Again, the international community ignoring the minority of the Falklanders. They happily let the shit that is going on right now with "wokeness", but won't listen to the islanders. Pitiful

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Who's ignoring the islanders?

The international community

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I am not a history buff and I couldn't care less about the issue. My husband is convinced that they islands should be indeed Argentinians but are better off being British.

He gave me a reasoned answer based on who arrived on the islands first and who was in charge when the British conquered them.

I don't really remember why with 'conquered' it can't be settled 'they now belong to', though.

Neither Argentine's nor British arrived on the islands first. Argentina didn't even exist when people first landed the islands.

If we carved up the world by who was there first, it would look drastically different. It's a noble goal, but not in the history of mankind has it worked like that.

Besides, I think conquered is a strong word for the British taking over the islands.

That said, the conversation you had with your husband is very similar to those I have with my family here. They know the islands are better off with the British but support the claim they should be Argentina's. Any attempt to push the conversation to a debate on the actual history of the islands falls apart quickly behind a wall of half truths, rewriting history, and political rhetoric.

Anytime everything starts to crumble, the gov' will bring up 'malvinas' again and again and never fails to distract the masses.

On a side note, before the malvinas racket existed what the gov' used here to distract the masses was UFO appearances out of no where.....yep the 60s and 70s was a lot easier for the powers that be to redirect attention of the people...

Chilling and fascinating.