Worth noting that the Chinese ambassador also called it the Malvinas throughout, not the Falklands.

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    Not like those people have any more claim to the islands than anyone else. Who cares that they were uninhabited beforehand or whatever. The here and now is that Britain is drilling for resources there.

    The UK is 11th in terms of median wealth, Argentina is 119th. Should oil money off the coast of Argentina benefit Argentinians, or British people?

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      they have claim to the islands because they fucking live there dude

      because i’m sensing a “you’re just a british nationalist” coming in the immediate future, i’ll just make my position clear
      if the islanders decided that they would rather be argentinian, i would wholeheartedly support argentina’s claim to the islands

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        This. People first. Peoples right to self determination and democracy from top to bottom in society is paramount. As communists, that principle is absolute.

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          You’re acting like the Argentinian government is gonna massacre them the second power is transferred. Probably nothing would change but Argentina would get the profit from oil and tourism.

          Like Argentinians are not on average wealthy people. The British people living on those islands probably have it way better than most of the people in Argentina. It’s kind of gross.

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        There’s a point where it tips from “just some people living on an island” and becomes “Britain maintaining an imperial outpost for resource extraction”.

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      Not like those people have any more claim to the islands than anyone else.

      There is no reason whatsoever to override self determination because There were no indigenous people there when it was settled. So the people who live there come first.