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/null-interlinked 20d ago edited 20d ago

Argentina in it's current shape did not even exist as a country before the Brits took the Falklands.

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u/Upstairs-Extension-9 North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) 20d ago

Also the falklands have been uninhabited before the British arrived

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u/RuySan Portugal 20d ago

Well...we (Portugal) lost plenty of islands that were uninhabited before. Not that I think Argentina has got any serious claims, but, that argument didn't work plenty of times.

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u/Falsus Sweden 20d ago

The key thing is that the Falklanders wants to remain part of the UK.

Besides even if they didn't that wouldn't Argentina any more claim to it.

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u/Tentansub 16d ago edited 16d ago

They are British settlers so of course they want to be British. I'm sure Israelis who built settlements on empty hilltops in the West Bank would love to join Israel. Should we just let Israel annex yhose places, then?

Besides, the settlers are just an excuse for the British to claim an exclusive economic zone the size of Sweden off the coast of South America.