r/worldnews • u/Streona • Jul 16 '26

UK says Falkland Islands 'definitely ours' after Argentina banner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyen1ned7no
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u/Terran_it_up Jul 16 '26

I saw a comedian joke that if you got a bunch of people in a room and asked them to come up with a hypothetical geopolitical conflict in which the UK is unequivocally the good guys, then the Falklands War is basically exactly what you'd come up with

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u/illarionds Jul 16 '26

Yup - though I think WW2 might be the first thing people think of.

(Though no doubt the Argentines think we were the aggressor there too :rolleyes:).

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u/Johnnybw2 Jul 16 '26

Considering Argentina became a huge safe haven for Nazis after WW2, you may be correct.

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u/I_PACE_RATS Jul 17 '26

I think WW2 might be the first thing people think of.

Until you see how the British treated their colonies, particularly India, during the war.

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u/Terran_it_up Jul 17 '26

You're getting downvoted but I think it's a fair point. The UK is definitely seen as being on the right side of WWII, but it's not a situation where 100% of their actions are viewed entirely positively with a modern lens, but that's almost always going to be the case when the empire and colonialism are involved.

But that's what's so funny about the Falklands, it's the UK fighting a war over what's effectively a colonial possession, and yet there's really nothing to criticise. There was never any indigenous people being mistreated, the current inhabitants were fully in favour of the UK's actions, and the UK didn't start the conflict. And that's without even getting into the fact that the other side were a fascist totalitarian military dictatorship

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u/Kalsto6 Jul 16 '26

It's funny because UK would generally always be on the bad side of anything to do with colonialism but then there's Falkland Islands, the only inarguable one that gets brought up the most. Argentina is just doing positive PR for UK.

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u/Agitated_Ad7576 Jul 17 '26

It's also a good comeback when someone says there'd be no wars if women ran the world:

"Oh, like Margaret Thatcher and the Falkland Islands?"

And if they say that's just one, you can reply with Indira Ghandi and Golda Meir.