Falklanders should 'go back' to England, insists Argentina in renewed war of words

Like clockwork, every time things go t*** up in Argentina the go to distraction is to bring up the Falkland Islands.

Don't most of the Falklanders descend from Scots and Welshmen?

Go back to Spain, Germany and Italy... Give the land back to the Mapuche et al.. And then the Falklanders can give the back to.... Oh wait, no one was there prior...

Last independence vote the Falkland Islanders voted 99.8% to remain part of the UK, and last time Argentina invaded they got their ass handed to them. Take the f****** hint. 

Argentina should be the wealthiest country in SA with their geography and well educated population. Yet keep fumbling due to their weird politics. Maybe figure that out before worrying about a small island off your coast

Remind me again, what percentage of the Argentinian population is indigenous?

They're just mad because their grandads tried to take it over and got smoked

Every few years they pipe up and chat some shit... I'll engage more than one brain cell for this when there's Argentine military on route, and we're fumbling around going "shit where did we put the last vulcan bomber?"

Let me see...Argentina didn't become independent until 1816. East Falkland Island was first colonized by French in 1764 and left in 1767. But British colonized West Falkland Island in 1765 and maintained continuous presence.

Argentinians should go back to having a functioning economy before making laughable threats.

There was never an indigenous population on the Falklands. Claiming colonialism in this case is so wild.

**Clarification here because our politics are kind of schizophrenic:** this was said by our current vice-president Victoria Villarruel, whom, while she does obviously represent our country, is currently locked in a battle with our current president Milei and the rest of his administration. She is essentially a political outcast, and is left out almost entirely of any discussions involving relevant topics, so she has been seen cozying up to conservative peronists and other nationalist conservatives. She has previously also lashed out against France over the World Cup dilemma, and our chancellor and others at the time had to step in to patch things over with France. Milei has openly called her a traitor. So while it is probably important to report on what she says, painting her as a spokesperson for this administration couldn't be further from the truth. It's like taking something Mike Pence said and thinking Trump supports the same thing. Milei does defend the idea of the Falklands becoming Argentinian again (as do pretty much all politicians in Argentina), but whenever he's spoken about it he's always maintained it's a nuanced topic and he wants it done by diplomatic and peaceful means. So make of that what you will.

Shouldn't Argentinians "go back" to Spain by that logic?

I’m pretty sure the Falklands has been part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain before Argentina was founded 😜

Well done Donald The War-Ender Trump. You’ve gone and fucked it up again.

Falklanders, being from the Falkland Islands, cannot "go back" to a place they did not come from.

They are already in the UK.

Always a good sign when the government doubles down on irredentism

How pathetic

Back to England? Have they got any idea how long they've been there? Argentina has zero rights to the Falklands, they never did, France and Spain both have better claims but even they have worse claims that the UK. The UK even tried selling the islands to Argentina just to appease them and they refused because they don't actually care about them, they just need a distraction from their failures to give their people decent lives

Go back to England? Now forgive me if I am wrong I never really studied Falklands if I recall correctly Falkland was uninhabited when it was claimed so there is no basis of ancestral origin to appeal to be returned to unless of course you are a nationalist then you are already delusional and nothing we say will convince you otherwise and at which point I will be looking forward to the next sabaton song about them.

Isn't this finders keepers? England got there in the late 1700's, no trace of prior human habitation. Argentina wasn't even a country until the 1850's.

And Argentine should go back to Spain...are they fcking stupid

Falklands were empty when the British settled there after other failed to make a go of it. And Argentina didn’t exist at the time. I’m all for giving colonised land back, but we have more right to the Falklands than those plastic Spanish wazzocks.

Every couple of years an Argentine government gets itself so deep in the shit they need to bring this thing back up.

Same as saying Argentinians should go back to Spain. Idiotic take, but expect no less from them.

This is where the UK should start openly talking about closing all the US bases in their territories. Let's see how they like those apples.

Isn't Argentina like *broke* broke? Why on earth are they trying to start a needless conflict when so much is going wrong at home? And, yes, as a US citizen I'm well aware of the irony. 

Argentina never settled on the Falklands. There was no indigenous population before the English arrived. Just because the Falklands are located near Argentina does not mean it's theirs.

Speaking as a complete outsider, Argentina can f*** off. They neither discovered the islands nor have they ever had control of the islands. The islands are 300 miles away and far outside their EEZ. They’ve got zero claim.

You know the economy of Argentina is imploding (again) when they start talking about the Falkland Islands. Sure enough, their economy shrunk by 2.6% in February and inflation has risen for the tenth month in a row. The catastrophe under Milei accelerates.

This is such a huge nothingburger that it is ridiculous this is being spread by the media. Argentina does not have the military capabilities nor fighting spirit to win against the UK. Yes they can kill some soldiers like in the last war, but nothing more would develop from that. All that Milei is using this for is that he is milking the topic after Trump's words for the domestic audience in order to distract from the economic issues that Argentina has. Also pretty obvious the WH started this to distract from Trump's Iran War disaster which was a distraction from the Epstein files. 

I once dated an Argentinian woman who used to tease me that America had never won a World Cup. One day I got fed up and I asked her how many wars Argentina had won. We aren’t together anymore.

Everytime Argentina’s economy is in trouble, they bring up the Falklands as a distraction.

The Argie economy must really be the shitter. which is usually the time when they start bleating about the Falkland Islands with their usual mix of stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy. Matterss were concluded to our satisfaction on 14th June 1982.

Try and take them back. See how it goes.

Milei is looking for a distraction from the high inflation his country is still seeing. Turns out running a government is a lot harder than bitching about it while dancing around with a chainsaw.

This is such a non story. The Milei admin got embarrassed about the donkey meat jokes and decided to bark about the Falklands to distract from their economic disaster. Trump only joined because he’s being pissy the Europeans, specifically the Brits, didn’t go along with his Iran nonsense. Absolutely nothing will come from this.

So the only group of people, minus some Spanish fishermen and some French... should abandon yhe islands that never belonged to Argentina?

Argentinians should go back to Germany

Lmao and where are most Argentinian’s originally from? Hint, it isn’t Argentina.

Yet more shit stirred up by Trump.

I really don't think you guys want another dose of the paras and royal marines.

Watch they are feeling emboldened due to Trump being buddies with their current government

Let’s face it trump is behind the renewed discussion over the falklands because hes upset the uk didn’t want to get involved with the Iran conflict it his pay back stirring the pot.

In which case, Argentinians should go back to Spain and Italy.

So Argentinians are moving back to Spain, Italy, etc?

cant we just all live in peace for once

if an island being close to your shores was a criteria for ownership, Cuba would be American and the Azores Moroccan.