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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would they, they’re not indigenous to the area either. It’s all bullshit.

Kind of agree with you on this actually. I think their stronger claim has to do with the fact that Spain owned it, and Argentina inherited those islands when they won their independence from Spain. That, and the closeness of the islands to Argentina (350ish miles as the crow flies).

but they (the islanders) want to be British, so that should really be enough.

And the people in the taken over places in Ukraine that voted that they want to be part of Russia, should that allow Russia to claim those Ukranian lands?

We should strive for the win-win and people being happy, true, but when it comes to scarce resources like oil, it never ends up being that easy. As you put it, "It's all bullshit".

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess that's a small part of a larger country so it complicates things. Maybe, I don't particularly care, would be my personal answer.

Spain "owning" it doesn't sound like an especially strong claim either.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Spain “owning” it

Don't think it fair to put double quotes around owning. Spain had/has a legitimate claim.