View Poll Results: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
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7.41%
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46
85.19%
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Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
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Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Why do you ask?
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
When something like 99% of the population want to be British then no can be the only answer.
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No,
simple as that, we we're strong once and hopefully can be strong again? there was a reason why we have such islands etc
unless they can give the UK 100 billion but no chance we ain't giving up these islands.
simple as that, we we're strong once and hopefully can be strong again? there was a reason why we have such islands etc
unless they can give the UK 100 billion but no chance we ain't giving up these islands.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
It's not Britain's to give. Simple as that really, it belongs to the people of the Falklands.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
If it were large enough to be autonomous, life might be easier all round - but it's very arguably not. Anyway, it's a British dependent territory at the moment.
Rule of law wins over self-interest; it's on the UN's decolonisation list, and should be permitted to run through that process just like so many former British territories that self-interest would really have preferred us to keep hold of. The history's murky enough that the outcome of that isn't really obvious.
Rule of law wins over self-interest; it's on the UN's decolonisation list, and should be permitted to run through that process just like so many former British territories that self-interest would really have preferred us to keep hold of. The history's murky enough that the outcome of that isn't really obvious.
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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 interests.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
It was a moral statement, not a declaration of how the would actually works all the time. .
And states are constrained to acting against their national self-interest all the time. It's just harder to make the bigger ones fall in line; which is why we'll probably never see Blair in the Hague. Doesn't mean we should stop trying to arrest him if we see him in the streets, though.
And states are constrained to acting against their national self-interest all the time. It's just harder to make the bigger ones fall in line; which is why we'll probably never see Blair in the Hague. Doesn't mean we should stop trying to arrest him if we see him in the streets, though.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
No, I'm afraid it comes down to "might is right" - and by that measure the UK (as presently constituted) is the legitimate ruler! This link here is both relevant and interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkla...eignty_dispute
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The obvious answer is missing from the poll - independence. If the oil reserves turn out to be as large as people are hoping, they'll be swimming in money and I have no doubt large numbers of people will then move there. The Falklands are nearly as large as Northern Ireland, so it's not unrealistic for them to become an independent country. They could easily pay for the Royal Navy or whoever to secure them.
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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 plenty of examples around the world arguing for and against that position. Arguing against is that the people who live there have British ancestors.
Oh, and the axiom that possession is nine points of the law, of course! That's conclusive, most of the time.
Oh, and the other axiom that "might is right".
Oh, and the axiom that possession is nine points of the law, of course! That's conclusive, most of the time.
Oh, and the other axiom that "might is right".