Posted on 01/03/2013 4:26:01 AM PST by Olog-hai
Argentinas president called on Britain on Thursday to relinquish control of the Falkland Islands, accusing London of taking part in an act of blatant colonialism in claiming the wind-swept archipelago.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner published an open letter in the Guardian newspaper urging Prime Minister David Cameron to honor U.N. resolutions which she says backs her case for the return of the islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas. She has made several similar demands in the past.
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Argentina should tend to the hords of dumpster divers in BA before it tries to acquire new territory.
Why does Argentina want the Falklands? All you can do there is raise sheep, and the Argentines are beef-eaters.
Argentina really needs the Falklands to remain British to provide an issue they can rely on to distract the citizens from their horrible government.
Bread and circuses, nothing more.
Or as Shakespeare would say, "to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels."
IIRC there were big oil and gas reserves under Falkland territory.
“IIRC there were big oil and gas reserves under Falkland territory.”
...and don’t forget the ivory-billed woodpecker too.
demographics = destiny (as you well know)
That’s a pack of lies. A British colony at Egmont existed before Spain ever enteredt thee picture. The French established a small private colony despite previous Portuguese, English, and Dutch claims of discovery. The British shortly afterwards established their own colony while being unaware the private French colony had been established nearby a few years previously. The French sold whatever rights they did or did not possess to the Spanish. The Spanish claimed the islands by right of conquest when they drove the British colonists out of the Falklands, but this nearly led to war. Spain settled the dispute and allowed the British coony to be reestablished. The Spanish recognition of the British colony thereby negated later claims of an exclusive sovereignty in the Falklands. Spain withdrew its colony and Britain withdrew its colony again, while retaining their respective claims to sovereignty over the Falklands. A predecessor government, the United Provinces of the Platte, attempted to pirate away the prior claims of Britain and Spain, but they never succeeded in stablishing a legitimate government in the Falklands, and no Argentine goverment ever established any settlement or colony in the Falklands. Instead, the Falklands were under the control of pirates from the evacuation of the British and French-Spanish colonies until the reestablishment of the British settlements. The only nations to have ever established settlements in competing claims for sovereignty were France, Britain, and Spain. Argentina never inherited any Spanish claims, because the Spanish cclaim was lost after Argentina had already come into existence and would have been in conflict with the prior exercise of sovereignty by Spain. Spain subsequently recognized British sovereignty in the Falklands, so Argentina has no lawful basis to claim a right already abandoned or settled by treaty by Spain.
Argentina has no rightful claim to the Falklands by any theory of inheritance or possession. Furthermore, Argentina is in violation of the Charter of the United Nations waging a war of aggression upon Britain. If Argentina makes any further war upon the Falklands, its government should be treated like that of NAZI Germany.
OIL.
Actually, the Falklands can never be part of “Britain” because Great Britain is an island, not a country.
Is that better?
I could get an Argentine to give me the same story in reverse. In any case, asking British residents transplanted there means nothing; it has the same validity as asking the Scottish transplants to northern Ireland.
There’s one distinction, about which there’s no argument, between the Falklands and all the other examples you cite. It is that there was no indigenous population before the first modern settlements.
Argentina is using the NAZI Big Lie, as evidenced by history. The fact that an Argentinian would repeat the Big Lie is one more reason why their conduct is a dishonorable lie and not to be tolerated. Argentina has proven itself incapable of governing itself without the government murder of its population. The Falklands and the people living there do not have to tolerate the Argetine threats to their life, liberty, and property.
“Argentina’s leader tells UK to give up Falklands”
This time, they will.
There’s no Maggie Thatcher around any more. And not much of the British navy left, either...
The ‘native’ Irish who were supposedly displaced by the English/British colonisation of Ireland were nothing of the sort.
They were simply the descendants of the Celts/Gaels who invaded ancient Ireland and subjugated and destroyed the existing civilisation, ‘the Beaker People’. Who themselves were from Europe, but who had drifted to and had lived in Ireland for centuries in peace. The Celts/Gaels were just as brutal as any other invading horde in ancient times.
So all the Irish who bleat about British occupation of Ireland are hypocrites. If we are to return Ireland to its rightful ‘native’ people, then EVERYONE should exit that island immediately. Because today’s ‘native’ Irish are just the descendants of brutal subjugators and invaders.
“Great Britain” is the abbreviated name for the country known by its full name as “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.” So, you are wrong, because the Falkland Islands are indeed the possession of a country known in abbreviated form as Great Britain” and full form as “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland “
Evidently you failed to ge the memo in school: Hispanics ARE Europeans, the same Europeans who slaughtered millions of Amerindians in slavery and peonage.
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