• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As an American from Argentinian parents, let me put it to you this way.

    Would the US get over China taking Hawaii away from them? Especially if it’s just so they can control the oil rights in that area.

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        1 year ago

        When exactly did Argentina ever control the Falklands though?

        The wiki page goes into detail. However, besides having their own people on the island at some points, they claim ownership via inheritance from Spain when they won their independence from Spain, and the Spanards had been on the island before anyone else.

        The U.N. actually agreed with Argentina, and asked Great Britain to give the islands back to them.

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          The link literally shows Argentina made the claim after the British.

          The island has voted numerous times they prefer to remain part of Britain.

          Twice the Argentine government has declined the UK’s offer to have the matter of sovereignty heard by the International Court of Justice.

          Instead they choose to START a war over it.

          Just stop already. For some reason this topic is a brain worm for Argentinians. You all go batshit over it and lose all reason and perspective.

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        US would completely eviscerate any country that took over Hawaii.

        Yep, true that. And the Falklands/Malvinas Islands are allot closer to Argentina than Hawaii is to the U.S.

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            1 year ago

            Distance means fuck all.

            Do you believe China would be happy with Great Britain owning Hong Kong indefinitely, being right next to China?

            Do you believe that if China owned the Catalina Islands off the coast of California that the US would be okay with that, indefinitely?

            Do you believe that what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now has nothing to do with the land around Russia?

            If there’s one constant in world politics, it’s that a nation’s always considers the ground around their nation as theirs as well, or at the very least in their ‘Spear of influence’, and hence their’s to control.