Falkland Islands - The Usurpation

Splinter · Mar 17th 2018

According to international law Britain acquired the Falklands before the introduction of prohibition of force to take territory. In other words, the law as it stood at the time and not when a dispute arises.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a good example of being illegal.

https://www.academia.edu/34838…nd_Islands_The_Usurpation

EJLarson · Mar 17th 2018

There is something decidedly dysfunctional about a society still complaining about an alleged robbery that happened almost two hundred years ago.

Rice · Mar 17th 2018

Why? Museums do it all the time! As do countries whose heritage now resides in museums half a world away —

EJLarson · Mar 18th 2018

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Why? Museums do it all the time! As do countries whose heritage now resides in museums half a world away —

You're right, but isn't there something fundamentally different between an allegedly stolen statue - and an island?

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