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Milei hits out at Falklands “tantrums,” says he is “closer” to recovering the islands
Argentina's president, Javier Milei, championed diplomacy as the path for the sovereignty claim over the Falklands and dismissed as “tantrums” certain reactions that followed the national team's victory over England in the World Cup semifinal, without specifying at whom the criticism was aimed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesPlease explain Mr Milei why you think you are closer to getting the Falklands, is it those little voices in your head telling you this. ? a dream you had ?. and the footballers acted like immature children. but i expect nothing else from Argentina,
Jul 17th, 2026 - 10:40 am - Link - Report abuse +4“Javier Milei, championed diplomacy as the path for the sovereignty claim over the Falklands”
Jul 17th, 2026 - 11:53 am - Link - Report abuse +4The right to even disscuss it legally ran out years ago.
“There is no obligation in general international law to settle disputes”.
Principles of Public International Law, third edition, 1979 by Ian Brownlie
”Applying the rules concerning the mode of extinctive prescription to GB r
Regardless of the conclusion reached above, however, the establishment of the world courts changed the situation so that diplomatic protests were no longer sufficient to keep Argentina's claim to sovereignty alive. ”
Major James Francis Gravelle
MILITARY LAW REVIEW CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES
Pamphlet NO. 27-100-107 HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY; Washington, D.C., Winter 1985
So melie thinks he is getting closer to stealing our homeland. Never going to happen. What it is doing is making us even more determined to stop you trying.
Jul 17th, 2026 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Argentina needs teaching another more permanent lesson about the childish way in which they make this mythical claim.
He forgets that at the end of the day it is we islanders who are in control of our destiny and we have the full support of the British in that statement.
The truth will come out one day and Argentina will regret all those years of political harassment.
They are the most child like country ever to exist.
They think they can demand and get what they want. Well it ain't happening. We don't like dictators or bullies and one day you will regret your continued actions against us.
When Britain kicked you out in 1982, they made a couple of mistakes. First allowing the dead to remain. Seccond not going right into Argentina and finishing the job.
Argentina is a dangerous country to all south American countries and if they are not stopped , will always use aggression to keep their neighbours controlled. That is why they hate the British. Britain is the only country that has stopped Argentina stealing anothers territory.
Thus claim is not about what is theirs, but about something they want so badly. That is the oil. Oil causes so many wars. Argentine sees it as a way out of their huge international debt. They can't just take it, so they keep the myth alive.
The writing is on the wall Argentina, not your piece of dirty white rag. The writing is saying, you are finished, outdated and will soon become a piece of world history as another failed country through violent greed.
So I suggest you drop your stupid mythical claim and start doing right for the People you are destroying. The Falkland Islands have never been yours or even gifted. Ask the ICJ to confirm it why don't you.
The “Malvinas” smoke screen
Jul 17th, 2026 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Signals Milei is not doing so well in Argentina, so as many presidents of the past here we find Milei castigating the poor islanders because they are struggling to be what they are in their part of the world on the Falklands
Argentinian politicians are so funny, i firmly believe Javier Milei does not even believe what he says. they are just words to placate the fanatics .may be its time to look at stopping the Argentinians visiting the islands until sanity returns,
Jul 17th, 2026 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Yes and every year South America gets closer to Australia....
Jul 17th, 2026 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Before 1 April 1982 only Argentina had objected to British rule over the Falklands. But in the current state of international law, the question of recognition does not arise. As the Permanent Court of International Justice held in the Eastern Greenland Case only two elements are necessary to establish occupation: ‘an intention or will to act as sovereign’ and ‘the adequate exercise or display of sovereignty .’ There can be no doubt that Britain has fulfilled adequately both these requirements in the case alike of the Falkland Islands and the dependencies, and on these grounds alone that the Argentine claim would be held void, as were the French claims in the Minquires andEcrehos case. (The Falklands Crisis: the Rights and Wrongs, Calvert P. Bloomsbury Academic 2016, p8).
Jul 17th, 2026 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Falklands Acquisitive Prescription (1 pg):
https://www.academia.edu/35552595/Falklands_-Acquisitive_Prescription
When compared to CFK and the Peronists he is closer. If it were a 100 step process, he is on square 1, they were running backwards in the wrong direction.
Jul 17th, 2026 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +3There is only one way for Argentina to gain the Falkland Islands which is to convince the islanders to want it. Milei probably knows it.
He has improved the Argentine economy
Not been as barking mad as CFK
Reduced the nonsense spewed at international forums
It’s a long process, 50-100 years. It is virtually impossible. But imagine Argentina as a successful non corrupt country for a generation, imagine Argentina prosperous, imagine an Argentina that wasn’t a pathetic squealing child, imagine Argentina that told the truth about 1833 and apologised for 1982. Imagine an Argentina that turned up
To a WC and didn’t try and cheat. Milei is on step one, many many to go.
So yes he is closer.
Milei knows very well they are ‘no closer’ to recovering anything, but he has to say so to be able to criticise ‘certain mistakes’.
Jul 17th, 2026 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1The ‘very negative consequences’ tell you he is trying to build a rapport, insofar as politics in Argentina will allow.
He also said for the Islanders to want to be Argentinian, Argentina has to become a normal county.
In fact the Islanders can chose to become Argentinian or ‘free association’ with Argentina, a possible route to the Islands becoming Argentinian, however unlikely, it could happen, whereas sovereignty negotiations over their heads wont happen.
He is the first Argentinian President I can remember to make an acknowledgment of the islander’s choice in the issue.
Very different from previous administrations, it is a change of attitude without doubt, which will be very worrying for Malv and Edgar.
Unfortunately, it may not last beyond the next election, as always with Argentina, one step forward and two steps back.
The trouble with the Argentine stance on the Falklands is that the delusion, confusion and lies always start at the top. But it gives us Falkland folk a regular reminder that we never want to be owned and governed by such a country! And they can't even behave like adults at a football match!
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