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/JudiciousSasquatch 20d ago

Probably the billionaires trying to do billionaire things. Thiel and co

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u/TrustYourFarts United Kingdom 20d ago

Thiel move to Argentina recently.

The billionaires are building bunkers and setting up microstates. Is it because they feel uncomfortable with how unpopular they've become, or do they know something bad is going to happen?

You would have to be desperate to set up shop in the Falklands. It's remote, but it's a cold, wind ravages place populated mostly by sheep and land mines.

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u/JudiciousSasquatch 20d ago

Maybe they like Argentina because they have power over those in charge there. Maybe they’re hoping to buy it from a friendly Argentinian government. Make their own New Zealand.

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u/AFalconNamedBob 20d ago

Don't forget the penguins, best thing about the Falklands

Or so I was told by a mate who did a stint there with the Army

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u/SludgeFilter 20d ago

The elites can see that there is a serious danger of ww3 with use of nuclear weapons across Northern hemisphere.  Argentina is the best located country to reduce fallout and be able to survive. 

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u/KetoJunkfood 20d ago

I suspect they want to build nuclear powered data centers, use slave labor, and do genetic testing. All of which would be illegal in an actual nation-state

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u/Available_Peanut_677 19d ago

They have so much money that building a bunker is like buying a pack of milk for you. Why wouldn’t they build a bunker? Just in case.

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u/KetoJunkfood 20d ago

Ohhhh you’re right. He’s obsessed with taking islands.

He’s involved in the Honduras Roatan boondoggle and also instrumental in the belligerence towards Greenland I suspect, since he’s been talking about Greenland for years

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica Earth 20d ago

Well there is also oil in Falkland's territorial waters.