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Re:This map is not upside down by pac0 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:23PM (#45296223)
Islas Malvinas are Argentinian.
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Re:This map is not upside down by xanderlewis on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:43PM (#45296366)
[says who?]
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Re:This map is not upside down by thelibrarian on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:26PM (#45296618)
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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Re:This map is not upside down by kspacewalk2 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:09PM (#45296873)
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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Re:This map is not upside down by Attrecomet on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:39AM (#45300456)
I've got another one: historically
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Re:This map is not upside down by pac0 on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:05PM (#45303247)
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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