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Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Jun 7th 2015, 8:22 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

And there are fewer Falklanders than there were Chagossians - although the latter had the misfortune to be brown-skin people who didn't have any friends or relatives in Britain - or any oil under the...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Jun 7th 2015, 6:25 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

No, no, I didn't mean "ethnic cleansing" in the sense of killing people - just (!) the physical expulsion of an entire ethnic community. Sorry for the confusion.
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Jun 7th 2015, 5:47 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

It has been something of a human-rights cause celebre for decades. Such a blatant ethnic-cleansing exercise - incidentally - continues to inhibit British Cabinets from criticising certain other...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 28th 2015, 1:23 am
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

I strongly suspect that Russia is just tweaking Britain's tail, in mild revenge for the sanctions. And tweaking the US's tail in being courteous to C & V, in mild revenge for causing trouble in...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Apr 28th 2015, 12:26 am
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

Britain might want to re-think its decision to impose economic sanctions on Russia. What goes around, comes around...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Oct 13th 2014, 5:32 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

The only thing that argues for the Falklands to belong to Argentina is what's called "the geographical imperative" - that islands rightly belong to the major nation they're closest to. There are...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Sep 9th 2014, 3:43 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

Ah, well, if we're going to be technical... the "Britain" that claimed it in 1833 was not the same nation as the "Britain" of today. That earlier Britain included the whole of Ireland. Argentina...
Forum: Central, South America & Mexico
Jan 27th 2014, 5:38 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 10,067
Posted By Gordon Barlow

Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina

Not these days it doesn't. If it did, there wouldn't ever have been British troops in Iraq or Afghanistan! It's an axiom of international politics that nations don't have principles, only national...
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