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Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over Falklands banner and final chaos (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by Lroy@lemmy.world to c/football@sopuli.xyz

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[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Reassert British control over the islands. Also, they didn't expel anyone.

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

“Reassert British control” of a territory that they took from the French and lost to the Spanish, halfway around the world.

So Jose Maria Pinedo wasn’t forced to leave the island after the British Navy moved in a forced them to take down the Argentinian flag and replace it with the British one? Does Wikipedia not work where you are, or are you just reflexively defending imperialism without looking up to ensure what you’re saying is correct before you say it?

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So Jose Maria Pinedo wasn’t forced to leave the island after the British Navy moved in a forced them to take down the Argentinian flag and replace it with the British one?

Neither Pinedo not the handful of people in the islands were expelled.

Does Wikipedia not work where you are, or are you just reflexively defending imperialism without looking up to ensure what you’re saying is correct before you say it?

Maybe you should read carefully what the Wikipedia article says.

Regardless, this topic will never stop being funny. Turns out, there are people out there who sympathize with Spanish nobility turned colonizers, turned South American landowners, like they are any better than the British. I guess the same people support the US in the Spanish-American war.

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I guess the United States owns the moon since they got there first and it was uninhabited when they landed and planted their flag first.

Crazy that the tiny island of the UK somehow also has legitimate claim to land on the other side of the globe too and not the mainland nation that the island is closer to and which was then controlled by them when they got independence from the Spanish.

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I guess the United States owns the moon since they got there first and it was uninhabited when they landed and planted their flag first.

I guess you have missed the last 50 years of diplomacy about outer space claims.

Crazy that the tiny island of the UK somehow also has legitimate claim to land on the other side of the globe too and not the mainland nation that the island is closer to and which was then controlled by them when they got independence from the Spanish.

Oh, you mean like Greenland?

Just one slight difference of course, and that's the fact that Argentina didn't control the Falklands at the time.