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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If there's a hill the UK is prepared to die on this is it, 99.9 percent of Falkland Islanders voted to remain part of the UK in a UN observed open election subsequent to the UK retaining control of the islands. Argentina has never maintained any form of civilian population there in nearly 150 years, they want the oil and fishing rights.

Edit in 2013 another vote was held, 99.8 percent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First 99.9% then 99.8%? So, the support for a Falkexit is rising! Only give it a few hundred years and those Falklandiands are ready to join Argentina!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Support for Falkexit doubled, a clear sign for the Islanders wish for independence. /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now 3 people support it, instead of 2! (No, literally)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

An incredible 50% increase!

[–] bernieecclestoned 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

5 billion barrels of oil and access to Antarctican minerals says try it and find out. UK has a spiffy new aircraft carrier the Tories would love to send to divert attention from their abject failure to govern

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maggie 2.0, they would love it, the situation is eerily similar, disgraced failing Tory government waving the flag of empire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Both cut spending to military spending to the point there was questions about the ability of the military to act.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the asylum escapee that Argentina just elected might actually pick this fight because he doesn't know how to govern.

[–] bernieecclestoned 3 points 1 year ago

Picking a fight isn't the same as winning a fight.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So if Argentina gains votes at the current rate, 0.1 percent per thirty years they will hold a majority in 6000 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Try it and find out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He has said he wants a diplomatic solution similar to the one that Britain reached with China over Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong

During talks with Thatcher, China planned to seize Hong Kong if the negotiations set off unrest in the colony. Thatcher later said that Deng told her bluntly that China could easily take Hong Kong by force, stating that "I could walk in and take the whole lot this afternoon", to which she replied that "there is nothing I could do to stop you, but the eyes of the world would now know what China is like".[37]

The military situation of Argentina and China aren't exactly the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is biased af