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

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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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              Idealist nonsense, says the person who wants to divide up all natural resources equally into amorphous national state boundaries regardless of the wishes of the people who live there, until all national states have equal populations, areas, and access to natural wealth?

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                You’re literally just spewing more idealist nonsense. You know that countries are a thing that still exist right? Either Argentina gets to benefit from the islands, or Britain (lmao) does. You’re saying the British should benefit because they colonized some islands hundreds of years ago and there’s a couple thousand people there. If there was 1 person living in the Falklands, would that justify oil and gas drilling and a British military outpost?

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          You’re acting like the Argentinian government is gonna massacre them the second power is transferred.

          Historically, how have occupying powers dealt with local populations that overwhelmingly don’t want them there?

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            Yeah those occupying powers like the British Empire. You’re gonna act like Alberto Fernandez is gonna massacre some people living on an island lol.

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              A hostile local population is an obstacle to resource exploitation and capitalists will remove that obstacle one way or another.

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                resource extraction near some town? And they’re not like colnized oppressed people they’re just some probably comfortable British people. They’re not in some anti-colonial struggle give me a break.

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                  They’re not colonized or oppressed because Argentina’s attempt to turn them into such failed. If Argentina gained control of the Falklands then the inhabitants would become oppressed because you can’t maintain a presence in a place over and against the will of the people there without doing a little oppression.

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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”.