[tpJKhY8Z]

IF that is the case, then no.

[Nupbeaupeteew]

They should've cleansed the population when they had a chance. This always works.

[CsFLhGNp]

Certainly worked with Argentina's own population during the Dirty War. Perhaps the Falklands could be 'returned' to the Argentinians when they return parts of Argentina to the original indigenous inhabitants.

The few that are left of course....

I've thought that the Dirty War was USA-sponsored anti-Socialist state terror. Do you have a link to where I could read about your part of the picture?

[Muramoursuard]

The war ****ed everything up. If it wasn't for it, the islands would probably already be a part of argentina.

[GypeFeeshyTes]

Why is that?

[Skete]

I thought the island was inhabited by pirates in 1832 before the British took over?

Look at it this way, the inhabitants of the Falklands have no more right to self determination than do the Palestinians, the Abkhazians or the South Ossetians.

[Tainlyferfara]

The argies would be better off if they were also governed from London

[gundos]

They also claim Taiwan!

[vesiasmepay]

I doubt it.

The islanders didn't.

[Nothatspecial]

I just found out on Wikipedia that they also claim South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands as well as a slice of Antarctica. Argentine tyranny and aggression knows no limits.

The brits and norweigans also claim slices of antarctica (along with Chile, Australia, New Zealand and a couple others IIRC)

[AccusaJalsBub]

The Argentinians have no serious claim to the islands beyond relative geographic proximity.

This. Honestly, I fail to see how Argentinians running the islands would be better for the Falkland Islanders than the British.

It's like an international dick size contest. Hate to break it to the Argies, but Britain wins that contest by a couple miles.

[chinesemedicine]

No, what happened was that the argies made a load of bad decisions for themselves.

[exchpaypaleg]

I'd just like to see if, for once, HC can back up his claims. But as usual, he relies on you to save him.

[Qauunet]

That's not "evidence for a claim". That's "random wiki link".

[Guaranano]

Here's the first post for you, KH.

I think their claims are absurd. Falklands have been settled by british people for nearly 200 years. The population is virtually all british and wish to remain a british territory.

[ranndomderr]

Here's the first post for you, KH.

And what does this hae to do with anything?

[abOfU9nJ]

And what does this hae to do with anything?

It hae to do with everything! What does your response hae to do with what I posted?

[Dfvgthyju]

What snapped? I don't really give a **** about the argies or the falklands. I do note your continuing obsession with kuci's kid brother, though.

[neotheMit]

I really don't see Argentina as having a valid position wrt the Falklands because virtually no one on the Falklands actually wants to be part of Argentina. The guiding principle to all of these territorial disputes should be the self determination of people.

[xADMlNx]

Argentina almost doesn't have an army, we could not invade Uruguay, and would lose a war to Perú.

That happens because the military is one of the most unpopular and less prestigious institutions of the country.
Mainly because of the last dictatorship, which ruined our economy, and in which they killed and disappeared around 8000 citizens, many of them terrorists, but many innocent, and even the ones who were terrorists should have deserved a fair trial. By doing that the military became terrorists themselves.

Two things were done in order to turn the military into something irrelevant, the first one was to put the people responsible for the crimes in jail be them Generals or soldiers obeying orders (they were put in jail in the 80s, forgiven in the 90s, and put back in jail the past decade) and the other was to diminish the budget of the military untill they become nothing more than glamorized cops.

So we have no chance of getting back the Falklands/Malvinas through war, also, the constitution which was reformed in 1994 says that Argentina will always reclaim the Islands, and intends to get them back according to international law, whatever that means, so military option is not considered, because it is impossible with the current army, and also because of the new constitution.