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BaardFigur
280 days ago
Casually claiming a bunch of British territories
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kulahan
280 days ago
Easy come easy go
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nurettin
280 days ago
BOTs are a joke. Like, how is Cyprus British?
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hdgvhicv
280 days ago
Cyprus isnt. There are two sovereign base areas of Cyprus which are overseas U.K. territories, I guess similar to midway.
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pac0
280 days ago
Islas Malvinas are Argentinian.
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kspacewalk2
280 days ago
Not in these three fairly important ways: actual control, the wishes of the people who actually live there, de jure recognition by most countries. Otherwise, sure, totally and wholly Argentinian.
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pac0
279 days ago
Yeah well... thats what england used to do, invade, put their own people to live there and then ask them if they feel like beloging to the crown.
You can ask Ireland.
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Attrecomet
280 days ago
I've got another one: historically
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thelibrarian
280 days ago
Argentina has tried to prove this both by legal means and by force, and has conclusively failed at both, so I think it's well past time to give up.
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xanderlewis
280 days ago
[says who?]
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