• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    the Malvinas were colonized for resources

    What resources do the Falklands have exactly? Fucking fish?

    It was a convenient and well situated naval base historically, and now is perfectly able to declare independence if the population so wishes -the falklands just, shockingly, overall benefit from being a part of a larger and richer national entity.

    Essequibo was disputed in colonial times, with the dispute being settled by an international tribunal. First it was about gold, now it’s about oil.

    • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      What resources do the Falklands have

      Oil; same as Essequibo, hence my comment relating the two. You can look things up you know?

      naval base historically

      “Historically”? Lmao it has br*tish naval bases in it right now. Same thing the US wants to do with Essequibo.

      international tribunal

      Funny way to say imperialist colonizers. Now the difference is that the de facto leader of the imperial core is the US instead of the UK, and the former is interfering here now instead.