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BaardFigur
6mo ago
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Casually claiming a bunch of British territories
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kulahan
6mo ago
Easy come easy go
nurettin
6mo ago
BOTs are a joke. Like, how is Cyprus British?
hdgvhicv
6mo ago
Cyprus isnt. There are two sovereign base areas of Cyprus which are overseas U.K. territories, I guess similar to midway.
pac0
6mo ago
Islas Malvinas are Argentinian.
kspacewalk2
6mo 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.
pac0
6mo 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.
Attrecomet
6mo ago
I've got another one: historically
thelibrarian
6mo 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.
xanderlewis
6mo ago
[says who?]
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