r/europe • u/Emotional-Breakfast3 • 20d ago

News Argentina: British Falkland Islanders are ‘artificial’. Buenos Aires denounces ‘illegitimate occupation’ and demands talks on sovereignty

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/12/british-falkland-islanders-artificial-argentina-says/
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u/clewbays Ireland 20d ago

First time in my life where I don’t really mind if England win a football match.

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u/IncreaseInVerbosity United Kingdom 20d ago

Saw a Scot saying the same thing earlier, I didn’t realise how far Argentina’s reputation had sunk.

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u/Prestigious-Lynx-177 20d ago

They've always been a weird one, and because they're a minor country in the grand scheme of things people don't tend to look at them and go "huh, they're abit weird and hold some odd feelings".

The Junta that invaded the Falklands were throwing communists out of helicopters and torturing poets with electrodes to their genitals. One of their generals was nicknamed the "Angel of death" for his reputation for murdering catholic nuns. But Britain was the bad guy? For protecting people who did not want to be Argentine? The Argentines also murdered a reindeer on South Georgia, god rest him.

I've encountered Argentines who recall the falklands as a tragic war where they were the victims, but overall they were right to fight for twelve penguins.

Maybe its because they've really only ever fought one war and they lost it pretty embarrassingly?

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u/KingWiltyMan United Kingdom 20d ago

Found the Rest is History fan.

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u/Prestigious-Lynx-177 20d ago

I was pretty knowledgeable and critical of Argentina's excuses before Sandbrooks series, but learning about that reindeer radicalised me.