• Womble@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Yeah the reason HK went the way it did was because China could credibly say “Give it to us or we take it”. Argentina already tried the take it by force way, when their military was in a much better state than it is now, and there was effectively no military garrison on the islands. Argentina have pretty much zero leverage here.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      last I heard, the people on falkland don’t want to be argentinian either.

      Which should be the biggest, and loudest, reason to oppose Argentinian demands for the island.