Why the Falkland Islands are British

Tuesday, May 5th 2026 - 01:34 UTC

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By Graham Pascoe - On April 24 it was reported in the Guardian and the Telegraph in London that President Trump has asked the Pentagon to “review Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands”, as a possible “punishment” for Britain’s unwillingness to support his war on Iran. Read full article

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Steve Potts
Well said Graham!
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Freddie Foster
90 years of silence from Buenos Aires until an unpopular government made up a fantasy to distract the Argentine people, repeated by an evil murdering military Junta, and the fanatics believe every bit of BS that they are fed.
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Malvinense 1833
hahahahah the great liar:

Rosas 1849 address to the Legislature is of key importance, having been made a month after the signature of the Arana-Southern Treaty. The address relates in detail the negotiations that resulted in the signature of the agreement.

“The Government pays serious attention to the pending claims of the Republic before Great Britain for the unjustifiable retention of the Malvinas Islands (...) The government fully approved the well-founded complaint and protest of the Argentine minister against the inaccurate assertions of HM’s minister of foreign affairs and expressed that, through that protest it supported, as it should have and as it had to verify in any case, the proper rights of the Argentine Confederation in the Malvinas Islands, against the renewed disregard of HM’s Minister of foreign affairs, who made the unfounded supposition that the correspondence had ceased by reason of acquiescence on the part of the Confederation or of both parties, according to the different versions that appeared in the newspapers (...) the Government ordered its Minister that when discussing this, he always uphold the same principles and base himself on the same facts that resulted from the correspondence followed on this topic, and transmitted other orders for upholding the unquestionable rights of the Confederation in the Malvinas islands.
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Steve Potts
Evidence That Argentina Dropped its Claim to the Falklands After 1850: https://www.academia.edu/165761012/Evidence_That_Argentina_Dropped_its_Claim_to_the_Falklands_After_1850
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imoyaro
Rosas, huh? You mean the monster that established a dictatorship backed by state terrorism?
Not to mention the repressive Mazorca, an armed parapolice that killed thousands of citizens to establish a cult of personality? Yeah, great choice of “source.” BWAHAHAHA!
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Malvinense 1833
Poor liar, he asks why the islands are British and couldn't give a single reason, not one! He gets lost in words explaining the incident in an Argentine town on Argentine territory, which in no way supports the false British claim.
You know, Graham? The islands were never British, and no lie can hide that truth.
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Freddie Foster
The only liar on this thread is you and your idiotic fantasy, their is not one shred of evidence that supports Argentinas claim and you know that, in 1982 Haig offered the chance for Galtieri to take it to court to settle it, he refused, he knew dam well you had no case, you are an embarrassment to this site, and an embarrassment to your family and an embarrassment to your country, seek medical help asap and a family intervention. and then all the white implanted stock in Argentina should leave and leave it too the few natives that are left after the genocide you committed.
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Malvinense 1833
Genocide? Another british moralist? Britons who have exterminated entire populations around the world, Foster, please, don't make me laugh...
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Jack Jones
Malvi, what the F,,,ck is wrong with you, you have put your case forward 100s of times, it holds no water, it is been debunked so many times but you continue with this ridiculous nonsense. it achieves nothing other than to make you look like a burk. you only see what you want to see, so many false statements you have posted, so many distortions some of which are so ridiculous a 10 year old can see through it, ignoring historically recorded facts, claiming things for Spain that they themselves have never claimed, oh and who did Britain exterminate ? Spain .Portugal. Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Rome, Ottoman Empire, Russian Empire. Chinese Empire. Mongol Empire. Japanese Empire etc all conquered and did bad things, as did you, how many natives are left ? how many black people are left ? Everyone is laughing at you, wake up and grow up, it doesnt matter what you think or believe, its irrelevant,
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imoyaro
Malvi, the Spanish killed many millions in the Americas alone. Did you grow up speaking Spanish? Why not do the honorable thing? It could save the rest of us the time wasted reading your veritable fount of prevarication. Just a thought...
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Steve Potts
Malvinense 1833

Come back when you can find one, just one piece of international law that Argentina can put before an international court that supports her Falklands claim.
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Pugol-H
Malv
Your rebuttal of Mr Pascoe’s article is, less than convincing, to say the least.

And your reply’s, in particular ‘exterminated entire populations’, oh like the ‘Conquest of the Desert’, perchance?

And then, however you try and spin the history story prior, the:

‘“Perfect friendship” naturally ruled out the existence of any dispute between the two countries.’

Is the Coup de Grace.
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