rack up a quick win for national pride and deflect from the leftists being shot in the state’s prisons.
> Syntax is that you? I remember when you pretended to be a poster from the falklands but it was a dead give away when you claim you wanted to be free free free. > >
Trust me on this. Syntax NEVER pretended to be on the Falklands nor has ever been to the Falklands. Syntax has been to Argentina multiple times.
Syntax is also pleased Erick gets upset with the mass of immigrants in UK, from former colonies the UK Raped an Pillaged.
> He's saying the Falklands are Argentinian. They are British.
Once upon a time Brits owned most of planet. Now like a penis in ice cold water, shrinkage is what current UK is.
Soon the Brit sheep fuckers will have to accept Falklands as a Loss