• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      US would completely eviscerate any country that took over Hawaii.

      Yep, true that. And the Falklands/Malvinas Islands are allot closer to Argentina than Hawaii is to the U.S.

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        8 months ago

        Distance means fuck all. By your logic Canada should own Alaska, or Britain shoulf own The Faroe islands. Distance is irrelevent to culture, and guess fucken what the Falklands is largely populated by people of British, French, and Nordic descent not Argentine. Also theyve voted numerous times to stay under Britain so Argentina can fuck itself.

        Seriously this reaks of the same bullshit that the South does with the Confederacy but somehow even more pathetic.

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          8 months ago

          Distance means fuck all.

          Do you believe China would be happy with Great Britain owning Hong Kong indefinitely, being right next to China?

          Do you believe that if China owned the Catalina Islands off the coast of California that the US would be okay with that, indefinitely?

          Do you believe that what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now has nothing to do with the land around Russia?

          If there’s one constant in world politics, it’s that a nation’s always considers the ground around their nation as theirs as well, or at the very least in their ‘Spear of influence’, and hence their’s to control.