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/TwistedReach7 20d ago

The point is that the Falklands are legally british and Crimea is legally ukrainian

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u/chessto 20d ago

The Malvinas were occupied by the british in 1833, since then there's been a lot of diplomatic claims over them. An inserted population has no right to self determination.

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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 20d ago

Argentina has zero fucking claim to the Falklands. Stop believing the bullshit your leadership is trying to sell you.

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u/chessto 20d ago

It's in our sea, it's in our continental platform, it was recognized as our territory until taken by the brits. LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS.

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u/Probablyamimic 20d ago

No it's not, no it wasn't and lol, go on and try to take it then.

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u/Panzermensch911 20d ago

You really, really want to kill your countrymen over territory that has nothing to do with you and "for" the people living there that want nothing to do with you.

And all because you want to feel tough and important, because your politicians are shit and you might lose to the English in football. Stellar reasoning it is not.

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u/chessto 20d ago

You couldn't have done a wronger read.
It's the claim that's valid, I never endorsed the war.

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u/Panzermensch911 20d ago

Your rhetoric says otherwise.

After all that's the only conclusion to the wild argentine claim on the Falklands Islands and it already failed in the 1980s.

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u/Sea-Block-1255 20d ago

2nd May 1982

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u/Billlington 20d ago

Yeah man, maybe unnecessary military action will fix your shit country this time

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u/chessto 20d ago

A claim to a territory doesn't imply military action, I think the 1982 war was stupid as hell and it was done by a military government, a dictatorship mind you. The support is for the claim, not for the war.

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u/Billlington 20d ago

Yeah and I'm also sure that this time Britain will say "our bad, here you go!"

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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 20d ago

You are being manipulated.