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Why Do The Brits Keep the Falkland Islands? My Idea.

Posted on 01/29/2022 7:57:26 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

3,000 people live there-middle of nowhere-expensive to maintain. The last war over the place cost the Limeys $500k per person to save. They're keeping it just to prove a point. Think Guantanamo without credible threats to change. Now the Brits have cut down their military where another rescue mission would be impossible. All this based on principle. At this point any 'solution' to this dilemma will not happen without the bigger issue of 'saving face'. There is a way out and it will have to involve the US.


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To: DIRTYSECRET
How about we mind our own business?

It has nothing to do with the US.

41 posted on 01/29/2022 9:52:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Look what we did with the Panama Canal.

Yeah.

We gave it to CHINA.

42 posted on 01/29/2022 9:53:22 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
keep thinking. It’s contagious.

You are certified free of the thinking virus.

Remove your mask comrade and breath.

43 posted on 01/29/2022 9:54:26 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

You’ve got Brit issues...

Irish Catholic perhaps ...


44 posted on 01/29/2022 9:55:13 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Leaning Right

“Hong Kong was always a Chinese city.”

Hong Kong didn’t exist.

It was not a city before the Emperor sold it to the UK forever.

Don’t say things you know nothing about.


45 posted on 01/29/2022 9:56:46 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BfloGuy

He also ignores it’s a very rich place nowadays and the citizens like Brit rule


46 posted on 01/29/2022 10:00:09 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever a day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

How about you just ask the people of the Falklands if they want to remain a British Overseas Territory or become a part of Argentina and honor THEIR choice?


47 posted on 01/29/2022 10:00:21 AM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Why does Argentina want the Falklands? The only thing you can do there is raise sheep, and the Argentines like beef.


48 posted on 01/29/2022 10:02:03 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Container ships are not using the Panama Canal so it’s not that big of a deal anymore.


49 posted on 01/29/2022 10:05:29 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Military ships do.
50 posted on 01/29/2022 10:13:18 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Fiji Hill
Why does Argentina want the Falklands?

Fishing and mineral rights.

51 posted on 01/29/2022 10:15:35 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Dave W

*the Panama Canal was given away by Jimmy Carter with affirmation by the Senate. Reagan had nothing to do with it.*
Reagan was a big part of the conversation.
I never said he had a vote-you don’t listen.

*the Chinese now run the Canal.
So what? We can go in there anytime we have to. It’s in the agreement.

*Why don’t you double check on which president signed the Panama Canal treaty and get back to us.*
You don’t listen either.

*You’ve got Brit issues...Irish Catholic perhaps ...*
Bite your tongue! Polak.


52 posted on 01/29/2022 10:30:50 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ifinnegan

> Hong Kong didn’t exist. <

??? The area now known as Hong Kong was occupied by the Chinese for centuries before the British forced the Chinese to hand it over (at the end of the First Opium War).

That is not a particular knock against the British. That’s just the way things were done in those days. If you were strong enough to take it, you took it.


53 posted on 01/29/2022 10:39:13 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is read)
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To: Leaning Right

You’re wrong.

It was a rock. I figure some people lived there, but it was not a city.

It had a deep harbor, that’s why the British wanted it. The Chinese cared nothing about a deep water port.

The British turned it in to a port city and it got its name that way - fragrant harbor. The opium smelled sweet.

So stop saying things that are not true.


54 posted on 01/29/2022 10:48:58 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

> I figure some people lived there, but it was not a city. <

Yes, correct. The area now known as Hong Kong was once just a collection of small villages. But that’s not the point. The point is that the area was Chinese, like forever. Then the British took it by threat of force.

This is quite different than the Falklands situation, which was the topic of the original poster.


55 posted on 01/29/2022 10:58:37 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is read)
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To: Leaning Right

The point is you misrepresented things.

For no reason. It has no bearing at all on the Falklands.


56 posted on 01/29/2022 11:04:42 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

> The point is you misrepresented things. <

Well, I suppose I could have said “the collection of small villages that would eventually become the city of Hong Kong” instead of just saying “Hong Kong”.

> It has no bearing at all on the Falklands. <

The original poster made the connection by talking about both the Falklands and Hong Kong. He drew the comparison. I just commented on it.

Anyway, I have exhausted my interest on this topic. You may have the last word if you wish. At any rate, enjoy the weekend. Monday comes soon enough.


57 posted on 01/29/2022 11:14:51 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is read)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yep.

5.56mm


58 posted on 01/29/2022 11:16:37 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I heard they have a lot of squid there. Valuable fish.


59 posted on 01/29/2022 11:18:16 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules
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To: AndyJackson

When does Canada take Pierre and Miquelon back from the French?

Good thing it wasn’t in the hand of Vichy during WWII...

http://worldatwar.net/article/miquelon/


60 posted on 01/29/2022 11:21:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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