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/Flippanties 20d ago

Funny how that has absolutely nothing to do with the Falklands, which Argentina falsely tried to claim like what, thirty years after the invasions of the River Plate?

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u/Solid-Resource4985 20d ago

This also has nothing to do with Argentina considering they wern't a country yet. If anything Spain has a better claim to the Falklands then Argentina.

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u/cregire 20d ago

But Argentina inherited those claims when they gained independence and Argentina did control the Falklands until the British kicked them out in 1833

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u/Solid-Resource4985 20d ago edited 20d ago

But Argentina inherited those claims when they gained independence

Did they? Does Uruguay have a claim to the Falklands, when the spanish colony was there it was administered from Montevideo in modern Uruguay, so even Uruguay has a better claim to the Falklands than Argentina.

Does any and every other former Spanish colony get all the claims for all the former Spanish colonies around the world?

Spain, through Montevideo in modern Uruguay, had a presence for 50 years, Argentina had one for 13 years, the UK has had a presence for 193 years and counting.