• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 months ago

    Invading a small island owned by one of your biggest trading partners isn’t a smart move, even if you manage to hold onto it.

    • MachineFab812
      32·
      2 months ago

      Neither is trying to evict people from land you weren’t using and never have, at all. The Falklands were settled by the French, then the English, for 56 years before Argentina tried to assert sovereignty, and they were unoccupied when Europeans arrived.

      Might as well legitimize Israeli “ancestral claims”.

      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        That’s a fascinating line of reasoning you’ve got there.

        If nobody was using it, why did they need to rock up in a battleship?