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« on: April 26, 2015, 04:04:45 PM »

UK (Normal, not a supporter of fascist aggression)
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2015, 04:07:07 PM »

Falklands separatism (sane).
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2015, 04:22:37 PM »

UK (Normal, not a supporter of fascist aggression)
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2015, 04:24:20 PM »

The side everyone actually living there supported.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2015, 04:27:47 PM »

lol lets force people who don't want independence to have independence amirite?
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2015, 04:45:27 PM »

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2015, 05:01:38 PM »

I would of course support the noble attempt to return Las Malvinas to their rightful nation (normal comrade).
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2015, 05:28:43 PM »

UK. They got it fair and square, and the inhabitants were and are British.

The fact that a piece of territory is proximate to a given country does not mean that given country is inherently entitled to take it as its own.

Same reason I support continued Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla.
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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2015, 05:28:55 PM »

The people living there want to be British, they should have the right to remain so and they deserved to be defended.
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2015, 06:15:13 PM »

The UK, obviously. Especially when the government and military of Argentina were strongly considering Chile as the next target.
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2015, 09:27:02 PM »

The British. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2015, 09:45:04 PM »

UK. In this case, the Argentinians were the perpetrators of colonialist violence.
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2015, 10:10:50 PM »

The UK, since they were literally anti-colonialists in this case.
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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2015, 10:55:36 PM »

The worst part is that Reagan actually wanted to support Argentina, since his advisors correctly foresaw that a defeat would topple the right wing military dictatorship there. Hence trying like hell to advise the British not to intervene and trying to convince them that there was no way to militarily retake the islands.
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« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2015, 12:14:08 AM »

The worst part is that Reagan actually wanted to support Argentina, since his advisors correctly foresaw that a defeat would topple the right wing military dictatorship there. Hence trying like hell to advise the British not to intervene and trying to convince them that there was no way to militarily retake the islands.

Reagan: On the wrong side of history/literally supporting dictators and murderers. Again.
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« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2015, 04:25:12 AM »

UK of course.
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« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2015, 06:54:21 AM »

Neither
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« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2015, 08:28:32 AM »

UK, without a doubt.
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« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2015, 12:38:34 PM »

I would have supported not decommissioning the patrol boat, obviously.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.

Yeah. People sometimes forget that Foot was about as gung-ho over the issue as Thatcher.
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« Reply #19 on: April 27, 2015, 03:24:48 PM »

Yes. Weirdly enough the recent Thatcher biopic with Meryl Streep did a bit of weird revisionism, casting Foot as a pacifistic appeaser.
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« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2015, 04:57:28 PM »

I would have supported not decommissioning the patrol boat, obviously.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.

Yeah. People sometimes forget that Foot was about as gung-ho over the issue as Thatcher.

Weren't all the party leaders all in for it? The only people who seemed to make serious rumblings about it were the hard left folks, Kinnock and Denis Healey?
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« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2015, 05:12:11 PM »

I would have supported not decommissioning the patrol boat, obviously.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.

Yeah. People sometimes forget that Foot was about as gung-ho over the issue as Thatcher.

Weren't all the party leaders all in for it? The only people who seemed to make serious rumblings about it were the hard left folks, Kinnock and Denis Healey?

Kinnock was to the left of Foot?
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« Reply #22 on: April 27, 2015, 05:17:34 PM »

I would have supported not decommissioning the patrol boat, obviously.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.

Yeah. People sometimes forget that Foot was about as gung-ho over the issue as Thatcher.

Weren't all the party leaders all in for it? The only people who seemed to make serious rumblings about it were the hard left folks, Kinnock and Denis Healey?

Kinnock was to the left of Foot?

No. He just opposed the war while Foot supported it.
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« Reply #23 on: April 27, 2015, 05:55:40 PM »

The worst part is that Reagan actually wanted to support Argentina, since his advisors correctly foresaw that a defeat would topple the right wing military dictatorship there. Hence trying like hell to advise the British not to intervene and trying to convince them that there was no way to militarily retake the islands.

Reagan: On the wrong side of history/literally supporting dictators and murderers. Again.

Muh anti-communism, though.
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« Reply #24 on: April 27, 2015, 07:04:38 PM »

I would have supported not decommissioning the patrol boat, obviously.

The answer seems pretty obvious to me. You don't have to be a Thatcher affecionado to respect the islanders own wishes to be UK territory,

Sure I don't like the manner it was carried out entirely - but it was an entirely legitimate responce to naked and unprompted violence by the Argentinians.

Yeah. People sometimes forget that Foot was about as gung-ho over the issue as Thatcher.

Weren't all the party leaders all in for it? The only people who seemed to make serious rumblings about it were the hard left folks, Kinnock and Denis Healey?

Kinnock was to the left of Foot?
Interesting; why'd he oppose the war?
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